"The Natural Philosopher"  wrote in message
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> I have a yen to make a weather station as well, one day.

I have a Davis Vantage Vue weather station (a remote sensor unit which
measures wind speed/direction, rainfall amount/rate, outside temperature and
humidity) and communicates these to a base station by radio link
(proprietary, not wifi). The base station has a USB output.

I run Cumulus software (free download) on my Pi to log this data, draw
graphs, record the data and any extremes, and upload to a web site.
Previously I ran Cumulus on my Windows PC, which meant leaving it on 24/7; I
also used that PC for recording TV. Moving those functions to a Pi means the
PC can be switched off when I'm not using it.

Some time, I will investigate uploading the data to an SQL database on the
server so a PHP program can extract and display graphs of specified
parameters over a specified interval of time.

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