One other note: you can see the value for altitude used by the hardware by using the --info option:
wee_device --info Make sure you stop weewxd before using wee_device. On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 6:15 PM Tom Keffer <tkef...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the Vantage stations, weewx gets the elevation from the hardware. The > value in weewx.conf is ignored. > > To set the value in the hardware, either consult your manual, or use the > wee_device > utility with the --set-altitude option > <http://www.weewx.com/docs/hardware.htm#vantage_notes>. > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 5:40 PM F Y <foman...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've done fresh installs on multiple systems and they all report the same >> zero elevation. Correct elevation is put in during the installation >> scripts per each OS. I could run the debug logs for each one but seems a >> lot of data to parse out what should be a simple solution somewhere. I'm >> pretty certain that the correct conf file is being edited, because other >> changes are updated correctly (after init.d stop/start). I don't know what >> "docker" is so I don't know if Im running it or not. >> >> On Sunday, September 4, 2022 at 6:08:49 PM UTC-6 vince wrote: >> >>> As always, we'd need to see your logs with debug=1 and after you reset >>> weewx. >>> >>> Is it possible that you edited a different weewx.conf than the one that >>> is actually running ? Are you running under Docker perhaps ? >>> On Sunday, September 4, 2022 at 3:56:31 PM UTC-7 foma...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Weewx installed and running on Rpi4 using Vantage Pro2 station and >>>> Envoy with USB data logger. The HTML web report generated ALWAYS reports >>>> station elevation as zero, regardless of entry in weewx.conf. This then >>>> causes an incorrect reading for the barometer which is then outside the >>>> range set in weewx.conf thus causing error reports in the log. I can >>>> change the range for the barometer to alieviate the log errors but still >>>> the elevation is reported as 0. I have changed the conf file multiple >>>> times with different numbers, foot or meter, nothing seems to matter. Web >>>> report is always reporting zero elevation. Elevation is correctly set and >>>> reported in the Vantage console. Also note, I have had this running on >>>> multiple operating systems including MAC, Linux Ubuntu and Raspberry...all >>>> web reports report station elevation as zero. >>>> >>>> How should I go about resolving this issue? Thanks in advance. >>>> >>> -- >> 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/873dec6d-7b2f-4dc2-9af1-9e5d8016d13en%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/873dec6d-7b2f-4dc2-9af1-9e5d8016d13en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/CAPq0zEAzgUib5LBkDu9bWHJTqWqRZLGGccxppcx3Cs5cu3fOYA%40mail.gmail.com.
