Re: [weewx-user] Weewx fails to start

2024-09-04 Thread David Hindley
Tom - OK. Many thanks. Will try that suggestion. David. On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 at 21:32, Tom Keffer wrote: > I'm sorry, but there are too many moving parts here. The problem depends > on your environment, /etc/default/weewx, what's in /usr/bin/weewxd, the > location of the other weewx files, etc. >

Re: [weewx-user] Pipe errors etc

2023-12-27 Thread David Hindley
Many thanks, Vince. Much appreciated. David. On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 at 17:08, vince wrote: > "except KeyError, e:" indicates that you are using python3 to run code > that is only valid for python2. > see https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/faq-python-error > > Upgrade your MQTT extension to a cur

Re: [weewx-user] Pipe errors etc

2023-12-18 Thread David Hindley
Thanks for your reply Vince. Completely understand re network. I am using Ethernet rather than WiFi for both my Rpi which hosts weewx and my davis weather station. Does anyone have any input on my question about stopping weewx please? Repeated here: In the meantime, I am having trouble stopping

Re: [weewx-user] Pipe errors etc

2023-12-08 Thread David Hindley
Perfect. Thanks. On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 12:12, Jacques Terrettaz wrote: > Yes, you should ! > > The Meteo-Pi HAT card is providing an internal serial port t which weewx > will connect to capture the data. > > Le 8 déc. 2023 à 12:45, David Hindley a écrit : > > Many

Re: [weewx-user] Pipe errors etc

2023-12-08 Thread David Hindley
to the device and get an option to turn the transmissions off. > > > On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 3:45 AM David Hindley wrote: > >> Many thanks. Can I have weewx running on the same RPi that the Meteo-Pi >> is connected to? >> >> David. >> >> On Fri,

Re: [weewx-user] Pipe errors etc

2023-12-08 Thread David Hindley
Many thanks. Can I have weewx running on the same RPi that the Meteo-Pi is connected to? David. On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 11:12, Jacques Terrettaz wrote: > Since you have a RaspberryPi, you may also consider buying a "Meteo-pi" > instead of a WifiLogger2 - see https://wifilogger.net/meteopi.html >

Re: [weewx-user] Pipe errors etc

2023-12-07 Thread David Hindley
Thanks. I did that and I just get “This site can’t be reached”. My datalogger is connected via Ethernet, and I think is no longer made by davis. On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 14:29, jterr...@gmail.com wrote: > According to your weewx logs, the ip address of the datalogger is > 192.168.0.25. > > So shut

Re: [weewx-user] Settings to change after IP address of Vantage changes

2021-07-08 Thread David Hindley
Les OK. Will turn the firewall off temporarily. How do I only use the Ethernet interface? (ie disable the Wi-Fi). David. On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 17:57, Les Niles wrote: > Having both interfaces active isn’t a problem itself, but it doesn’t open > up the potential for various isconfigurations tha

Re: [weewx-user] Settings to change after IP address of Vantage changes

2021-07-08 Thread David Hindley
utputs. > > -Les > > > > On 8 Jul 2021, at 4:40, David Hindley wrote: > > Gary > > Many thanks for your reply. > > The log of what happened when I did as you suggest is below. I have > included my attempts to kill the weewx PIDs at the start. There is le

Re: [weewx-user] Settings to change after IP address of Vantage changes

2021-07-08 Thread David Hindley
Gary Many thanks for your reply. The log of what happened when I did as you suggest is below. I have included my attempts to kill the weewx PIDs at the start. There is less than 10mins, as my network crashed half way through (this intermitten crashing is what caused me to change my router set u

Re: [weewx-user] Settings to change after IP address of Vantage changes

2021-07-07 Thread David Hindley
Thanks for the suggestion. Tried that and still getting the same error - could it be something to do with my basic network setup, as getting a lot of UFW from local IP addresses, as per below (192.168.0.24 is the IP address I have reserved for my RPi in my router)? Jul 7 10:41:09 raspberrypi ker

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Settings to change after IP address of Vantage changes

2021-07-07 Thread David Hindley
The MQTT section of the conf file doesn’t have any IP assesses listed, so this doesn’t seem to be the problem. It has a server_url but I presume that wouldn’t change as a result of the new IP address? Thanks David. On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 15:09, Doug Jenkins wrote: > Have you tried to put the th

Re: [weewx-user] Upgrade problems?

2020-11-30 Thread David Hindley
tk > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 9:45 AM David Hindley > wrote: > >> Solved!! I had to disconnect the Davis Console from power, remove the >> batteries, disconnect the Ethernet cable from the console, reconnect and >> repower. Then the router found the logger again an

Re: [weewx-user] Upgrade problems?

2020-11-30 Thread David Hindley
Nov 2020 at 17:30, David Hindley wrote: > When I go into the WeatherLink software, and select Comms Port, Find it > cannot find the device, so something is obviously wrong wi TV the basic set > up. Any ideas please? > > Many Thanks > > David. > > On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 16

Re: [weewx-user] Upgrade problems?

2020-11-30 Thread David Hindley
When I go into the WeatherLink software, and select Comms Port, Find it cannot find the device, so something is obviously wrong wi TV the basic set up. Any ideas please? Many Thanks David. On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 16:50, David Hindley wrote: > Tom > > Many Thanks for your prompt reply

Re: [weewx-user] Upgrade problems?

2020-11-30 Thread David Hindley
Tom Many Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes, it’s a WeatherLinkIP. What port would have been closed and how do I reopen it? Thanks. David. On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 16:36, Tom Keffer wrote: > What kind of logger does your Vantage have? If it's a weatherlinkIP, it's > a network issue. Perhaps you

Re: [weewx-user] Re: No updates since 2am start of British Summer Time

2019-04-02 Thread David Hindley
Not sure, but after using —dump, the system updated itself to show the current day as today (2 April) rather than 31 March. David. On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 19:28, Geoff Cusick wrote: > Do I infer that the —dump option failed immediately, and didn’t download > any records? > > Geoff > > 17 Westcro

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Showing message to weather website users when stopped working

2019-02-28 Thread David Hindley
d not run WeeWX until the network is up. > What I'm not sure of is how Debian defines "up." Worth a try. > > 2. The clock must also be set. Either use a hardware real time clock > (RTC), or remove the "fake clock" by following these directions > <https:

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Showing message to weather website users when stopped working

2019-02-28 Thread David Hindley
me and > ntp connection. > > > > On Thursday, 28 February 2019 13:10:57 UTC+2, David Hindley wrote: >> >> Thanks. I agree that it is probably the Raspberry Pi, rather than >> weewx. My syslog file around the relevant time that it stopped working >> yesterday is

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Showing message to weather website users when stopped working

2019-02-28 Thread David Hindley
Thanks. I agree that it is probably the Raspberry Pi, rather than weewx. My syslog file around the relevant time that it stopped working yesterday is as follows. Does anyone have any idea how to interpret this? The "^@" is very puzzling to a linux novice such as me! David. Feb 27 15:30:28 raspb

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin for weewx now available!

2018-11-13 Thread David Hindley
Colin - where are these instructions please? Thanks. On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 21:10, Colin Larsen wrote: > I found your instructions on integrating new items into the same menu line > as the existing items easy to follow and it looks good with it all in the > same line. Otherwise my vote would be

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown Skin and MQTT With Username Not Working

2018-10-12 Thread David Hindley
icates.crt > > with 3 brackets. > > Try that. > > BTW: I do have the added lines in myconfig.conf that you do. I was in > hurray when I posted last night. > > phil > > > On Friday, October 12, 2018 at 6:42:41 AM UTC-4, David Hindley wrote: >> >>

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown Skin and MQTT With Username Not Working

2018-10-12 Thread David Hindley
, David Hindley wrote: > Phil/Pat > > Many Thanks for you reply. > > I did set up a password for Mosquitto and also the acl file, as per your > email below. > > However, my myconfig.conf file is different to the one you listed below, > as I am using Let's Encrypt SSL

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown Skin and MQTT With Username Not Working

2018-10-12 Thread David Hindley
Phil/Pat Many Thanks for you reply. I did set up a password for Mosquitto and also the acl file, as per your email below. However, my myconfig.conf file is different to the one you listed below, as I am using Let's Encrypt SSL, so followed the format towards the end of Pat's post ( MQTT "tutoria

Re: [weewx-user] SFTP extension problem

2018-10-08 Thread David Hindley
Excellent. Thank you. That worked. Hurrah. David. On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 19:22, Thomas Keffer wrote: > Matthew's version of sftp.py has a typo. Go to line 62 and add a closing > parenthesis to the end of the line. Instead of this: > > logdbg("remote_root=%s" % self.remote_root) > logdbg

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Secure FTP from ftpupload call?

2018-10-05 Thread David Hindley
Thanks again Gary, for your response. Very helpful as always. Upgrade looks a bit scary, but will give it a go. On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 14:01, gjr80 wrote: > On Friday, 5 October 2018 20:20:14 UTC+10, David Hindley wrote: >> >> Thanks, Gary. >> >> I think my problems w

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Secure FTP from ftpupload call?

2018-10-05 Thread David Hindley
> > If I was doing things again I would do the same as I have now and leave > WeeWX run as root and give root passwordless ssh. Not going to argue with > anyone who disagrees though. > > Gary > > On Friday, 5 October 2018 20:25:20 UTC+10, David Hindley wrote: >> >>

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Secure FTP from ftpupload call?

2018-10-05 Thread David Hindley
Gary - regarding the ssh point - which option would you recommend - change the user that runs weewx to pi, or create ssh keys for the root user (which I believe currently runs weewx)? David. On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 07:10, gjr80 wrote: > I presume that your working passwordless ssh is from your We

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Secure FTP from ftpupload call?

2018-10-05 Thread David Hindley
Thanks, Gary. I think my problems with pysftp are something to do with using Wheezy on a RPi and ver 2.7 of Python. That seems to have an old version of pip, so I managed to update that to pip ver 18.0, but then pip shows several nasty looking errors when I try to install pysftp. The syslog is be

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin for weewx now available!

2018-09-30 Thread David Hindley
the > http://www.djhindley.com/weather/json folder. I'm not 100% sure on your > setup but if you're able to get them there that should fix everything up. > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 11:38:32 AM UTC-4, David Hindley wrote: >> >> Re windy - it seems

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin for weewx now available!

2018-09-30 Thread David Hindley
not > found. > > > > And your windy map shows me my location. If you’ve updated it to show your > location, there are actually 2 spots for your lat/lon that need to be > updated. > > > > *From:* weewx-user@googlegroups.com [mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf O

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin for weewx now available!

2018-09-30 Thread David Hindley
the > Highcharts_Belchertown skin. > > > > The file should be in /var/www/html/weewx/Belchertown/json according to > your configs. > > > > *From:* weewx-user@googlegroups.com [mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *David Hindley > *Sent:* Sunday

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin for weewx now available!

2018-09-30 Thread David Hindley
at /var/log/syslog > > > > Also does /var/www/html/weewx/Belchertown/json have any files in it? > > > > Is this site public? > > > > *From:* weewx-user@googlegroups.com [mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *David Hindley > *Sent:* S

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin for weewx now available!

2018-09-30 Thread David Hindley
2018 at 15:22, Pat O'Brien wrote: > No shouldn't matter. Can you paste those two sections? Removing any kind > of password or app key. > > The HTML_DIR needs to be the same, too > > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 10:02 AM David Hindley > wrote: > &g

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin for weewx now available!

2018-09-30 Thread David Hindley
Hi - yes to those questions, but curiously the Highcharts_Belchertown content in weewx.conf comes before the Belchertown content, but not sure if that will make any difference. David. On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 at 14:44, Pat O'Brien wrote: > I'm replying on mobile so hopefully this is helpful... > > H

Re: [weewx-user] Suggested workflow when importing data and amending the database

2018-04-15 Thread David Hindley
Gary Many Thanks. I will try this process. My station is a Davis Vantage Pro 2 with IP datalogger - does anyone know if this will allow weewx to "catch-up" if the weewx service has been stopped for a while for some database management, or will the records that would have normally been created in

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Manually adding historical data to weewx database

2018-04-14 Thread David Hindley
Many Thanks. I had an interval field in my history, so I used that, which seemed to work OK. I have successfully loaded the 2018 history; now the rest. David. On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 at 00:46, gjr80 wrote: > David, > > Perhaps a bit late but the answer is it depends. 'derive' will attempt to > der

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Manually adding historical data to weewx database

2018-04-11 Thread David Hindley
The data has been downloaded to a text file from the WeatherLink software, stores in a txt file on my Windows PC. David. On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 at 18:05, Andrew Milner wrote: > where is the historical data kept?? > > > > On Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:45:19 UTC+3, dhin...@djhindley.com wrote: > >>