I have a Vantage Pro 2 with Weatherlink, I am using an old laptop running WinXP that has been uploading to WU since about 2008. I am getting tired of the WU issues and I suspect my laptop doesn't have much life left. I am getting more and more USB port errors.
I want to set up some system that will collect/display the data from my VP2 and can also display FTP'd images from my webcam. SWMBO wants to be able to access the data from work as well as give a few family members access to the data and images. At the moment I am not looking to create a website that is available to the public. The last time I did any coding was Fortran using punch cards.
Is this possible? Am I getting in over my head? Any suggestions for hardware/software would be appreciated to give me some idea where to start.
Thanks, Jim
You could also go the other way. Discard of your current laptop/Weatherlink/USB logger combination and replace with an Ambient-WeatherBridge.
That way you will still have WU-upload, but also
https://ambientweather.net/ which is currently updating to even more advanced version. So you can choose which dashboard you will use. And there are no adds on the Ambient one.
Your WeatherBridge will do the uploads and also of your Webcam and can even add the weather-values on it.
You could do all those things that in-house. But why?
A free website at 000webhost and after you got all running you could switch to your own domain-name also.
You can install your own PWS_Dashboard which I support and enhance, demo for Ambient version
https://pwsdashboard.net/pwsWD/ Or a Weather34-Meteobridge dashboard =>
https://weather34.com/Or you could install a more extensive one such as
Saratoga or my Leuven
demo of my own site one.
or a
MeteoTemplate But the bottom line is, you install a standard-device the WeatherBridge, which comes with a lot of support you probably do not need. Your current upload to WU will be done by the WeatherBridge after intial install
You, and others, can continue to view your datas at WU but then also at Ambientweather.net
You will have all the time, without any pressure, to start tinkering with small to large website a.s.o.
Succes, Wim
P.S. Fortran and punched cards, those nice memories. I started in in 69 with paper-tape and machine-code.