Re: [weewx-user] Re: Problems after power cut

2022-12-11 Thread Robin
uestion, yes, just swap in your backup > database. > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 1:13 AM Robin wrote: > >> Update >> >> I stopped weewx >> renamed the database to weewx.sdb.old >> restarted weewx >> >> Weewx started backfilling the new database w

[weewx-user] Re: Problems after power cut

2022-12-11 Thread Robin
ry if I am asking a series of dumb questions. I'm getting old and was not good at this when I was young!!! On Sunday, 11 December 2022 at 10:38:30 UTC+2 Robin wrote: > Forgot to say > > WeeWX v3.8.0 > Vantage Pro2 weather station > > On Sunday, 11 December 2022 at 10:36:5

[weewx-user] Re: Problems after power cut

2022-12-11 Thread Robin
Forgot to say WeeWX v3.8.0 Vantage Pro2 weather station On Sunday, 11 December 2022 at 10:36:52 UTC+2 Robin wrote: > We had a 12 hour power cut last night. The battery backup ran out and the > RPi stopped without being shutdown. > > I reconnected to a different ups about 10 hours

[weewx-user] Problems after power cut

2022-12-11 Thread Robin
We had a 12 hour power cut last night. The battery backup ran out and the RPi stopped without being shutdown. I reconnected to a different ups about 10 hours later. Power back on about 2 hours after this. Nodata is being collected and the web pages are not updating. I stopped weewx and shut

Re: [weewx-user] Anyone else seeing Wunderground Rapid Fire down?

2022-05-01 Thread Robin
Are the Rapid Fire problems back? My station keeps going offline. A stop/start brings it back up, but for a short (variable) period, minutes to an hour or so. Everything else is running perfectly as far as I can tell, so please let it be WU!!! On Tuesday, 8 February 2022 at 18:15:37 UTC+2 Jere

[weewx-user] Re: Is anybody posting to Facebook?

2020-12-30 Thread Robin
Facebook for developers link - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/publishing/ The opening paragraph reads " This guide explains how to create and update a post or comment, reply to a post or comment, and delete a post or comment, on your Facebook Page Feed as the Page. " On Wednesday,

[weewx-user] Is anybody posting to Facebook?

2020-12-30 Thread Robin
I already upload to Twitter as the uploader is on the Wiki and it was really easy to set up, thank you to Matthew Wall and anybody else that had a hand in this. I would like to do a similar thing with Facebook. Is anybody out there doing anything like this? I have found lots of "how-to" stuff o

[weewx-user] Is it after sunset?

2020-12-25 Thread Robin
I have a script that runs every five minutes, grabs an image from my webcam and adds some text before it is uploaded to my website. I would like to test if it is the first grab after sunset so that I can do some extra 'stuff' with the image. I am getting more and more frustrated by my lack of s

Re: [weewx-user] Noob question

2020-12-04 Thread Robin Hunt
act, the Seasons skin uses the tag > $current.consBatteryVoltage. > > All I can say is to double, triple check your spelling. Do other things, > such as $current.txBatteryStatus work properly? > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:03 AM Robin Hunt wrote: > >> Hey everyone >

[weewx-user] Noob question

2020-12-04 Thread Robin Hunt
this with $station.consBatteryVoltage, no different What prefix should I use? Is this possible? Kind regards Robin -- 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, se

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weatherlink IP replacement

2020-11-18 Thread Robin Hunt
Thanks for all the responses, much appreciated! On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 9:31 AM Karen K wrote: > I asked the support of Davis Instruments about local asscess. The answer > was: > > "Both the EnviroMonitor IP and WeatherLink Live are strictly cloud based > and you would not be able to access thro

Re: [weewx-user] Weatherlink IP replacement

2020-11-17 Thread Robin Hunt
686 <(250)%20689-0686> > E: ga...@lockyer.ca > > > On Nov 17, 2020, at 21:13, Robin Hunt wrote: > > Hi > > > I used to use the Davis WeatherLink IP ethernet data logger which has > broken. > > I tried to buy a new one but I see it has been discon

[weewx-user] Weatherlink IP replacement

2020-11-17 Thread Robin Hunt
Hi I used to use the Davis WeatherLink IP ethernet data logger which has broken. I tried to buy a new one but I see it has been discontinued. How do I connect my Davis Vantage Pro 2 to my weewx installation now? What hardware should I buy? Kind regards Robin -- You received this message

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx restx: Ambient and Wunderground but no WOW, AWEKAS. , CWOP, Weathercloud and no failure messages

2019-12-17 Thread Robin Chester
Thanks VERY much, Gary! Interval changed to 5 minutes. Saved some interesting log items; weewx restarted; will grab log in the morning for here. Cheers Robin.. On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:49:43 UTC+13, gjr80 wrote: > > Hi, > > We are going to need to see some more log,

[weewx-user] Weewx restx: Ambient and Wunderground but no WOW, AWEKAS. , CWOP, Weathercloud and no failure messages

2019-12-16 Thread Robin Chester
Pi 4B Full Debian Buster OS load on clean SD Weewx 3.9.2-1 setup.py install VP2 Syslog excerpt in attached file; truncated: Starts from weewx restart, ends after several Wunderground RF reports (they continue as the *only* published records after setting debug to 1 (with debug = 3, the AWEKAS re

[weewx-user] Re: Can i grab loop data in a shell script

2019-08-02 Thread Robin
job. > > https://weather.ubeaut.work/webcam.html > > > > On Friday, 2 August 2019 15:24:21 UTC+10, Robin wrote: >> >> Good morning Pat, >> >> Location /var/www/weewx/temperature.txt >> >> The template for Cheetah generator to produce the file has a single line

[weewx-user] Re: Can i grab loop data in a shell script

2019-08-01 Thread Robin
Good morning Pat, Location /var/www/weewx/temperature.txt The template for Cheetah generator to produce the file has a single line $current.outTemp.string That's it. On Thursday, 1 August 2019 15:31:27 UTC+3, Pat wrote: > > Robin, > > Some questions > > > from

[weewx-user] Re: Can i grab loop data in a shell script

2019-07-31 Thread Robin
I did think about running the script after weewx updates, but the ease of saving the image to the web page folder so it gets uploaded using rsync was too appealing. I am not a programmer and my Linux knowledge is at the 'just enough to survive' (most of the time) level. I have had a look at th

[weewx-user] Re: Can i grab loop data in a shell script

2019-07-31 Thread Robin
Gary, Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. It's time to "meddle and poke until I get things sorted or break something"! -- 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 i

[weewx-user] Can i grab loop data in a shell script

2019-07-31 Thread Robin
Is it possible to get the current temperature to use in a shell script? Let me explain what I am doing and what I would like to do. I have a webcam. I use a shell script every five minutes to: 1. grab an image with avconv 2. add text, including 'current' temperature (from a txt file gener

Re: [weewx-user] Re: On this date

2019-05-28 Thread Robin
> Peter, Thank you. This has finally started to sink in, I am now producing tables that show what I want and make sense! Thank you to everyone that has had input here, you are all superstars. Regards to all Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

[weewx-user] Re: On this date

2019-05-27 Thread Robin
all works, but that simply reminds me that I don't understand code. Is there a way to exclude the current year? Thank you again. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rece

[weewx-user] Re: On this date

2019-05-13 Thread Robin
Gary, Thank you, you are a star. That is exactly what I was looking for. I'm going to go away and play. I'm so excited! Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rece

[weewx-user] Re: On this date

2019-05-13 Thread Robin
Gary, Thank you, you are a star. That is exactly what I was looking for. I'm going to go away and play. I'm so excited! Robin On Monday, 13 May 2019 10:40:37 UTC+3, gjr80 wrote: > > I've put together a search list extension that should do what you want. > You will find

[weewx-user] On this date

2019-05-11 Thread Robin
I apologise if this has been asked before or if there is a simple and obvious way to do this, but I can't see it. I want to display the temperature (min,max) for today's date for each year since we started keeping records. Can somebody point me in the right direction? Thanks people. -- You r

[weewx-user] Re: rainRate

2018-05-07 Thread Robin
t stay on screen for long. We had 23 mm of rain in 50 minutes. If anybody has a set of plans for an ark, I might be interested! Robin On Monday, 7 May 2018 14:05:02 UTC+3, Andrew Milner wrote: > > …… and I shall be a good boy ……. and say nothing …... >> >> -- You received thi

[weewx-user] rainRate

2018-05-07 Thread Robin
I have noticed on the last few occasions that following a single bucket tip the rain shows 0.2 mm but the rain rate shows 0.0 mm/hr. This seems to be a bit of a nonsense as clearly 0.2 mm has fallen in the last hour. I have read other threads and understand the need to measure time between tips

[weewx-user] Sensly HAT from Altitude Technology

2018-04-20 Thread Robin
Does anybody have any experience of the Sensly HAT from Altitude Technology? https://altitude.tech/sensly -- 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-us

[weewx-user] Re: $station.uptime

2018-03-04 Thread Robin
back together again. I think I need to start with building a list of my added 'stuff' and then making a plan to get it all back into a new install. I already have a headache. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" g

[weewx-user] Re: $station.uptime

2018-03-04 Thread Robin
a couple of hacks to get it running. Robin 3.6.1 was working fine - *if <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if#English> it <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/it#English> ain’t <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ain%27t#English> broke <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broke#En

[weewx-user] Re: $station.uptime

2018-03-04 Thread Robin
sers >> or load averages though!! >> >> >> >> On Sunday, 4 March 2018 10:14:51 UTC+2, Robin wrote: >> >>> up 16 days, 18:57, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.19, 0.21 >>> >>> On Sunday, 4 March 2018 09:30:10 UTC+2, Andrew Milner wrote: &g

[weewx-user] Re: $station.uptime

2018-03-04 Thread Robin
t;> >> >> On Sunday, 4 March 2018 08:40:23 UTC+2, Robin wrote: >> >>> OK the page is now updating (not the images, I'm only interested in the >>> uptime). >>> >>> http://www.weather.molyvos.eu/Bootstrap/ >>> >>

[weewx-user] Re: $station.uptime

2018-03-03 Thread Robin
OK the page is now updating (not the images, I'm only interested in the uptime). http://www.weather.molyvos.eu/Bootstrap/ It still shows Station uptime: 0 days, 0 Hours, 0 minutes Server uptime: 0 days, 0 Hours, 6 minutes On Sunday, 4 March 2018 08:27:31 UTC+2, Robin wrote: >

[weewx-user] Re: $station.uptime

2018-03-03 Thread Robin
Andrew, my bad, just noticed that myself and was about to post. I will get /bootstrap/index running again and see what happens Robin On Sunday, 4 March 2018 08:11:47 UTC+2, Andrew Milner wrote: > > the bootstrap skin has totally the wrong date and time of lasdt update > though!!!

[weewx-user] Re: $station.uptime

2018-03-03 Thread Robin
Hi Gary, I don't think it is the template or skin config as I also have a Bootstrap skin running. http://www.weather.molyvos.eu/Bootstrap/index.html Since I did a Weewx stop/start it now shows Weewx uptime: 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes Server uptime: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes On Saturday

[weewx-user] $station.uptime

2018-03-03 Thread Robin
I have this feeling in my water that I am missing something really simple here, BUT... Why does my station uptime not change? It shows "Weewx uptime: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes" permanently! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group.

[weewx-user] Alexa Flash Briefing Skill

2017-12-24 Thread Robin
I got really upset when I found that Alexa knew NOTHING about the village where I live. So I have set up an Alexa Skill all of my very own. It's a flash briefing skill that adds a *Molyvos Weather Nowcast *to my flash briefing. I don't even need to get out of bed, Alexa just reads me the latest

[weewx-user] Re: degree symbol not showing?

2016-11-22 Thread Robin
Hi Jim, I had the same problem. I solved it by creating a template with a single line $current.outTemp.string Then adding [[[Temperature]]] encoding = utf8 template = temperature.txt.tmpl to the standard skin.conf file. I can now read the text file and add it to

[weewx-user] Re: Current wisdom on the end of DST

2016-10-29 Thread Robin
x[3876]: manager: added record 2016-10-30 06:35:00 EET (1477802100) to daily summary in 'weewx.sdb' All records saved OK from this point. I have now switched back to hardware generation without any problems. On Friday, 28 October 2016 08:20:34 UTC+3, Robin wrote: > > Day

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Current wisdom on the end of DST

2016-10-29 Thread Robin
Tom, OK. I've set record_generation=software. I'll let you know in the morning how things went. On Friday, 28 October 2016 18:43:03 UTC+3, Tom Keffer wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Robin > > wrote: > >> That bit I understand Tom. The bit that

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Current wisdom on the end of DST

2016-10-28 Thread Robin
Tom, This just compounds my confusion. How does WeeWX get from Davis local time to UTC? Can't WeeWX take DST into account during the conversion? On Friday, 28 October 2016 18:43:03 UTC+3, Tom Keffer wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Robin > > wrote: > >>

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Current wisdom on the end of DST

2016-10-28 Thread Robin
That bit I understand Tom. The bit that confuses me is, I thought that WeeWX stored the data using UTC. On Friday, 28 October 2016 18:32:43 UTC+3, Tom Keffer wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Robin > > wrote: > >> I have a Davis Vantage Pro 2. >>

[weewx-user] Re: Current wisdom on the end of DST

2016-10-28 Thread Robin
oping that somebody had figured out a way to avoid this lost data. It might be insignificant, but if we get a major weather event at that time To be honest I still get a headache trying to understand the local time/UTC problem, but I am easily confused. On Friday, 28 October 2016 08:20:34 UT

[weewx-user] Current wisdom on the end of DST

2016-10-27 Thread Robin
Daylight savings time ends this weekend. I recall experiencing problems last year. What is the current 'best practice'and advice? Thank you. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from

[weewx-user] Re: Niculskin with response design, bootstrap style and history template released

2016-10-07 Thread Robin
ou will need to collect in person). Regards Robin On Friday, 7 October 2016 12:50:20 UTC+3, Andrew Milner wrote: > > Yes, Nick's history pages are indeed very useful . > > http://cr.netflash.com.cy:61009/weewxweather/Bootstrap/history.html > -- You received this message be

[weewx-user] Tweet using dot code format and conditional statements

2016-09-22 Thread Robin
s user group for the inspiration to continue learning. Regards Robin I've also attached my script if anyone is interested. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receivin

[weewx-user] Tweet using dot code format and conditional statements

2016-09-22 Thread Robin
s user group for the inspiration to continue learning. Regards Robin I've also attached my script if anyone is interested. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receivin

[weewx-user] Tweet using dot code format and conditional statements

2016-09-22 Thread Robin
s user group for the inspiration to continue learning. Regards Robin I've also attached my script if anyone is interested. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receivin

[weewx-user] Tweet method allowing dot code formatting and conditional statements.

2016-09-22 Thread Robin
formatting that I wanted using the familiar dot code system. The big plus is that I realised that I can also send a "Good morning" tweet with an image from my webcam. RESULT Thank you to all that contribute to this user group for the inspiration to continue learning. Regards Ro

[weewx-user] Alternative tweet method allows dot code formatting

2016-09-22 Thread Robin
formatting that I wanted using the familiar dot code system. The big plus is that I realised that I can also tweet "Good morning" tweet with an image from my webcam. RESULT Thank you to all that contribute to this user group for the inspiration to continue learning. Regards Ro

[weewx-user] Alternative tweet method allows dot code formatting

2016-09-22 Thread Robin
formatting that I wanted using the familiar dot code system. The big plus is that I realised that I can also tweet "Good morning" tweet with an image from my webcam. RESULT Thank you to all that contribute to this user group for the inspiration to continue learning. Regards Ro

[weewx-user] Twitter uploader - degree symbol and line feed

2016-09-21 Thread Robin
I have the Twitter uploader working, thank you to everyone that had a part in its development. I would like to use the degree symbol. Is this possible? Twitter has supported line feeds since 2013. Is it possible to add a line feed in the uploader 'format' line? Regards to all Robi

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx Send dato to Twitter Account

2016-09-21 Thread Robin
Brilliant, thank you. Two questions: 1. Has anyone got the degree symbol working (and how)? 2. Can I use a line break (and how)? OK so perhaps that is actually 4 questions. *THANK YOU* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To u

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx Send dato to Twitter Account

2016-09-21 Thread Robin
Brilliant! Thank you. Well that wasn't too painful at all. I just have a couple of questions: 1. How do I add the degree symbol? 2. Can I add line breaks? *THANK YOU AGAIN!* sorry didn't mean to shout, but I'm really happy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: [weewx-user] Can I use sFTP PLEASE!

2016-09-10 Thread Robin
/SSH_Tutorial_for_Linux It is so simple compared to the rubbish from my host. Now all up and running using RSYNC many, many times faster than ftp. Don't know why I ever thought ftp was a good idea Regards to all (but especially Tom) Robin On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 18:49:27 UTC+3, Tom K

Re: [weewx-user] Can I use sFTP PLEASE!

2016-09-06 Thread Robin
& a script? I would just like to say "thank you Tom". Your advice here is more timely, more succinct and more helpful than my host. Would you like to sort them out for me? Robin On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 17:13:06 UTC+3, Tom Keffer wrote: > > SFTP would require the in

[weewx-user] Can I use sFTP PLEASE!

2016-09-06 Thread Robin
gards Robin -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[weewx-user] Intermittent ftpupload failure

2016-09-03 Thread Robin
ution. Regards Robin -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[weewx-user] Re: weewx.com down?

2016-08-31 Thread Robin
works for me too. On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:10:46 UTC+3, Buzz K wrote: > > Trying to access www.weewx.com and site is timeing out. > > Weewx.com is Down > Checked URL > weewx.com > Response Time > - > Response Code > - > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[weewx-user] Re: Instromet Sunshine Sensor

2016-08-27 Thread Robin
Steve, I have looked at this, but the price is (for me) prohibitive. Regards Robin On Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:13:10 UTC+3, Steve Sykes wrote: > > Robin > > Looking on the sun sensor webpage, I see that they have a davis interface > using an additional rain sensor input. Perh

[weewx-user] Re: Get last recorded temperature from sqlite database

2016-08-13 Thread Robin
> > Thank you Andrew and Vince. > I decided it was best not to play with the database. 'sqlite' will be on my list as soon as the python course is completed and my brain cools down. I was after the current temperature to add text with ImageMagick to my webcam grabs. After a little thought I de

[weewx-user] Re: Get last recorded temperature from sqlite database

2016-08-07 Thread Robin
BY dateTime DESC > LIMIT 1; > > should do the trick > > > On Sunday, 7 August 2016 13:14:49 UTC+3, Robin wrote: > >> Please can somebody tell me how do I get the current (last recorded) >> temperature from the database using the command line? >> >>

[weewx-user] Get last recorded temperature from sqlite database

2016-08-07 Thread Robin
Please can somebody tell me how do I get the current (last recorded) temperature from the database using the command line? More apologies for another simple question but in my defence, - This mornings homework: - ελληνικό λεξιλόγιο (Greek vocabulary) - Lesson 3, edX Python course

[weewx-user] Re: Instromet Sunshine Sensor

2016-07-27 Thread Robin
l. I would love to have this working and compare it to my estimated method. Thanks for reading this far. Regards Robin -- 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, sen

[weewx-user] Instromet Sunshine Sensor

2016-07-26 Thread Robin
Sorry for the simple questions, but I need some basic help. I am interested in the Instromet Sunshine Sensor which detects if the sun is shinning (or not). http://www.instromet.co.uk/sunsensor.html The stand alone unit outputs a 5 volt signal when the sun is shinning and 0 volts when it is not