Hi Yes its a little drastic
But several hours worth of customizing something else may be problematic Originally i had installed the latest weewx 3.8 using the new automated installation package but i was unfamiliar with the new directory structure so i un-installed it and used to older setup method something maybe crossed linked upon reinstalling everything is working ok (so far) :-) thanks for your help On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 3:56:02 PM UTC, vigilancewx wrote: > > Hello I have been using weewx for a few years version 2.6 on a PI and it > works fine (changing in and out of GMT causes the pi to play up but thats > all) no problems with the SD cards etc > However i decided to install the latest version 3.8 on a machine running > Ubuntu 17 > > I have modified my 2.6 quite extensively so doing a clean install and > trying to migrate my mods over if possible > > i am unable to get wee_extension to install i have tried on the forecast > extension and cmon > > i cant remember how to install the extensions from a few years ago and > using wee_extension i get the following errors > > Thanks for any help > > pi@picomp:/home/myideas$ dir > abcweewx.tgz home weewx-forecast-3.2.19.tgz > abweewx.tgz weewx-cmon-0.16.tgz weewx-owfs-0.21.tgz > pi@picomp:/home/myideas$ sudo /home/weewx/bin/wee_extension > /home/myideas/weewx-cmon-0.16.tgz > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/weewx/bin/wee_extension", line 83, in <module> > main() > File "/home/weewx/bin/wee_extension", line 62, in main > config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config, _args) > File "/home/weewx/bin/weecfg/__init__.py", line 223, in read_config > config_dict = configobj.ConfigObj(config_path, file_error=True) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1229, in > __init__ > self._load(infile, configspec) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1318, in _load > raise error > configobj.ConfigObjError: Parsing failed with several errors. > First error at line 1. > pi@picomp:/home/myideas$ sudo /home/weewx/bin/wee_extension > /home/myideas/weewx-forecast-3.2.19.tgz > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/weewx/bin/wee_extension", line 83, in <module> > main() > File "/home/weewx/bin/wee_extension", line 62, in main > config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config, _args) > File "/home/weewx/bin/weecfg/__init__.py", line 223, in read_config > config_dict = configobj.ConfigObj(config_path, file_error=True) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1229, in > __init__ > self._load(infile, configspec) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1318, in _load > raise error > configobj.ConfigObjError: Parsing failed with several errors. > First error at line 3. > pi@picomp:/home/myideas$ > -- 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.
