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Small low powered PC
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Small low powered PC
Hi
I've been a Cumulus user for some years but had a break as I now live on a narrowboat but have recently returned to my hobby and have bought a new station (WS3083). It works well mounted on my boat and the excellent, stable software is good too.
I do upload to a website but it is tricky as power usage onboard has to be monitored. I am currently using a laptop and would like to,ask for help in finding a low,power computer to run Cumulus - I see there are a few windows tablets and also Raspberry Pis, what would folk recommend?
Cheers
Steve
I've been a Cumulus user for some years but had a break as I now live on a narrowboat but have recently returned to my hobby and have bought a new station (WS3083). It works well mounted on my boat and the excellent, stable software is good too.
I do upload to a website but it is tricky as power usage onboard has to be monitored. I am currently using a laptop and would like to,ask for help in finding a low,power computer to run Cumulus - I see there are a few windows tablets and also Raspberry Pis, what would folk recommend?
Cheers
Steve
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Re: Small low powered PC
Yes, at seems like a good idea, bit of a new area for me. How easy are they to set up?
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Re: Small low powered PC
Ohh yes please
I'd love to get CumulusMX working on a Pi (I've just acquired a Pi 3 B which looks ideal), but I'm a Windows sort of guy Has anyone done a step-by-step guide or produced an ISO for a basic default setup?
Chat soon.
I'd love to get CumulusMX working on a Pi (I've just acquired a Pi 3 B which looks ideal), but I'm a Windows sort of guy Has anyone done a step-by-step guide or produced an ISO for a basic default setup?
Chat soon.
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Re: Small low powered PC
i dont think there is a by-step guide for that but read this to help u get stared
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=13587
then to run cumulus mx
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... 08#p101008
hope it helps you as i went over to a pi and i dint know much about linux but now i like it more then windows
and if u want i can make you a img file with it all on the sdcard so u just burn it to the sd
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=13587
then to run cumulus mx
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... 08#p101008
hope it helps you as i went over to a pi and i dint know much about linux but now i like it more then windows
and if u want i can make you a img file with it all on the sdcard so u just burn it to the sd
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Re: Small low powered PC
I'm using an intel nuc. works quite well with debian.
Intel NUC DN2820FYKH
Intel NUC DN2820FYKH
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Re: Small low powered PC
profzarkov wrote:Yes, at seems like a good idea, bit of a new area for me. How easy are they to set up?
as i said to GreenwoJ it not that hard i wil give u a hand if you want?
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Re: Small low powered PC
Thanks for the replies - may well give the Pi a go . . .
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Re: Small low powered PC
Ok well as I said if u need a hand let me know
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Re: Small low powered PC
Hey guys I would like to say a big thanks to you all for helping me over the years.
So I took some time making a pre-built raspberry pi image as I saw on the forum people saying is there a step by step guide to set all this up.
The pi image contains ….
: Samba file server
: mono version 4.0.5 don’t work with fine off set but I will be making one
: Cumulus MX release - v3.0.0 build 3043
: Pi updated to the latest packages 29/04/2018
: Firmware updated to the latest 29/04/2018
: Remote desktop
Pm me for the link to download
raspberry pi - Cumulus mx img
So I took some time making a pre-built raspberry pi image as I saw on the forum people saying is there a step by step guide to set all this up.
The pi image contains ….
: Samba file server
: mono version 4.0.5 don’t work with fine off set but I will be making one
: Cumulus MX release - v3.0.0 build 3043
: Pi updated to the latest packages 29/04/2018
: Firmware updated to the latest 29/04/2018
: Remote desktop
Pm me for the link to download
raspberry pi - Cumulus mx img
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Re: Small low powered PC
Have you got Steve's permission to do this as if you haven't you are not allowed to distribute his software, only Steve can do that?
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Re: Small low powered PC
yes i ask him and he said fine
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Re: Small low powered PC
Just for the record - CumulusMX runs just fine on the lowest-powered Raspberry Pi you can get. Pi Zero W is the model of choice so that you can use the USB (OTG) port to connect the weather station and have wifi on board (PiZero without the W would need a USB hub and a WiFi dongle ... so is more expensive).
The only problem With PiZero W is it is very slow doing the original installation (especially installing mono-complete). But you can do all the setting up on a Raspberry Pi 3 and transfer the made-up SD card to the Pi Zero W.
The only problem With PiZero W is it is very slow doing the original installation (especially installing mono-complete). But you can do all the setting up on a Raspberry Pi 3 and transfer the made-up SD card to the Pi Zero W.