I started this "BLOG" in 2015, when I enabled a skin named "Bootstrap" to WeeWx. It had a page for "News", so I decided to utilize it. It was kind of a pain to keep updated, but I think I caught most of the major events from 2015-2017.
From 2017 to 2020, it ran mostly care free. Once every few months there might be a power glitch, or some issue with the Davis datalogger that caused a problem.
See my posts after Dec. 29, 2020 for latest info.
Here I will summarize major events from 2008-215 (that I can remember).
I purchased a Davis Vantage Pro2 around February 2008. Initially I was using Weatherlink(?), which was either a Davis thing or Ambient Weather (where I purchased it from). It ran on Windows. I think I had it running on an older PC at the time. I was having a number of issues, mostly just the data not updating. I got tired of messing with it, so I put together a small PC and loaded Ubuntu, and started using a program named WView.
I didn't have much experience with Linux, so that was always a bit of a struggle, but I got it all working and used WView for several years. I still was having some issues, and after reading WView docs and forums I realized that probably a lot of my problems were likely caused by a problem with the Serial to USB converted Davis supplied with the datalogger. Apparently it was a known issue, and unfortunately the developer of WView would not try to workaround the problem in software. He did not want to try to correct hardware issues. I could see his point, but the sign of really great software is something that can overcome hardware problems like they never happened.
Somewhere 20012 or so, the Davis sensor unit started to have issues, usually quitting in the middle of the night. I was able to find info on the web from other users, and it was a bad capacitor in the sensor unit that helps the battery maintain charge. I was able to order the part and replace it myself. Also, the battery itself has died eventually, twice so far I think.
I don't remember exactly when, but I had been placing the weather website on a subdirectory of another website I was running. At one point, I shut that down, so I decided to host the website on the Raspberry-Pi. I obtained the domain k2as.us. K2AS is my FCC Amateur Radio callsign. The weather info also goes out to a system called APRS, but that's a whole other story. Anyway, I had to run Apache web server on the Pi as well and have a Dynamic DNS service to ensure k2as.us is still available when my cable/internet IP address changes, which it does.
I had wanted to get to a lower power PC, as it needs to run 24/7. So I purchased a Raspberry-Pi in 2014 or early 2015 (I think). I continued with WView for a while, but started reading about WeeWx, and was still having issues with disconnects. I thought WView documentation was good, but WeeWx was better and kept improving, so I switched. Again, it is quite a task for me doing all this with Linux, but I got it all squared away in early 2017.
One thing I wasn't crazy about with WeeWx was the included skin. But third party developers were offering some, and I liked one named Bootstrap. It took and bit of customization to get it where I wanted, but, this about catches me up to the following posts.
