On Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 9:06:36 PM UTC-8, Ben Cotton wrote: > > But in my ideal scenario, I'd like to see something like the way > Apache httpd and other daemons parse configs. So there would be > /etc/weewx/weewx.conf that would have the default settings and then I > could overwrite things as needed in /etc/weewx/weewx.local and/or > /etc/weewx/conf.d/*. > > Yup - there have been multiple discussions along those lines over the years, but there were as many 'cons' as there were 'pros' and there was a many-thousand-sites pre-existing condition already out there in the field, so it was basically decided to stay the course.
Perhaps you might itemize exactly which tasks you are trying to automate specifically and maybe we can collectively get you there within the current implementation. For my raspi (not my main site), I settled on: - be able to get a working Simulator setup in one step via a bash script, with 'some' of my edits to weewx.conf where sed does the job easily. - install all skins with the wee_extension utility - install all extensions with the wee_extension utility - keep all 'my' skins+extensions+scripts in GitHub since I'd never find's otherwise :-) At that point, all I'd need to do would be to add in my edits to weewx.conf, which admittedly is still to-do: - ansible lineinfile is very weak and doesn't work too well with weewx.conf's configobj format - ansible blockinfile 'probably' could handle editing skin blocks (example - I have a zillion lines to tweak Belchertown) but I haven't tested it And of course I'd need to switch from Simulator to my real Driver (could have been done in the first step above probably). But it's not generally a big deal to automate enough.....not 100%....but good enough for my needs. Some repos you might surf: - https://github.com/vinceskahan/weewx-install-script/blob/master/install-weewx.sh - this is a one-step script to install via setup.py that lets you pick your version and git branch 'or' alternately use the dpkg versions. Edit a couple variables at the top and run on a clean raspi or equivalent Debian(ish) system. - I have lots of other repos there for Dockerizing, using Vagrant, etc. - Many of them have snippets for using sed to edit in lat/lon and other variables many people edit that are unique enough that it's doable without breaking weewx.conf Regardless - suggest you start with "I need to automate doing this" and ask away. Somebody's likely already figured out how to do it. Then you'd just need to connect the Legos into a whole that works for you. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/236292f7-4d73-405d-91fb-15823a7ecfda%40googlegroups.com.
