After being away from this group for a long time and having my manually installed version left at 3.1.0 for the past several years, I'm back and just upgraded from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0. Why the upgrade? I must have bumped the power plug and somehow corrupted the database on my Olimex MICRO last week and while I managed some repairs to the DB, after a time it would stop reporting the barometric pressure. The OS was still Debian 9 (Stretch,) so I updated that to 10 (Buster) and opted to install WeeWX from the Debian archive hosted here.
The database schema upgrade went smoothly and soon 4.2.0 was up and running. Over the course of the next couple of days I integrated my customizations into the Standard skin as well as integrated Wunderground radar and satellite images to replace those from NWS, and everything was off and running. I found the Xstats extension to be exactly what I needed to place some bit of Python code that provides a 24 hour time frame for looking at the archive data over the past 24 hours regardless of the time of day. I prefer the Standard report but also generate Seasons and Smartphone in their own directories. I may get around to customizing Seasons a bit more as time goes on. This morning I did an apt update and saw 4.3.0 was available. I read the upgrade notes and went for it. The database fix took a few minutes on this Olimex MICRO board which I have because it supports a SATA drive and a 60 GB SSD fit nicely in the metal case. Once that was complete, I added the 'force_null = False' line and now Wunderground shows the wind direction at all times rather than N/A. Thanks much! My anemometer is partially shielded and has a sticky bearing so it mostly shows 0 MPH at low wind speeds. Now my station page appears to be continuously active. I am pleased to see that I had the option to see the differences in the configuration files and keep my modified versions while checking for anything important I would need to add later. This is not easy, I suspect and works as well as official Debian packages. Well done! I am pleased to be running the latest WeeWX and will try to pop in here from time to time again. - Nate -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/6bc1de7a-5d3f-4ced-a907-95294d5abd5bn%40googlegroups.com.
