Re: [weewx-user] Wont connect to weather underground

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
​You did not post a new log, so I can't tell if you're still getting the same error. Are you? If you've cleared the logger and you're still getting a bad archive type, then the logger is bad. You may not have noticed it before because your prior system may not have taken advantage of the onboard m

Re: [weewx-user] Wont connect to weather underground

2016-11-13 Thread john . duchek
I tried clearing the memory and it makes no difference. I don't think it is hardware as it has been working for years on a windows system, and was just taken off 2 days ago to try this. I used wee_device and changed the interval to 10 and that seemed successful. It is still not uploading to t

Re: [weewx-user] Wont connect to weather underground

2016-11-13 Thread gjr80
Hi, This post might give you a way ahead. Note though that wee_config_device is now wee_device (since weewx v3.2.0), the equivalent command is: wee_device --clear-memo

Re: [weewx-user] Wont connect to weather underground

2016-11-13 Thread john . duchek
I started the log; ran start; allowed it to send the log to a text file; stopped it after 10 minutes. The log file is attached. Thanks for any help. John On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 10:20:05 PM UTC-6, john@asemonline.org wrote: > > I am working on it now. Will post in a few minutes.

Re: [weewx-user] Wont connect to weather underground

2016-11-13 Thread john . duchek
I am working on it now. Will post in a few minutes. I think the archive was reset as I disconnected the power and battery and usb to the weather station after reading a post about resetting it. I think that got the archive, though I could be wrong. I am giving it about 10 minutes to finish

Re: [weewx-user] Install new skins for weewx

2016-11-13 Thread Dan'l B
I imagine I need to change this: [[StandardReport]] > > # See the customizing guide to change the units, plot types and >> line > > # colors, modify the fonts, display additional sensor data, and >> other > > # customizations. Many of those changes can be made here by >>

[weewx-user] Re: how to find out why its stale

2016-11-13 Thread Frank Johnson
tom thanks for the quick reply... it makes sence now the computer doesnt have much ram and is kind of slow this seamed to start when i did an update on it must have picked up some extra loads lol... i changed to to 120 and well see if that does it... if not ill post more of the log... Fran

Re: [weewx-user] Wont connect to weather underground

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
Please restart weewx and post the log from startup. Also, I don't know how long your archive interval is, but let it run at least that long. -tk On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 6:00 PM, wrote: > Hi all, > I am new to this so I could use some help. I am connecting a vantage vue > weather station throu

[weewx-user] Wont connect to weather underground

2016-11-13 Thread john . duchek
Hi all, I am new to this so I could use some help. I am connecting a vantage vue weather station through a Raspberry pi 2 to the weather underground. I installed the debian install of weewx on the pi a day ago. (current version). The pi can see the weatherstation, and came up and sent data

[weewx-user] Re: No data from station

2016-11-13 Thread Cameron D
Hmm, more debugging needed. Now, each time I start weewx, it loads the updated saved records, Then gets a bit of data and then the console stops reporting, although it is still responding to request status 6466. It also goes through a period where the same rain result is being reported every 2

Re: [weewx-user] how to find out why its stale

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
There is a limit in weewx that prevents old, "stale" records from being posted to CWOP. The default limit is 60 seconds. For some reason, it's taking your installation more than 60 seconds to process a record before trying to post. Could you show us more of the log so we can see why it's taking so

Re: [weewx-user] Install new skins for weewx

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
Unfortunately, a few more steps are required. Specifically, you have to tell the report engine to use the skin. Why? Are you having a problem with the installer? -tk On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Dan'l B wrote: > To install something like the Exfoliation skin, is it sufficient to simply >

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx to weatherdisplay

2016-11-13 Thread gjr80
Michael, It is a trivial matter to change the clientraw.txt generated by weewx-wd. Can you tell me which field is causing the problem? The problem with trying to generate a clientraw.txt is that the field contents are at best poorly defined. There is a textual description included with weather

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx to weatherdisplay

2016-11-13 Thread 'Mike Whimick' via weewx-user
Hi All, I am still playing with weewxwd and have foud that looking at the log for Weather Display it show an error '--' is not a valid integer value. Does any one know how this could be fixed, it looks like a error created by weewxwd Michael -- You received this message because you are subscr

[weewx-user] Re: Lacrosse C84612?

2016-11-13 Thread mwall
On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 2:49:57 PM UTC-5, Alex Woo wrote: > > I plan to run it from a Raspberry Pi and wasn't planning to use > lacrossealerts.com. My experience with these proprietary web data > collectors is that eventually they'll make it difficult to get the data > back or start

[weewx-user] how to find out why its stale

2016-11-13 Thread Frank Johnson
started last week never noticed it before cwop has emailed that my station is not reporting but must have been trigered by just severl missed posts how do you figure out why the records are stale only to cwop all other posts are working ok... Nov 13 16:16:00 frank-1005PE weewx[2925]: restx: C

[weewx-user] Install new skins for weewx

2016-11-13 Thread Dan'l B
To install something like the Exfoliation skin, is it sufficient to simply copy the skin folder into the root_skins folder, or is it required to follows these directions, for example: This is the skin exfoliation for the weewx weather system. > > Copyright 2012-2014 Matthew Wall > > >> Installat

[weewx-user] Re: Lacrosse C84612?

2016-11-13 Thread Alex Woo
I plan to run it from a Raspberry Pi and wasn't planning to use lacrossealerts.com. My experience with these proprietary web data collectors is that eventually they'll make it difficult to get the data back or start charging for the privilege.I can put them both on an ethernet hub and try

[weewx-user] Re: Lacrosse C84612?

2016-11-13 Thread mwall
On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 1:03:52 PM UTC-5, Alex Woo wrote: > > I found one of these La Crosse C84612 on clearance and thought it was > supported by weewx. But how do you get the data off the ethernet bridge? > By default it sends the data to lacrossealerts.com which isn't very > use

[weewx-user] Re: Lacrosse C84612?

2016-11-13 Thread mwall
On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 1:03:52 PM UTC-5, Alex Woo wrote: > > I found one of these La Crosse C84612 on clearance and thought it was > supported by weewx. But how do you get the data off the ethernet bridge? > By default it sends the data to lacrossealerts.com which isn't very > use

[weewx-user] Lacrosse C84612?

2016-11-13 Thread Alex Woo
I found one of these La Crosse C84612 on clearance and thought it was supported by weewx. But how do you get the data off the ethernet bridge? By default it sends the data to lacrossealerts.com which isn't very useful. Thanks in advance for your help, Alex -- You received this message be

Re: [weewx-user] Where is /var/www/html/weewx

2016-11-13 Thread zkab
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Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Dan'l B
I did. I initially tried enclosing the password in quotes in case (as wall suggested) I had a comma in there , which I did indeed have (there were no accented or other non-English characters). I modified the pwd to remove the pwd, then tried with and w/o quotes (using the CH-FR keyboard layout,

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Andrew Milner
Ah - but Tom suggested that you *should* have enclosed your password in quotes if you had special characters (such as comma and maybe others) in the FTP password. Perhaps the issue is being caused by other swiss French characters - did you have any in the password? As Tom has said - he'd stil

Re: [weewx-user] Where is /var/www/html/weewx

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:24 AM, zkab wrote: > > $ wee_device /etc/weewx/weewx.conf --help > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/wee_device", line 54, in > main() > File "/usr/bin/wee_device", line 19, in main > config_fn, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(None, sys.ar

Re: [weewx-user] Where is /var/www/html/weewx

2016-11-13 Thread zkab
I have been waiting more than one hour ... nothing happens. Down below are some info from my system ... guess most of the stuff is OK but even 'wee_device' reports errors ... hmmm $ ls -l /var/www/html/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10701 nov 13 11:27 index.html /etc/weewx/weewx.conf HTML_ROOT = /var/w

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
Kudos, Andrew. You called it. And, I share your curiosity on how this could cause a password problem. I'd also like to find an engineering solution so it doesn't happen again. So, again, please post the log. -tk On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Andrew Milner wrote: > Now that you have got it

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Dan'l B
I'll try though I am not sure but what that is above my pay grade. Clarification: it was the keyboard setting on the RPi that I changed, and oddly enough, even setting it to US Standard Dvorak it still types the characters of the Swiss French keyboard accurately, including the reversed 'y' and

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Andrew Milner
Now that you have got it working - can you satisfy my curiosity - and put the keyboard back to swiss French and possibly try and identify exactly what the problem is/was? Is it the keyboard selection itself or is it a specific character which you have to type? Just curious to know precisely h

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Dan'l B
Bingo! You spotted it. The language on both machines was set to English US, and the keyboard on both set to Swiss French, which is the keyboard I use. Once I set the keyboard to US Standard Dvorak, and re-typed the FTP entries, it worked immediately! Great call, Many thanks! On Sunday, Novemb

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Andrew Milner
Sorry Tom - my comment was not intended to override the log request!! I was kind of assuming that either the wrong kind of quotes were being used to enclose the password or perhaps there is some other invalid character that has invaded the .conf file on the FTP password line. I agree that my s

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
Don't see how locale or encoding would cause an option to be interpreted as a list, instead of as a string or Unicode. I'd still like to see the log file. -tk On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 6:06 AM, Andrew Milner wrote: > Are the locales on the two machines set the same? Looks like an > os/locale/en

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Andrew Milner
Are the locales on the two machines set the same? Looks like an os/locale/encoding schema issue of some sort. Have you edited the .conf on another machine at any time? Run it through dos2unix just in case. On Sunday, 13 November 2016 15:54:39 UTC+2, Dan'l B wrote: > > Will do. But as a footno

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Dan'l B
Will do. But as a footnote, when I set up the FTP service in the WeeWx install on the Mac (which sits right next to the RPi3) the FTP works flawlessly, using the exact same settings as on the Rpi, which is the unit having this issue. On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 7:54:32 AM UTC-5, Tom Keffer

Re: [weewx-user] Where is /var/www/html/weewx

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
The subdirectory /var/www/html/weewx is created and the HTML pages are generated at the end of an archive interval. Did you wait long enough? The stuff in /etc/weewx is *configuration* information and skins. It is *not* the output of weewx. A command like ln -s /etc/weewx weewx will screw thin

[weewx-user] Where is /var/www/html/weewx

2016-11-13 Thread zkab
I installed weewx_3.6.2-1_all.deb and according to documentation HTML_ROOT should point to /var/www/html/weewx. But there is no weewx subdir there ... all the stuff is in /etc/weewx. If I 'ln -s /etc/weewx weewx' I only see the listing of /etc/weewx when http://ip-of-the-weewx-computer/weewx Th

Re: [weewx-user] FTP to remote host in Simulator mode

2016-11-13 Thread Thomas Keffer
Very mysterious. Please set debug=1, restart weewx, then send the log through the first FTP attempt. -tk On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Dan'l B wrote: > Thanks for the wee_debug, which shows I am editing the correct file, in > /etc/weewx > > I can email or pm you the actual login details if