On Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 12:19:49 PM UTC-7 vince wrote:
You have some kind of non-standard legacy python installation. Notice the path to python below ? .. Oct 14 17:08:55 pi4 weewxd[3538]: INFO __main__: Located at: /usr/local/bin/python3 I suspect if you used /usr/bin/python3 it would work. Yes! That's got to be it. But I'm having trouble getting WeeWX to use the Python I want. I start it with this service file: rob@pi4:/etc/weewx $ cat /lib/systemd/system/weewx.service # systemd service configuration file for WeeWX # fixed after upgrade to WeeWX 5.2? # using /usr/share/weewx/weewxd.py [Unit] Description=WeeWX Documentation=https://weewx.com/docs Requires=time-sync.target After=time-sync.target Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] # was: ExecStart=weewxd /etc/weewx/weewx.conf *ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/share/weewx/weewxd.py /etc/weewx/weewx.conf*StandardOutput=null StandardError=journal+console RuntimeDirectory=weewx RuntimeDirectoryMode=775 User=weewx Group=weewx [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target wherein I specify the path to Python3.11 But in the logs, nothing has changed: Oct 15 16:28:55 pi4 systemd[1]: Started weewx.service - WeeWX. Oct 15 16:28:56 pi4 weewxd[615557]: INFO __main__: Initializing weewxd version 5.2.0 Oct 15 16:28:56 pi4 weewxd[615557]: INFO __main__: Command line: /usr/share/weewx/weewxd.py /etc/weewx/weewx.conf Oct 15 16:28:56 pi4 weewxd[615557]: INFO __main__: Using Python: 3.13.1 (main, Dec 12 2024, 15:48:42) [GCC 12.2.0] Oct 15 16:28:56 pi4 weewxd[615557]: INFO __main__: Located at: /usr/local/bin/python3 If I use that ExecStart (*/usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/share/weewx/weewxd.py /etc/weewx/weewx.conf) *from the command line, it works fine. Thoughts? I'll go read the "starting weewx" docs again..... -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/91a1ab33-ebbe-49ce-9dfb-46a366f3836en%40googlegroups.com.
