Did all you suggested Gary then, with weewx running again tried to gedit 
the syslog but got no display from$ sudo gedit syslog (as I THINK I did it 
previously) so did :-

ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~$  tail -f /var/log/syslog
Dec  8 11:35:06 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: engine: Starting up weewx 
version 3.8.0
Dec  8 11:35:07 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: fousb: synchronising to the 
weather station (quality=1)
Dec  8 11:39:03 ray-Aspire-5735 gnome-session[1436]: 
(zeitgeist-datahub:2572): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently 
used resources file at '/home/ray/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the 
parser failed: Failed to open file 
'/home/ray/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': Permission denied.
Dec  8 11:39:03 ray-Aspire-5735 gnome-session[1436]: (nautilus:1773): 
Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at 
'/home/ray/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Failed 
to open file '/home/ray/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': Permission denied.
Dec  8 11:39:15 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: fousb: changing data format 
from 1080 to 3080
Dec  8 11:39:15 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: manager: Added record 
2017-12-08 11:39:15 CET (1512729555) to database 'weewx.sdb'
Dec  8 11:39:16 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: manager: Added record 
2017-12-08 11:39:15 CET (1512729555) to daily summary in 'weewx.sdb'
Dec  8 11:39:16 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: engine: Starting main packet 
loop.
Dec  8 11:39:19 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: fousb: station status 
{'unknown': 0, 'lost_connection': 0, 'rain_overflow': 0} (0)
Dec  8 11:39:27 ray-Aspire-5735 wpa_supplicant[942]: wlp3s0: WPA: Group 
rekeying completed with 00:21:f2:0f:f6:b0 [GTK=CCMP]
Dec  8 11:40:19 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: manager: Added record 
2017-12-08 11:40:00 CET (1512729600) to database 'weewx.sdb'
Dec  8 11:40:19 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: manager: Added record 
2017-12-08 11:40:00 CET (1512729600) to daily summary in 'weewx.sdb'
Dec  8 11:40:21 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: cheetahgenerator: Generated 
14 files for report StandardReport in 1.38 seconds
Dec  8 11:40:22 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: imagegenerator: Generated 36 
images for StandardReport in 1.46 seconds
Dec  8 11:40:22 ray-Aspire-5735 weewx[18057]: copygenerator: copied 9 files 
to /var/www/html/weewx

that is now running in a separate terminal window ( I didn't EVEN know that 
you could run more than one terminal!)
Thanks again to ALL

On Friday, 8 December 2017 10:39:45 UTC+1, gjr80 wrote:
>
> Ray,
>
> This is what we need to see, whether you use gedit, tail, nano or some 
> other method as long as it works for you stick with it.
>
> The log extract shows that weeWX is not able to connect to your station 
> for some reason. I am not a Fine Offset (and clones) whiz, though I know 
> Fine Offset stations are prone to USB lockups (I am not sure if that is the 
> case here). All I can suggest is you stop weeWX, unplug your stations USB 
> cable, remove the power/batteries from the station, give it a minute or so 
> and then re-apply power and plug in your the USB. Start weeWX and monitor 
> syslog.
>
> Of course if Matthew or some other Fine Offset his has some ideas....
>
> Gary
>
>

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