Planning transfer from X86 to RP (Success)

[gm4jjj]

Hello, I have been using VMWare running on a eeePC for my Meteohub system for a few years, however gradually the old eeePC is starting to fail, the power supply and the battery have already been replaced, and the power supply is broken again, so I need to look at an alternative. I have managed to backup my meteohub data and config OK.

My first thought was to use another PC laptop that I have, which runs Windows 7, but it has annoying habits of losing the WiFi connection every few days and needs a reboot each time that happens, so that is not a good system for a weather station.

My question is, how easy would it be to migrate to the RP? I only have WiFi access in the room where my weather console will be, no Ethernet.

Can the Meteohub SD card only run Meteohub? - I also have a webcam which currently runs FSWebcam software on Linux, can I run that as well as Meteohub on RP?

Can I set the RP completely from start to finish without a keyboard and mouse and display, by logging in remotely over the WiFi network via SSH, or do I need to have those peripherals to set things up initially?

I am trying to decide what exactly I need besides the RP, a power supply, an SD Card, a WiFi USB dongle and a case.

Thanking you in advance,

David

[admin]

RPI can be used and installed headless (no keyboard, no monitor).

Data migration between Meteohub platforms is described here:
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5415

[gm4jjj]

Thank you.

I received the RPi today and have it working fine. Migrated data across and connecting via WiFi.

I am using a class 10 16GB SD Card. My data is 1416MB in size and the Weather Data Recomputation is taking a long time (much slower than EeePC). It is only 2 dots so far after 2 hours.

Would you recommend an automatic restart every day or not? (I did this with previous system because of some problems from time to time).

Do you know if I can install FSWebcam on the RPi and run it with Meteohub? - That is the only thing I am missing from my previous EeePC X86 system.

Thanks again.

David

[admin]

Meteohub does not support webcams on RPI.

Daily reboots should not be necessary.

[gm4jjj]

Thanks, regarding webcams, I understand that meteohub does not support webcams, but my question is can I install the software fswebcam and use that alongside meteohub on the RPi? .

[admin]

no idea.

[gm4jjj]

OK fair enough - my question was more is it permitted rather than have you tried this. I will let you know if I can get fswebcam to work or not. (It worked very well on eeePC).

[admin]

The rule with installations you do yourself on top of Meteohub is, that you are of course free to do so,
but I will not trouble shoot problems (Meteohub related or not) on modified systems. So you are on your own.

[gm4jjj]

Thanks, all understood.

[gm4jjj]

Just to say that fswebcam is working well with Meteohub on RPi.
Used a powered hub for the webcam.

Now I can retire my old EEEPC.