[weewx-development] Re: Advice on a new driver and how to make it available

2017-02-20 Thread mwall
On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 10:26:35 PM UTC-5, vk3...@gmail.com wrote: > > Just noticed that the beta of V3.7.0 is available. > In the release notes from Tom he noted that any missing 'windGustDir' is > to be determined by Weewx with this version. > Please note that the last version of my driv

[weewx-development] Re: Advice on a new driver and how to make it available

2017-02-20 Thread mwall
On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 9:45:55 PM UTC-5, vk3...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think I'm nearly ready to release this but I'd still like a comment on > hwo to best handle the new version (V3.7.0) > susan, you should not have to do anything special for weewx 3.7.0 - there are no changes in 3.7

[weewx-development] Re: Advice on a new driver and how to make it available

2017-02-20 Thread vk3anz
Yep - Spotted that myself on Sunday. Thanks. Also took the advice about removing the extraneous lines form the install.py file - much better now. (I copied this from one of the example files pretty much without understanding the relation ship between these lines and the code in the main file to

[weewx-development] Re: What prevents archives and generated files?

2017-02-20 Thread mwall
On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 8:27:07 PM UTC-5, crich...@gmail.com wrote: > > Here's the comment from the top of the file: Derived (shamelessly stolen) > from Matthew Wall's Observer driver by Chris Richmond. > Meaning the basic structure is still there, just the additions to deal > with my dat

[weewx-development] Re: Advice on a new driver and how to make it available

2017-02-20 Thread dr__bob
Hi Susan, this is a very minor bug, but I found it while looking through my log files. There's a missing "%" on an strftime string. Yup, I did say minor! Here's the diff to HP1000.py: *** HP1000.py 2017-02-05 02:15:01.0 -0800 --- /usr/share/weewx/user/HP1000.py 2017-02-20 16:52:10.46

[weewx-development] Re: What prevents archives and generated files?

2017-02-20 Thread crichmon762
Here's the comment from the top of the file: Derived (shamelessly stolen) from Matthew Wall's Observer driver by Chris Richmond. Meaning the basic structure is still there, just the additions to deal with my data. I think the answer is still yes, because the yield packet is still there. Thx, Chri

[weewx-development] Re: weewx won't start with user.wh23xx driver

2017-02-20 Thread Thom Rogers
Sounds great . Thanks. On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 11:35:20 PM UTC-7, Thom Rogers wrote: > > Running on a Mini-Mac w 8GB RAM and OSX 10.11.6 (El Capitan) > I've installed the wh23xx driver per instructions at h > ttps://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-wh23xx , but when I try to start it > via

[weewx-development] Re: What prevents archives and generated files?

2017-02-20 Thread mwall
On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 2:27:55 PM UTC-5, crich...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm making progress with my driver, and I'm making LOOPs in weewk now, but > the archive's and generated files aren't happening. > There aren't any errors anywhere, just no DB updates, pictures, or web > pages. The t

[weewx-development] Re: weewx won't start with user.wh23xx driver

2017-02-20 Thread mwall
On Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 1:35:20 AM UTC-5, Thom Rogers wrote: > > > Any advice on how to overcome the "No backend available" error? > thom, you have to install a usb 'backend' that is supported by pyusb. three examples are libusb, libusb1, or openusb. libusb1 is probably your best bet.

[weewx-development] What prevents archives and generated files?

2017-02-20 Thread crichmon762
I'm making progress with my driver, and I'm making LOOPs in weewk now, but the archive's and generated files aren't happening. There aren't any errors anywhere, just no DB updates, pictures, or web pages. The times in the LOOPs are UTC, so 8 hours ahead of local time. The records are from the s