Re: [weewx-user] Getting pyephem to generate more extensive values in the Celestial module

2021-08-10 Thread D R
Tom K. Do not spend more time on this, I just did a power down and restarted Debian and then went through start up with weewxd and it now works. I know that Linux is supposed to be vastly different from Windows and 'reboots' not usually needed, but it wasn't working before the restart but

Re: [weewx-user] Getting pyephem to generate more extensive values in the Celestial module

2021-08-10 Thread D R
I stopped weewx, and got : pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/weewx stop [ ok ] Stopping weewx (via systemctl): weewx.service. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog Aug 10 21:41:02 raspberrypi weewx[577] DEBUG __main__: File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 208, in

Re: [weewx-user] Re: recommend IP cameras that are easy to grab a single frame from?

2021-08-10 Thread Eric Koester
Interesting. Is that to prevent all of the webpage content from being written and re-written to the microSD card? Seems like a good idea. On Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 9:25 PM Graham Eddy wrote: > i mount a ramdisk on /home/weewx/public_html > > On 11 Aug 2021, at 10:26 am, Eric K wrote: > > I just

Re: [weewx-user] Re: recommend IP cameras that are easy to grab a single frame from?

2021-08-10 Thread Graham Eddy
i mount a ramdisk on /home/weewx/public_html > On 11 Aug 2021, at 10:26 am, Eric K wrote: > > I just tried making a symlink to the /tmp/ramdisk directory, inside the > public_html directory, and that worked. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [weewx-user] Getting pyephem to generate more extensive values in the Celestial module

2021-08-10 Thread Tom Keffer
There are two common reasons why this happens. The diagnosis would have been easier if you had included the log, but no matter. First, what kind of install did you do? If setup.py, be sure not to run the pip3 command from the weewx directory. It will see the setup.cfg file and try to install

[weewx-user] Re: Getting pyephem to generate more extensive values in the Celestial module

2021-08-10 Thread vince
On my raspi I did 'apt-get install python3-ephem' which did install something. # dpkg -l python3-ephem Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name

[weewx-user] Getting pyephem to generate more extensive values in the Celestial module

2021-08-10 Thread D R
I've started a new install with a RaspPi4, 64 Gig memory, latest Debian install, with updates, then latest WeeWx, selected the emulator to get some reports, then when working went through the install of pyephem, since when I expanded the Celestial .inc it told me for more info I needed that. I

Re: [weewx-user] Re: recommend IP cameras that are easy to grab a single frame from?

2021-08-10 Thread Eric K
I just tried making a symlink to the /tmp/ramdisk directory, inside the public_html directory, and that worked. pi@pi3:/home/weewx $ ln -s /tmp/ramdisk /home/weewx/public_html/ramdisk NOW the web server is able to pull the image from the ramdisk.

Re: [weewx-user] Re: recommend IP cameras that are easy to grab a single frame from?

2021-08-10 Thread Eric K
I changed my scripts to put the pictures into a ramdisk. But, the web server can't find them in the ramdisk. First I tried this - web server didn't find it: I searched for

Re: [weewx-user] Re: recommend IP cameras that are easy to grab a single frame from?

2021-08-10 Thread Eric K
I like the idea of writing to the RAM disk, to avoid multiple rewrites the micro SD card. I didn't know it was an option. This is all there is to it? https://www.linuxbabe.com/command-line/create-ramdisk-linux Looks easy! On Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 3:47:36 PM UTC-5 vince wrote: > I use a

[weewx-user] Re: Add parameter to NOAA

2021-08-10 Thread vince
On Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 11:38:01 AM UTC-7 PeterGill wrote: > I have successfully added an additional parameter, Watertemp, to my Weewx > installation and managed to modify the Seasons skin to include it in the > right way. So far so good. My question is how to modify the yearly and >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: recommend IP cameras that are easy to grab a single frame from?

2021-08-10 Thread vince
I use a cheapo USB cam on a pi and save a still periodically using 'motion' as the software on the pi. I write the file to ramdisk to avoid the SD card file write issue and grab the still via cron from my weewx system. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[weewx-user] Re: AcuRite 06045M lightning detector shows constant 12 miles distance when no detected lightning

2021-08-10 Thread Gene LeSage
Initially I thought Rich's solution was going to work, adding his suggested correction 0 else None> eliminated my fixed lightning_distance data in the absence of lightning_counts, but it created a new problem, now I don't get lightning_distance values with a lightning strike. I triggered

[weewx-user] Add parameter to NOAA

2021-08-10 Thread PeterGill
Dear all, hopefully somebody could help with this potential newbie question: I have successfully added an additional parameter, Watertemp, to my Weewx installation and managed to modify the Seasons skin to include it in the right way. So far so good. My question is how to modify the yearly and

Re: [weewx-user] Re: recommend IP cameras that are easy to grab a single frame from?

2021-08-10 Thread Marty b
I use the Ubiquiti Cameras which are PoE and they work quite well. (Snapshot example URL: http://192.168.1.95/snap.jpeg) I have a process on a Raspberry Pi that will grab an image every minute and saves it to /dev/shm (the ram disk - which saves wear and tear on the SD card). The image can be

Re: [weewx-user] pywws data import

2021-08-10 Thread Mark Fraser
On 09/08/2021 12:45, Konrad Skeri Ekblad wrote: I have 6 years of weather data from pywws. Is there a way to import this to weewx? Konrad I did look at doing this myself, think you have to use wee_import https://www.weewx.com/docs/utilities.htm#wee_import_utility -- You received this

[weewx-user] Re: AcuRite 06045M lightning detector shows constant 12 miles distance when no detected lightning

2021-08-10 Thread bell...@gmail.com
I'm no python expert (probably know just enough to be dangerous), but something like this might get you want you want. # ligtning_strike_count must exist and have a count > 0 for lightning_distance to have a valid value lightning_distance = lightning_distance if 'lightning_strike_count'in

Re: [weewx-user] Problem with GW1000 driver

2021-08-10 Thread William Borrelli
My god I appreciate all the work that goes into these applications. Without them I would not be able to do what I am doing with them. It's just that sometimes something like this can get very frustrating. Apparently getting the logging levels in the system is not as simple as just bumping the

[weewx-user] Re: AcuRite 06045M lightning detector shows constant 12 miles distance when no detected lightning

2021-08-10 Thread gjr80
On Tuesday, 10 August 2021 at 08:37:42 UTC+10 gle...@gmail.com wrote: > Here is my output running weewxd directly, I see three lines which show > lightning_distance to be None, which is expected from corrections, but the > following three lines show lightning_distance to be 11.999... It