Sorry can’t find where I wrote it up. https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/xCQlL3XPXhg/m/bHPnFWVLAQAJ At the bottom might help On Monday, April 29, 2024 at 1:14:38 PM UTC-7 vince wrote:
> Try adding the weewx user to group plugdev if I recall correctly. > Basically the user weewx runs has to be in a group that is permitted to > access the hardware. > > On Monday, April 29, 2024 at 11:07:49 AM UTC-7 Mary Ann Horton wrote: > >> I'm having a similar problem to what I see others are having, but the >> solutions I see here don't seem to work for me. >> I had weewx 4 running on xubuntu 20.04 for years with a Acurite USB >> weather station - it worked great. Then my PC died. I got a new PC, a fresh >> xubuntu 22.04 installation, and a fresh "apt install weewx". I'm getting >> the permission error: >> CRITICAL weewx.drivers.acurite: Unable to claim USB interface 0: [Errno >> 13] Access denied (insufficient permissions) >> >> The documentation says a fresh install will create the rule in >> /etc/udev/rules.d. It did not. >> I found the acurite line in /etc/weewx/udev, and copied it into >> /etc/udev/rules.d/71-weewx.rules. Ran udevadm control --reload. service >> weewx restart. Same error. >> I also found by unplugging the USB cable that the associated device is >> /dev/hidraw0. I've chowned it to weewx:weewx and chmodded it to 660. No joy. >> >> What am I missing? How do I track this down? >> >> -- 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/d7fc41d3-cb02-47bb-8543-b4412187f962n%40googlegroups.com.
