Re: [weewx-user] Updating Debian Jessie to Buster

2020-11-20 Thread Chuck Rhode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:55:24 -0800 (PST) vince wrote: > Sigh - doesn't anybody read the 'years' of the 'many' times people > have asked the same questions ? I do... did... was skeptical... got over it Verbatim copy worked for me. Hours of

Re: [weewx-user] Updating Debian Jessie to Buster

2020-11-20 Thread Troy Roberts
Thank you Vince. On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 10:55 AM vince wrote: > On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 7:41:39 AM UTC-8 tarob...@gmail.com wrote: > >> So I've finally got around to getting a new Pi loaded with Buster and >> installed Weewx using python3, all the extensions, and skins. The final >>

Re: [weewx-user] Updating Debian Jessie to Buster

2020-11-20 Thread vince
On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 7:41:39 AM UTC-8 tarob...@gmail.com wrote: > So I've finally got around to getting a new Pi loaded with Buster and > installed Weewx using python3, all the extensions, and skins. The final > part is moving my weewx.sdb and I want to ensure I do this properly.

Re: [weewx-user] Updating Debian Jessie to Buster

2020-11-20 Thread tarob...@gmail.com
So I've finally got around to getting a new Pi loaded with Buster and installed Weewx using python3, all the extensions, and skins. The final part is moving my weewx.sdb and I want to ensure I do this properly. Would I just be able to stop weewx, copy over weewx.sbd (all historical data), and

Re: [weewx-user] Updating Debian Jessie to Buster

2020-11-09 Thread Ian Prescott
HI Troy I did something very similar awhile ago and didn't have any issues. As Vince said "use a new sd card to build the new system" What made my transition easy was the weather console has a memory that holds approx several days of data. If I stop weewx for some reason and for some hours, then

Re: [weewx-user] Updating Debian Jessie to Buster

2020-11-09 Thread Troy Roberts
Good idea, I don't have spare hardware so I'll have to setup a virtual machine. Although this maybe an excuse to go ahead and pickup another RPi. On Mon, Nov 9, 2020, 12:05 PM p q wrote: > Set it all up on spare hardware. If you don't have spare hardware use a > vm. That way you won't be down

Re: [weewx-user] Updating Debian Jessie to Buster

2020-11-09 Thread p q
Set it all up on spare hardware. If you don't have spare hardware use a vm. That way you won't be down while you work out any issues. On Mon, Nov 9, 2020, 8:14 AM tarob...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > When I initially setup weewx, I was very new to raspberry pi OS and so I > used what I had

[weewx-user] Updating Debian Jessie to Buster

2020-11-09 Thread tarob...@gmail.com
Hello, When I initially setup weewx, I was very new to raspberry pi OS and so I used what I had currently had on hand, a RPi I got a couple years ago which was running Jessie. Recently, I've realized there are some issues, mainly Python2.7 and Python3.8, that basically boiled down to running