Do we need a Meteobridge device to send data to CWOP? I have Weewx running on a Pi 4 with an Ecowitt GW1000, which reports to underground and a few others, but when I research CWOP, sound like I have to have the Meteobridge and I don't feel like buying one for $200 to send data to one network.
Thanks!
1. weewx can also send data to CWOP - there is a corresponding section in weewx.conf
# This section is for uploading data to Internet sites
[StdRESTful]
[[StationRegistry]]
# To register this weather station with weewx, set this to true
register_this_station = false
[[AWEKAS]]
# This section is for configuring posts to AWEKAS.
# If you wish to do this, set the option 'enable' to true,
# and specify a username and password.
# To guard against parsing errors, put the password in quotes.
enable = false
username = replace_me
password = replace_me
[[CWOP]]
# This section is for configuring posts to CWOP.
# If you wish to do this, set the option 'enable' to true,
# and specify the station ID (e.g., CW1234).
enable = false
station = replace_me
2. Meteobridge runs on a dedicated RPi with special SLC storage
minimum investment = 70 USD license, 30 USD for a 16 GB SLC SD card (SLC is mandatory for SD card survival), plus a RPi3 or 4 - the smallest RPi4 (2 GB) is more than good enough.
MB can do many things like having multiple stations in one database instance.
Only for sending data to CWOP a MB is surely overkill.
But it can do many more things (if you want and need them)
I'm running MB on a RPi4-2GB/16GB SLC - and weewx on another one. MB on RPi (or a MB Pro device) comes with a complete operating system and you cannot run other applications on it.
It's a dedicated weather server - with many features weewx doesn't have. It's simpler to handle, you have live data at any second ....