I figured the info was coming from the station, not the conf file. Checking with wee_device --info confirmed a zero altitude. Unusual since the Vantage Console reports the correct altitude. Anyway, after running the set_altitude option everything is as it should be!
Many Thanks to tkeffer! Situation resolved! On Sunday, September 4, 2022 at 7:17:29 PM UTC-6 tke...@gmail.com wrote: > 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 <tke...@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 <foma...@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+...@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/1176d462-38f7-45d3-ace0-20f324474e37n%40googlegroups.com.
