[weewx-user] Environment Canada text forecast grabber

2020-12-09 Thread Chris Alemany
Hello all, If, like me, you are a Canadian wishing Environment Canada had more ways to get their forecasts into your webpage, I may have something for you. For a few years now I have been using a script to grab and parse the extended text forecast RSS feed from Environment Canada. It just produ

[weewx-user] New radar_url and img for radar.weather.gov?

2020-12-22 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, If you are using the standard skin, has anyone figured out what the new URL should be for the radar image now that they have decommissioned the old link? (as of Dec 17). This is a rather verbose URL replacement: https://radar.weather.gov/?settings=v1_eyJhZ2VuZGEiOnsiaWQiOm51bGwsImNlbnRl

[weewx-user] Re: Environment Canada text forecast grabber

2020-12-22 Thread Chris Alemany
Hello again, I've made a number of updates to the scripts over the past few days. Note that it does not support French language place names or forecast at this time. Hopefully soon. Cheers Chris On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 10:30:44 PM UTC-8 Chris Alemany wrote: > Hello all

[weewx-user] Re: Build of weewx on M1 Mac

2020-12-22 Thread Chris Alemany
I have not been able to convince MacOS 11.1 to allow me to use launchctl for weewx either and I am on an Intel machine. I'll keep trying on my end. Did you have any trouble getting all the requirements for weewx included in python 3.9.1? I got stuck part way through and had to go back to 3.8.6

Re: [weewx-user] NWS Radar Changes

2020-12-22 Thread Chris Alemany
Thank you for looking into this folks. It sounds as though they have gone the same route as Environment Canada did a long time ago now. No more animated gifs available, instead they build the animations on the fly with overlays and a repository of images. The best I could do for Environment Ca

[weewx-user] Success on macOS 11.1 Big Sur

2021-01-27 Thread Chris Alemany
Hello, Just wanted to let folks know that I updated to 4.3 this morning after holding off for a while because my python install was still broken since I updated to Big Sur in November. However, before installing weewx I did a full brew upgrade/update and went through and reinstalled all the re

Re: [weewx-user] Version 4.4.0

2021-02-01 Thread Chris Alemany
Updated here as well with standard and Weather34 skins on macOS 11.1. Flawless. > On Jan 31, 2021, at 19:58, Neville Davis wrote: > > I am also now at 4.4.0 and Belchertown 1.2... everything working fine.. > > Thanks very much > > On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 10:04:09 AM UTC+10 tke...@gmail.

[weewx-user] Weewx to Mastodon/ActivityPub?

2022-12-15 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, Has anyone had a go at having weewx post to Mastodon/Fediverse, either to an existing @user@server or as an independent instance? There is at least one fellow who has written some Python to do it from his cumulus based system. I will share his GitHub project if someone thinks they can

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx to Mastodon/ActivityPub?

2022-12-18 Thread Chris Alemany
Here is the promised link to the fellow who created a Python script from cumulus on Mac to Mastodon/ActivityPub: https://github.com/buffaloseven/CumulusMX-Customizations/tree/main/integrations Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 15, 2022, at 6:24 AM, Chris Alemany wrote: > > Hi all,

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx to Mastodon/ActivityPub?

2022-12-20 Thread Chris Alemany
file. On Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 3:40:31 PM UTC-8 Chris Alemany wrote: > Here is the promised link to the fellow who created a Python script from > cumulus on Mac to Mastodon/ActivityPub: > https://github.com/buffaloseven/CumulusMX-Customizations/tree/main/integrations > > S

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx to Mastodon/ActivityPub?

2022-12-21 Thread Chris Alemany
ull that one over while I continue down the media (image) path. >> Alpha is at ... >> https://github.com/glennmckechnie/weewx-mastodon >> On 21/12/2022, Chris Alemany wrote: >>> The snowy weather here on Vancouver Island has given me some unexpected >>> time to work

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx to Mastodon/ActivityPub?

2022-12-27 Thread Chris Alemany
ps://mastodon.au/@BroomfieldWeatherBot > > > > On 22/12/2022, Chris Alemany wrote: >> Oh! Elegant solution. >> >> My “bot” is at @alberniweather...@mstdn.ca >> http://mstdn.ca/@alberniweatherBot >> Note, the instance has been extremely busy lately so don’t be

[weewx-user] Daily Archive ARC files like wview

2023-01-01 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all,Since moving from wview to weewx however many years back I’ve long missed wview's default generation of five minute interval (or whatever your interval is) “ARC” files every day.  I noticed there was a short word about creating daily summaries in the docs recently, so I went ahead and did th

Re: [weewx-user] Daily Archive ARC files like wview

2023-01-01 Thread Chris Alemany
They are! Should be reasonably compatible with CSV importers too. Sent from my iPhoneOn Jan 1, 2023, at 15:25, Tom Keffer wrote:Those rigid text formats are fun to write, no?On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 2:05 PM Chris Alemany <chris...@gmail.com> wrote:Hi all,Since moving from wview to weewx h

[weewx-user] Bug report? Weewx4.9.1 crashing

2023-01-02 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all. I’m recently updated my RPi3b to Bullseye from Buster (clean install) and weewx to 4.9.1 from 4.8. Weewx has been unable to run for more than a few hours before crashing. It is either erroring out when doing an archive update, or it does a full on kernel panic when it runs out of memo

[weewx-user] Re: Bug report? Weewx4.9.1 crashing

2023-01-02 Thread Chris Alemany
;] * 1.5: to this: if delta > float(self.config_dict['interval']) * 1.5: The out-of-memory error remains.. On Monday, January 2, 2023 at 10:25:57 AM UTC-8 Chris Alemany wrote: > Hi all. > > I’m recently updated my RPi3b to Bullseye from Buster (clean install) and > weew

Re: [weewx-user] Daily Archive ARC files like wview

2023-01-02 Thread Chris Alemany
Doing a little addition. Could someone point me in the direction of how to generate Lat Long in decimal degrees? (ie. as they are in the weewx.conf file controlling for decimal point) On Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 3:51:02 PM UTC-8 Chris Alemany wrote: > They are! Should be reasonably compati

Re: [weewx-user] Daily Archive ARC files like wview

2023-01-02 Thread Chris Alemany
That worked well. Thanks. > On Jan 2, 2023, at 13:50, Tom Keffer wrote: > > It's undocumented, and I haven't tested it, but I should think > > $station.stn_info.latitude_f > $station.stn_into.longitude_f > > would do it. > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2023

[weewx-user] Environment Canada CSV template

2023-01-02 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, Over time I’ve gathered the various csv records for the stations in my immediate area going back to 1894. In the process of doing that I’ve often wished weewx output its records in the same format so I could fly it all into the same gigantic spreadsheet. I’ve made it so with the attac

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Version 4.5.0 released

2021-04-04 Thread Chris Alemany
Successfully upgraded from 4.4.0 to 4.5.1 on Raspbian (pi 3b) with sudo apt-get update sudo apt upgrade weewx Running heavily modified Standard skin and the latest Weather34. Cheers Chris Sent from my iPad > On Apr 4, 2021, at 5:57 AM, PJO wrote: > > Yes, you're right I removed /etc/init.d/wee

[weewx-user] Will AC powered Davis transmitter attract lightning?

2021-04-18 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, Apologies that this is not strictly weewx related but I'm hoping the combined experience here will help. My solar powered davis transmitter that I use only for my anemometer appears to have failed so I am looking at replacing it. It is on my roof and the anemometer is the highest point.

Re: [weewx-user] Will AC powered Davis transmitter attract lightning?

2021-04-18 Thread Chris Alemany
save you in the event of a close strike with "fringe" effects. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Ernie >> >>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 4:12 PM Chris Alemany wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Apologies that this is not strictly weewx related

[weewx-user] MacOS syntax error on launch

2020-08-20 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, Trying to upgrade from 3.9.2. Have python3 installed and everything is in /Users/Shared/weewx as normal. I get the below message when I run the daemon after installation. I do have a number of extensions in play as well including crt. Cheers Chris Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: [weewx-user] MacOS syntax error on launch

2020-08-20 Thread Chris Alemany
her > upgrade the extension, or use Python 2. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:50 AM Chris Alemany wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Trying to upgrade from 3.9.2. >> >> Have python3 installed and everything is in /Users/Shared/weewx as >> normal.

Re: [weewx-user] measuring river depth

2020-08-23 Thread Chris Alemany
This is fantastic! I just installed a pond and stream in the front yard and would love to be able to monitor the depth of it. Could you provide a parts/supply list for the sensor, transmitter and receiver? Cheers Chris On Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 10:57:21 PM UTC-7 graha...@gmail.com wrote:

[weewx-user] Adding a "CANMETRICWX" standard unit system

2020-08-24 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi All, I'm trying to extend weewx so that there is a 4th option for unit systems called "CANMETRICWX" (Canadian Metric). This would be the same as "METRIC" except rain values are in mm and pressure values are in kPa and eventually would also include a "Humidex" calculation as well. I thought

Re: [weewx-user] Adding a "CANMETRICWX" standard unit system

2020-08-25 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, Yes, I noticed last night when I was rooting around in all the various weewx files (I guess I was creating a “fork” as I was modifying the weewx bin files themselves, _ini_.py, units.py etc to add in the new system) for mentions of units, that many extensions seemed to make the same 3-w

Re: [weewx-user] Adding a "CANMETRICWX" standard unit system

2020-08-25 Thread Chris Alemany
nging your reports. You don’t have to > change every report as you can set defaults for all reports. > http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#how_to_change_units > <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#how_to_change_units> > >> On Aug 25, 2020, at 10:39 AM, Chris Al

Re: [weewx-user] Adding a "CANMETRICWX" standard unit system

2020-08-25 Thread Chris Alemany
file itself, but Tom would be the decider on that. > > Humidex might best be done with xtypes as it is derived from temperature and > dew point. I found xtypes less well documented, but I am using xtypes to > derive aqi from pm2.5. It’s fairly straightforward. > >> O

Re: [weewx-user] Adding a "CANMETRICWX" standard unit system

2020-08-26 Thread Chris Alemany
le itself, but Tom would be the decider on that. > > Humidex might best be done with xtypes as it is derived from temperature and > dew point. I found xtypes less well documented, but I am using xtypes to > derive aqi from pm2.5. It’s fairly straightforward. > >> On Aug 25, 2020,

Re: [weewx-user] Adding a "CANMETRICWX" standard unit system

2020-08-27 Thread Chris Alemany
m temperature and > dew point. I found xtypes less well documented, but I am using xtypes to > derive aqi from pm2.5. It’s fairly straightforward. > >> On Aug 25, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Chris Alemany > <mailto:chris...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Yes, thanks f

[weewx-user] OrdinatesLong Option for Wind Direction?

2020-11-10 Thread Chris Alemany
Hello all, Is it possible to be able to add a full word version of the ordinal_compass formatting for wind directions? This would be useful for cerating auto-generated scripts and readouts, especially if they are read by machine, like an Alexa skill. Currently the Ordinates section controls th

[weewx-user] Any macOS Big Sur users?

2020-11-14 Thread Chris Alemany
Hello all, With the release of the macOS 11.0 “Big Sur” I would anticipate some major changes under the hood as far as the “darwin” open source/unix components. Has anyone tried weewx on Big Sur? I am thinking about upgrading in the next couple days. I’ll update here when I do with my experie

Re: [weewx-user] OrdinatesLong Option for Wind Direction?

2020-11-14 Thread Chris Alemany
n is $long_ordinal($current.windDir.raw> > > 3. Use a map in your template to map from the abbreviated ordinals, to the > long version: > > #set ord_map = {'N': 'North', 'NNE': 'North Northeast', ... } > > The current wind direct

[weewx-user] Re: Any macOS Big Sur users?

2020-11-15 Thread Chris Alemany
I have upgraded and everything seems to work basically except for the standard skin graphs which have lost all text. I will go through the prerequisites today and see if there are any updates to tools or python packages needed to get them functional again. Cheers, Chris On Saturday, November 1

[weewx-user] Re: Any macOS Big Sur users?

2020-11-15 Thread Chris Alemany
at, I have detected no other problems when upgrading to macOS 11.0. If I find anything else, I'll return to this thread. Cheers Chris On Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 6:24:19 AM UTC-8 Chris Alemany wrote: > I have upgraded and everything seems to work basically except for the > stand

[weewx-user] Re: Any macOS Big Sur users?

2020-11-15 Thread Chris Alemany
PS. I settled on /System/Library/Fonts/SFNSMono.ttf for a suitable font. You can see the resulting graphs here: https://www.alberniweather.ca On Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 1:57:08 PM UTC-8 Chris Alemany wrote: > Hello all, > > I can report that there was only one issue that cropped

[weewx-user] Beware macOS 11.0 Big Sur and python3.9

2020-12-02 Thread Chris Alemany
Hello all, I just spent an hour re-activating my weewx install and a couple other services after I ran brew upgrade and it updated ffmpeg and some other utilities requiring python 3.9. It turns out a host of pip modules, including Cheetah3 and pyephem, don’t build under 3.9 of pip quite yet. (

Re: [weewx-user] V5.0.0 available

2024-01-14 Thread Chris Alemany
Congrats to everyone! A huge amount of work. I'll likely upgrade tonight. I've been running b17 for a few weeks. Any gotchas on moving from the betas to the release? I'm using the pip method.CheersChrisOn Jan 14, 2024, at 16:28, matthew wall wrote:On Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 5:56:06 PM UTC-5 d

[weewx-user] Exclude list or Overwrite behaviour for RSync Report

2024-03-21 Thread Chris Alemany
Good morning all, I’m having some trouble with the weewx RSync report overwriting files that have changed on the remote side independent of weewx. Are there any provisions in the RSync report to exclude a list of files and/or folders (including in skins) or otherwise change the way the process

[weewx-user] Re: Exclude list or Overwrite behaviour for RSync Report

2024-03-21 Thread Chris Alemany
And just to be complete, this is on weewx 5.0.2, pip install on Debian. On Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 9:19:55 AM UTC-7 Chris Alemany wrote: > Good morning all, > > I’m having some trouble with the weewx RSync report overwriting files that > have changed on the remote side independ

[weewx-user] Re: Exclude list or Overwrite behaviour for RSync Report

2024-04-01 Thread Chris Alemany
> > That said - if you're trying to use weewx as the source of the > authoritative file to upload something, why would you externally mess with > the file(s) on the far side after that ? I'm sure there's some use case > you have but I can't think of a reason why

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Exclude list or Overwrite behaviour for RSync Report

2024-04-02 Thread Chris Alemany
tally untested and no idea if there are security risks of > doing it this way, but it would seem to be about as flexible as you can get > toward supporting whatever rsync options the underlying os supports with a > minimum of change to the existing uploader > > On Tuesday, April 2,

[weewx-user] RSYNC port not working in weewx.conf ?

2022-01-01 Thread Chris Alemany
Hello all, I just switched web hosts and they use port 27 for their SSH/RSYNC connections. I dutifully entered port = 27 into my RSYNC section (previously there was no port line specified) put the log is reporting that it is trying on port 22. Thoughts? Cheers, and Happy New Year, Chris --

[weewx-user] Re: RSYNC port not working in weewx.conf ?

2022-01-01 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi Gary, Thanks. Yes I've confirmed rsync works on that port on the computer and from the account needed as well as other computers. I have a cronjob using it as well. Here's the Debug with the command. It doesn't seem to mention any port so is it ignoring the config for some reason? I wonder if

Re: [weewx-user] Re: RSYNC port not working in weewx.conf ?

2022-01-01 Thread Chris Alemany
on > > It would really help if you posted the full log. It will tell you which > copy of weewx.conf it is using. > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 5:10 PM Chris Alemany wrote: > >> Hi Gary, >> Thanks. >> Yes I've confirmed rsync works on that port on the computer

Re: [weewx-user] Re: RSYNC port not working in weewx.conf ?

2022-01-01 Thread Chris Alemany
gt;> Either you are using a different weewx.conf than you think you are >>> using, or it was not set correctly in the [[RSYNC]] section >>> >>> It would really help if you posted the full log. It will tell you which >>> copy of weewx.conf it is using. >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: RSYNC port not working in weewx.conf ?

2022-01-02 Thread Chris Alemany
's a lot of unnecessary >> code in there. End results are nice, though. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 10:46 PM Chris Alemany wrote: >> >>> >>> I will pass that along, it occurred to me as well that the Standard skin >>> had

Re: [weewx-user] Re: RSYNC port not working in weewx.conf ?

2022-01-02 Thread Chris Alemany
:32:37 weewx-pi weewx[4572] DEBUG user.weather34: do_file_transfer: Rsync complete On Sunday, January 2, 2022 at 11:03:12 AM UTC-8 tke...@gmail.com wrote: > The debug code will show you the parameters to the Popen() call that > invokes rsync. Unfortunately, that's all you get. Still, it

Re: [weewx-user] Re: RSYNC port not working in weewx.conf ?

2022-01-03 Thread Chris Alemany
>> executed in 0.12 seconds >> >> Jan 2 13:32:37 weewx-pi weewx[4572] DEBUG user.weather34: >> do_file_transfer: Rsync complete >> >> On Sunday, January 2, 2022 at 11:03:12 AM UTC-8 tke...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> The debug code will show you th

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

2022-01-16 Thread Chris Alemany
Yup. The pressure wave hit my station on Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada at 4AM (about 8 hours after the blast). It actually visibly cleared the high coastal fog. The Weather Service out of Seattle confirmed it cleared the fog at the airport there so I went looking on some local hig

[weewx-user] affordable lightning detector

2023-06-22 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, Any recommendations on lightning detectors that work with weewx and maybe also Raspberry Pi? cheers chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email t

[weewx-user] Request - for python Requests module in v5 pip install

2023-08-23 Thread Chris Alemany
Hello all, I’ve moved over to v5 successfully for the most part. One missing piece I’ve come across with two extensions now is the Requests modules. I use the weewx-purpleAir and a Mastodon wxtoot extension that both rely on this module. I’m not sure how common it is in other extensions. I’m s

Re: [weewx-user] Request - for python Requests module in v5 pip install

2023-08-23 Thread Chris Alemany
files=[ > ... > ], > pypi = [requests,] > ) > > The installer would then run pip to install the specified modules. > > -tk > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:53 PM Chris Alemany <mailto:chris...@gmail.com>> wrote: &g

[weewx-user] Success! How-to: Moving from one machine to another with v5 pip and rsync

2023-08-25 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all. I take up plenty of bandwidth with questions and things so I thought I’d share a success in case it helps others. Last night I upgraded an old iMac and installed Debian 11 on it. Today I moved my newly installed v5b10 pip venv over using rsync from a RPi (Debian) onto the iMac with just

[weewx-user] PM2_5 no such column errors on weather34

2020-04-26 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, I just updated to a new version of the weather34 skin and am having a problem with the database schema. I have a purple air station and it is hooked in with the purpleair extension which displays fine in the regular skin here: https://www.alberniweather.ca/index.html However weather34

Re: [weewx-user] PM2_5 no such column errors on weather34

2020-04-26 Thread Chris Alemany
ds from the > tmpl file since they really should not be there. > > On Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 9:43:14 PM UTC-7, Chris Alemany wrote: > Hi all, > > I just updated to a new version of the weather34 skin and am having a problem > with the database schema. I have a purpl

[weewx-user] Re: [weewx-development] Version 4.0 is (finally) here!

2020-04-30 Thread Chris Alemany
Having watched the threads on weewx-dev for months now I just want to say great work and thank you to Tom and Matt and *all* of the amazing people who contribute to this excellent software. Congratulations on the release. Really looking forward to trying it out! Cheers Chris > On Apr 30, 2020,

[weewx-user] wview migration: serial server compatibility?

2017-11-17 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, I am thinking of finally making the switch from wview to weewx but one fundamental difference that seems to remain is support for a serial server connection. I am using the GW21E Serial Server to take the serial output from my wireless VP2 Plus. I don't see much talk about it on the

Re: [weewx-user] wview migration: serial server compatibility?

2017-11-17 Thread Chris Alemany
) computer need not be physically connected to the VP2 box. Cheers, Chris > On Nov 17, 2017, at 2:02 PM, vince wrote: > > On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 8:23:03 AM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: > > I am thinking of finally making the switch from wview to weewx but one > fund

[weewx-user] Re: wview migration: serial server compatibility?

2017-11-18 Thread Chris Alemany
... Chris On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 8:23:03 AM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am thinking of finally making the switch from wview to weewx but one > fundamental difference that seems to remain is support for a serial server > connection. > > I a

[weewx-user] Install on macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra - Python-MacPorts problem-solution

2017-11-19 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi All, I wanted to share my experience in the hopes it will help others who come up against similar issues. I like to write in story form, so apologies for the length, but the Coles Notes version is: If you are installing on High Sierra and have python installed through macports then ensure tha

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

2017-12-27 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi loonsailor, I have been using a serial to ethernet interface for years as well (with the wview software). I moved to weewx recently and after some digging realized the support for serial-ethernet is there, just not documented up front. Just go through the regular install process and when y

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

2017-12-27 Thread Chris Alemany
-Ethernet bridge) It would provide a further clue to folks. Cheers Chris On Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 11:03:43 AM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: > > Hi loonsailor, > > I have been using a serial to ethernet interface for years as well (with > the wview software). I moved to wee

[weewx-user] twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-27 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, I'm setting up the twitter extension. It works great! One nice-to-have would be if I could insert a new line into the format. I've tried \n with no success. Suggestions? Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsub

[weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-27 Thread Chris Alemany
And any idea how I could add the barometer trend value? I'm still learning how to find all of the available values in extensions and throughout the system. Thanks all! www.alberniweather.ca @alberniweather On Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 11:31:18 AM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: >

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

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
>>> Dec 27 17:31:29 ubu-mini-weather weewx[10673]: vantage: Socket error >>> while opening port 2 to ethernet host 192.168.198.202:3001. >>> Dec 27 17:31:29 ubu-mini-weather weewx[10673]: import of driver failed: >>> [Errno -2] Name or service not k

[weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
ctually returning in twitter. It is not the daily rain sum... how can I know what is what and what is available for display? Cheers, Chris On Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 1:17:34 PM UTC-8, vince wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 12:02:24 PM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: >

[weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 11:58:22 AM UTC-8, mwall wrote: > > > > but the fastest and most accurate way is rather pythonic: just do it! run > weewx directly and see what it spits out in each LOOP and REC dictionary. > > m > > I sense this is the answer I am looking for (Luke lol) but as

[weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 12:38:55 PM UTC-8, mwall wrote: > > On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 3:24:00 PM UTC-5, Chris Alemany wrote: >> >> >> On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 11:58:22 AM UTC-8, mwall wrote: >>> >>> >>> but the fastes

[weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
Also, any ideas on how to pass a new line within the format option so that Output on Twitter can look more like this? On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 1:12:38 PM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: > > > > On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 12:38:55 PM UTC-8, mwall wrote: >> >>

[weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
into code listed here: https://www.smallsurething.com/multi-line-strings-in-python/ Unfortunately, no success. Chris On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 1:37:19 PM UTC-8, mwall wrote: > > > > On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 4:24:05 PM UTC-5, Chris Alemany wrote: >> >> Al

[weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
no improvement. :( On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 4:19:58 PM UTC-8, mwall wrote: > > On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 6:52:36 PM UTC-5, Chris Alemany wrote: >> >> >> I used dayrain without success. >> > > at line 267 of twitter.py change this: >

[weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
t2D8> On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 4:45:42 PM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: > > no improvement. :( > > On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 4:19:58 PM UTC-8, mwall wrote: >> >> On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 6:52:36 PM UTC-5, Chris Alemany wrote: >>> >>

Re: [weewx-user] Re: twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-28 Thread Chris Alemany
chill:%.1f}ºC HIndex:{heatindex:%.1f}ºC >> Solar: {radiation:%.0f}W/m2 UV: {UV:%.0f} #PortAlberni >> https://www.alberniweather.cahttps://www.youtube.com/alberniweather"; > > > I'm not seeing dayrain (or dayRain) in your format at all. Where is it > coming from? >

Re: [weewx-user] twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-29 Thread Chris Alemany
with it. Better yet, cut and paste the whole twitter section of your > weewx.conf. > > Python is case-sensitive, so you definitely want dayRain. > > -tk > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Chris Alemany <mailto:chris...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Apologies I

Re: [weewx-user] twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-29 Thread Chris Alemany
ry and insert for the newline > > > > On Friday, 29 December 2017 15:35:10 UTC+2, Chris Alemany wrote: > >> Thanks for the mental push on ‘the whole twitter section”. I’ve figured >> out the day rain issue. >> >> I was using METRIC rather than METRICWX so d

Re: [weewx-user] twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-30 Thread Chris Alemany
That's a negative on both and %0a > > It just doesn't seem to want to parse any of the characters in the strings. I did some searching around and it certainly looks like, from examples like this: https://gist.github.com/dangayle/c211c1af232974f00564 def tweet(sentence): """Tweet sentence to

Re: [weewx-user] twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-30 Thread Chris Alemany
On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 2:47:52 PM UTC-8, vince wrote: > > On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 11:58:47 AM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: >> >> That's a negative on both and %0a >>> >>> >> That twython is capable of sending "new lines&q

Re: [weewx-user] twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2017-12-30 Thread Chris Alemany
gain if I get degree symbols in there. :) Cheers, Chris On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 8:18:56 PM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: > > > > On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 2:47:52 PM UTC-8, vince wrote: >> >> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 11:58:47 AM UTC-8, Chris Alem

[weewx-user] Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-01 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, I think I've seen this discussion embedded elsewhere but I'm not sure so I'll ask it by itself. Is it possible to have a concurrent 'clone' of the local database and a remote database? For background: While using wview I used the standard sqlite database on the local machine connected

Re: [weewx-user] twitter extension: Able to insert a return/new line?

2018-01-01 Thread Chris Alemany
ew Milner wrote: > >> Just a thought - is it possible that in .conf there should not be any >> quotes around the format string? Other values appear to have no quotes >> around them. >> >> >> >> On Sunday, 31 December 2017 07:32:41 UTC+2, Chris Alemany wro

Re: [weewx-user] Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-03 Thread Chris Alemany
ich I set up on a QNAP NAS... it has > worked without fault as a realtime backup of the db on my pi. > > Nev > > On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 9:05:08 AM UTC+10, vince wrote: > On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 12:56:27 PM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: > Is it possible to have

Re: [weewx-user] Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-03 Thread Chris Alemany
The why on keeping the sqlite database would be for its ‘local’ benefits. Easy backup, easy access, simple administration. The remote site is a web server and so the mySQL database is more appropriate for that setting anyway and backups are harder to do from a user perspective. > On Jan 3, 201

Re: [weewx-user] Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-05 Thread Chris Alemany
lt;https://ampliapps.com/sqlite-sync/> > https://ampliapps.com/sqlite-sync/ > > Kind regards, > Huw > > > On Monday, 1 January 2018 20:56:27 UTC, Chris Alemany wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I've seen this discussion embedded elsewhere but I'm not sure so I'

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Alemany
This is great Les thank you! That sounds very much like a tool that could work. Do you have an example dbackup.conf I could use? On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 2:11:42 PM UTC-8, ln77 wrote: > > I wrote a little tool for syncing weewx data from one database to another, > which I think can address

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Alemany
Thanks! I'll let you know how it goes! On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 6:51:03 PM UTC-8, ln77 wrote: > > Yes, I forgot to attach the conf file the first time. The attached has > examples for both mysql and sqlite, for both source & destination. For > mysql, the host, user, and password of cou

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Alemany
initial run is on the go... 11,000 of 1.2 million records already done. Gonna be a minute or 500 :) On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 7:05:12 PM UTC-8, Chris Alemany wrote: > > Thanks! I'll let you know how it goes! > > On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 6:51:03 PM UTC-8, ln77 wro

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Alemany
) > Let me know if it works out for you, and if any issues crop up. > > -Les > > On 6 Jan 2018, at 19:23, Chris Alemany > > wrote: > > initial run is on the go... 11,000 of 1.2 million records already done. > Gonna be a minute or 500 :) > > On Saturday,

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Simultaneous clone to mySQL for weewx and weewx-WD?

2018-01-07 Thread Chris Alemany
Question: I'm using mwall's realtime Cumulus extension to produce text files from the loop data. Is there anything stopping that extension from outputting to mysql/sqlite bindings instead? Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group

[weewx-user] producing values with no units

2018-03-04 Thread Chris Alemany
This seems like a simple question but I've been trolling through the docs for what seems like weeks and haven't been able to figure it out. I just want to have a simple way to use a tag like $current.outTemp; and have it produce just the raw value without the unit. So, 4.2 not 4.2ºC. Help! :)

[weewx-user] Re: producing values with no units

2018-03-04 Thread Chris Alemany
haha! Where I come from trolling and trawling are still both fishing! (I worked on my dad's salmon *troller* for quite a few years... trawling is the big bad dudes who drag a net through the water. Yuk). RAW! Thank you! I scrolled through that page a thousand times and didn't see it. thanks

Re: [weewx-user] Storm rain

2018-03-04 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi Tom, Following up on this, are we still required to add another slot in the database for the stormRain value? When I try $current.stormRain or $last.stormRain I don't get anything. Is there a way to just spit out everything in the $current.?? or $last.?? domain? Cheers, Chris On Sunday, M

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Adding archive data to daily report

2018-03-04 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi Thomas! This is a great addition, love how you presented it on your website too. Do you have the extensions you made available to download anywhere? Thanks! Chris On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 10:58:11 AM UTC-8, Thomas Carlin wrote: > > That did the trick. Thanks again Tom > -- You rece

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Adding archive data to daily report

2018-03-05 Thread Chris Alemany
orical summary cards, but I have debated submitting it to the author > for review anyway. > > Let me know if you would like the History Cards, and I'll post some code. > > > On Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 3:53:05 PM UTC-7, Chris Alemany wrote: >> >> Hi Thomas! >

Re: [weewx-user] Lost pyephem after upgrade to 5.1 and/or Bookworm

2024-10-17 Thread Chris Alemany
e latter, make sure you use the instance > of Python for which pyephem is installed. For a pip install, that means you > need the explicit path to the instance of Python inside the virtual > environment. > > -tk > > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 12:38 PM Chris Alemany wr

[weewx-user] Lost pyephem after upgrade to 5.1 and/or Bookworm

2024-10-17 Thread Chris Alemany
Hi all, I'm running weewx on a Debian system. Last week I updated to Bookworm and weewx 5.1 and it appears to have broken pyephem. I am using the pip method and pyephem is reported as installed successfully in the weewx-venv folders (and I can confirm there are folders for both 3.9 and 3.11