Hello Matt, Hope you are well. It's been a few days and I haven't heard back from you yet.
Have you tried to install XTide v2.15.2 and do you have it working with weewx and the forecast extension? And did I understand you correctly? - see previous post. Kind regards, Kelly On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 3:19:03 PM UTC-4, V. Kelly Bellis wrote: > > Hello Matt, > > Thank you for your reply, though I don't fully understand it. > > Have you tried to install XTide v2.15.2 and do you have it working with > weewx and the forecast extension? > > *RE: The environment* > /usr/local/bin/tide already knows where to find harmonics as directed by > /etc/environment wherein is contained: > HFILE_PATH=/usr/local/share/xtide > WVS_DIR=/home/pi/XTide/wvs > > > XTide was installed from source files and into the associated directories > following the David Flater's excellent, though sometimes terse, > instructions. Weewx got installed automatically through the apt-get > process. > > /usr/share/weewx/weewxd > > In /etc/weewx/weewx.conf under > [Forecast] > ... > [[XTide]] > prog = /usr/local/bin/tide > > > *IF* I understand you, > 1) I should create /usr/share/weewx/tide.sh wherein is contained > #!/bin/sh > HFILE_PATH=/usr/local/share/harmonics-dwf-20181227-free.tcd tide "$@" > > 2) and then, you're saying I should > In /etc/weewx/weewx.conf under > [Forecast] > ... > [[XTide]] > prog = /usr/share/weewx/tide.sh > > *Is this understanding correct?* > > > FWIW - Found more deprecated droppings from the old deb-package that > weren't properly removed by sudo apt-get remove xtide-data; i.e., > /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-initial.tcd - manually removed by > pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo rm -r /usr/share/xtide > > > > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 5:04:16 PM UTC-4, V. Kelly Bellis wrote: >> >> RE: Forecasting Extension, RPi, Raspbian, weewx v3.9.1, XTide v2.15.2 >> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/forecasting >> >> The xtide package (sudo apt-get install xtide) is an old, neglected, and >> abandoned Debian package. How old? It and its related data: xtide >> v2.13.2-1+b1 and data circa 20100529. The net result is as you would >> expect, tide heights and times have drifted enough away from current NOAA >> predictions to be noticeable or worse. >> >> Building XTide from source files on the RPi (including a path statement >> in /etc/environment, to the harmonics file; i.e., >> /usr/local/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20181227-free.tcd) has xtide working >> properly by itself; however, when viewing /var/log/syslog I'm seeing >> STATION_NOT_FOUND. >> >> I was wondering if there might be any documentation written for >> non-programmers in how weewx and XTide have been integrated? >> > -- 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.
