Much appreciated Andrew. I hadn't realised there was a wiki. After a bit more digging your suggestion of slowing down and reading a lot more makes a great deal of sense. I did find how to change the interval the Vantage updates to 5 minutes. Time for a lot more reading I think.
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:57:05 UTC, Andrew Milner wrote: > > weewx, out of the box, is not designed for real time displays - it is > designed to store archive records at say 5 minute intervals. > > the utilities manual tells you how to run the utilities like wee_device > > there are skins and extensions which can aid real time displays - read the > wiki > > the best thing is to slow down, and read and understand ALL the > documentation weewx supplies > > and understand weewx out of the box before attempting to play with any of > ther extensions > > > > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:27:53 UTC+2, Robbie Lister wrote: >> >> Thank's for the info on skins, I will have a look at them when I get >> things working properly on the default one. >> >> I have got the local web server working but it seems to be updating every >> 30 mins!! From what I can gather this is set by the Vantage Pro 2 and >> there is a utility called wee_config_vantage somewhere that is used to >> set a more realistic time. I believe this is the archive time? Where is >> this utility and how do I run/use it. Whats bothering me is if I set >> this update time to say 1 min so that I can see the live data locally that >> the ftp to a website will be at the same update rate which is far too >> often. As far as I can see there is no simple way to update the local web >> server at 1 min interval and ftp every 5 or 10 mins. Also if I do manage to >> set this to 1 min locally will this hammer to death the SD card in the >> Raspberry Pi. >> >> On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:56:01 UTC, Philip Kutzenco wrote: >>> >>> There are lots of terrific skins. The Standard one is a great one to >>> start with.Then you can look around and see if there is another you'd >>> prefer. Many like SteelSeries Gauges. I am personally fond of the >>> Belchertown skin, developed by Pat O'Brien. It is available here: >>> https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown/releases. My website using >>> it is https://wx.kutzenco.com. <https://wx.kutzenco.com> >>> >>> I'm sure you'll enjoy weewx! >>> phil >>> >>> On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 11:24:26 AM UTC-5, Robbie Lister wrote: >>>> >>>> Thank's Gary I will give that a go. By the sounds of things the built >>>> in default template will be a god starting point. >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:40:39 UTC, Gary Hopkins wrote: >>>>> >>>>> sudo apt-get install nginx >>>>> >>>>> sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start >>>>> >>>>> NGINX defaults its web page location to /var/www/html on Raspbian so if >>>>> you want to change that you need to edit >>>>> >>>>> /etc/nginx/sites-available/default >>>>> >>>>> and edit the line >>>>> >>>>> root /var/www/html/; >>>>> >>>>> to >>>>> >>>>> root /var/www/html/weewx/; >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> After that you should be able to point a browser at the IP address of >>>>> the Pi (hostname -I on the Pi if you want to know its IP address) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> As for remote website, auto FTP upload is built into weewx. Edit the >>>>> FTP section in weewx.conf it's faily self explanatory. There is a basic >>>>> default template included - you don't have to do anything it just works. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> >>>>> G >>>>> >>>>> -- 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.
