Thank you. I will give it a try today... On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 5:49:19 AM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote:
> There are a couple of ways you can disable generation of gauge-data.txt > by the SteelSeries skin, but the simplest is to edit the SteelSeries skin > skin config file (/etc/weewx/skins/ss/skin.conf) and comment out the > highlighted lines under [CheetahGenerator]: > > [CheetahGenerator] > encoding = html_entities > [[ToDate]] > [[[index]]] > template = index.html.tmpl > # [[[data]]] > # template = gauge-data.txt.tmpl > > Save the file (no need to restart WeeWX) and the SteelSeries skin will no > longer generate gauge-data.txt. The only downside of this approach is if > you ever re-install or update the SteelSeries skin you will need to revisit > the skin config file and disable the gauge-data.txt generation. > > Gary > On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 12:16:41 UTC+10 Marty b wrote: > >> Thank you. I will make sure I have the realtime gauge-data extension >> installed and enabled. >> >> How do I disable the generation of the gauge-data.txt by the SteelSeries >> skin? >> >> Marty >> >> On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 6:56:03 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote: >> >>> Thanks. The logs indicate that you have the SteelSeries skin >>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/steelseries> installed and the >>> Realtime >>> gauge-data extension >>> <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-realtime_gauge-data>, if installed, is >>> not enabled. The SteelSeries skin generates gauge-data.txt during the >>> report cycle at the end of every archive period, in your case every five >>> minutes. The wiki you are referring to is for the Realtime gauge-data >>> extension which can generate gauge-data.txt on receipt of each loop packet, >>> in your case every 2.5 odd seconds. The setting for the Realtime gauge-data >>> extension have no effect on the SteelSeries skin. >>> >>> If you want gauge-data.txt to be generated on every loop packet then you >>> need to install (or enable if already installed) the Realtime gauge-data >>> extension. Note you will then. need to disable generation of gauge-data.txt >>> by the SteelSeries skin or you will have the skin and the extension both >>> generating gauge-data.txt. This would be bad. >>> >>> Gary >>> >>> On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 10:40:54 UTC+10 Marty b wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the response. The logs are attached.... >>>> >>>> Marty >>>> >>>> On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 4:22:58 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> There are two means of having WeeWX generate gauge-data.txt; one is >>>>> via the SteelSeries skin and the other is via the real-time gauge data >>>>> extension. The former generates gauge-data.txt no quicker than every >>>>> archive interval the latter up to every ‘loop interval’. It sounds like >>>>> you >>>>> may be using the former. It would help to know what you have installed >>>>> and >>>>> enabled. Could you please set debug = 1 in weewx.conf and then restart >>>>> WeeWX. Let WeeWX run for at least two archive intervals and then post >>>>> the >>>>> log showing the full WeeWX startup through until the two archive >>>>> intervals >>>>> have passed.nThat will tell us exactly what your install is doing. >>>>> >>>>> Gary >>>>> On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 08:03:42 UTC+10 Marty b wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am trying to figure out how to get gauge-data.txt to update each >>>>>> time a loop packet is received. Currently it only updates at the same >>>>>> interval as the rest of the weewx files (~every 10 minutes). I looked >>>>>> at >>>>>> the wiki page for extension, but the section for ' Changing how >>>>>> often *gauge-data.txt* is generated' says ' To be written.' >>>>>> >>>>>> Any help would be appreciated. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>> -- 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/0a7658c0-9ef5-475d-bad0-6b29b6406c09n%40googlegroups.com.
