Starting off with a Raspbian Buster (Desktop) install:

1. Touch ssh to enable ssh access

SSH into the system.

As per any new install of raspbian, be sure to

1. Set a new password
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get upgrade
4. Restart

With this we will have the baseline pi setup, with a 64 bit kernel. You can validate by using uname -a, you should see "aarch64" in the string.

We want a few extra packages.

Since this is a remote weather station, Mosh will allow for more reliable communications over a flaky network.

1. sudo apt-get install mosh

Docker will allow easier operation of Weewx. Compose lets us use a single file to configure the deployment.

1. curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
2. sudo sh get-docker.sh
3. sudo apt-get install -y libffi-dev libssl-dev
4. sudo pip3 install docker-compose

All source files are available in the github repo HERE

1. Download the zip of the repository
2. unzip and copy the contents to a local directory
3. change the MySQL password in both docker-compose.yml and weewx_meso.conf
4. docker-compose up --detach 

If you do not intend to use the MesoWX skin, you can use this docker-compose instead

version: '3.7'
services:
  #Weewx weather system
  weewx:
    image: chuffine/weewx-distroless:4.1.1
    volumes:
      - weewx_page:/home/weewx/public_html
      - ./weewx.conf:/home/weewx/weewx.conf
    restart: always
    privileged: true
    devices:
      - "/dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0"

  #Nginx service
  webserver:
    image: nginx:alpine
    ports: 
        - 80:80
    volumes:
      - weewx_page:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro
    healthcheck:
      test: service nginx status || exit 1
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
    restart: always
  
  #MariaDB Database
  database:
    image: tobi312/rpi-mariadb
    environment:
      MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD: "yes"
      MYSQL_DATABASE: weewx
      MYSQL_USER: weewx
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: changeme
    volumes:
      - weewx_db:/var/lib/mysql
    healthcheck:
      test: mysqladmin ping -h 127.0.0.1 -u $$MYSQL_USER --password=$$MYSQL_PASSWORD || exit 1
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
    restart: always
            
volumes:
  weewx_page:
  weewx_db:

 This removes the MesoWX configs and the php container.