What is the WeeWx program developer's philosophy, as far as updates are
concerned.
Some authors prefer to have everyone possible on the latest version so
as to help with debugging the real problem rather than variation from
release to release.
On the other hand, I'm happy as a pig in mud wi
a) thank you for the very speedy reply.
b) I would have never figured that out, so thank you for sharing your
knowledge of all this
c) I am happy with python 3 and the way things run and would be too
nervous about goofing something up. I will wait patiently for the
system to work, with rev
Thank you for the work and sharing the links to the github.
When I get my next station up and interfaced I will try adding this to
the display. Thanks again. Dale
On 5/31/2022 8:09 AM, michael.k...@gmx.at wrote:
Making all charts interactive is definitely a goal for future
enhancements. But
I am in deepest appreciation for the effort. I have been thwarted in
knowing sort of how it works, despite reading almost every comment
here. I have tried three different Learn Python books, and all are
explaining the very basic stuff I know, then taking a big jump over my
next step in unders
After many years and a comfortable implementation of the Rainwise IP-100
driver, my Rainwise station has died, seems currently unfixable.
Despite loosing most of the summer trying to get the ISS to transmit
again, I've lost all taht time and have to look for other inputs.
Looking through the
He'd better pay attention to them as the first and only priority!
I may have come about a way to get Aeris to work. I have a Campbell
Scientific station that is reporting to MesoWest reliably, and no reason
WD hooked to that can't send a report to the pws place that aeris needs,
so I'll send
This is a hobby, and I a complete novice to this programming language,
did figure out a lot of stuff by looking at the open code and then by
reading the documents. This is what makes learning and discovery fun
for some of us trying to understand how things work.
While we are all entitled to o
I wonder what the official textbook answer might be, if there is one.
I for one have seen pockets of fog over roads and in low lying areas
where micro climate is very close to each other but clearly particulate
or radiative cooling or something makes fog form and 40 feet away there
isn't any
Mr. Keffer brings up a point that I've been interested in as a student
(practically from the beginning) of computer science starting back in
the 1950s and 60s following what was a mathematical branch, but then
into system and compilers.
The question, sort of a diversion from the on topic disc
Vince,
Thanks, that does make sense. I guess I was just thinking there were
areas of the code that wouldn't be used if not called, rather than
linking and work arounds.
And while we enjoy amazing speeds, even from our little Rasp Pi boxes, I
used to labor over doing something in assembler
they
thought much about the thousands of people they sent scurrying around
fixing their effort at polishing the library.
-tk
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 9:15 AM DR wrote:
Mr. Keffer brings up a point that I've been interested in as a
student (practically from the beginning) of compute
I had thought I had installed 5.0 a few weeks ago, and was running in
test mode on a newly formatted SD card on a Rasp Pi 4.
When I looked at the display page down at the bottom in About This
Weather Station it said version 4.10.x
I reinstalled the SD card and updated the Rasp OS, and then
Thank you for the guidance. I don't understand how github does things
so your explanation makes perfect sense now. Thx again. Dale
On 12/8/2023 11:50 AM, vince wrote:
Stuff hasn't moved around.
* Docs are at https://www.weewx.com/docs.html
* Downloads are at http://weewx.com/downloads/
I have been waiting for the official release and plan on using the pip
method on a brand new install on a Rasp Pi 4.
I see from the discussions there is something installed called venv in
this current way of doing things, which must run sort of like a sandbox
where things are contained and ca
The|fileparse|driver is perhaps the simplest example of a WeeWX driver.
It reads name-value pairs from a file and uses the values as sensor
'readings'. The code is actually packaged as an extension, located
in|examples/fileparse|, making it a good example of not only writing a
device driver, bu
Just to follow up.
Were you able to find the fileparser driver from the info I sent you?
And I saw that they also recommended studying the simulation driver, too.
I hope my email doesn't goof up again, and loose some bookmarked
messages, so I just wanted to check in. Dale
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Tom,
THE most often made comment from the developers is to turn on debug and
then furnish the log.
Question: Is there a down side to just leaving debug on? Doesn't the
buffer for it just overwrite, and not cause the program to stop once it
is full? I know that the SD cards don't seem to ha
Thank you Vince and Tom for the concise answer and way to proceed.
I just didn't want to get caught chasing my tail while playing, but it
sounds more tail chasing might happen if I DON'T use Venv.
Thank you again for what must seem like a very basic question that all
'real' programmers would
Andrew:
If you make progress, or hopefully achieve full success I would hope
you'd offer your experiences and code to the group so others could enjoy
your abilities.
From the reading I've done to try to get a station interfaced, you'll
need to look at one of two examples to see how either RS
A friend who uses Rasp Pi stuff for his astronomy hobby just told me
that there is a new Debian release, Bullseye.
My system is running just peachy right now, and while I like the newest
and the greatest, is it wise to wait a bit, or are new Linux type
systems usually pretty well wrung out bef
As far as question #2, have you wired to the screw-attached green wiring
block INSIDE the base of the WXT and run a cable out through the
gland-seal and attached that to your SDI interface to your computer to
monitor the data stream? If not, I can look to see if I can find the
pin-out in one
There must be locations where the initial and reverse waves met at the
same time. Was anyone along that line that has tracings to share?
On 1/30/2022 11:55 AM, Gérard P wrote:
Very interesting thread, using same speed as Paul, and here is a plot
from France near Paris.
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Gary,
Pardon me for jumping in on this thread, butseeing Weather Display and
clientraw.txt terms grabbed my attention.
I've read through this message, and it lead me to the WeeWx-WD (end of
life) and the WeeWx-Saratoga portions, which I read, and partially
understand.
My main goal is to fi
Thank you for these real-world experiences. A few more bucks when
buying is easily made up in having hours of re-building a system and
finding all the personal tweaks one puts in.
What a great group to share their info and experience. I am
appreciative. Dale
On 3/13/2022 8:18 AM, Tom Kef
I would echo that trying the Belchertown skin might have your needs filled.
I loaded it as a try a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised how
quickly I got it set up, did a wee bit of customization without goofing
things up and presents yet another view of weather.
In addition to having
I have been looking for some way to open a command line or browser
driven version of SQLite to snoop around inside the WeeWx database just
to become more familiar with the layout. I'm not trying to correct any
errors (I am not that worried about the way I use WeeWx mainly to
capture the day an
me. I have a notebook by
my keyboard. Again thanks for this group's patience and help. Dale
On 4/4/2022 9:09 AM, Chuck Rhode wrote:
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 08:04:06 -0500
DR wrote:
> I have been looking for some way to open a command line or browser
> driven version of SQLite to s
I am hoping this is an easy question to answer.
I have Python 3 running on a Raspberry 400 with the Raspbian OS.
I used the setup program to install WeeWX that leaves the majority of
stuff in the /etc/weewx directory.
I am trying to get the driver for the Texas Weather Instruments system
run
This is very helpful, thank you.
Dale
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Some time ago Tom, I believe, published a note on how to modify the
Current Conditions part of the graphing, the part which goes along the
left side of the page showing current data, the Celestial Data, High/Low
and Station info. I added a delta sign and he showed the code to pull
in the tempe
4.5.1 so as to not run into problems
like this, or if it is stable and cranking away, just leave well enough
alone?
Dale
On 3/25/2023 4:38 PM, Tom Keffer wrote:
Which version? Version 4.6 has substantial changes in how this is done.
On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 2:32 PM DR wrote:
Some
Thanks, I'm off to experiment. Dale
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You pointed me to the way of making non-wanted observations to not
appear in the new scheme by editing the list of observations in
the new
scheme of organization.
My stable system running is 4.5.1 until I learn and get
comfortable with
configuring a new Rasp 400 ins
I have run 4.5.1 for some time, and had gotten suggestions on how to
modify the formating of one of the Current area statements, along with
adding two pieces of information which are generating from the data
base, but have no formal definition or schema name, to wit:
4.5.1, which shows:
Outs
"))
# elif $x == 'windSpeed'
* ...
*
**
You've manually added specialized formatting for outTemp.
Do something similar for any other variables you want to customize
Hope that helps.
-tk
On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 1:13 PM DR wrote:
I have
No apologies, ever please. I was able to learn quite a bit from what
you sent, and will just not modify the list of observations. Sometimes
the learning process isn't as fast for me as it used to be. Thank you. Dale
On 4/7/2023 7:47 AM, Tom Keffer wrote:
Geez, DR, I apologize. I st
I am far from an expert, but when I encountered this problem with my
adjusting, I used a command line chmod a+w or (777) for the directory.
Maybe that isn't a safe thing to do, but sure simplified the process as
I tweaked it.
I only suggest this until the experts can weigh in. Dale
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Craig, I don't know of a driver for the Campbell dataloggers.
I wish there were one, I have a very dependable station (CR3000) that
I'd like to interface. Right now it is filling the native tables, and a
Weather Display driver using pakbus is pulling those values from that
table and handing
/2023 9:28 PM, Craig Young wrote:
By any chance can weewx read from a data file? I could write the
incoming real time data to the file as a one line record and then
weewx would read this, say once a second or so.
On Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 1:56:52 PM UTC+12 DR wrote:
Craig, I don't
d and then
weewx would read this, say once a second or so.
On Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 1:56:52 PM UTC+12 DR wrote:
Craig, I don't know of a driver for the Campbell dataloggers.
I wish there were one, I have a very dependable station (CR3000)
that I'd like to interface. Rig
Perhaps I assumed too much, but my Rainwise IP-100 interface to the
Rainwise station does not generate ET in hardware.
I found where the hardware, software, or hardware preferred choices are
in the configuration, and changed 'hardware preferred' to "software".
In my Seasons.skin running WeeWx
how it is
calculated?
Dale
On 4/28/2023 5:09 PM, Tom Keffer wrote:
To calculate ET you need:
* Outside temperature
* Humidity
* wind
* solar radiation
Do you have everything? If any one of them is missing, you'll get a N/A.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:58 AM DR wrote:
Pe
I have looked through again the Customization guide, the Image Files
section and don't find a pre-programmed option for a plot which I'd like
to have.
There are a lot, but when it comes to rain, the hour by hour plot shows
when and how much, but I'm hoping to find a plot that shows the more (
Thank you. I will try this when I get to play a bit this afternoon.
The next thing, of course, is hoping for rain! We have entered a
moderate drought here, with Minnesota being worse off than we are here
in Western Wisconsin. Some places there have had a trace or few
tenths over the last
I'm trying to learn how to do a fwe things, but am confused by the need
for the data_binding statement:
data_binding = wx_binding
Isn't this a default linkage, and for those of us with simple databases
and setups, not needed? Just trying to cipher this out.
Thanks for any explanation.
I am very naive when it comes to how many programs interact.
Yet, I generally like to keep the most recent updates to programs and
firmware up to date, for security and functionality.
I was recently at the Godaddy site checking a couple things on my
account and I see a notice that PHP 8.1 is
I'm confused (again).
You mention that you CAN use an older version of a skin even in a newer
version of WeeWx.
I have a WeeWx 4.5.1 running with a Seasons skin that I like. Somewhere
along the evolution the way that the newer versions handle the plots and
the summaries was changed, and I a
Thank you for those answers. I will continue to experiment. Dale
On 7/16/2023 12:13 PM, vince wrote:
You're probably overthinking.
WeeWX doesn't care what version of a skin you use, be it older, newer,
or totally custom written by you or a third party.
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I have had 4.5.1 running on a Rasp Pi 4 for over a half a year. Not a
glitch.
I wanted to add to the Seasons Skin an additional plot. The stock
package gives me the bar graph of the rain each hour.
I wanted to also have the more traditional accumulation line graph
showing the upward progres
it also in index.html.tmpl 😎
On 27.07.2023 20:13, DR wrote:
I have had 4.5.1 running on a Rasp Pi 4 for over a half a year. Not a
glitch.
I wanted to add to the Seasons Skin an additional plot. The stock
package gives me the bar graph of the rain each hour.
I wanted to also have the more t
er wrote:
You probably gave your new plot a new different name - and have
forgotten to display it also in index.html.tmpl 😎
On 27.07.2023 20:13, DR wrote:
I have had 4.5.1 running on a Rasp Pi 4 for over a half a year. Not a
glitch.
I wanted to add to the Seasons Skin an additional plot. The
I have looked gitHub and see there is a 5.0 beta out there.
I am wondering if it is stable enough for a casual user to fiddle around
with it before official release, or should only experts be using it now
to test and give feedback to the developers?
Just curious. Dale
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Thanks. Dale
On 8/30/2023 8:11 PM, Tom Keffer wrote:
It's pretty stable. Most of the work now is about smoothing out the
installation process.
-tk
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 6:07 PM DR wrote:
I have looked gitHub and see there is a 5.0 beta out there.
I am wondering if
Is your reported cloud base a calculated value, or do you have a fancy
LIDAR or something to get that info?
And same for percentage of cloud cover, 19% seems very precise. Is that
just picked off the range of cloud cover or is there some way you can
measure that value?
Dale
On 9/9/2023 12
I'm just thinking about another project, and wonder how WeeWx uses the
default database.
When it is running does it open and leave open the database all the time?
If so, is the database able to have another program add records to the
database while WeeWx has it open?
The reason I ask, is th
e database. See this
documentation <https://sqlite.org/lockingv3.html>.
3. Unless an extension is acting otherwise, WeeWX does not write with
every LOOP packet. Only when archive records arrive.
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 8:10 AM DR wrote:
I'm just thinking about another project,
Thank you. That is helpful.
I didn't think it was permissible to fiddle with fields which are
defined, even if unused, but since I'm the only one using it, I guess it
wouldn't hurt.
I scanned the link to the SQLite discussion of how fields are written
and I'm amazed how how the 'lite' prog
Thanks for this clarification.
I've been reading the documentation, again, especially pertaining to the
database.
The discussion talks about removing columns which one never will use
(such as extra temps or soil temps) or renaming.
I was under the initial assumption that the default schema
I have three different RaspPi units running WeeWx from some of my
stations (like most with this hobby, some obsessions like more than one
seems somewhat common).
I know it has been said that neither WeeWx was designed to do, nor is
easy to accomplish, multiple instances running on a single Ras
Hey, still fiddling with various drivers for WeeWx.
Did you ever get anything to work with your project?
If so, I'm hopeful you might share the driver so I could study it.
Thx. Dale
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I did a new install on a newly Rasp OS 5 and did the venv first, and all
went well. Thanks for the bulletproof instructions. Copy-paste is my
friend!
I am running the simulator to let me get used to looking for stuff and
where it all is, which is seemingly very different from a Rasp Pi 4
ru
I looked on google groups to see if there is a help group for Campbell
Scientific questions, and found nothing so far.
I have generously been given a copy of the CR Basic and weewx driver
developed by a user here and am adapting it to my datalogger and sensors
from the ones he programmed.
M
I think the CC3000 uses the Rainwise Mark III, perhaps the Long Range Model.
I will check my set up to see if there are inputs to the station that
allows added sensors or not. There was a (very expensive) solar sensor
option which was not documented and despite trying to find out how it
was
Thank you for your offer of support to keep these older but still very
functional (and pretty accurate) stations going.
I have an ip-100 running on version 4 weewx. I have been slowly playing
with the newest version, and would update if I thought I could, but the
only real station feeding w
Have you looked at making your CS CR1000 write a file that FileParser
will recognize and use that to input to WeeWx? That has been one
suggestion.
I have not worked on a similar project to modify FileParser to be 'less
robust' and just taking a strictly ordered file and stuffing those
va
Hello Thomas
it works !!!
Thank you so much.
It is a great software - with so much opportunitities.
Kind Regards
Bernd
> Am 06.12.2017 um 19:26 schrieb Thomas Keffer :
>
> First of all, you should put pond.py in the user subdirectory
> /usr/share/weewx/user. This way, it will not be touched
wrote:
> Didn't Karen K have something of this sort in her repo?
>
> The above will only work with metric db, will it?
>
> Dr Henk Harms schrieb am Montag, 24. März 2025 um 06:56:39 UTC+1:
>
>>
>> So been "messing with it"
>> To create a table.
>&
I ran that query or similar on my mariadb... took forever.
Would it not be simpler to have an table called archive_day_bom_minmax and
have a weewx service write to that table at 9am each day?
On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 18:31, Mike B. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to capture a new observation: "H
ing BoM min/max: {e}")
# To use this service, add to weewx.conf:
#
# [BomMinMax]
# # Database binding to read temperature data from
# archive_binding = wx_binding
# # Database binding to store BoM min/max data (can be same as
archive_binding)
# output_binding = wx_binding
# # Table
Ill be on the road for the next 2.5 weeks not having much access to
internet, when I am back in the office I will fix that up for you.
On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 at 22:52, Mike B. wrote:
> Dr Henk Harms - Firstly thank you for taking timeout and putting together
> the solution above. I thi
Dear Rob
After moving to a different server i have been trying to get sftp to work
with weewx and never managed to get pysftp compiled, probably because my pi
is running Ubuntu 16. This I cannot change because my home automation is
running on the same pi3b - I would not like to mess with heating
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