I presume that your working passwordless ssh is from your WeatherPi machine. Which user on WeatherPi has passwordless ssh? If it is, for example, user pi and WeeWX is being run as root then I expect WeeWX rsync will fail with the error shown. You need to make sure that the account that runs WeeWX has passwordless ssh access. So you may need to change the user that runs WeeWX or give the account that runs WeeWX (likely root unless you explicitly changed it) passwordless ssh access.
Regarding pysftp, what did you do? what error did you come across? I just tried installing with pip on my RPI running raspbian stretch: $ sudo pip install pysftp and received a dependency error on package libffi. Installed libffi using: $ sudo ap-get install libffi-dev then ran the pysftp install again and it installed without error, it was slow but eventually it got there. If that does not solve your pysftp issue post the command you used to install it and the output you receive. Gary On Friday, 5 October 2018 03:03:44 UTC+10, dhin...@djhindley.com wrote: > > I have recently signed up to 1&1 to host my weather website and want to > get weewx to upload files to it, allowing for the fact that they now use > SFTP, not plain FTP, so I can't use the FTP weewx facility. I tried to use > Matthew Wall's weew-sftp extension, but couldn't manage to get the python > pysftp module installed, so I thought I would try Rsync. I followed the > steps below and can successfully ssh to my 1&1 FTP account without needing > to type in a password. > > However, when I amend Rysc configuration in weewx.conf as per below, Rsync > seems to fail. My syslog is below. The Rsync error is at the end, but I > included earlier errors in the syslog, but not sure if they are related to > the Rsync issue or not. > > Any ideas on what is going wrong? > > Many Thanks > > David. > > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: manager: Daily summary version is > 2.0 > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: reportengine: Caught unrecoverable > exception in generator weewx.cheetahgenerator.CheetahGenerator > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** No module named > forecast > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** Traceback (most > recent call last): > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 239, in run > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** obj.start() > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 273, in start > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** self.run() > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/cheetahgenerator.py", line 155, in run > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** > self.initExtensions(gen_dict[section_name]) > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/cheetahgenerator.py", line 197, in initExtensions > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** class_ = > weeutil.weeutil._get_object(x) > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weeutil/weeutil.py", line 1132, in _get_object > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** mod = > __import__(module) > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** ImportError: No > module named forecast > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** Generator terminated > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: reportengine: Caught unrecoverable > exception in generator weewx.imagegenerator.ImageGenerator > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** 'skin' > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** Traceback (most > recent call last): > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 239, in run > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** obj.start() > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 273, in start > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** self.run() > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/imagegenerator.py", line 31, in run > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** self.setup() > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/imagegenerator.py", line 44, in setup > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** > self.skin_dict['skin'])) > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 567, in __getitem__ > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** val = > dict.__getitem__(self, key) > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** KeyError: 'skin' > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** Generator terminated > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: reportengine: Caught unrecoverable > exception in generator weewx.reportengine.CopyGenerator > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** 'skin' > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** Traceback (most > recent call last): > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 239, in run > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** obj.start() > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 273, in start > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** self.run() > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 417, in run > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** > self.skin_dict['skin'])) > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** File > "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 567, in __getitem__ > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** val = > dict.__getitem__(self, key) > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** KeyError: 'skin' > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: **** Generator terminated > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: reportengine: Running report RSYNC > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: reportengine: Found configuration > file /etc/weewx/skins/Rsync/skin.conf for report RSYNC > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: rsyncupload: [['rsync', > '--archive', '--stats', '-e ssh', '/var/www/html/weewx/', > 'xxxxx...@homexxxxxxxxxx.1and1-data.host:.']] reported errors: Host key > verification failed.. rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes > received so far) [sender]. rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream > (code 12) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9] > Oct 4 17:51:17 WeatherPi weewx[10224]: rsyncupload: rsync executed in > 0.41 seconds > > > On Monday, 23 October 2017 14:13:14 UTC+1, Geoff Cusick wrote: >> >> Apologies that (a) I didn't post the solution immediately I found it, and >> (b) it's taken me a while to respond. But I did sort this out. >> >> The critical step is to set up passwordless SSH access to your FTP >> account on 1and1. To do this, you need to know: >> >> >> - The server address for your FTP account. In my case, this is >> something like: >> >> homexxxxxxxx.1and1-data.host >> >> - The user name for this account, something like uXXXXXX >> - The password for the account. >> >> The next step is to generate an SSH key pair for your local machine, and >> upload the public part to the 1and1 server. There's a helpful article at >> https://linuxconfig.org/passwordless-ssh that sets out the series of >> steps. The location for the ssh-copy-id command is >> uxxxx...@homexxxxxxxx.1and1-data.host >> >> >> Once you've completed this bit, and verified that you can sss to >> uxxxx...@homexxxxxxxx.1and1-data.host with no password request, you can set >> up weewx to use rsync to transfer the relevant files from weewx to 1and1. >> >> >> The relevant part of weewx.conf is: >> >> >> ****************** >> >> >> [[RSYNC]] >> # rsync'ing to a webserver is treated as just another report >> skin = Rsync >> >> # If you wish to use rsync, you must configure passwordless ssh >> using >> # public/private key authentication from the user account that >> weewx >> # runs as to the user account on the remote machine where the >> files >> # will be copied. >> # >> # The following three lines determine where files will be sent. >> #server = replace with the rsync server name, e.g, >> www.threefools.org >> server = homexxxxxxxx.1and1-data.host >> #path = replace with the rsync destination directory (e.g., >> /weather) >> path = webroot/weather/ >> #user = replace with the rsync username >> user = uXXXXXXX >> >> # Rsync can be configured to remove files from the remote server >> if >> # they don't exist under HTML_ROOT locally. USE WITH CAUTION: if >> you >> # make a mistake in the remote path, you could could >> unintentionally >> # cause unrelated files to be deleted. Set to 1 to enable remote >> file >> # deletion, zero to allow files to accumulate remotely. >> delete = 0 >> >> >> >> *********** >> >> Just to explain, the root for my web server is at /webroot on the1and1 >> server, and all the weewx files are under weather, below that. I found >> that I had to omit the leading '/' on /webroot. >> >> >> Then you need to stop and restart weewx to implement the change to >> weewx.conf. >> >> >> Good luck!! >> >> >> Geoff >> On Sunday, 22 October 2017 20:42:12 UTC+1, Robert Isbell wrote: >>> >>> Andy and Geoff, >>> I too am in the same position as Geoff. Is there a "Howto" somewhere for >>> setting up rsync to work with 1&1. >>> >>> On Friday, October 6, 2017 at 3:18:29 PM UTC-7, Geoff Cusick wrote: >>>> >>>> Andy, >>>> >>>> I know this was a while back, but can you give me any pointers to >>>> setting up rsync between weewx and a 1and1 server - they’ve recently >>>> disabled ‘ordinary’ ftp, and my website is stuck on 24 September. >>>> >>>> Any hints much appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Geoff >>> >>> >> -- 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.
