Re: [weewx-user] NOAA weather radar replacement

2023-11-01 Thread Ralph Underwood
Thanks On Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 1:49:00 PM UTC-7 Ben Cotton wrote: > On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 4:17 PM Ralph Underwood wrote: > > > > I was using the NOAA Aviation Radar image ( > https://www.aviationweather.gov/data/obs/radar/rad_rala_lws.gif) > > in my Seasons s

[weewx-user] NOAA weather radar replacement

2023-11-01 Thread Ralph Underwood
I was using the NOAA Aviation Radar image (https://www.aviationweather.gov/data/obs/radar/rad_rala_lws.gif) in my Seasons skin. They improved/fixed it so it no longer works. Anyone find a replacement that works from NOAA? I find some images but they are all national US, I live on the left coast

Re: [weewx-user] plots and how to display a constant value ie a limit

2022-03-16 Thread Ralph Underwood
Probably not too elegant, I have been setting soilTemp4 to 32 and setting the label to "Freezing" and adding it to any charts that I want to show freezing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop r

[weewx-user] Unknown Type using PurpleAir sensor

2021-09-24 Thread Ralph Underwood
I recently installed a PurpleAir outdoor sensor. It’s connected on wifi and appears to be sending data. I can display all of the data points listed in the purple air driver docs on a WeeWx Seasons page. When I attempt to a create a graph - I get the errors in the log below (this is with log

Re: [weewx-user] NWS Radar Changes

2021-01-12 Thread Ralph Underwood
Thanks. I now have the aviation weather radar displaying. On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 5:30:23 AM UTC-8 mjenk...@gmail.com wrote: > If you go up a level, the ones not in the folders are the current ones. > > https://www.aviationweather.gov/data/obs/radar/rad_rala_lws.gif > > > On Monday, Jan

Re: [weewx-user] NWS Radar Changes

2021-01-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
Anybody able to make the new and improved NWS radar work? Has anyone written code to build a dynamic link for the aviation weather radar? It appears to me that we need to enter date and time into the url for the radar. I copied the aviation radar link into my skin.conf and it appeared to work,

[weewx-user] Re: Installation at remote site using RPi and VNC?

2020-12-09 Thread Ralph Underwood
What's wrong with using VNC? I use it to get to two remote Weewx running RPi. With the RPi, VNC has a deal to access up to five computers for free. On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 6:33:55 PM UTC-8 wa4...@gmail.com wrote: > Many good ideas here. > > My suggestion: > Set up an identical package

[weewx-user] Re: Peet Bros Ultimeter 2100 - Humidity Pad

2020-04-22 Thread Ralph Underwood
Also the humidity sensor did not come included with the Ultimeter 2100 package, it is an option. On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 6:49:26 AM UTC-7, Ralph Underwood wrote: > > Did you enter a local barometer reading to the 2100? I don't have my > manual handy, but seem to remember tha

[weewx-user] Re: Peet Bros Ultimeter 2100 - Humidity Pad

2020-04-20 Thread Ralph Underwood
Did you enter a local barometer reading to the 2100? I don't have my manual handy, but seem to remember that in order for the 2100 to output the barometer reading you first have to calibrate it by entering a local value once. I don't upload to weather sites with my systems but both of my Ultime

[weewx-user] Re: draw user-defined lines in graphics

2020-03-04 Thread Ralph Underwood
I like to see the freezing level on many of my charts so I set soilTemp4 to 32 degrees in the StdCalibrate section of weewx.conf [StdCalibrate] [[Corrections]] # For each type, an arbitrary calibration expression can be given. # It should be in the units defined in the St

[weewx-user] Re: MQTT client service - proof of concept/alpha code

2019-04-09 Thread Ralph Underwood
Bravo! Look forward to testing next month when I should have some free time. On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 1:45:51 PM UTC-7, bell...@gmail.com wrote: > > To further my WeeWX/MQTT/Python knowledge, I have written a WeeWX > multi-threaded service. One thread receives the MQTT messages and puts

Re: [weewx-user] Import MQTT value into weewx database, display via seasons skin

2019-04-08 Thread Ralph Underwood
Hi George, Try just writing the file with python - m1 = "test" file = open('/var/tmp/file-test.txt' , 'w') file.write(str(m1)+'\n') file.close() My first time with my python script I had a typo that I could not see for a couple of hours - I did learn a lot as I scoured the reference books for

Re: [weewx-user] Import MQTT value into weewx database, display via seasons skin

2019-04-07 Thread Ralph Underwood
Probably a permissions issue. I run my python script as sudo. Hope that helps. Ralph -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@g

Re: [weewx-user] Import MQTT value into weewx database, display via seasons skin

2019-04-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
I have a small python program that subscribes to mqtt and writes a text file. I then use the filepile as a service to get the data into WeeWx. The "main" data comes from a Ultimeter station via the driver. I came up with this approach while I was modifing/testing using the WeeWxMQTT driver a se

[weewx-user] Re: Help with minor edit to Seasons main page

2019-03-30 Thread Ralph Underwood
You may find that you need to look to the seasons.css file to see how things are formatted in titlebar.inc. On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 6:27:40 PM UTC-7, tomn...@frontier.com wrote: > > Thanks, that's sort-of what I was thinking, but couldn't find any clues > about about where they'd be plac

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-25 Thread Ralph Underwood
I haven't been using TOP to monitor memory usage - I have cmon running and note the total memory use is creeping up. I restarted this station a couple of times yesterday. I had a request to show the freezing level on some charts - ended up setting soilTemp4 to 32 degrees and including it on so

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
I have v0.22 running now and it appears to work - no buffer errors. Ralph -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
I will test v0.22. Thanks!! On Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 9:04:04 AM UTC-8, Ralph Underwood wrote: > > The URL for the development station is http://www.mapleleaf.ruresearch.com. > This station is in my basement lab area - the wind and rain stuff is > sitting on a counter s

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
The URL for the development station is http://www.mapleleaf.ruresearch.com. This station is in my basement lab area - the wind and rain stuff is sitting on a counter so that's why there are no readings for them. The "Temperature 1" reading is from a DS18B20 sensor connected to an Adafruit Huzz

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
I have a couple of stations with Ultimeter 2100 and usb-serial connections to RPi 3 B+. Both appear to have increasing memory usage. I just copied the "new" ultimeter.py driver to the driver directory and restarted - this was my result. I went back to "old" version of driver and restarted OK

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-12 Thread Ralph Underwood
What's involved in changing the driver to a service? My coding skills are just above minimal, however I would be happy to be involved in testing. I frequently fall asleep reading my 1,540 page "Learning Python" - using it as a pillow has only raised by knowledge level slightly. I have one stat

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
*IT WORKS!* I added: TIME = dateTime to wxMesh stanza of weewx.conf the stopped and restarted WeeWx - waited a few minutes and I now have values showing up in /var/www/html/weewx/index.html Thanks a lot for all of the help! Now that I have something working I can start experimenting with other

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
Do I need to have TIME = date-time in my weewx..conf wxMesh stanza? I thought that the TIME sent from mosquitto would be ignored. I attempted Vince's suggestion and still same. I'll look it all over again later. Thanks On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 11:24:38 AM UTC-7, vince wrote: > > On Wed

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
I didn't start a discussion on that but I will look for it. I have been searching for a post where (I thought it was mwall) mentions setting the dateTime to something to force weewx to use the correct one. Or maybe it was a dream :) Thanks for your help. -- You received this message because

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
pi@mapleleaf:~ $ date +%s 1523465424 pi@mapleleaf:~ $ date Wed Apr 11 09:50:28 PDT 2018 appears to match my iMac time. The Rpi does not have a realtime clock; however I have a couple in my parts drawer. I will find a battery and try one of them. I programmed the Huzzah with another Rpi - when

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
Hi Bill I rebuilt my development system, installed Jessie, configured rpi, installed Mosquitto and weewx with the simulator. Attempted to do the extension install of wxMesh, that failed so I manually installed the wxMesh file in /usr/share/weewx/user. Changed the driver to wxMesh and made chan

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-10 Thread Ralph Underwood
UTC-3, Ralph Underwood wrote: >>> >>> I understand that you are using the HTU21 and think that it might be >>> best if I concentrate on that setup. Can you post the actual sketch you >>> are using? >>> >> > Attached. I use an Adafruit Feat

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-10 Thread Ralph Underwood
I restarted mosquitto and when I use mosquitto_sub -d -t weather I get: Client mosqsub|16684-ru-pi sending CONNECT Client mosqsub|16684-ru-pi received CONNACK Client mosqsub|16684-ru-pi sending SUBSCRIBE (Mid: 1, Topic: weather, QoS: 0) Client mosqsub|16684-ru-pi received SUBACK Subscribed (mid:

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-10 Thread Ralph Underwood
Thanks Bill for the reply. I am now sending INTE:68.11 via mqtt I do note that I do not have TIME in my mqtt message. WeeWx still not happy with this as the log after starting: Apr 10 08:24:14 ru-pi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system... Apr 10 08:24:14 ru-pi weewx[6379]: engine

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-07 Thread Ralph Underwood
I found some goof info on the development group and got closer to a working setup. I purchased an Adafruit HTU21 sensor board and using Bill Morrows code example I now get MQTT output like this: TIME:0,INTE:19.36,INHU:59.75 TIME:0,INTE:19.35,INHU:59.74 TIME:0,INTE:19.35,INHU:59.88 TIME:0,INTE:1

[weewx-user] Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
My goals is to add some sensors via MQTT to my stations which are all RPi 3 and use WeeWx 3.8.0. I am running the Mosquitto broker on the same RPi as WeeWx One station uses a Ultimeter 2100 driver -* can I use WeeWxMQTT as a service*? Other stations are a combination of OWFS and FileParse (us

[weewx-user] Re: ds18b20 multiple sensors from esp8266 nodemcu to file

2018-01-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
I am interested in your progress. I have a esp8266 on my work bench - haven't got started with it yet. I was looking for options use wifi with my OWFS based system. I use the file parse driver to add data connected to RPi. On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 10:42:47 AM UTC-8, Andreas Otten wrote

[weewx-user] Re: Peet Brothers [Error no 2] ttyUSB0 issue

2018-01-17 Thread Ralph Underwood
My Ultimeter 2100 has been very reliable. One time after a lightning storm it did find its way into the wrong mode. After finding the manual, I hit the right key combination and it has been rock solid. I am also currently using FSWEBCAM in test mode - haven't noticed any problems. On Wednesd

[weewx-user] Re: owfs wireless ?

2017-03-01 Thread Ralph Underwood
Good suggestion. I can't wait for the ice and snow to be gone for a day or two and get the sensor down where I can really troubleshoot what is wrong. Everything is working great with that sensor disconnected. It could also be a problem with AD converter on the Hobby Board's anemometer board.

[weewx-user] Re: owfs wireless ?

2017-02-25 Thread Ralph Underwood
Those ESP8266 look interesting. I ordered a couple so I can do some experimenting. -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegr

[weewx-user] Re: owfs wireless ?

2017-02-25 Thread Ralph Underwood
I have some of my OWFS sensors located several hundred feet from the Rpi that is running weewx. I am using CAT5 wire to connect everything. In this location, the wireless stuff I tried just was not reliable, there are several radio/tv transmitters relatively nearby, and that may be part of the

[weewx-user] Re: Pi users: your additional software for Raspberry Pi3?

2017-01-16 Thread Ralph Underwood
A suggestion from this forum, which has helped me manage several weewx installations as well as some home automation experiments on RPi's is Midnight Commander or MC. On Monday, January 16, 2017 at 2:11:35 AM UTC-8, pon...@gmail.com wrote: > > I have a Raspberry Pi 3 lined up to replace my or

[weewx-user] Re: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-07 Thread Ralph Underwood
wrote: > > shouldn't each reading be on a separate line - so it should be > soilTemp1=60.64 > pressure=29.54 > > rather than > > soilTemp1=60.64 pressure=29.54 > > > On Saturday, 7 January 2017 07:23:27 UTC+2, Ralph Underwood wrote: > >> I made a cha

[weewx-user] Re: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
I made a change so that only the pressure value shows up in my txt file and it works! Maybe tomorrow I can figure out what is wrong with the temperature. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop r

[weewx-user] Re: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
Here is the log after starting Weewx: Jan 6 20:52:01 ruWX CRON[2310]: (pi) CMD (sudo python /usr/share/weewx/user/ru-work.py # JOB_ID_2) Jan 6 20:52:05 ruWX systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system... Jan 6 20:52:05 ruWX weewx[2347]: engine: Initializing weewx version 3.6.2 Jan 6 20:52:

[weewx-user] Re: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
I used wee_extension to install fileparse.py and now I am stumped with this error: fileparse: cannot read value for '61.34,29.534': invalid literal for float(): 61.34,29.534 Appears that I might have to do some more studying about floats and such. -- You received this message because you are s

[weewx-user] Re: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
I decided to try the barometer sensor on the RPi i2c bus. I have managed to get data from the sensor and write out a text file in /var/tmp/wxdata. I have a cron job overwrite the file every minute (for now) with fresh readings. Attempting to follow the directions in FileParse.py gets me this

[weewx-user] Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-02 Thread Ralph Underwood
I have a OWFS station on Rpi going with temps, rain gauge, wind and direction. I started work on this station several years ago and and the got too busy with my day job. In the mean time I implemented at Pete Bros. Ultimeter 2100 station which was working fine until a recent power outage, it

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-11-19 Thread Ralph Underwood
I installed the station last week and it appears to be working. I managed to break the anemometer while I was installing the mast so I have no wind info until my next visit to the site in a week or two. Pete Bros. had the parts available and I already have them in hand. I ended up commenting ou

[weewx-user] Re: wee_extension problem

2016-11-05 Thread Ralph Underwood
; wee_extension try > > ./wee_extension --install weewx-owfs-0.18.tgz > > Note the ./ > > Gary > > On Sunday, 6 November 2016 11:54:16 UTC+10, Ralph Underwood wrote: >> >> I am running weewx 3.6.1 on a Rpi using an Utilmeter 2100. I am trying >> t

[weewx-user] wee_extension problem

2016-11-05 Thread Ralph Underwood
I am running weewx 3.6.1 on a Rpi using an Utilmeter 2100. I am trying to install owfs-0.18 and I can't seem to get past the step "*wee_extension --install weewx-owfs-0.18.tgz*". I get "command not found". I can see the wee_extension file in /home/weewx/bin I have never used wee_extension b

[weewx-user] Re: Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-10-30 Thread Ralph Underwood
I'll second that, great support from users and developers! This is the third weewx station I have cobbled together - one with a wireless Oregon Scientific, one with one-wire, and now this one with Pete Bros. - Plus two more carefully monitoring my basement as I test and experiment. The Rpi pr

[weewx-user] Re: Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-10-29 Thread Ralph Underwood
Solved many of the problems and have the Ultimeter 2100 reporting and WeeWx is now ftp'ing to my website! Next step is to find my one-wire USB gizmo, get woes running as a service and add some more temperature points. Thanks mwall -- You received this message because you are subscribed to t

[weewx-user] Re: Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-10-28 Thread Ralph Underwood
at 9:15:45 PM UTC-4, Ralph Underwood wrote: >> >> Oct 27 17:24:15 raspberrypi weewx[6672]: engine: Unable to load driver: >> could not open port /dev/ttyUSB0: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: >> '/dev/ttyUSB0' >> > > hi ralph, > > it looks

[weewx-user] Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-10-27 Thread Ralph Underwood
I could use some hints on what I need to modify to get the Ultimter to talk to WeeWx. I have a serial to usb converter as the Rpi does not have a serial port and I somehow missed that the Ultimeter was not USB when I ordered it. I tried to use this in my weewx.conf : ###