Thank you! I added weewx to the weewx group and rebooted - that got it working. The wiki page is also very helpful. It would be nice if the doc and the faq pointed there.
On Monday, April 29, 2024 at 1:17:42 PM UTC-7 vince wrote: > 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/7bcf7db8-f933-4e92-9e9b-e4bf746462c1n%40googlegroups.com.
