Re: [weewx-user] Celestial information is wrong

2023-07-09 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Longitude for Denver should be about -104.Regards,Garry A. LockyerC: +1.250.689.0686E: garryalock...@gmail.comOn Jul 9, 2023, at 14:27, joe...@gmail.com wrote:Hello,My celestial info is telling me sunrise is at 8:30am and sunset is at 11:30pm. I am in the Mountain time zone, Denver, CO to be

Re: [weewx-user] Retrieve weather station location from a GPS

2021-04-21 Thread Garry A Lockyer
the driver to parse NMEA sentences and write to the variable Tom K mentioned. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Apr 21, 2021, at 19:07, Tom Keffer wrote: > >  > The latitude and longitude are first read from weewx.conf, but then they are > held

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Can't get ftp working after reinstall

2021-04-15 Thread Garry A Lockyer
With apologies if you have already done this but I would use the Linux/Raspberry Pi OS FTP utility (sudo apt update / sudo apt install ftp if ftp is not already installed) to get ftp working outside WeeWX and then edit weewx.conf based on what I learned (outside WeeWX). Regards, Garry Lockyer

Re: [weewx-user] PM2 - Process Manager 2 and WeeWX

2021-04-02 Thread Garry A Lockyer
You of course are correct! Adding a USB dongle would also mean adding a USB hub so a nice “small box with only Davis console connection” becomes more grand. Not impossible but not something I want to do. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Apr 2, 2021, at

Re: [weewx-user] PM2 - Process Manager 2 and WeeWX

2021-03-28 Thread Garry A Lockyer
is Raspberry Pi OS “wlan0 carrier lost problem” (see https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=233847 for a conversation). Even if I fix each problem as they arise, I’d like to have a “belts & suspenders” backup solution. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockye

Re: [weewx-user] Which Raspberry Pi to use? Will more memory help at all?

2021-03-09 Thread Garry A Lockyer
set the archive period of the Tempest systems to at least 120 seconds to allow all per archive processing to complete in one period. Bottom Line: I wouldn’t hesitate to use WeeWX on a Pi Zero W for a stand-alone weather station. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockye

Re: [weewx-user] Weatherflow Tempest station

2021-02-10 Thread Garry A Lockyer
I’m running a Tempest on WeeWX (with the Belchertown skin). You merely need to edit the sensor map to specify the serial number of the Tempest. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Feb 10, 2021, at 08:22, Mike Paulin wrote: > >  > Good mor

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-22 Thread Garry A Lockyer
be periodically regenerated. I intend to implement the workaround in my WeeWX extension such that a user does not have to worry about about the technicalities but that code isn’t written yet. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 22, 2021, at 17:14, Timothy L wr

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-22 Thread Garry A Lockyer
perhaps a warning that memory usage can increase if the hooks are used without the workaround (until the Cheetah generator is fixed). Thanks for your time, attention and the Belchertown skin! Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 22, 2021, at 12:00, Pat wr

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-20 Thread Garry A Lockyer
should be a way to inject the ‘raw’ argument without having to edit ‘index.html.tmpl’. That is, my code would generate both the outer and inner include files each cycle, with the outer include file containing the ‘raw’ argument as you suggest. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-20 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Very clever! Thanks!! I’ll give it a try in a few hours. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 20, 2021, at 06:24, bell...@gmail.com wrote: > > Note, it is growing - just much slower. > >> On Wednesday, 20 January 2021 at 09:13:35 UTC-5

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-19 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Many thanks to all for poking at this! Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 19, 2021, at 19:38, vince wrote: > > Just a followup - I took belchertown out of the picture and used my minimal > demo-skin and added 'one line' that #include(d) a fi

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-19 Thread Garry A Lockyer
it or not. I can live with modifying ‘index.html.tmpl’ but hope the underlying problem gets fixed. I’ve entered as ‘issue’ against Belchertown so that its author is aware, can possibly provide a workaround in his code and/or “escalate” the issue to the Cheetah folks. Regards, Garry Lockyer C

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-19 Thread Garry A Lockyer
. Regards and thanks again, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 19, 2021, at 13:15, vince wrote: > > I'm thinking it's actually working as designed if you assume Pat intended > that cheetah directives should be parsed within a .inc(luded) file. You j

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-17 Thread Garry A Lockyer
So you are seeing what I am - the leak is evident when belchertown is enabled *and* the .inc file is regenerated, yes? Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 17, 2021, at 16:06, vince wrote: > > garry - I installed your thing and did not see

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-17 Thread Garry A Lockyer
within WeeWX and Belchertown. At this time, I’d bet that the memory problem will still exist because about 2 hours ago I disabled Belchertown. The only change I made was setting ‘enable’ to false. Memory usage is flat! Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-16 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Thanks, will do but later today. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 16, 2021, at 11:09, bell...@gmail.com wrote: > >  > Garry, > If you want me to run something, just make it available and give me some > instructions. > rich >&

Re: [weewx-user] Question on Weewx, Vantage Vue, and CWOP

2021-01-10 Thread Garry A Lockyer
All that will get you is an average of crap altitude!  Any agreement between GPS altitude and true elevation is merely a coincidence. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 10, 2021, at 18:33, Brent Dowell wrote: > > Yeah, The first time I got the

Re: [weewx-user] Question on Weewx, Vantage Vue, and CWOP

2021-01-10 Thread Garry A Lockyer
And this document explains why GPS altitude sucks (to be polite!): http://www.montereysar.org/SARMembersDocs/UsingaGarminGPSwithPaperLandMaps_Manual.pdf Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 10, 2021, at 18:05, Brent Dowell wrote: > >  >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-09 Thread Garry A Lockyer
only a couple of days. Thanks for all your help! Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 9, 2021, at 19:11, vince wrote: > > If your memory usage is stable, is there a problem ? > It's pretty typical after a weewx startup for the usage to go up a bit t

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-09 Thread Garry A Lockyer
appreciate you looking into my problem. I’m actively working on a skin-independent service to read many RSS/Atom feeds and will utilize your suggestions above. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 9, 2021, at 12:39, bell...@gmail.com wrote: >  > G

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2021-01-07 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Yup! Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jan 7, 2021, at 11:07, vince wrote: > > Are you closing the file every time after you write it ? > >> On Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 10:00:40 AM UTC-8 garrya...@gmail.com wrote: >> After many

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2020-12-31 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Got MemoryError after about 9 hours after restart. Have removed cmon by commenting out any mention of cmon in weewx.conf and restarted. Regards, Garry Lockyer Former DEC Product Support Engineer :^) Kepner-Tregoe Trained :^)) C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Dec 31, 2020, at 11

Re: [weewx-user] Re: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** MemoryError

2020-12-31 Thread Garry A Lockyer
(for testing) are enabled index.html is about 1.8MB, so perhaps that’s causing the problem. I can easily reduce / eliminate endpoints and prefer to do that before eliminating the Belchertown skin. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Dec 31, 2020, at 11:17, Tom Kef

Re: [weewx-user] Does NOAA use NAVD88 or GPS (Ellipsoid referenced) Height for AS Determination?

2020-12-24 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Altimeter settings (aka QNH) are referenced to mean sea level. It has nothing to do with GPS altitude. If a properly set and calibrated barometric altimeter agrees with a GPS it is just a coincidence, some might say a rare coincidence. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga

Re: [weewx-user] Syntax - install.py

2020-12-03 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Thanks! That is what I’m doing. :^)) Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Dec 3, 2020, at 07:37, Tom Keffer wrote: > >  > Unfortunately, no. You'll have to follow the examples of the existing > installers. > >> On Thu, Dec 3

Re: [weewx-user] Weatherlink IP replacement

2020-11-17 Thread Garry A Lockyer
I use: WeatherLink® USB Data Logger (#6510USB) Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Nov 17, 2020, at 21:13, Robin Hunt wrote: > > Hi > > I used to use the Davis WeatherLink IP ethernet data logger which has broken. > > I tried to bu

Re: [weewx-user] MQTT Connects/Disconnects every loop (?)

2020-10-29 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Ah! Sorry! There are settings for Mosquitto logging. See https://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto-conf-5.html Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Oct 29, 2020, at 14:08, 'Andy Hudson-Smith' via weewx-user > wrote: > >  > Its not

Re: [weewx-user] NWS 2.5KM gridded forecast json file

2020-09-19 Thread Garry A Lockyer
I have not forgotton Ernest or others that may be interested in my Belchertown Wx Feeds extension. I have the main bits of the NWS forecast code done! Hope to release via GitHub this week. If you really, really want the extension earlier, let me know by private email. Regards, Garry Lockyer

Re: [weewx-user] NWS 2.5KM gridded forecast json file

2020-09-12 Thread Garry A Lockyer
the forecast source mentioned in the string. I can make the current code available to anyone interest later today. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Sep 12, 2020, at 10:56, Ernest Jillson wrote: > >  > Thanks, John! I will definitely take a look and

Re: [weewx-user] Upload seasons report to FTP only

2020-08-22 Thread Garry A Lockyer
.” Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Aug 22, 2020, at 08:43, p q wrote: > >  > I don't have an answer for you, but I've been running Weewx on raspi for 4 > years without a problem with an SD card. I know there are others who have > been r

Re: [weewx-user] Turning off logging for the database service?

2020-08-06 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Look at the new logging feature in weewx. You can tailor logging for each weewx component in weewx.conf. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Aug 6, 2020, at 07:33, Leo Meyer wrote: > >  > This is for weewx 4.1.1 on a freshly installed Raspberry

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Installation/configuration issues (WeeWx on a Raspberry Pi4)

2020-06-20 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Did you get webpages with the Simulator? Any errors in says log? Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jun 20, 2020, at 13:40, Stuart Beaumont wrote: > > Thanks Garry > > I followed those steps with no joy. Then uninstalled and reinstalled.

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Installation/configuration issues (WeeWx on a Raspberry Pi4)

2020-06-19 Thread Garry A Lockyer
I think you should post your weewx.conf, without any passwords. It should provide the information needed to assist you. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jun 19, 2020, at 12:38, Stuart Beaumont wrote: > >  > I've made some good progress here.

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown MQTT

2020-06-15 Thread Garry A Lockyer
Try setting websockets topic to frogs/loop. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 H: +1.250.495.5343 E: Garry.Lockyer.ca >> On Jun 15, 2020, at 09:39, Ken Walker wrote: > OK, now I get it. Thanks Garry and Pat. > > Almost there. > > I have added the MQTT ext

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown MQTT

2020-06-14 Thread Garry A Lockyer
publisher somewhere. I can’t explain the “lost connection “ message. If I turn off MQTT publishing, I get a “Failed connecting...” message after a minute or so. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca >> On Jun 14, 2020, at 19:40, Ken Walker wrote: > Thanks. I d

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown MQTT

2020-06-14 Thread Garry A Lockyer
The websockets port probably should be 9001. 1883 is usually the MQTT broker. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On Jun 14, 2020, at 16:43, Ken Walker wrote: > >  > I'm getting my data from an internal MQTT server using the wxMesh driver and >

Re: [weewx-user] Installing multiple weewx instances with weewx 4

2020-05-14 Thread Garry A Lockyer
. But it just occurred to me that I could run a second Vantage! I’ll try that tomorrow and get back to you. Regards, Garry Lockyer C: +1.250.689.0686 E: ga...@lockyer.ca > On May 14, 2020, at 20:25, Gert Andersen wrote: > >  > Hi > > I would like to know if there are