[weewx-user] Re: Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

Not sure how I missed the configure part, but I guess I did. Ran that, and now I'm on 5.1. And, miraculously, 5.1 works just fine, and I see why. Weewx is now started by a systemd service, which specifies that it requires the network before startup. 5.0.1 was started with the old rc5.d syste

[weewx-user] Re: Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

Not sure how I missed the configure part, but I guess I did. Ran that, and now I'm on 5.1. And, miraculously, 5.1 works just fine. Not sure why I had the driver problem with 5.0.1, but all's well that ends well. One last question. What's best practice with weewx.conf? I kept my old (4.8) c

[weewx-user] Re: Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

Thanks, Matthew, I think you're right. I started weewx using systemctl and it works. So, probably a startup ordering problem. I won't be able to work on that until this afternoon (PDT) to confirm. As for the version issue, I hadn't noticed that I was getting this error. Should I override so

Re: [weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

unning weewxd. I don't > know what user that is (debug=1 would tell you), but if you upgraded to > v5.0.1, it's likely to be user 'weewx'. > > Which makes me realize we didn't address your other problem: not upgrading > to v5.1.0. I have not seen that

Re: [weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

t; connectivity. > > Without connectivity, WeeWX won't get far. > > -tk > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 4:06 PM 'loonsailor' via weewx-user < > weewx...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> I've been running weewx 4.8.0 under unbuntu linux 20.04 (I think).

Re: [weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

ering the address > 192.168.198.91 unreachable from whatever computer WeeWX is running on. To > double check this, you could try using telnet to see if you at least have > connectivity. > > Without connectivity, WeeWX won't get far. > > -tk > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 4:06 

Re: [weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

tell you), but if you upgraded to >> v5.0.1, it's likely to be user 'weewx'. >> >> Which makes me realize we didn't address your other problem: not >> upgrading to v5.1.0. I have not seen that before. Can you try apt update >> and upgrade again?

Re: [weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

s running on. To > double check this, you could try using telnet to see if you at least have > connectivity. > > Without connectivity, WeeWX won't get far. > > -tk > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 4:06 PM 'loonsailor' via weewx-user < > weewx...@google

Re: [weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

I tried telnet both as myself (non-priveleged) and as weewx. Both worked: $ telnet 192.168.198.91 2 Trying 192.168.198.91... Connected to 192.168.198.91. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> Connection closed. $ telnet -l weewx 192.168.198.91 2 Trying 192.168.198.91... Connected to 192.1

Re: [weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

'm now on Linux 24.04.1 LTS, which is, I think, jammy. Should I have a different repository list? Re the port problem, I've changed the wifilogger port to (instead of 2), and set debug to 1 and port in weewx.conf. Still no joy. Here's the log with debug. 2024-10-14T18:25:40.10

Re: [weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

I've confirmed that the computer can reach the station by doing so from the browser. WifiLogger has an html interface, and I can see it and interact with it from the same computer that's running weewx. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" g

[weewx-user] Updated linux and weewx, nwo won't run. Help, please.

I've been running weewx 4.8.0 under unbuntu linux 20.04 (I think). I upgraded today to ubunbtu 24.04.1 LTS, and the process also moved me to weewx 5.0.1. Now it won't run. First question is, why does "sudo apt update; sudo apt install weewx" not get me to 5.1? But the much more important qu

Re: [weewx-user] Best practice to merge weewx.conf changes on update

> > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:31 PM 'loonsailor' via weewx-user < > weewx...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> For a long time, I've been sticking with my old whew.conf file, ignoring >> the new ones that show up with each update. It's been sever

Re: [weewx-user] Best practice to merge weewx.conf changes on update

Thanks. Just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something obvious. On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 5:49:33 PM UTC-7 n0...@n0nb.us wrote: > * On 2022 26 Apr 18:32 -0500, 'loonsailor' via weewx-user wrote: > > For a long time, I've been sticking with my old whew

[weewx-user] Best practice to merge weewx.conf changes on update

For a long time, I've been sticking with my old whew.conf file, ignoring the new ones that show up with each update. It's been several years, and I'm wondering if / when my old conf file becomes outdated enough that I'm missing features, or creating problems. Short of manually updating each t

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't get LOOP packets from WiFi logger

ould have sent him the e-mail, except that there's no >> contact information on his web site. Ryan also promised a full refund if I >> can't solve it. He's been great to deal with. >> >> Anybody have any ideas or wisdom? In any event, I'll updat

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't get LOOP packets from WiFi logger

graha...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> the wifi logger looks attractive, for getting rid of the cable. >> could someone tell me the firmware version of my davis vp2 envoy? i >> haven’t updated it for a while :-) but my console is older. wifi logger >> needs vp2 v1.9+

[weewx-user] Re: Extension to read purpleAir data via json?

Thanks, Vince. I had a look at the extension and it was very helpful. I've written a python program to get and parse the json for the station, but haven't turned it into a weewx extension, and don't know if / when I will. I used to be a professional coder, but that was some decades ago. The

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't get LOOP packets from WiFi logger

wifi logger > needs vp2 v1.9+. > wee_device says: > CONSOLE FIRMWARE: > Date: Apr 10 2006 > Version: > > On 23 Sep 2020, at 9:54 am, 'loonsailor' via weewx-user < > weewx...@googlegroups.com>

[weewx-user] Extension to read purpleAir data via json?

I'd like to add air quality to my weewx data. There is a purple air sensor very near to me, but it's not mine and I don't have lan access to it. It does report to purpleair.com, and I can read the data from there in json format. I thought I remembered seeing that somebody had done an extensio

[weewx-user] Re: Can't get LOOP packets from WiFi logger

Charlie, thanks for posting this! I'm switching from my ancient vantage pro, connected via lantronix serial<->ethernet to a shiny new vantage pro 2 with the WiFiLogger 2 (firmware 2.33). I ran into the same problem: Sep 22 10:56:59 ubu-mini-weather weewx[178549] INFO

Re: [weewx-user] Can't update weewx from 3.8.0.1 (Ubuntu / Cheetah)

have held broken packages. >>> >>> >>> So, I'm not sure what's happening. Well, I think I'll use this an >>> excuse to update to ubuntu 20.04LTS. Maybe the problem will fix itself >>> with the OS upgrade. >>> >>> &g

Re: [weewx-user] Can't update weewx from 3.8.0.1 (Ubuntu / Cheetah)

is not available on all operating systems. In particular, it is not > available on Debian 9 systems. In that case, you need to use pip3 to > install. > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:09 AM 'loonsailor' via weewx-user < > weewx...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >&

Re: [weewx-user] Can't update weewx from 3.8.0.1 (Ubuntu / Cheetah)

x27;, then another apt-get update) still gives me the same error message , as does an attempted install of python3-cheetah. On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 9:55:13 AM UTC-7 blu...@gmail.com wrote: > Did you do a “sudo apt-get update”? > > On Aug 27, 2020, at 9:45 AM, 'loonsailor&#

[weewx-user] Can't update weewx from 3.8.0.1 (Ubuntu / Cheetah)

I'm trying to update my weewx installation. When I use the python2 version, 'apt-get install weewx' gets me 'weewx is already the newest version (3.8.0-1).'. I know that we're up to 4.x. So I try the python3 version. That gets me the following: $ sudo apt-get install weewx Reading p

[weewx-user] Re: Advice on moving to new station hardware (prob ecowitt or ambinent)

After all the useful input, I just ordered a Vantage Pro 2 from Scaled Instruments. They've got a great price for them right now. Also, at his suggestion I ordered a WiFiLogger 2. I'll post later about how that works out. Thanks to all for the advice and wisdom. On Tuesday, August 25, 2020

[weewx-user] Re: Advice on moving to new station hardware (prob ecowitt or ambinent)

Thanks for the input everyone. The reason I was considering a different brand than Davis is connectivity. Currently, my old Vantage console has an option added to it which provides a serial output, which goes to a Lantronix serial-ethernet server box (necessary because the station is too far

[weewx-user] Advice on moving to new station hardware (prob ecowitt or ambinent)

I need a replacement for my 25-year-old Vantage Pro (original, not +) and am considering either the Ecowitt 2551 or the 2553 or the Ambient equivalents. I'll also add a WH41 and a WH43 (or ambient equivalents) ar quality sensors. I've got a 25 year database of weather (started on wView) and

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't use my wview database

Well, it took ~20 hours for wee_database --fix-strings to munge my old wview_archive.sdb on my little 1.6GHz Celeron (which, not so long ago, would have been a supercomputer!), but it worked! To merge that data with the data from weewx for the last month, I opened weewx.sdb with sqlite3 and .d

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't use my wview database

I'm running it now with check-strings. Taking a long time. Extrapolating out, looks like it could be 24 hours or so for 11 years of data (537K records). Is that normal? (1.6 GHz Celeron N3150, 4GHz ram) Also, once its done (assuming it works) I was planning on merging the last month of

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't use my wview database

Thanks, Gary. It's getting late. so I'll try this in the morning. Once again, thanks for your help! On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 10:07:04 PM UTC-8, gjr80 wrote: > > Some answers below, as usual it's not just a simple yes/no. > > Gary > > On Thursday, 25 January 2018 15:41:48 UTC+10, loonsa

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't use my wview database

OK, I'm feeling a bit dense, so let me see if I understand. If I am to modify /etc/weewx/weewx.conf, I should stop weewx, back up weewx.conf, make the changes you suggest to it, and run wee_database. If all goes as planned, I will then have a fixed archive, which I can go ahead and combine wi

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't use my wview database

I've finally returned from travelling, and I'm trying to get this resolved. When I run wee_database, I get the following result: jerry@ubu-mini-weather:~/Wview$ wee_database --fix-strings wview-archive- fixit.sdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/wee_database", line 793, in

[weewx-user] Can't use my wview database

I've got weewx running great on my shiny new ubuntu box, but I haven't been able to start it from my wview database, with 11 years of data. I copy wview-archive.sdb to /var/lib/weewx/weex.sdb and start weewx, but it dies immediatlely, with the following in syslog: Jan 10 18:41:22 ubu-mini-weat

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Original Vantage Pro, connected via serial-ethernet converter?

e "port" line should be the port. > > you're combining the two as "host". > > So, you want > > [Vantage] > type = ethernet > host = 192.168.198.202 > port = 3001 > > -tk > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 6:05 PM, 'loonsailor

[weewx-user] Re: Original Vantage Pro, connected via serial-ethernet converter?

Thanks for this. I was really excited. Tried it, but it doesn't work. Specifically, here is the log file: Dec 27 18:00:32 ubu-mini-weather weewx[10917]: engine: Loading station type Vantage (weewx.drivers.vantage) Dec 27 18:00:32 ubu-mini-weather weewx[10902]:...done. Dec 27 18:00:32 ubu-

[weewx-user] Re: Original Vantage Pro, connected via serial-ethernet converter?

I forgot to mention - running under Ubunto 17.10. On Tuesday, December 26, 2017 at 9:57:39 PM UTC-8, loonsailor wrote: > > My old computer, on which I've been running view for many years, has died. > I'd like to switch over to weewx, but I'm not sure if it will support my > hardware. I'm runni

[weewx-user] Original Vantage Pro, connected via serial-ethernet converter?

My old computer, on which I've been running view for many years, has died. I'd like to switch over to weewx, but I'm not sure if it will support my hardware. I'm running an original vantage pro. The console has a serial port, which I've connected to my LAN with a Lantronix serial-ethernet in