[weewx-user] Noting temperature change from yesterday at this hour

2021-01-21 Thread D R
One of the things we get are these rather sudden sweeping in of cold air masses and the television stations frequently map how much temperature change there is compared to yesterday at this time.  In the summer, a welcome cool front is also frequently given air time. I'm thinking this would b

Re: [weewx-user] Noting temperature change from yesterday at this hour

2021-01-22 Thread D R
Yes, why not, indeed! This program holds so much and thanks to the development and design, makes this one far easier. Dale -- 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

[weewx-user] Looking for guidance on how to modify the Current Conditions section of the 'main page' of WeeWx

2021-02-13 Thread D R
I apologize for not having come up with the answer on my own.  I have gone through the User and Customization guides and am just not finding clear guidance as to what to do, despite there being a lot of info in those documents. What I want to do is add a line to the collection of items in the

Re: [weewx-user] Looking for guidance on how to modify the Current Conditions section of the 'main page' of WeeWx

2021-02-17 Thread D R
Thank you for the replies on my question.  I think I have figured it out and now have a better understanding of how things work. It is not always as one thinks it is! Again, thank you for the replies and guidance. Dale -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

[weewx-user] How to insert a special symbol in the format and labeling text

2021-02-17 Thread D R
I have made some changes to the current.inc skin generating file and now want to tweak it just a smidge. In the current conditions, listing the various values, I used the ($trend) operator to get the difference from 24 hours ago. I had it in a line at the bottom of the listing of values, but

[weewx-user] After installing Texas Weather driver from Matthew's github no in pick list

2022-04-30 Thread D R
I am past testing and now want to connect my Rasp 400 to a real wx station I have running, a Texas Weather Instruments. I went to github and got the driver that Matthew has furnished, downloaded it and installed with the instructions given into my WeeWx 4.8. Then I did a wee_config --reconfigu

[weewx-user] Re: After installing Texas Weather driver from Matthew's github no in pick list

2022-04-30 Thread D R
e, and the twi.py is added on somehow. Dale On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 2:14:50 PM UTC-5 D R wrote: > > I am past testing and now want to connect my Rasp 400 to a real wx station > I have running, a Texas Weather Instruments. > > I went to github and got the driver that Matthew

Re: [weewx-user] Re: After installing Texas Weather driver from Matthew's github no in pick list

2022-04-30 Thread D R
rs >> driver (another station I have) is working with Python 3? >> >> Dale >> >> >> >> On 4/30/2022 2:54 PM, Tom Keffer wrote: >> >> The problem is that the twi driver has not been ported to Python 3. >> >> I'll do the port and

Re: [weewx-user] Re: After installing Texas Weather driver from Matthew's github no in pick list

2022-04-30 Thread D R
>>>>> to work, with revisions being passed along. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your attention, I'm anxious to try it, and will see if one >>>>> of my other stations will work. Do you know off hand if the Peet Brot

Re: [weewx-user] Re: After installing Texas Weather driver from Matthew's github no in pick list

2022-04-30 Thread D R
ith open(src, 'rb') as fsrc, open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/weewx/weewx.conf.20220430184103' pi@raspberrypi:~ $ On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 6:40:00 PM UTC-5 D R wrote: > ls -l /usr/share/weewx/user > tota

Re: [weewx-user] Re: After installing Texas Weather driver from Matthew's github no in pick list

2022-04-30 Thread D R
enable = false station = replace_me password = replace_me [[WOW]] # This section is for configuring posts to WOW. On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 6:43:37 PM UTC-5 D R wrote: > I perhaps spoke too soon: > I went back to complete the install, an

[weewx-user] How to copy error messages and other info from the Terminal window in RaspPi400 standard install

2022-07-25 Thread D R
i'm attempting to install and use Mr. Wall's most recent driver for the Texas Weather WLS-8000 driver. I downloaded from github, copy and pasted from the readme file the instructions and pasted them into the Terminal and executed them in sequence. When I get to the reconfigure sentence, I get

[weewx-user] Formatting question: How to force a + in output?

2021-02-21 Thread D R
If the number is negative, it will print a "-" in front of the number. Despite looking through Python formatting pages from searches for Python Formatting, I cannot see that there is a provision to force a "+" in front of a number no matter what. For example: -23.7 is always given if negativ

Re: [weewx-user] tag date and time of the last rain

2021-03-22 Thread D R
I'm reminded of Ray Bradbury's wonderful and chilling short story, "All Summer in a Day." Free online and a quick read.  I still get shivers when I think of it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and s

[weewx-user] In which directory on the Rasp Pi are the driver files stored?

2021-08-07 Thread D R
I'm starting from scratch with a new Rasp Pi 4, Debian OS, and installed the newest version of WeeWx with the method that placed the bulk of the files in the /etc/weewx directory, not the /home one. I have found the 0.5 release of the Rainwise IP100 driver and ran the program to add an extentio

[weewx-user] Getting pyephem to generate more extensive values in the Celestial module

2021-08-10 Thread D R
I've started a new install with a RaspPi4, 64 Gig memory, latest Debian install, with updates, then latest WeeWx, selected the emulator to get some reports, then when working went through the install of pyephem, since when I expanded the Celestial .inc it told me for more info I needed that. I

Re: [weewx-user] Getting pyephem to generate more extensive values in the Celestial module

2021-08-10 Thread D R
ry, then do the install. > > Second, make sure that the version of python that pip3 used is the same > one that weewxd is using. The log will show the latter. For the former, > it's best to explicitly invoke python, instead of pip3. For example, > > *python3 -m pip pyephem* >

Re: [weewx-user] Getting pyephem to generate more extensive values in the Celestial module

2021-08-10 Thread D R
he restart but does now. Please use your advising time for someone else, since the problem seems to have been fixed but I have no understanding of why. I'm just pleased to have Celestial.inc working! Thank you. Dale On Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 10:10:56 PM UTC-5 D R wrote: > I stoppe

[weewx-user] Set up Belchertown for using Dark Sky for the time being for forecast

2021-08-13 Thread D R
Since I'm just getting my station rebuilt and set up, I cannot get an aeris key or password yet since I"m still running the station emulator and getting simulated data. Of course with DS on the way out, I will feed pwsweather and be entitled to get a key, but so far, I'm not online. I'd like t

[weewx-user] Has the latest WeeWx and Python3 changes made the github fileparse.py file not work?

2021-08-15 Thread D R
I am getting my bearings in the skins and language structure and got one weather station (rainwise ip100) back working. While still very shaky with the details of the language, thought I might exercise my brain by trying to get my Campbell Scientific station feeding Weather Display to also make

Re: [weewx-user] Has the latest WeeWx and Python3 changes made the github fileparse.py file not work?

2021-08-15 Thread D R
<https://github.com/weewx/weewx/blob/master/examples/fileparse/changelog>, > you'll see that it was ported to Python 3 two years ago. It should also > work with the latest version of WeeWX. Are you having a specific problem? > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 6:21 PM D R wrot

[weewx-user] Is there a clientraw driver?

2020-11-14 Thread D R
I have used WD for a long time, and have it monitoring several stations. The program generates a clientraw and clientrawextra file, as well discussed here. My stations can feed only one software program, therefore I cannot run WeeWx and WD on two computes. I would like to use WeeWx to generat

[weewx-user] Re: Peet Bros with Davis wind vane

2020-11-19 Thread D R
>From my knowledge, the answer is no. The Davis uses pulses to signal wind speed, and the Peet Bros does, too. The major difference is that the Davis uses the much more traditional potentiometer to deliver a voltage and the ISS reads that to convert to a wind direction. The Peet Brothers does

[weewx-user] Re: Peet Bros with Davis wind vane

2020-11-19 Thread D R
In those situations where a conversion can be done, rather than a direct drop in replacement, it usually takes some electronic magic. Davis made a unit to take an NRS or RM Young wind monitor and simulate it being a Davis weather sensor package. A gentleman in Florida did a whole bunch of pro

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Peet Bros with Davis wind vane

2020-11-19 Thread D R
Indeed, I may have jumped to a wrong conclusion, also. I should have clarified.  My response was based on getting a whole sensor unit, windspeed and wind direction, replaced. If it is just a mechanical problem (broken  nose or fin) on the Peet wind direction unit, then as Tom suggests a bit

[weewx-user] Most current version of driver for Rainwise ip-100

2020-11-20 Thread D R
I am doing a new setup on a Pi400 for speed and to clean out some things on a previous Pi4 that I've had running for about 1/3 of a year. I have downloaded the driver from github, and searched here for comments on the driver which seems to have had some problems pre version 0.4 Despite having

Re: [weewx-user] forcast wunderground for weewx 4.2.x using python 3

2020-11-20 Thread D R
The weewx is 4.2.0  Installed quickly, no errors, and is running in test mode with the simulator showing what I'd expect. I have downloaded all the install files within the last two days. I did an update and upgrade for all things on the Rasp400 before installing it. The github location was:

Re: [weewx-user] Weather Display and weewx

2024-03-09 Thread D R
I am getting a Campbell Scientific running with major help from a user who has accomplished that already but am thinking while focused drivers are no doubt the best interface, I was next going to try using Weather Display to write the clientrawtext.txt file and the modify Mr Wall 's file parser to

[weewx-user] How important is it to do virtual environments for all installations?

2024-06-17 Thread D R
With my Pi5 having arrived and run in for a week or so and a multitude of projects now under control, I want to start playing with WeeWx 5 (or 5.1). I plan on a fresh install on a freshly updated Reap OS installation. I expect to fiddle with it a lot, and if my past experience is anything, a

Re: [weewx-user] Plot for progressive rain accumulation

2023-06-22 Thread D R
Kevin, Yes, that is the one. After I get my WeeWx updated and tweaked, I will work on getting the Belcher 1.3.1 installed. Dale On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 10:24:25 AM UTC-5 DR wrote: > Thank you. I will try this when I get to play a bit this afternoon. > > > The next thing, of course,