Thanks for pointing out these errors, Terry. I've updated the Wiki page. -tk
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Terry Hock <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, Ralph, > Good to hear the Peet Brothers weather station has been very reliable, > this is exactly while I chose it. I have been using an Acurite and for the > money, I think they are very good, but the RF wireless link is very > unreliable when running 24/7 and I have made many tweaks which improves it, > but it is still not as reliable as I would like it. > > UPDATE: Based upon earlier comments by Andrew and mwall to have a > devrule for the serial to USB converter, I did get this to work. Since I am > a newbie to the LINUX world, I followed the Wiki weewx exactly, but it did > not work for me. I did find how to do it which is close to the weewx wiki > but not the same. > > The weewx.rules files need to be located in the rules.d folder > */etc/udev/rules.d/weewx.rules* (not /etc/udev/weews.rules) and there is > a type of one "=" sign missing for the serial number. Since I am not LINUX > expert I would let some else update the wiki who knows much more than I do. > > Since I have added the new udev rule for the serial to USB converter, > I have had reliable operations for about 4 days, where before it would > always fail within 1 day. > > Cheers, > Terry > > On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 8:33:25 PM UTC-7, Terry Hock wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am trying to get the Peet Brothers Ultimeter 2100 working *reliably*. >> The issues appears to be the serial-USB converter. The system can run >> flawless for hours or at other times no more than 10 minutes and then weewx >> stops updating. I have previously used an Accurite weather station with no >> issues, so I am only changing the driver by using wee_config. >> >> Looking at the syslog file I get the following messages: >> ultimeter: driver version is 0.18 >> ultimeter: using serial port /dev/tty/USB0 >> import of driver failed: [Errorno2] could not open port /dev/ttyUSB0: >> [Errorno2] no such file or directory: '/dev/ttyUSB0' >> engine: unable to load driver: [Errorno2] could not open port >> /dev/ttryUSB0: no such file or directory: '/dev/ttyUSB0' >> **** Exiting. . . >> >> >> The USB-serial converter is an FTDI , which in the past I have found to >> very reliable. >> weewx version: 3.7.1 >> Raspberry Pi 2 >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated! >> Terry >> >> >> >> -- > 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. > -- 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.
