Great idea Vince, I used to use Virtual Box all the time but these days tend to spin up EC2 hosts, but hadn't even thought of that for WeeWX testing, so definitely going to give that a go
And as I know a few have asked, I have finished documenting what I did here https://www.cougar.eu.com/useful-guides/weewx-guides/rasberry-pi/add-ecowitt/index.html On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 5:41:03 PM UTC vince wrote: > On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 1:56:13 AM UTC-8 mi...@cougar.eu.com wrote: > >> One thing I am keen to try is using the config file to define the >> directory as you show above Vince, but that will have to wait till I have >> time to experiment on my "spare" raspberry Pi. Not trying that on my live >> system. So for the time being the directory is defined as a constant >> >> > This is a good example of why running a virtualized weewx is great. You > could spin up a quick Vagrant/VirtualBox VM using the Simulator driver and > add your draft extension to it. No need for a spare pi. Get everything > working and then add/update your custom code on your production (so to > speak) pi. > > My Vagrant configs for centos7/8, debian10, ubuntu1804/2004 are on GitHub > <https://github.com/vinceskahan/weewx-vagrant> if you wanted those for > either pre-packaged or setup.py variants. The provisioner scripts can > also be used standalone to add weewx to a base os of that flavor. Might be > worth a look. > > > -- 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/32c47c25-3901-441c-8a85-9b62b5f7544fn%40googlegroups.com.
