Re: [weewx-user] Re: Saving years of archived weather data before upgrading?

2024-06-07 Thread geoff...@gmail.com
Whenever I undertake a major update or upgrade, I set up a test version of weewx on a separate RPi, initially using the Simulator station. That allows me to verify that all the changes play nicely together, before committing the new system to my live station. On Thursday 6 June 2024 at 17:59

Re: [weewx-user] rsync not sending to remote web site after upgrade

2024-05-24 Thread geoff...@gmail.com
I think I had this problem when I updated to v5. IIRC, the weewx user has changed, and I needed to put the SSH keys into the home directory for that user. HTH Geoff Cusick On Friday 24 May 2024 at 12:56:10 UTC+1 Chris Eidem wrote: > I failed to include it in my snippet. Here is the entire, n

[weewx-user] Re: purge / clean mysql database?

2024-02-11 Thread geoff...@gmail.com
No need to purge - why throw away the data? My archive table contains 4229492 records, no problem. On Sunday 11 February 2024 at 11:14:45 UTC michael.k...@gmx.at wrote: > What's the problem with even millions of entries in the database? > The min/max values are stored in the corresponding archiv

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx-rain24h addon

2023-09-18 Thread geoff...@gmail.com
No need for an addon. Just use $span($day_delta=1).rain.sum to return the last 24h rainfall total. You can see it on my weather site at weather.cusick.org.uk Hth Geoff On Monday, 18 September 2023 at 12:02:06 UTC+1 gjr80 wrote: You might have to help us out here, what or where is the 'weew

Re: [weewx-user] Strange problems using FTPgenerator just started happening.

2023-04-06 Thread geoff...@gmail.com
Pretty sure I saw this problem with ftp from weewx on RPi some time ago. It coincided with 1and1 deprecating ‘open’ ftp; as memory serves, RPi at the time wouldn’t support the required flavour of secure ftp. I resolved the problem by using rsync to update my web pages. It’s not completely wit