Looks like it's all working now. Thanks! On Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 9:47:07 PM UTC-7, Tim Phillips wrote: > > I actually had a fun time learning by "doing," as it's the way that I > learn things the best, for better or worse. This is a good project for me > as I know what "sudo" does and knew enough to be able to get leafpad (text > editor) to edit the config file as an admin. I thought I was doing > something wrong by having to do it this way. I didn't see it anywhere in > the Wiki that this was the only way to edit the config file. The command in > the wiki only would edit the first few generic items like elevation and > model/brand. In fact, the default package installed in the GUI for the > latest Raspbian Jessie never asked me to configure anything like I expected > from reading the Wiki. It just installed and didn't ask me a thing. This > entire time, I thought I installed it in the wrong place. Will I need to > whitelist anything? > > Still not showing up, though... > Added my WU URL to the [StdRESTful] [[Station Registry]] section and it is > set to "true" > Added my LAN IP 192.168.x.x:weewx to the Station_url in [Station] > > > > On Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 9:27:29 PM UTC-7, mwall 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 >> >
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