Weather Station Consuming My Bandwidth

[zjah02]

I have Davis Vantage Pro2 6152, TP-Link TLMB3020 and meteostick. I have connected the weather station according to the instruction. Data is uploading, everything appears to be working. I’ve configured the station to use the minimum amount of bandwidth (upload history once a day).

Now the issue is that the weather station is installed in a remote location using a cellphone service internet provider. I have very limited expensive bandwidth. The internet light on the TP Link is flashing about 8 times a second. The other 3 lights are solid green. I’ve monitored the band width usage and this weather station consumes 1Gbit per day of bandwidth. This is way expensive. So the question why does the internet light flash so much? Is there a bug in the software that requires constant data transfer? What is the weather station transferring? This station is very expensive to run it is costing me $150 / month to operate. I’ve tried everything I can think of and have failed to figure this out. Anyone know how to resolve this?

[admin]

The Meteobridge downloads a few MB of application stack during boot.
Apart from that it does the traffic to the networks as you define them.
It also sends the current min/max data every 10 minutes to the Meteobridge
server to make those persistent in case of an unplanned reboot or power fail.

I don't think this will sum up to 1GB. May be download of
application stack during boot is too slow and by that Meteobridge aborts
and retries forever (or at least a long time)? This is the only way it
could do so much download. You can skip download of application stack
by adding a USB stick that holds current image locally and by saying
"boot from USB" on "system" tab.

[zjah02]

is there a description on how to do this?

[zjah02]

[You can skip download of application stack by adding a USB stick that holds current image locally and by saying "boot from USB" on "system" tab.]

you lead me half there, where do I get the "current image"?

[admin]

It automatically stores the just downloaded image onto the USB stick, when an USB stick is there.