draft docs are https://www.weewx.com/docs/5.0/
For the venv you do a 'source weewx-venv/bin/activate' then do a pip install to add modules within the venv. All you have to remember is to activate the venv before running weectl, as well as read the docs for the new syntax for doing things. It's pretty easy to pick up. systemctl works fine. Just go with it :-) On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 5:27:47 PM UTC-7 gary....@gmail.com wrote: > I installed v5 from an alpha long ago. I've upgraded along the way with > little issue. > > This was on my test machine, a drive went sideways and a complete rebuild > was in order. One good thing, a shiny new SSD is in place. > > Now, it seems that a venv is preferred. > > So, how to accomplish that? I have zero experience with a venv. I have had > to use the package manager to get a couple of python packages though and > don't know how that will work with a venv. > > How will this work for systemctl (service)? > I install and manage WeeWX as root on v4.x.x but I'm going to attempt to > run as a user with venv. Where will the WeeWX directories reside? > > If there is an up to date doc/wiki dealing with this, kindly point me > towards it. > > -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7fb1af06-d32f-49ac-b8ad-5582e11eb7e9n%40googlegroups.com.
