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

2017-01-07 Thread Ralph Underwood
I missed that little detail, the wiki shows separate lines, I just was so happy I managed to get the sensor data into a file I now have a two line txt file and both readings are picked up by the fileparse driver. Thanks. On Friday, January 6, 2017 at 9:51:13 PM UTC-8, Andrew Milner

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

2017-01-06 Thread Andrew Milner
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 change so that only the pressure value shows up in my txt file > and it works!

[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