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About This Weather Station

powered by WeeWx-MQTT virtualised on Proxmox

Welcome to East Blatchington Weather, Seaford. UK. QTH JO00BS


Weather insturment now updated - CCEL Depreciated due to failure. see blog.

The Hardware is a branded 7in1 CCEL weatherstation up at about twenty five feet.


There are several apps involved.
  • WH25 Pressure/Temp sensor.
  • WeeWx. A well supported open source package written in Python. (Voodoo.)
  • MySQL database backend. WeeWx normaly uses sqlite.
  • MQTT mosquito queues for sensors and realtime delievery to the webpage.
  • Apache WebServer with WebSockets. (Influx and Grafana also used.)
  • The CEL has no PC interface, so 'RTL' dongels are used to 'sniff' the data off air, using..
  • rtl_433 another superb opensource package for sniffing 433MHz and others.
  • WeeWx Twitter Driver @SeafordWestWx.
  • WeeWx drivers for CWOP/APRS, PWS - The console itself uploads to weather underground. ID: - ISEAFO5
  • Highcharts.
  • Linux Proxmox v7.x with USB passthrough (Virtulisation platform) on a DELL Dual Xeon server.
  • This site uses the superb Belchertown weewx skin

  • Various software tools to modify config and databases.

Ths 7in1 is not documented by WeeWx or it's support channels, so all config is a homemade reciepe.

  • Station hardware: WeatherFlow
  • Server uptime: 48 days, 2 hours, 43 minutes
  • WeeWX uptime: 48 days, 2 hours, 44 minutes
  • WeeWX version: 4.3.0
  • Belchertown Skin Version: 1.2