How to acces the normal RPI environm. after inst. meteohub?

[meteohoekvanholland]

Dear weather enthusiast,

I am not new to Meteohub (using it for years now), but I am totally new to the RPI 2b. I have succeeded to install Raspbian and Meteohub (migrating from NSLU2) and it is running fine. I understand / see that the RPI is booting up as meteohub user. But how can I access the normal Raspbian environment to use my other installed applications?

As mentioned, I am totally new to RPI and as well I am definately not a Linux hero

BTW, I could not find the answer yet in the other topics.

Thanks for your help in advance!


Marc.

[meteohoekvanholland]

Nobody?

[tastewar]

Depends how you want to define "normal"

You can ssh:

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=10190&p=17384&hilit=ssh#p17384

[wvdkuil]

Nobody?

Meteohub is an appliance, not an extra program to run next to other programs. So it controls the total device. It is possible to use SSH and other ways to interfere with the underlying OS but it is not wise.

Let the Meteohub/PI run as it is, without screen and keybord doing what it is designed to do.

Use another PI to run other programs.

Wim

[meteohoekvanholland]

Hello Wim,

Thanks for the clear answer. Well, I wanted to use weewx parallel and experiment with some other (non-weather related) software. But I understand I need another RPI in this case... Must say that I am somewhat disapointed that Meteohub needs the whole device exclusively..


Marc

[tastewar]

I am not an expert on meteohub, but I understand the perspective of the developer. Supporting the system is much simpler if you can be assured that you know what's running on it, i.e. it's treated like an appliance. If, however, you added a cron job to run hourly to ftp a metar file somewhere not supported, would it be likely to cause problems? I suspect not. If, on the other hand, you installed some snazzy USB splitter driver so that hypothetically both weewx and meteohub could get data from the same device at the same time, and you came here looking for support, and said, "Gee, my meteohub software crashes sometimes! How come it's not reliable?" or "Meteohub is so slow and unresponsive!" those wouldn't really be fair criticisms, would they? Nor would it be fair to expect the author to support all these different configurations.

Just my 2 cents (opinion)