Looks like it's working now. Thanks for the help! Really had a fun time doing this today!
- - - - - - - - - - *Tim Phillips* *Cell: 425-765-1631* On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:27 PM, mwall <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 12:18:29 AM UTC-4, Tim Phillips wrote: >> >> I spent the day trying to get this to work at all am quite proud of it >> "just" working with WU's site. >> > > nice! hopefully most of that time was general learning about pi and linux > rather than fighting weewx. if you were battling weewx, please let us know > so we can fix the sharp edges so the next person does not get as many scars. > > >> So what you're saying is that I should set the "Station" for my personal >> use, using my WU site and I can use the "StdRESTful" for my private use, >> using my WAN IP address? >> > > make the Station.station_url your lan-accessible url, and make > StdRESTful.StationRegistry.station_url your publicly-accessible WU url. > > >> **I had a hard enough time trying to edit the conf. file since the >> package got installed to my "etc" folder on my RPi3 and I ended up using >> "sudo leafpad /etc/weewx/weewx.conf" to edit my config file. I'm sure I >> went wrong somewhere but that's the workaround I eventually found. Does >> that seem right? >> > > you got it. > > there are many editors, including nano, vim, vi, emacs, or even ed. none > of them can edit the system configuration files (the files in /etc) unless > you run them as root. and as you figured out, that is what sudo does. > > m > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/weewx-user/os70a52yDPc/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
