[weewx-user] Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
Hi to all, For what ever reason weewx will not work after installing via the instructions here: https://www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm As a nwbe to weewx and linux so all help is appreciated Thanks Here is what I get on the log report: Here is what I get on the log report: sudo tail -f

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread vince
Lets see your latitude and longitude lines in weewx.conf I suspect you have two numbers on the latitude line... On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 10:51:40 AM UTC-8 timwill...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi to all, For what ever reason weewx will not work after installing > via the instructions here:

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
ThanYk forresponce, Yes it is doubled . How do you fix it? # Description of the station location location = "SDora" # Latitude in decimal degrees. Negative for southern hemisphere latitude = 36.7680 -92.2672 # Longitude in decimal degrees. Negative for western hemisphere.

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
I'm trying to run my vantage vue on my Laptop with Linux mint 20.3 to save elec energy but I am so new at this it is frustrating . so please be patient with this newbe thanks :) I corrected duplicate lLattitude and Longitude and then restarted weewx but still no luck . Seems to be something

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
I ment to say I used port stting the first time using /dev/ttyUSB0 not /dev/ttyS0.. thanks On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 2:41:06 PM UTC-6 Tim Williams wrote: I'm trying to run my vantage vue on my Laptop with Linux mint 20.3 to save elec energy but I am so new at this it is frustrating . s

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread vince
How is your vue connected to the laptop ? If it is a Davis USB data logger 'or' a serial logger+serial/usb adaptor, The usual device for a modern Linux is /dev/ttyUSB0 and there are a couple ways to figure that out. One way is to run 'dmesg' and look at the output. On my pi4 here it would inc

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
IThanks vince, t's the /dev/ttyUSB0 so I edited my weewx config to /dev/ttyUSB0 : If the connection type is serial, a port must be specified: # Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Fedora, and SuSE: # /dev/ttyUSB0 is a common USB port name # /dev/ttyS0 is a common serial port name

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread vince
If you're on the latest version (you didn't say), you should set debug=1 in weewx.conf, restart weewx, and post a longer log extract here so others can look at the debugging output. Your tail -f is too short, you want to show from the time weewx starts through one archive period at least. Per

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
I set log to debug=1 will send new log when I figure out how to :) On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 4:39:02 PM UTC-6 vince wrote: > If you're on the latest version (you didn't say), you should set debug=1 > in weewx.conf, restart weewx, and post a longer log extract here so others > can look

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
/etc/init.d/weewx start Starting weewx (via systemctl): weewx.service. willie@willie-ThinkPad-X131e:~$ sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog Nov 10 19:27:07 willie-ThinkPad-X131e weewx[12859] CRITICAL weewx.engine: self.port.openPort() Nov 10 19:27:07 willie-ThinkPad-X131e weewx[12859] CRITI

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread gjr80
You might want to have a read of the WeeWX Wiki article Help! Posting to weewx user . The article gives some pretty straightforward instructions on how to get a good log extract and post it here. The better the log

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
gir80 , Thanks a bunch here is a copy of Log extended Nov 10 20:23:59 willie-ThinkPad-X131e weewx[13771] CRITICAL weewx.engine: self.port.openPort() Nov 10 20:23:59 willie-ThinkPad-X131e weewx[13771] CRITICAL weewx.engine: File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py"

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread vince
On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 6:40:55 PM UTC-8 timwill...@gmail.com wrote: > Nov 10 20:23:59 willie-ThinkPad-X131e weewx[13771] CRITICAL __main__: > Unable to load driver: [Errno 2] could not open port /dev/vpro: [Errno 2] > No such file or directory: '/dev/vpro' > Again, as I said earlier

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
Hi Vince.. I was following the wrong instruction for vantage and used the /dev/vpro whoops . I edittted wewx config to .port=/dev/ttyUSB0 . Am waiting for log to complete and will update shortly . Thanks for pointing that out . On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 9:17:32 PM UTC-6 vince wro

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't Install Correctly Mint 20.3 UNA

2022-11-10 Thread Tim Williams
updated Log: Nov 10 22:04:43 willie-ThinkPad-X131e weewx[17857] CRITICAL weewx.engine: Vantage.__init__(self, **config_dict[DRIVER_NAME]) Nov 10 22:04:43 willie-ThinkPad-X131e weewx[17857] CRITICAL weewx.engine: File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 52