Topic: Looking to set up 4 weather stations

[poprobuy]

We have 4 hospitals and am looking at setting up a weather station at each one. We specifically are looking for a system that can allow multiple uses to access the stations, the stations be displayed in one app/webpages and not publicly shared. Video feed would be a cool bonus.

Any help appreciated with this.

[R.Sidetrack]

... the stations be displayed in one app/webpages and not publicly shared.

Probably best for you to provide more details on exactly what you mean by "not publicly shared".

For instance, 4 Ecowitt stations can easily all upload to one account at ecowitt.net and all the data is then available in an app (and / or browser page).  You don't have to make those pages "public", like uploading to say Wunderground,com. But the data is not secured to the extent that each individual web viewer is required to have a separate login of the scope like you would expect with a financial institution.

Ecowitt servers are likely in China, if that is pertinent to you.

Attached is a sample of the "sharing" management page. I expect that one could cancel one of those shares at any time, but I haven't tried to do so.

[R.Sidetrack]

IF ... IF ... your institution has a private network that the 4 hospitals all have access to, what I might do is to feed each weather station into a separate installation of CumulusMX running on a Raspberry Pi, and simply publish those pages to your internal network, with no additional security beyond what your network admins have already set up.

Each CumulusMX would be a separate webpage, but just name them similar names, lets say "Weather Mike", Weather Jill" Weather Bill",  "Weather Sue" etc except use names of the hospitals.

A drawback is that the CumulusMX Settings / Admin page is not secured, so even though the viewers were all internal to the hospital network, changes could still made. If this is a concern, the data could be published to a separate internal webserver with some more effort.

[PaulMy]

Hi,

We have 4 hospitals and am looking at setting up a weather station at each one. We specifically are looking for a system that can allow multiple uses to access the stations, the stations be displayed in one app/webpages and not publicly shared.

A Davis station and Weatherlink.com cloud.
Weatherlink.com is accessible only by signup, and site settings by registered/password.  Weatherlink App data is accessible to anyone.

Enjoy,
Paul

[Wooks61]

... the stations be displayed in one app/webpages and not publicly shared.

Probably best for you to provide more details on exactly what you mean by "not publicly shared".

For instance, 4 Ecowitt stations can easily all upload to one account at ecowitt.net and all the data is then available in an app (and / or browser page).  You don't have to make those pages "public", like uploading to say Wunderground,com. But the data is not secured to the extent that each individual web viewer is required to have a separate login of the scope like you would expect with a financial institution.

Ecowitt servers are likely in China, if that is pertinent to you.

Attached is a sample of the "sharing" management page. I expect that one could cancel one of those shares at any time, but I haven't tried to do so.

In order to view the dashboard of the app and /or browser page, you have to login. So this in itself is only viewable "privately".
The "shared" link would have to be known by a a user to access it.

[vinceskahan]

The answer is almost always "weewx can do that" but whether any weather station software you host yourself with an aggregated webpage can be "not available publicly" yet possibly also with/without a live video feed depends so much on your network and security posture that it's not possible to guesstimate what stations or solutions might make sense.

I've done three stations and a still photo snapshot with an integrated dashboard all on one raspi on my LAN, but that was one network.  You having multiple physical sites and especially being HOSPITALS makes figuring out your networking and security constraints job one.

[R.Sidetrack]

The "shared" link would have to be known by a a user to access it.

But once that link is "shared", it can be "shared" repeatedly, passed along to others. Its really not "secure" in a situation where you want real security.   But it might be acceptable to the OP in this situation -- local weather isn't really a secret, no matter what security system is employed.