Found it. The bottom section of the understanding permissions page has the details of which group can do what.
On Monday, April 29, 2024 at 1:21:51 PM UTC-7 Mary Ann Horton wrote: > 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/b266f342-7292-4a58-8d93-2de7073d188fn%40googlegroups.com.
