Have you set debug=1 in the config file? Then you need to post, redacted where needed, a full startup log.
On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 at 08:36, 'Peter Fletcher' via weewx-user < [email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to move my 'workhorse' (it runs weewx, as well as a fair bit > of home-brew home monitoring and control software) Raspberry Pi 3B to > Trixie, and I must confess that I am getting increasingly frustrated with > the problems introduced by Debian's assumption that you should be happy to > (essentially) recreate your system configuration from scratch every 2 years > for the new release. I do have two 3Bs, so I was able to do much of the > recreation on a new copy of Trixie on the 'spare' 3B, but I don't have two > RTCs, and I don't have a duplicate of the Meteo-Pi that acts as the serial > interface to my Vantage Pro 2. I was fairly easily able to install and run > weewx (5.1, now updated to 5.2) under Trixie with its simulator driver, and > I am now at the point of trying to move the configured Trixie SD card to > the hardware-equipped 3B and to run weewx 'for real'. After a few gotchas, > I got the RTC working, and made the appropriate modifications to my > existing weewx.conf to conform it to the layout of the Trixie installation. > I disabled the Console TTY and enabled the serial interface on the Pi, and > pointed weewx (successively) to dev/tty, dev/tty0, and dev/tty1. weewx > starts up without errors, but reports that it is getting no response from > the serial port, and cycles between the 'no response' and 'retrying' > messages. I don't believe that this is, strictly speaking, a weewx problem, > but has anyone got weewx working with this or a similar combination of > operating system and hardware, and/or got any helpful suggestions? > > -- > 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/c6dd5038-da0e-496c-bb67-42b31cc29eb6n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c6dd5038-da0e-496c-bb67-42b31cc29eb6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAGTinV6pZYxJrmUt%3D4PjtQXqwDfpMoiLDVgQ9O52jRwEL_xc1A%40mail.gmail.com.
