I have been a PC person with Windows experience. I have a couple Rasp Pi units running WeeWx but am challenged by Linux based environments.
Starting about a decade ago a local university had begun to sell surplus, replaced, materials of all sorts at a local monthly auction. I got a couple of Dell units, updated to SSD instead of mechanical hard drives and worked at installing Weather Display (which I was familiar with and enjoy) with each new installation of a station or groups of sensors.
These computers are paid for, run and seem to keep on going. I would like to consolidate. I have a more powerful computer which I do playing around with WD on, and can pretty easily run 4 instances of WD on it without too much problem. I tried to move all four working WDs onto one of the lessor computers and have problems with erroring out more often than I'd like.
I can't use my 'main' computer to take over the WD programs since I fiddle around, reboot and all frequently.
I'd really like something as small, power efficient and free standing as more RaspPis running but don't know how hard it is to get WD to run on them under the RPi OS. Nice thing is they could be headless, too.
The availability of more powerful computers from the U is dwindling, so getting a $50 computer again and trying to update my horsepower is possible but may be not worth it.
Do I bite the bullet and get a new, more efficient/faster box and move all the WDs onto it, saving power and workshop space, try to do a RaspPi install of WD, or some other advice on consolidation? I really would like to keep all of my stations running for many reasons.
Thanks for any chatter. Dale
