Topic: Best way to log data for free?

[nathanxollier]

Right now i am using cumulus on a NUC that uses 18 watts. I have a Davis VP2 with a Davis USB logger. I have my own websites so i am trying out templates to upload data to them and keep the records on there is that the best way to do it?

I gave davis weather link live a try but ended up not liking it because you have to pay for it the free plan did not have details. I did like the app which did have more info.

Is there any app to see my data on my phone? I can only find apps that pull your info from WU so i have just been pulling up my own website.

Do most people only use Weather Underground to keep track of there data?

Thanks for the help.

[bchwdlks]

CumulusMX will run very well on a Raspberry PI. If you do not use a lot of peripherals, the power usage on the RPi will probably be in the range of 4-5 watts.

As I experimented with different ways of saving & viewing weather data from a VP2 & Meteobridge, I have run on a RPi2B:
 

• Apache
• CumulusMX,
• MySQL database
• Meteotemplate templates
• Weather34 templates

Both of these templates can scale the web pages for cell & tablet screens. The RPi with MySQL means that you are responsible for your data - not WU / IBM or any other cloud service.