Meteohub and WiFi

[jkadlec]

Hello,
I'm planning to use Meteohub for uploading measured data from a meteorological station to the web.

I have two questions that I need to answer before I decide to buy Meteohub:

1) Is it possible to use Meteohub in a location that has internet access only through a wireless community network?

2) What happens when there is an Internet access failure? Will all data measured during the period without Internet access get lost?

Thanks,
JiYí
Žebrák, Czech Republic

[bsparks]

Jkadlec,
I can answer the first part of your question. As you probably know, the NSLU2 does not have built-in wireless. In its application as a storage link, wireless (at least 802.11b or 802.11g, though 802.11n is possibly an exception) just doesn't have the speed or bandwidth to work well. You could configure a wireless access point in bridge mode, or you could also get a wireless bridge. They are most often sold for gaming consoles. This is a little box that has an ethernet port on it for your NSLU2 and is wireless to connect to the network.

Congratulations on getting a weather station together!

--Branson

[peteroi]

Hello JiYí,

I try to answer the second question:

Meteohub accumulates all weather data in raw form inside it's internal memory - that is the USB-stick.
Then it calculates the diagrams, HTML-pages and dashboard. Then it transmits the diagrams to some server pages according to your time schedule which you have installed inside Meteohub.

It does not matter wether internet connection is working or not. If the connection fails then it sends the actual calculated diagrams simply the next time when connection returns. Data collection and data storage is continuing anyway in the meantime.

In my opinion Meteohub is one of the finest tools to send meteo data to a server page - no pc running the whole time with noise and power consumption etc...

It is quite simple to setup (but you need some time for getting used to it !) and it works very reliable.

Best regards
Peter