[weewx-user] Re: Solid non-Raspbian platform for WeeWx + MariaDB?

I think it's well established that the RaspiOS is just fine for all the things you are trying to do, and my 'guess' is you are either running into firewalling issues or you're not running sudo when needed.Without seeing your logs and/or error messages, nobody can help you at all basically.

[weewx-user] Re: Solid non-Raspbian platform for WeeWx + MariaDB?

Thanks Vince. I didn't include error messages because my question was (and is) whether there are other options for a small CPU I can use to replace the Pi/Raspbian. I appreciate your letting me know that you have confirmed Ubuntu can work on the Pi 4, I may try that. I see the differences bet

[weewx-user] Re: Solid non-Raspbian platform for WeeWx + MariaDB?

Using keys generated on putty for access to a linux server was always painful in my (fortunately ancient) experience. I always added cygwin to my windows systems to get a real shell and ssh client rather than the putty kludges. I'm sure what you're trying is doable, you just need to find the

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Solid non-Raspbian platform for WeeWx + MariaDB?

Windows 10 has ssh built into its powershell terminal. This is my little checklist I use for all my ubuntu based distributions. Create SSH Keys & harden SSH Access URL : https://kb.iu.edu/d/aews === 1. First ensure you have a RSA key generated on your windows 10 wo

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Solid non-Raspbian platform for WeeWx + MariaDB?

I have had this issue with newer versions of MariaDB as well. The solution was to run as root. See this thread on SO. Or, maybe you already knew that. On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 9:

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Solid non-Raspbian platform for WeeWx + MariaDB?

Thanks to all of you for the help. Thanks to Vince idea, I now happily am running Ubuntu Desktop on my Pi 4, which so far is a lot more polished than Raspbian OS (which is toylike by comparison). I have MariaDB successfully installed as well, which was a seamless process on Ubuntu -- this what

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Solid non-Raspbian platform for WeeWx + MariaDB?

I would be interested in hearing which version of ubuntu you went with, considering the new 22.04.1 LTS just came out today, and whether you have passwordless ssh working from all the client boxes you want to ssh from. Reason I'm asking is that when I upgraded my AWS Lightsail to 22.04.1 LTS fr

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Solid non-Raspbian platform for WeeWx + MariaDB?

I used to run Raspian on a Pi4, but my InfluxDB regularly crashed and sometimes even failed to restart cleanly at all due to corruption. All sorts of random issues, including out of memory (when it wasn't). No tuning of config file settings would fix it. Drove me mental for months. I believe