Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx won't run after fileparse install

2024-03-22 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Gary, You are correct.  I'm not sure how I got the older one, unless it came over with the customizations like extensions when I copied from my backup of previous version.  All is well!  Thank you for the hints! Ron On Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 11:30:20 PM EDT, gjr80 wrote: Where d

[weewx-user] Weewx won't run after fileparse install

2024-03-20 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Fresh install of weewx 5.02 on Raspberry Pi running buster. I attempted to instll the fileparse driver manually according to readme in the direcory. When I attempt to start weewx, this the result: ron@WeatherPi5:~ $ sudo systemctl status weewx * weewx.service - WeeWX Loaded: loaded (/lib/

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Failed new install

2024-03-20 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Thank you! That did it! Now to customize! On Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 4:05:53 PM UTC-4 vince wrote: > try: >sudo sh -c 'echo PURGE | debconf-communicate weewx' > > > On Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 12:56:27 PM UTC-7 Ron Walker wrote: > >> Thanks all so much for the quick replies! I att

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Failed new install

2024-03-20 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Thanks all so much for the quick replies! I attempted to implement your suggestion and got the following: ron@WeatherPi5:~ $ sudo echo PURGE | debconf-communicate weewx debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied 0 debconf: DbDriver

[weewx-user] Failed new install

2024-03-20 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
I have been through the forum looking for this issue , but have not seen this issue addressed. I;m trying to install weewx 5.02 on a fresh install of Debian Buster on a Raspberry Pi 3. When I attempt to install weewx, I get the following: ron@WeatherPi5:~ $ wget -qO - https://weewx.com/apt/wee

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx crashed and now won't start

2022-04-12 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
to > fileparse. > > I'm thinking that the file that you're feeding to fileparse may have an > embedded null in the key. For example, instead of > > temperature = 52.3 > > > it has > > temperature\0 = 52.3 > > > where \0 signifies the embedded nu

[weewx-user] Weewx crashed and now won't start

2022-04-12 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Hi All, I'm running weex on a raspberry pi using fileparse. The weather station has been running for over two years. Last night it crashed and I haven't been able to restart it. The log output is below. The only thing that has changed is the it was upgraded to 4.3.0 recently. Thanks in adv

[weewx-user] Re: Added wind speed measurements display with excess decimal places

2021-06-22 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Thanks, Gary! This worked. On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 9:46:15 PM UTC-4 gjr80 wrote: > When you added your new fields did you assign them to a unit group? You > need to do this if you want to make use of the WeeWX formatting and unit > conversion capabilities in reports for your new fields. I

[weewx-user] Added wind speed measurements display with excess decimal places

2021-06-15 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
I am running Weewx version 4.3 on a Raspberry Pi 3 which is running Raspbian 9. I added two wind speed measurements, WindSpeed2avg and WindGust10avg, which show wind speed averaged over 2 minutes and wind gusts averaged over 10 minutes respectively. When the values are displayed on the webpag

Re: [weewx-user] Decimal Place Changes

2020-08-22 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
] > ... > [[Defaults]] > ... > [[[Units]]] > ... > StringFormats > ... > degree_compass = "%.0f" > > If you have formatting issues, you would do well to read the section > *Formatting > op

[weewx-user] Decimal Place Changes

2020-08-20 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Hi All, I am running Weewx 4.1.1 on a Raspberry Pi Model 3. I am using an Arduino microcontroller to capture sensor data and a python program on the Pi to capture the data and write it to a csv file. I am using the fileparse to read that file to pass data to Weewx. While my Weewx version wa

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx fails to start

2020-06-25 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Thanks for your reply. The weather station consists of an arduino microcontroller reading sensors and sending data to the pi, which places it in a CSV file. I'm using fileparse in weewx to read the file. You were correct in your assessment! I looked through the CSV file and found entries wi

[weewx-user] Weewx fails to start

2020-06-25 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
Hi All, I am using weewx 3.9.1 on a Raspberry pi. Up until yesterday, the system was running fine. I had stopped the pi yesterday to move it to a new location. Today when I attempted to start the program, I get the following error and then it quits. Any help pointing me in the right directi

Re: [weewx-user] Loop interval is off

2019-07-11 Thread 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user
the file is opened and closed, giving us a clue. > > -tk > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:33 PM 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user < > weewx...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > >> FileParse version is 0.6 >> >> No errors in the log (except those caused by removing a

Re: [weewx-user] Loop interval is off

2019-07-11 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
rator: Generated 8 files for report SeasonsReport in 21.79 seconds Jul 11 17:30:48 WeatherPi weewx[1501]: imagegenerator: Generated 14 images for SeasonsReport in 1.10 seconds Jul 11 17:30:48 WeatherPi weewx[1501]: copygenerator: copied 0 files to /var/www/html/weewx Jul 11 17:31:39 WeatherPi systemd

[weewx-user] Loop interval is off

2019-07-11 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi All, I running WeeWX 3.9.1 on A Raspberry Pi 3 B+. I have set a loop interval in the weewx.conf of 10 seconds, but looking at the incoming loop records the interval appears to be 28-30 seconds. Is there a setting somewhere else that would affect this? weewx.conf setting: [FileParse]

[weewx-user] Re: Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-05 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi Gary and All who posted replies to this, The issue is resolved. I did a complete uninstall of Weewx. I then did a new install and manually edited the weewx.conf, putting in the necessary basic info to get my station info, driver, label map, etc. No other changes were made to the default s

[weewx-user] Re: Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-04 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your reply. The undervoltage reports resulted from me using a Pi UpTime UPS as power backup. I have removed it from the equation and the undervoltage reports have ceased. The reason for the multiple wind observation in the input file was two-fold. First, the averages

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx not running reports

2019-07-04 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
imestamp is provided in the >file, the fileparse driver will supply one, namely the current UTC time. > > You may be reading from a file, but like any other device driver, it is > essential that the timestamps be accurate. > > -tk > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:48 PM &#x

[weewx-user] Re: Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-04 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi, I definitely did not have an interval of 10 seconds set anywhere. This was just another of the weird issues that suddenly appeared after the unit had been working well over the last couple of weeks. I did a clean install of the OS and WeeWX and that problem is no longer an issue. The lac

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-04 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Gary,   I also forgot to add that the exact same thing is happening with the observation ‘windGustDir’.  Data shows up everywhere but in the REC packet, where the value is ‘NONE’. Ron Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 9:37 PM, gjr80 wrote: Can’t comment on the error

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-04 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
I forgot to ask, is there anyway to change the records in the database to ‘0.0’ instead of ‘NONE’? Ron Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 9:37 PM, gjr80 wrote: Can’t comment on the error when stopping WeeWX, I guess it’s possible something was messed up that prevented

[weewx-user] Re: Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-04 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi Gary, After a fresh install of OS and WeeWX, the problem persists. I took your advice and inserted the logging line into fileparse. I am seeing windGust data in the incoming data stream, I see it in the LOOP packets and I see it in the output of the logging command. What I see in the REC

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Want to stop Simulator from adding data to weewx database

2019-07-03 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
The FileParse driver came from Github!  Easy to set up and use! Ron Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, July 3, 2019, 10:14 PM, Thomas Keffer wrote: Twenty milliseconds after I hit "send" on that message, I remembered that WeeWX comes with an example "Fileparse" driver. That's prob

[weewx-user] Weewx not running reports

2019-07-03 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Weewx is trying to kill me! Due to a multitude of issues on my original installation, I did a complete new installation of OS and WeeWX on Raspberry Pi. The installation initially worked, but after a reboot this afternoon, WeeWX is no longer running reports. I'm using the Seasons skin with F

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-03 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
help! Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, July 3, 2019, 8:47 AM, 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user wrote: Hi Gary, Two things!  First, you were quite right about the amount of logging that would result!  Is it possible to upload a file of greater that 15 mb here?  The second

[weewx-user] Re: Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-03 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi Gary, Two things! First, you were quite right about the amount of logging that would result! Is it possible to upload a file of greater that 15 mb here? The second thing is a new issue that started occurring as I was try to gather data. I started seeing the following in the syslog: xist

[weewx-user] Wind gust data suddenly not appearing

2019-07-02 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi and thanks in advance for any help! I have an Arduino sending weather data to a Raspberry Pi. I'm using WeeWX with the FileParse driver and the Seasons skin. Up until sometime yesterday, I was able to see wind gust data in the web page and in the graphs. Suddenly, for reasons unknown, I am

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx crashes on FileParse errors

2019-06-25 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi Gary, You were correct!! The issue was with errors in my input file. The main problem was how the data was being written to the file. It was being committed to disk in chunks of what amount to about 360 lines, but it did not always write complete lines at the last record in the chunk. I

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx crashes on FileParse errors

2019-06-20 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
I have an update on this issue. I modified the code that I'm using to retrieve the info from the arduino and write it to the file that fileparse is reading. It now checks the length of the retrieved line and discards it if it is less than a certain length. That seems to have eliminated the i

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx crashes on FileParse errors

2019-06-20 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi Gary, You are correct as far as the data file being the issue. I confirmed this by creating a data file and then making sure that every record was complete. Ran weewx using this data file and it proceeded with no issues. I am using an arduino uno to collect the sensor data and then sendin

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx crashes on FileParse errors

2019-06-20 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Sorry. I pasted the FiledMap twice. Here is the Label_Map. [[Label_Map]] Time = dateTime pressure = pressure outTemp = outTemp outHumidity = outHumidity windSpeed = windSpeed windDir = windDir windGust = windGust windGustDir = windGustDir supplyVoltage = supplyVoltage lightLevel = radiation rain

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx crashes on FileParse errors

2019-06-20 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
Hi Gary, Thanks for your reply! I have a filed map stanza in the csv.conf file as below: [[FieldMap]] dateTime= Time, unix_epoch usUnits = interval= pressure= pressure, inHg outTemp = outTemp, degree_F outHumidity = outHumidity, percent

[weewx-user] Weewx crashes on FileParse errors

2019-06-19 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
I am using fileparse to capture incoming weather data from a file. Watching syslog I notice that after a while fileparse starts to throw errors where it seems to be mixed up as to what is a name and what is a value. For instance: This is what the input record stream looks like: Time=156097919

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx fails to load - ImportError: No module named fileparse

2019-06-18 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 3:06:46 PM UTC-4, mwall wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 12:42:44 PM UTC-4, Ron Walker wrote: >> >> >> My fileparse.py file is located in the weewx/bin/user directory. >> > > for an install from .deb or apt, the fileparse.py must be in > /usr/share/weewx/use

[weewx-user] Weewx fails to load - ImportError: No module named fileparse

2019-06-18 Thread &#x27;Ron Walker&#x27; via weewx-user
I am new to weewx and I installed using the Debian method. I am trying to use Weewx with a DIY weather station. Station is sending data to a file and I am using fileparse to retrieve the data. I am attempting to load weewx manually to test data import. My fileparse.py file is located in the