Re: [weewx-user] New Davis consoles? no USB out for /dev/TTYUSB0

If you're just looking for the Integrated Sensor Suite, Scale Instruments does sell them. About a year ago I was having transmitter issues and after trying several things I bought a new ISS with the solar sensors. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wunderground Weather

Just renabled uploads based on this thread and all seems well. Thanks to all of you that followed up with WU. I was out most of the day. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: htt

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wunderground Weather

* On 2024 26 Aug 12:26 -0500, vince wrote: > > https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=47402.msg476343;boardseen#new That still leaves open the question of why devices aren't visible in our profiles. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessim

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wunderground Weather

* On 2024 26 Aug 09:27 -0500, Tom Keffer wrote: > Same problem here. The WU stopped responding at UTC last night. About 20 minutes ago my brother informed me that WU was not updating while all the other uploads are working. I checked as Fred did and see that my station is no longer listed in

Re: [weewx-user] obligatory eclipse thread

Here in northeast Kansas we had 85% coverage and perfectly clear sky until well after the event. As expected the solar sensors showed the eclipse moreso than the other sensors. Looking up the sky had a grayish hue due to the shadow and the light was just different. - Nate -- "The optimist proc

Re: [weewx-user] Re: purge / clean mysql database?

* On 2024 12 Feb 00:13 -0600, 'michael.k...@gmx.at' via weewx-user wrote: > Nate, this is > what > https://weewx.com/docs/5.0/utilities/weectl-database/#recalculate-daily-summary-weights > > is for. Imagine you manipulate the database an know, the average of a > certain type will change after

Re: [weewx-user] Re: purge / clean mysql database?

Be careful throwing away archive_day-* data! On my setup with the Davis driver min and max values often occur in between archive intervals. I found that those are lost if the daily summaries have to be rebuilt from the archive table. My archive interval is 5 minutes. I did some testing a couple

[weewx-user] Re: NEW Weewx extension to add Variable txt to a JPG

I don't see that you ever got a reply. Python f-strings allow for field width specifiers. For example: f"{record['outTemp']:.0f}°" f"{record['barometer']:.2f} Hope that helps. - Nate On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 12:38:06 PM UTC-5 Lorin Tremblay wrote: > I always wanted to learn how to code

Re: [weewx-user] Localization，cn--->zh_cn

* On 2024 06 Jan 07:22 -0600, Tom Keffer wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out. I'm not sure where "cn" came from. We'll > change it to 'zh". Perhaps the confusion stems from .cn being a top level domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cn There are so many of these things that it is easy to get

Re: [weewx-user] Digest for weewx-user@googlegroups.com - 7 updates in 1 topic

* On 2023 20 Dec 14:01 -0600, Nick Kavanagh wrote: > Thanks so much for the opinions and links. Got some good starting points > now, especially now I'm aware of some good places to look for used > equipment to be able to assemble something that does not "phone home". I > had no idea that the newer

Re: [weewx-user] CWOP data stopped showing up

* On 2023 20 Dec 13:34 -0600, David Barto wrote: > I’m going to chime in with a “me too” on this. Strange. Me three, I guess. findu currently shows the last update from 10 hours 22 minutes ago. Meanwhile, MADIS appears to be up to date as my station appears on PWS Weather via MADIS. My guess it'

Re: [weewx-user] Best Davis station for my buck, and purpose?

If you're intending on new, check with Scaled Instruments: https://www.scaledinstruments.com for pricing. It's likely he can assemble a package that includes the ISS and the classic 6312 console (the new 6313 console cannot be connected to directly by WeeWX, as I understand it and has a lot of iss

Re: [weewx-user] Connecting to new Davis Console model 6313

* On 2023 13 Dec 09:53 -0600, rose032...@gmail.com wrote: > Nate, That a good idea. So: > Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-12-13 08:48 MST > Nmap scan report for 10.10.48.50 > Host is up (0.0098s latency). > All 65535 scanned ports on 10.10.48.50 are closed Typically, if there were

Re: [weewx-user] Connecting to new Davis Console model 6313

* On 2023 11 Dec 20:44 -0600, rose032...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks, > > I am not getting any of that. Pretty much no response from the console > on its IP address. I do have to visit the site tomorrow and will look > to see what software/firmware it is running. Perhaps run an nmap scan against t

Re: [weewx-user] Connecting to new Davis Console model 6313

Phillip, I posted a link to this thread in the long running 6313 thread at wxforum.net: https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=45032.msg467226#msg467226 There is thought among those that replied that you're actually connecting to the WiFi Logger rather than the 6313 (I don't know as I have n

Re: [weewx-user] Smartphone skin oddities

Well, it turns out the problem was the loose nut between the keyboard and the chair! I was focusing on the wrong smartphone configuration. As I generate the old Standard report, which I've heavily customized since long ago, the smartphone report I am getting is a sub-report of it. As I had chang

Re: [weewx-user] Unable to Connect to WU

I don't have any solution except to say the WU has a lot of issues and trying to get help from them almost seems futile. When they changed their systems last summer and required a change of password, I dutifully followed the instructions only to be met with an error message that my request could n

Re: [weewx-user] Move data from one column to another in the archive table?

* On 2023 29 Nov 18:29 -0600, Tom Keffer wrote: > If you have the necessary hardware, your VP2 should be able to emit the > soil measurements. I think that is the problem. After rereading, carefully, the manual of the Wireless Leaf & Soil Moisture/Temperature Station I've reached the conclusion t

Re: [weewx-user] Smartphone skin oddities

* On 2023 25 Nov 14:47 -0600, Tom Keffer wrote: > 1. That radar URL has not worked for a few years. It should be updated with > what the Seasons skin uses. The radar image URL I set: radar_img = https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KTWX_loop.gif is working in the Standard and Seasons skins a

Re: [weewx-user] Move data from one column to another in the archive table?

Before I made any changes to the database, I tried changing the channel 2 transmitter from being shown as "temp" to something like "soil temp" or some such. It seems as though no permutation I used with wee_device even as simple as: wee_device /etc/weewx/weewx.conf --set-transmitter-type=2,7 gav

[weewx-user] Move data from one column to another in the archive table?

With the recent troubles with my Davis Vantage ISS I have been looking through various parts of my setup, both hardware and software. Along those lines I discovered that when I set up the soil temperature transmitter eight years and ten days ago, I didn't set it up specifically as a soil temperatu

Re: [weewx-user] Smartphone skin oddities

* On 2023 21 Nov 18:35 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Secondly, looking at the rain page I see that it is showing, "Max rate: > 655.35 in/h at 10:40:59 AM". Wow! That value looks rather suspicious > as being the max integer of a 16 bit variable. I've attached a > scre

[weewx-user] Smartphone skin oddities

I'll admit that I rarely, if ever, check the Smartphone skin even though I have it enabled. Today I was checking it (I'm staring at the WeeWX pages a lot recently because of an odd Davis ISS issue) and saw there was no radar image. The variables in the associated skin.conf were commented out so I

Re: [weewx-user] I am a happy Weex user,

Very nicely done! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 -- You received this message be

Re: [weewx-user] Re: METAR data site changed?

I'm guessing you'll be pushing the changes out when you're more satisfied with it. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD4

[weewx-user] METAR data site changed?

It appears the METAR site has changed and the metargenerator.py extension no longer is able to send the correct URL and/or parse the new layout. Is anyone else seeing this? - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web

Re: [weewx-user] #!/bin/sh does not equal #!/bin/bash

* On 2023 11 Sep 20:50 -0500, gary@gmail.com wrote: > How's this related to WeeWX? I use a systemd timer to backup the database. > That one works a treat as I used bash, not sh It really depends on the distribution. Some use Bash as the login and system shell by symlinking it to /bin/sh. Wh

Re: [weewx-user] Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

* On 2023 02 Jun 18:44 -0500, Michael Bruski wrote: > In reviewing the steps provided by MikeQ above, I see an issue with step > 3. The search_list_extensions under the [[[CheetahGenerator]]] section > should not be modified in weewx.conf but in skin.conf. If you don't find > the search_list_e

Re: [weewx-user] Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

* On 2023 02 Jun 15:48 -0500, Michael Bruski wrote: > Attached is a diff file for my current changes. Note that this also > disables the request for TAF data as I request that separately using > tafgenerator.py. I've no need to separate the two so I just modified line 101 in the original file a

Re: [weewx-user] Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

* On 2023 02 Jun 13:31 -0500, MikeQ wrote: > One more thought - what version of Python are you running? The original > weewx-metar code was written in 2018 for Python2 and was re-written 2 years > ago for Python3. The current version in master on github is the Python3 > version. I am running

Re: [weewx-user] Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

* On 2023 02 Jun 12:36 -0500, MikeQ wrote: > Did you test the URL from the box running WeeWX? I'm wondering if you have > a DNS or some other connectivity problem on that box. You could try > running: > > curl > -s > https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/metars?station_ids=KBIE+&std_trans=tra

Re: [weewx-user] Is the station registry permanently offline?

* On 2022 26 Dec 19:15 -0600, Tom Keffer wrote: > It was having performance issues, so we shut it down while we figured it > out. Meanwhile, both Matthew and I got distracted. > > A WeeWX user is working on a new architecture that will hopefully be more > robust. > > Hang in there! It will eventu

[weewx-user] Is the station registry permanently offline?

I finally updated to 4.9.1 and saw an error in my log that publishing a record to the station registry failed after three attempts. I navigated to the station registry Web page and see that it was disabled back on 21 Dec. If there is no hope of it returning to service, I'll disable the registry i

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Version 4.9.0 available

* On 2022 24 Oct 19:33 -0500, vince wrote: > Looks like a lot of os are not up to v3.35 or later according to the > command in the other thread... > > *python3 -c "import sqlite3; print(sqlite3.sqlite_version)"* > > >- Debian 10 - nope >- Debian 11 - nope >- Almalinux 9 - nope >

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

* On 2022 26 Apr 18:32 -0500, 'loonsailor' via weewx-user 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 several years, and > I'm wondering if / when my old conf file becomes outdated enough that I'm > mi

Re: [weewx-user] Updated to 4.6.0 Wunderground service upload fails

* On 2022 08 Feb 13:16 -0600, Phil Green wrote: > Have re-enabled uploading to Wunderground. > Seems like it is working again. It appears to be. According to my logs it recovered around 1900z and then a glitch at 2000z and two at 2015z and clean since. > Thanks for your comments. I'm followin

Re: [weewx-user] Updated to 4.6.0 Wunderground service upload fails

Wunderground is broken again so far most of this morning. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55

Re: [weewx-user] Anyone else seeing Wunderground Rapid Fire down?

* On 2022 07 Feb 06:44 -0600, Jeremy A wrote: > Not working with or without rapid fire for me... Looks like it came back > online during the night but it's down again. It seems to be working, at least no errors in my log since 8:40 AM CST/1440z this morning. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims t

Re: [weewx-user] Anyone else seeing Wunderground Rapid Fire down?

* On 2022 07 Feb 04:59 -0600, Anton vanNwnhzn@GMail wrote: > Yesterday (and day before) had impression that*/my /*calls-for-data were > blocked due to exceeding the allowed quotum/rate, but reading these messages > might be another, internal WU-problem. Last night neither mine nor any neighboring

Re: [weewx-user] Anyone else seeing Wunderground Rapid Fire down?

Looks like the site continues to be up and down since last night. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C

Re: [weewx-user] Anyone else seeing Wunderground Rapid Fire down?

* On 2022 06 Feb 20:15 -0600, 'John Kline' via weewx-user wrote: > The problem was on the wunderground side. It’s back now. I just saw that it was back up upon getting back in here. Thanks! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears

[weewx-user] Anyone else seeing Wunderground Rapid Fire down?

It looks like Wunderground Rapid Fire upload has been down for about an hour. Even restarting WeeWX 4.5.1 did not resolve the issue. Network connectivity seems to be okay as I can ping wunderground.com. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pes

Re: [weewx-user] Re: When did the blast wave of the eruption "hit" your station?

It may be that the first wave came through much earlier than I have a graph available. My graphs from the daily view has scrolled past the point where anything around 1400 to 1500z 15 Jan can no longer be seen. There is probably some way to query the DB on the WeeWX server to tease this data out

Re: [weewx-user] When die the blast wave of the eruption "hit" your station?

* On 2022 16 Jan 11:09 -0600, storm...@gmail.com wrote: > If anyone did not see the video, here is the link: > https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=181596 As noted on the page the terminator catches up to the shock wave. Also, note the interesting glow on the cloud bank ea

Re: [weewx-user] Re: When did the blast wave of the eruption "hit" your station?

Looking at the past 24 hours there is an interesting "wave" shown just after midnight (0600 UTC) here. What time did it occur? News reports refer to "local time" but make no mention of UTC. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears

Re: [weewx-user] Fog detection?

* On 2021 31 Aug 14:35 -0500, František Slimařík wrote: > > Hi all, > > I got question for hardcore meteorologists here. Is it possible to detect > fog based on classic meassured values like temperature, humidity, preasure, > etc? > Logically I would say fog appears when dew point equals curren

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Problem with vantage.py in 4.5.1 moving from 4.4.0

* On 2021 07 Apr 11:13 -0500, Tom Keffer wrote: > The difference between the Vantage V4.4.0 and v4.5.1 drivers is trivial, > and has to do with enabling retries. All other functionality is identical. Just this morning I bit the bullet and did the upgrade. Initially, WeeWx restarted and all was we

Re: [weewx-user] Version 4.4.0

Updated this morning on Debian 10.7 and after several minutes of updating the DB, everything came up working smooth as silk. Good show! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: htt

Re: [weewx-user] NWS Radar Changes

For the moment I've given up on the NWS stuff and am using Wunderground maps. I've been able to integrate an animated loop into my weather page by doing the following: I started at: https://www.wunderground.com/maps For regional radar from Wunderground navigate to: https://www.wunderground.com

Re: [weewx-user] Question on Weewx, Vantage Vue, and CWOP

* On 2021 12 Jan 13:40 -0600, galfert wrote: > Stop saying that the airport is at the same elevation or at different > elevation from you. That is extraneous and irrelevant information. I am merely attempting to be factual as I'll admit to being still a bit confused as to what unit the METAR from

Re: [weewx-user] Question on Weewx, Vantage Vue, and CWOP

* On 2021 11 Jan 16:09 -0600, Tom Keffer wrote: > If you're concerned about the distance to the airport, you can take your > console to the airport --- it's battery powered. Well, that seems like a novel idea! :-) Wouldn't doing so take a few hours? The Davis literature appears to suggest so.

Re: [weewx-user] Question on Weewx, Vantage Vue, and CWOP

* On 2021 10 Jan 20:02 -0600, Tom Keffer wrote: > The note *Derived variables > * > from > Davis has a pretty good discussion of this. Thanks, Tom. I have a Vantage Pro2 and I see this: $ su

Re: [weewx-user] 4.2 to 4.3 RPi not running anymore - installed on RPi with Deb

* On 2021 09 Jan 06:50 -0600, Tom Keffer wrote: > Not sure what you mean. Upgrades should be done through apt-get, not dpkg. Actually, since Stretch and especially with Buster (Debian 10), 'apt' should be used in favor of 'apt-get' which is more low level. apt can even be used to install a manual