Re: [weewx-user] rsync not sending to remote web site after upgrade

2024-05-24 Thread Graham Eddy
run the command as user weewx on the weewx box, i hasten to clarify ⊣GE⊢ > On 24 May 2024, at 10:39 PM, Graham Eddy wrote: > > on source box running weewx, run $ ssh websvr hostname (where websvr is rsync > target host) -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: [weewx-user] rsync not sending to remote web site after upgrade

2024-05-24 Thread Graham Eddy
verify that ssh passwordless login is actually working: on source box running weewx, run $ ssh websvr hostname (where websvr is rsync target host) and you should see it print websvr’s hostname but it might prompt you interactively to update known_hosts, if they are new keys... ⊣GE⊢ > On 24 May

Re: [weewx-user] Error Reading GW1100

2024-05-11 Thread Graham Eddy
this says weewx box is broadcasting query for any gw1000 devices to respond with their MAC address but no answer → make sure weewx box and gw1000 device on same lan ⊣GE⊢ > On 11 May 2024, at 8:10 PM, Mitchell Tuckness wrote: > > May 10 08:23:17 weewx-pi weewx[1657] ERROR user.gw1000: Failed

Re: [weewx-user] Upgraded to V5 - will not run automaticly

2024-05-08 Thread Graham Eddy
ltiple > processes that you can ssh into isn't a container, it's a virtual machine. > > On Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 4:42:00 AM UTC-7 Graham Eddy wrote: >> i suggest testing before publishing.. >> that won’t work without the permissions towards end of my lxc/105.conf file >>

Re: [weewx-user] Upgraded to V5 - will not run automaticly

2024-05-08 Thread Graham Eddy
i suggest testing before publishing.. that won’t work without the permissions towards end of my lxc/105.conf file ⊣GE⊢ > On 8 May 2024, at 9:25 PM, G7LTT wrote: > > Updated to add USB device to the container. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [weewx-user] Upgraded to V5 - will not run automaticly

2024-05-07 Thread Graham Eddy
1157485956 Swap: 7807 5167291 graham@ballina:~$ uptime 14:04:35 up 78 days, 14:26, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.10 cheers ⊣GE⊢ > On 8 May 2024, at 1:30 PM, Graham Eddy wrote: > > as the doc hinted, putting proxmox itself a

Re: [weewx-user] Upgraded to V5 - will not run automaticly

2024-05-07 Thread Graham Eddy
as the doc hinted, putting proxmox itself aside, install/run weewx in LXC unprivileged container is the same as running it outside a container, with the benefit of it not being able to trample on rest of host the tricky parts are where the container walls are visible, the two principal cases

Re: [weewx-user] Replacement for Vantage Pro 2

2024-04-22 Thread Graham Eddy
i replaced my then-18yo cracked & peeling solar panel with a nice new one - just required plugging panel’s lead into ISS ⊣GE⊢ > On 23 Apr 2024, at 2:00 AM, vince wrote: > > perhaps a solar panel ($55) will handle the data problems, but I'd suggest > doing just the battery first to see. --

Re: [weewx-user] Launching Weewx

2024-04-12 Thread Graham Eddy
i interpreted the suggestion as making it the default that logging is turned on. this is self-correcting: when the user has learnt enough to turn logging off, they can. place the instruction how in the documentation that they should have read but did not (or did not understand at the time). i

Re: [weewx-user] Setting up rtldavis - where to get?

2024-03-24 Thread Graham Eddy
this sounds great. for the record, eliminating the davis console and its need for a serial/usb port also eliminates what it provides: various indoor sensors (including barometer i think) and -crucially- the hardware data logger ⊣GE⊢ > On 25 Mar 2024, at 3:46 AM, vince wrote: > > Short answer

Re: [weewx-user] MQTTSubscribe and paho mqtt heads up

2024-03-15 Thread Graham Eddy
i wrapped paho mqtt a few years ago, but not implementing whole interface. i wote a bunch of apps on top of my wrapper, one being my own weewx mqtt service/driver, other apps are various mqtt producers and consumers thanks for the heads-up on the mqtt interface change. it prompted me to polish

Re: [weewx-user] [StdCalibrate][[Corrections]] check if obs_type is present

2024-03-08 Thread Graham Eddy
oops, python syntax would be: expr if ops_tye in globals() else None ⊣GE⊢ > On 9 Mar 2024, at 10:31 am, Graham Eddy wrote: > > i think ' if obs_type in globals() then expr else None ' would work > ⊣GE⊢ > >> On 9 Mar 2024, at 9:13 am, 'michael.k...@gmx.at' via weewx-user

Re: [weewx-user] [StdCalibrate][[Corrections]] check if obs_type is present

2024-03-08 Thread Graham Eddy
i think ' if obs_type in globals() then expr else None ' would work ⊣GE⊢ > On 9 Mar 2024, at 9:13 am, 'michael.k...@gmx.at' via weewx-user > wrote: > > I think I remember that this has been asked before, how to check with an > expression in Corrections, if an obs_type is present? > > -- >

Re: [weewx-user] Raddy L7 Weather Station: XML of Current Conditions-How to Feed WeeWx?

2024-03-06 Thread Graham Eddy
Jsonpath is good for plucking specific values on the subscribe/inward side, but it doesn’t help with the publish/outward side (or at least i couldn’t think of one). i am still using the eval(expr, weewx-packet or json-message) approach in my mqtt implementation ⊣GE⊢ > On 7 Mar 2024, at 11:05 

Re: [weewx-user] Upgrade to 5.0 from 4.10 the Graphs are not being created

2024-03-05 Thread Graham Eddy
your archive interval is set to 10 mins, and the log is truncated just where it started getting interesting. collect log data for two complete cycles at least, in your case 20 mins ⊣GE⊢ > On 5 Mar 2024, at 8:03 pm, Francis Greaves wrote: > > Thanks Tom for the suggestions. > I upgraded to

Re: [weewx-user] leap year and span

2024-03-01 Thread Graham Eddy
“month” is a fuzzy measure, not precise. it is not surprising that arithmetic with fuzzy numbers produces fuzzy numbers. what *is* surprising is that people find the above surprising same as network distributed time - given the variable time it takes to transfer a “time” to another place, we

Re: [weewx-user] Two of Same/Similar Model AcuRite 5n1 on Single Host - Station Identification Conflict?

2024-02-24 Thread Graham Eddy
i tried proxmox on RPi 4 briefly but it was too unstable for a reliable weather station - proxmox (pimox) is not supported on RPi and known to have problems and limitations (don’t get me started on overlay driver!) proxmox 8 runs extremely well on bookworm on my mac mini. i pass through a

Re: [weewx-user] unable to save to file '/var/www/html/weewx/...

2024-02-10 Thread Graham Eddy
why are you writing into files outside weewx’s area? weewx user is unlikely to have perms to do that ⊣GE⊢ > On 11 Feb 2024, at 1:59 am, Ton Karsten wrote: > > feb 10 15:10:15 raspberrypi weewxd[4548]: ERROR weewx.reportengine: > File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 258,

Re: [weewx-user] Another Davis Vantage unable to start concern

2024-02-05 Thread Graham Eddy
vantage device is on LAN. wireless interface normally not ready until long after weewx tries to start, unusual (but not impossible) for ethernet interface to be so late. try the ‘loop-on-init = 1’ in weewx.conf, or insert a delay in the startup file ⊣GE⊢ > On 6 Feb 2024, at 8:08 am, Neil B

Re: [weewx-user] StdCalibrate math question

2024-01-21 Thread Graham Eddy
it is worth noting and perhaps documenting that python builtin functions can be used in StdCalibrate expressions ⊣GE⊢ > On 22 Jan 2024, at 4:19 am, Tom Keffer wrote: > > Yes, of course. Just substitute "**" for "^" so it's a Python expression. Or, > use the math function pow(). > > On Sun,

Re: [weewx-user] I'm desperate to fix my NOAA reports. Can I please pay someone to help fix my database and recover this data?

2024-01-18 Thread Graham Eddy
i found putting the db into a RAM disk for the duration helps in these situations (i had to do that for a weewx migration some time ago) ⊣GE⊢ > On 19 Jan 2024, at 3:36 pm, 'michael.k...@gmx.at' via weewx-user > wrote: > > Or, to speed things up, do the "calc-missing" on another machine with a

Re: [weewx-user] Database Error Message

2024-01-17 Thread Graham Eddy
maybe a bit short? ⊣GE⊢ > On 18 Jan 2024, at 11:55 am, Michael Sanphillipo > wrote: > > archive_interval = 120 -- 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

[weewx-user] Re: V5.0.0 available

2024-01-16 Thread Graham Eddy
many plaudits to tom, matt and gary for V5, navigating the shifting decks of python and linux while preserving the long stability of weewx for another milestone release. the software engineers amongst us understand and appreciate the difficulty, attention to detail and sheer volume of work -

Re: [weewx-user] using 'weectl database' → error "No module named 'user'"

2024-01-08 Thread Graham Eddy
reasonable questions: yes to both, the ‘(venv)’ in the prompt is the clue to the first. i showed content of ~weewx/bin because i was asked for it; i knew it did not exist, and what was really being asked was for ~weewx/{venv}/bin and ~weewx/{station}/bin, so i showed those as well actually

Re: [weewx-user] using 'weectl database' → error "No module named 'user'"

2024-01-08 Thread Graham Eddy
; > Also, what is in /home/weewx/bin? > > I'm reluctant to put too much energy in debugging b16, because a lot of how > WEEWX_ROOT is handled has changed since then. If you're still having > problems, upgrade to the current rc3. > > -tk > > On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 4:31 AM

[weewx-user] using 'weectl database' → error "No module named 'user'"

2024-01-08 Thread Graham Eddy
running weewx 5.0.0b16 in production quite happily for weeks - it works fine. i needed to delete a bad barometer reading from station called ‘vantage’, so i stopped unit weewx@vantage, set the value to None, then tried to rebuild the daily database → following error: (venv) weewx@wx:~$ weectl

Re: [weewx-user] Localization,cn--->zh_cn

2024-01-05 Thread Graham Eddy
maybe check the font_path in skins.conf, ensure the image generator fonts include the simplified chinese symbols ⊣GE⊢ > On 6 Jan 2024, at 2:21 pm, Kranz Liang wrote: > > I have translated the language files in weewx, converting Traditional Chinese > into Simplified Chinese and also adjusted

Re: [weewx-user] Pipe errors etc

2023-12-04 Thread Graham Eddy
the vantage IP device seems to accept a connection, work for a while, then stop responding, then connection is reset → sounds like on device side it seizes up and the ip protocol times out; establishing new connection just repeats the cycle. the device apparently has been working for years and

Re: [weewx-user] Unrecoverable error "no such table: forecast_day_wind"

2023-11-16 Thread Graham Eddy
suggestions: (1) maybe the weekly graph is only being calculated in your 0-5 daily hour interval → really failing all the time. try hourly or daily graph to verify it works during those & other hours (2) maybe another deeper exception is happening which happens to be percolated up as sqlError

[weewx-user] Re: Ultrasonic vs Microwave vs Immersion sensors for stream height.

2023-11-10 Thread Graham Eddy
microwave: i have the wide beam aligned up/downstream to mitigate its width. my readings are always larger, not smaller, than they should be. successive readings that should be nearly identical can be more than 20% different, and i notice a general daily oscillation of about 50% but i could not

Re: [weewx-user] Storm Rain or Pluviograph function?

2023-11-10 Thread Graham Eddy
river level sensors: * my dragino lorawan ultrasonic sensor has been fine, though it has condensation problems (to be fair, it is mounted under a bridge a couple metres above normal river level) * my dragino lorawan microwave radar has been a failure. i get neither accurate nor consistent

Re: [weewx-user] Replacement humidity sensor

2023-11-08 Thread Graham Eddy
just looking at the intention of the code without having read the thread [always dangerous!] i cannot quote the original python text here because unfortunately it was reported using a screenshot [please don’t do that] but note that if extraHumid1 is undefined (not present in packet, as opposed

Re: [weewx-user] The People's Pluviograph!

2023-11-06 Thread Graham Eddy
i posted details of my implementation of lorawan river level sensors reporting via weewx on this forum about a year (or two?) ago. they are anxiously watched by community when we have severe rain events in the region (we flood fairly often - you learn to deal with weather extremes) ditto re

Re: [weewx-user] MQTTSubscribeDriver TLS

2023-11-04 Thread Graham Eddy
for the record, a reminder: conf syntax is driven by the [..[ ]..] sections, not by indent. putting ‘username’ after ‘[[tls]]’ means username is inside [[tls]] section, not in parent section (indenting irrelevant) ⊣GE⊢ > On 5 Nov 2023, at 2:34 am, Fjordey wrote: > > #2 That told me right there

Re: [weewx-user] mosquitto & SSL

2023-09-29 Thread Graham Eddy
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:41 PM Graham Eddy <mailto:g...@geddy.au>> wrote: >> try sudo journalctl -u mosquitto -n 50 to see the log messages (or sudo tail >> -50 /var/log/mosquitto/* if it puts them there instead) >> ⊣GE⊢ >> >>> On 29

Re: [weewx-user] mosquitto & SSL

2023-09-29 Thread Graham Eddy
try sudo journalctl -u mosquitto -n 50 to see the log messages (or sudo tail -50 /var/log/mosquitto/* if it puts them there instead) ⊣GE⊢ > On 29 Sep 2023, at 11:35 pm, Stefan Gliessmann > wrote: > > I am trying to get my weather station web presence secure with https:// > Therefore, I also

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx mqtt

2023-09-13 Thread Graham Eddy
an item timestamped 21:10:05 belongs to the reporting period after 21:10 - it doesn’t matter when the report is actually generated ⊣GE⊢ > On 14 Sep 2023, at 11:35 am, kufuu wrote: > > I reboot the pi zero-w and seen it didnt add the files to database till it > ran the second payload > > >

Re: [weewx-user] weewx V5 report not updating

2023-09-03 Thread Graham Eddy
perhaps it was generating all reports, as from a clean slate, and in future it could just be incremental and less of an issue ⊣GE⊢ > On 4 Sep 2023, at 12:10 pm, Greg from Oz wrote: > > I guess it was wdc: > Sep 3 00:21:24 moonbi weewx[1440347] INFO weewx.cheetahgenerator: Generated > 11

Re: [weewx-user] Is WeeWx 5.0 beta stable enough for non-experts to fool around with?

2023-08-31 Thread Graham Eddy
in V5 i am assuming a single station can be created but separate weewx.conf’s used, as in V4 weewx-multi config, with the downside that they share same extensions.py i.e. not utilising V5’s design change in my case, i want same codebase and python modules available to all weewx instances but

Re: [weewx-user] Is WeeWx 5.0 beta stable enough for non-experts to fool around with?

2023-08-31 Thread Graham Eddy
my experiments with multiple instances and topologies have been very smooth with pip install - that is quite elegant. i tried the documented github install and fell on my face, even after working out to select V5 to clone. i’m not github-savvy (but i look at the source code a lot) so ‘here be

Re: [weewx-user] comma in label in Seasons skin.conf causes failure

2023-08-30 Thread Graham Eddy
for the forum search record, you can do a lot of stuff (especially using services) within one instance of weewx. you only *must* use separate instances when you need multiple drivers, or services conflict with each other. you *may* separate instances for operational or scalability purposes ⊣GE⊢

Re: [weewx-user] Getting data from weewx

2023-08-26 Thread Graham Eddy
not quite what is being asked re ‘extract data for the last 5 minutes’… given weewx usually generates data reports each 5 mins, presumably you just want a file generated with the data you specifically want. i create a json file with basic wx info each 5 mins as a javascript-friendly api - it is

Re: [weewx-user] WeeWX v5 pip Install into venv

2023-08-24 Thread Graham Eddy
use ‘python3 -m venv ~/venv’ to create the environment in ~/venv. then in your shell run ’source ~/venv/bin/activate’ to set up the shell environment (initialised python bindary, PYTHONPATH etc). i put this in my ~/.bashrc a key trick is that running the initialised python binary

Re: [weewx-user] SolarEdge PV API

2023-08-15 Thread Graham Eddy
i have been polling a SolarEdge HDWave inverter for a few years. my inverter has the LED, so it is not the latest version, and doesn’t have direct API, so i use the API to the (yuck) vendor cloud API (and not happy about it). vendor API throttles to about 1 call/15 mins. i have a simple daemon

Re: [weewx-user] Installing weewx without root access

2023-08-09 Thread Graham Eddy
read up on python ‘virtual environment’ (venv) to get your libraries etc in place. running it while not logged in - best way depends upon your o/s (eg user mode of systemd) ⊣GE⊢ > On 10 Aug 2023, at 2:06 am, Matthew Fields wrote: > > Might seem like an odd request, but I'm trying to find some

Re: [weewx-user] Connecting to new Davis Console model 6313

2023-08-08 Thread Graham Eddy
swap vantage to ecowitt and you lose the data logger (stored in local hardware) → one day you lose critical data ecowitt already have a ‘regularly call home' to china built in that adds no value to customer, only a dependency on ecowitt company. if ecowitt turn off their ‘ok’ response,

Re: [weewx-user] Connecting to new Davis Console model 6313

2023-08-08 Thread Graham Eddy
have a look at LoRaWAN (and run your own Network Server, several are available to install). their whole point in open communications to sensors (mqtt). the price points are higher than Ecowitt, but nowhere near as expensive as Davis ⊣GE⊢ > On 9 Aug 2023, at 9:30 am, Greg from Oz wrote: > > It

Re: [weewx-user] Understanding Weewx new method of logging

2023-07-27 Thread Graham Eddy
see https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.config.html - weewx logging uses this yaml (translated into ini syntax). perhaps your best option is to set logging level at ‘error’, which is not verbose unless you really really need it ⊣GE⊢ > On 27 Jul 2023, at 11:08 pm, Tomasz Lewicki wrote: >

Re: [weewx-user] MQTT / Belchertown / Connected. Waiting for data.

2023-07-25 Thread Graham Eddy
ould mqtt_websockets_topic look like? e.g. = > weather/inTemp_degree_C/loop? > > TIA, > Stefan > > On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 9:45:40 AM UTC+2 Graham Eddy wrote: >> referenced topic not listed in the topics of published messages >> ⊣GE⊢ >&

Re: [weewx-user] MQTT / Belchertown / Connected. Waiting for data.

2023-07-25 Thread Graham Eddy
referenced topic not listed in the topics of published messages ⊣GE⊢ > On 25 Jul 2023, at 5:34 pm, Stefan Gliessmann > wrote: > > mqtt_websockets_topic = weather/loop -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe

Re: [weewx-user] MQTT / Belchertown / Connected. Waiting for data.

2023-07-24 Thread Graham Eddy
i meant ‘mosquito_sub -v -t “#" -h brokerhost’ on weewx host, plus authentication if any ⊣GE⊢ > On 25 Jul 2023, at 11:47 am, Graham Eddy wrote: > > try ‘mosquito_sub -v -t topic_pattern -h brokerhost’ to see what **is** being > published > ⊣GE⊢ > >> On 25 Jul 2

Re: [weewx-user] MQTT / Belchertown / Connected. Waiting for data.

2023-07-24 Thread Graham Eddy
try ‘mosquito_sub -v -t topic_pattern -h brokerhost’ to see what **is** being published ⊣GE⊢ > On 25 Jul 2023, at 5:08 am, vince wrote: > > I think you have a mismatch in what you are publishing vs. what you are > trying to subscribe to. -- You received this message because you are

Re: [weewx-user] GW1000 stopped working

2023-07-23 Thread Graham Eddy
windoze xp was my last - i bet it hasn’t improved since ⊣GE⊢ > On 24 Jul 2023, at 7:06 am, vince wrote: > > I can't speak to using Windows as I haven't needed to do so in well over two > years -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group.

Re: [weewx-user] wewwx new variables

2023-07-23 Thread Graham Eddy
values like rain - and, in my own case, energy created by solar panel inverter - need to be summed not averaged over the archive interval. the default accumulator for a data_type is averaging, so you need to specify your new data_type explicitly as summed - in my case, ‘’weewx.conf'' has:

Re: [weewx-user] GW1000 stopped working

2023-07-23 Thread Graham Eddy
> Laptop can ping PI > Pi cannot ping laptop > PI cannot ping 192.168.1.248 the GW1000 > > i can SSH into both PI's > > > > > > On Sunday, 23 July 2023 at 13:22:51 UTC+1 Graham Eddy wrote: >> laptop can ping gw1000. >> pi cannot ping gw1000. >&g

Re: [weewx-user] GW1000 stopped working

2023-07-23 Thread Graham Eddy
laptop can ping gw1000. pi cannot ping gw1000. can laptop ping pi? and pi ping laptop? ⊣GE⊢ > On 23 Jul 2023, at 9:56 pm, zasp...@gmail.com wrote: > > i have pinged other IP address on my net work and the PI gets response its > only the GW1000 its have an issue with > > On Sunday, 23 July

Re: [weewx-user] Rain cumulative total wrong total in graph

2023-06-24 Thread Graham Eddy
2023 at 15:03:26 UTC+10 Greg Reive wrote: >> What do you mean rain year date? >> >> >> On Sat, 24 June 2023, 14:50 Graham Eddy, > wrote: >>> rainyear date? >>> ⊣GE⊢ >>> >>>> On 24 Jun 2023, at 2:27 pm, Greg from Oz &g

Re: [weewx-user] Rain cumulative total wrong total in graph

2023-06-23 Thread Graham Eddy
rainyear date? ⊣GE⊢ > On 24 Jun 2023, at 2:27 pm, Greg from Oz wrote: > > I have made a graph to show the cumulative rainfall and it seems to show the > correct values on the graphs for day, week and month. They tally up with the > figures that weewx has calculated but the year total is way

Re: [weewx-user] StdQC question

2023-06-23 Thread Graham Eddy
someone could develop a ‘filter’ service that could hold state (either in memory or private database) of successive readings. conceptually an extension of StdQC ⊣GE⊢ > On 24 Jun 2023, at 6:22 am, gjr80 wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Unfortunately you are correct; StdQC does a simple check that an

Re: [weewx-user] Problemas para publicar mqtt

2023-06-21 Thread Graham Eddy
does this indicate the same MQTT service is being loaded twice? that might confuse the driver ⊣GE⊢ > On 22 Jun 2023, at 8:42 am, jose riaño wrote: > > Jun 21 17:33:19 raspberrypi weewx[6765]: engine: Loading service > user.mqtt.MQTT > Jun 21 17:33:19 raspberrypi weewx[6765]: restx: MQTT:

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx keeps restarting

2023-06-13 Thread Graham Eddy
assuming you rolled everything back, then rolled forward one step at a time until it started to fail, what was the last step causing it to fail? ⊣GE⊢ > On 14 Jun 2023, at 1:09 am, Mark Fraser wrote: > > I can't think of anything I've changed that would cause this -- You received this

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx keeps restarting

2023-06-11 Thread Graham Eddy
disable everythng back to bare bones, then add them back again one at a time ⊣GE⊢ > On 12 Jun 2023, at 12:22 am, Mark Fraser wrote: > > Any ideas how to debug this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: [weewx-user] gw1000 driver: minor logging bug?

2023-05-31 Thread Graham Eddy
-gw1000[807215] DEBUG user.gw1000: #GE before s.close May 31 20:46:41 ironbark weewx-gw1000[807215] DEBUG user.gw1000: Failed attempt 1 to send command 'CMD_GW1000_LIVEDATA': [Errno 113] No route to host cheers ⊣GE⊢ > On 28 May 2023, at 10:08 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > nope, adding s

Re: [weewx-user] gw1000 driver: minor logging bug?

2023-05-28 Thread Graham Eddy
nope, adding s.shutdown() call didn’t help, still timing out now i’ll try increasing [GW1000]socket_timeout to 59s to see if it blows even that long a period ⊣GE⊢ > On 28 May 2023, at 8:10 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > the greater detail shows it is timing out on the s.connect() ca

Re: [weewx-user] gw1000 driver: minor logging bug?

2023-05-28 Thread Graham Eddy
3/library/socket.html#socket.socket.shutdown> before close() <https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.close>. so i have experimentally inserted a s.shutdown() call just before the s.connect() call. we’ll see if it makes any difference... ⊣GE⊢ > On 28 May 2023, at 5:30 p

Re: [weewx-user] gw1000 driver: minor logging bug?

2023-05-28 Thread Graham Eddy
i should also have mentioned that this same weewx server also hosts another instance of weewx, using serial vantage driver, that is having no such problems ⊣GE⊢ > On 28 May 2023, at 5:28 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > v0.5.0b5 is in place and i continue to get timeouts and restarts. &

Re: [weewx-user] gw1000 driver: minor logging bug?

2023-05-28 Thread Graham Eddy
v0.5.0b5 is in place and i continue to get timeouts and restarts. (logging issue is resolved; i am preferring to continue in this thread for situational continuity e.g. logs are all relevant) in brief, at intermittent times (less than an hour apart to several days apart), i get three

Re: [weewx-user] gw1000 driver: minor logging bug?

2023-05-26 Thread Graham Eddy
May 2023, at 5:57 pm, gjr80 wrote: > > You might want to upgrade your driver, support for the GW2000 was introduced > in v0.5.0. > > Gary > > On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 16:29:03 UTC+10 Graham Eddy wrote: > May 26 15:33:31 ironbark weewx-gw1000[350663] INFO user.gw1000:

[weewx-user] gw1000 driver: minor logging bug?

2023-05-26 Thread Graham Eddy
for a couple of weeks i have been getting gw1000 driver rebooting after three no-responses. old gw1000 unit seems otherwise fine; tried different power source, tried rebooting everything occasionally; still failed, sometimes after few mins, sometimes 2 hours, 5 hours, sometimes a couple of

Re: [weewx-user] Problems with weewx on MacOS

2023-05-21 Thread Graham Eddy
tom did not say that 4.10.2 removed [Logging], he did ask you to remove that section temporarily, to get it to use default, in case your own content of that section was wrong. tom said that you were using a specific item (i think it was ‘rotate’) that was removed in 4.10.2 and thus causing your

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown MQTT not working

2023-05-08 Thread Graham Eddy
try subscribe (-v) to topic ‘#’ to examine all messages (in case topic mis-named) ⊣GE⊢ > On 9 May 2023, at 9:09 am, Kevin Crivelli wrote: > > So I am definitely getting records published from MQTT however I still have > the same problem where the local address is showing connected waiting for

Re: [weewx-user] VantageVue rain collector delay

2023-05-01 Thread Graham Eddy
; >>>> http://livefreeorpi.com <http://livefreeorpi.com/> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 1:27:57 PM UTC-4 Karen K wrote: >>>>> I remember such behavior when a spider let the remains of her meals drop >>>>> into the rain bucket. >

Re: [weewx-user] VantageVue rain collector delay

2023-04-29 Thread Graham Eddy
is the outlet from rain bucket partially blocked? ⊣GE⊢ > On 29 Apr 2023, at 11:48 pm, Steve C wrote: > > Important distinction! I meant to mention that. Yes, the software seems > perfectly fine. The console is reporting the 'slow drip' and WeeWX logs it > accordingly. Being a hardware issue I

Re: [weewx-user] Error in log. How to find what issue actually is?

2023-04-26 Thread Graham Eddy
looks like to separate problems (1) something in interceptor driver - might be benign (ignorable), or might be serious (2) logging misconfigured. check the syslog interface mechanism for your specific o/s ⊣GE⊢ > On 27 Apr 2023, at 11:00 am, Marcin Metter wrote: > > I've been seeing the

Re: [weewx-user] water tank level monitoring ?

2023-04-18 Thread Graham Eddy
i continue to run my old pressure river level sensor with my new ultrasound river level sensor. i found the cable from pressure sensor (at river bottom) to prioprietary transmitter (above flood level) very inconvenient, whereas ultrasound sensor/transmitter are together (above flood level),

Re: [weewx-user] water tank level monitoring ?

2023-04-17 Thread Graham Eddy
i put a detailed description of lorawan river level/temp sensors under weewx in this forum not long ago. a search will find it. cheers ⊣GE⊢ > On 17 Apr 2023, at 9:38 am, Tim Tuck wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone has network attached water tank level meters ? > > Also wondering if anyone

Re: [weewx-user] weewx with davis weather station and ecowitt gw1000

2023-04-08 Thread Graham Eddy
congratulations to gary for a brilliant diagnosis ⊣GE⊢ > On 9 Apr 2023, at 12:44 pm, Mike wrote: > > i have found the excluded fields option for rain in weewx.conf, I have added > all the lightning fields and it has sorted the issue. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

[weewx-user] weekly chart strips

2023-03-29 Thread Graham Eddy
suppose you look at a given weekly plot of some observation e.g. outside temperature. suppose further that you can scroll left or right to see earlier or later weekly plots - much easier to see trends going over months e.g. how the temperature is varying over several months. (in my case looking

Re: [weewx-user] meanmax not working with data_binding

2023-03-12 Thread Graham Eddy
a DaySummaryManager instance for its database? ⊣GE⊢ > On 12 Mar 2023, at 8:45 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > i have updated the NOAA reports to include fields from another weewx database > (using $data_binding in tags). these external fields all work fine for > min,mintime,max,ma

[weewx-user] meanmax not working with data_binding

2023-03-12 Thread Graham Eddy
i have updated the NOAA reports to include fields from another weewx database (using $data_binding in tags). these external fields all work fine for min,mintime,max,maxtime,avg,count but not for meanmax,meanmin. weewx v4.10.2 the period tags are $day,$month,$year (all at least one day) so i

Re: [weewx-user] wee_import

2023-03-11 Thread Graham Eddy
isn’t this parsed as a list? ⊣GE⊢ > On 12 Mar 2023, at 12:28 pm, gjr80 wrote: > > delimiter = , -- 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

Re: [weewx-user] MQTTSubscribe service - not getting extraTemp1 or 2

2023-03-02 Thread Graham Eddy
looks like wrongly set unit label (not unit name) ⊣GE⊢ > On 3 Mar 2023, at 12:44 pm, lloyd...@gmail.com wrote: > > it shows on the skin (whatever the default is) RTD Temperature 20% and > TMP117 temperature 18% for temperatures of 20.46 and 18.09 respectively -- You received this message

Re: [weewx-user] new install LOOP batch try #3; error: Unable to wake up Vantage console

2023-02-19 Thread Graham Eddy
sounds like XON/XOFF problem (slow receiving side hardware/driver) ⊣GE⊢ > On 20 Feb 2023, at 4:15 am, Brian Waligorski / N6RZR > wrote: > > I tried each successive slower rate until I arrived at 1200 baud and it's > been now a month with no problem. > -- You received this message because

Re: [weewx-user] No Rain data used

2023-02-07 Thread Graham Eddy
rain in LOOP packet (inches) equals rain in wsview app (mm) ⊣GE⊢ > On 7 Feb 2023, at 11:15 pm, Christian H. wrote: > > LOOP: 2023-02-07 13:10:50 CET (1675771850) 'dateTime': '1675771850', > 'daymaxwind': '6.0', 'dummyTemp': '96.3', 'inHumidity': '38', 'inTemp': > '64.22', 'luminosity':

Re: [weewx-user] Backup Sensors

2023-02-01 Thread Graham Eddy
untested: put in Corrections section of weewx.conf something like PRIMARY_V = PRIMARY_V if PRIMARY_V in locals() else BACKUP_V (weewx packet is used as local bindings in python eval) ⊣GE⊢ > On 1 Feb 2023, at 5:18 pm, p q wrote: > > Yes, but by modifying the driver code, which is not the

[weewx-user] new river level monitor

2023-01-19 Thread Graham Eddy
i posted some time ago about my trusty old river level monitor. i am still receiving occasional enquiries about it - yes, unfortunately that product i used is no longer available. whilst it is still working for me, i have now deployed a new river level monitor in parallel, some details below

Re: [weewx-user] line gaps

2023-01-18 Thread Graham Eddy
; wrote: >>> >>> You're not doing something dumb. None values always mark line breaks. >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 6:30 AM Graham Eddy >> <mailto:g...@geddy.au>> wrote: >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this

Re: [weewx-user] line gaps

2023-01-18 Thread Graham Eddy
to love the ‘mark’ not the ‘line'. thanks ⊣GE⊢ > On 19 Jan 2023, at 2:49 am, Tom Keffer wrote: > > You're not doing something dumb. None values always mark line breaks. > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 6:30 AM Graham Eddy <mailto:g...@geddy.au>> wrote: > -- You receiv

[weewx-user] line gaps

2023-01-17 Thread Graham Eddy
i am getting a sequence of points plotted rather than a line showing. line_type = solid line_gap_fraction = 0.3 the points are 20 mins apart. 20min/24hrs = 0.013 so i expect the points to be joined. i have tried line_gap_fraction 0.9 and - just to be thorough - 1.0 and (being silly) 10.0 - with

Re: [weewx-user] Davis VP2 reliability with Rasp Pi zero

2023-01-05 Thread Graham Eddy
It is much more likely your power supply being the problem. Get a ups to smooth the spikes (dunno if rpi hat does that)⊣ GE ⊢    phone➔brevityOn 6 Jan 2023 12:46 pm, "iams...@gmail.com" wrote:"What happens if you 'pull the plug' on your VP2? Does it keep running? Perhaps the batteries are

Re: [weewx-user] Never thought it could happen

2022-12-31 Thread Graham Eddy
i was travelling when it flooded back home (se oz) 6 weeks ago. lots of folk watch my river depth graph so as the value unexpectedly went off the top of graph, i updated the y-scale to compensate a few times. someone asked me to stop increasing it because i was dragging the river level up :-)

Re: [weewx-user] Only use wee_import without connecting a weather station

2022-08-29 Thread Graham Eddy
perhaps consider the provided ‘fileparse’ driver - see ~weewx/examples/fileparse/readme.txt > On 29 Aug 2022, at 7:43 pm, Stein Arne Storslett wrote: > > Is there a way to only run the weewx database with data through "wee_import" > without connecting a weather station? > I.e. just producing

Re: [weewx-user] howto fix weewx sqlite database

2022-07-10 Thread Graham Eddy
15 years of data, running happily on RPi 4B: graham@paperbark:/home/weewx/archive $ ls -l weewx.sdb -rw-r--r-- 1 weewx weewx 175935488 Jul 11 00:55 weewx.sdb > On 11 Jul 2022, at 12:43 am, Fische Namenlos wrote: > > my station is using sqlite database (weewx.sdb) for nearly 5 years, and now -

Re: [weewx-user] LOOP try problem ...

2022-06-17 Thread Graham Eddy
as tom noted, you need to configure the vp2 console device to 300 secs to get reports each 5 mins (or change weewx.conf file to 1800 secs if every 30 mins sufficient) this would not cause the read errors on the vp2, so is off-topic, but worth pointing out. cheers > On 18 Jun 2022, at 2:23 pm,

Re: [weewx-user] LOOP try problem ...

2022-06-17 Thread Graham Eddy
not the reported problem, but config error needs to be fixed nonetheless > On 18 Jun 2022, at 1:14 am, mup...@gmail.com wrote: > > Jun 17 08:09:38 weewx-RPi weewx[83743] ERROR weewx.engine: The archive > interval in the configuration file (300) does not match the station hardware > interval

Re: [weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-26 Thread Graham Eddy
s, including batteries, waiting for 10-20 seconds for any capacitance > to discharge and then power up again. Don't know I would put the batteries in > reverse though. > > Gary > > On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 21:05:36 UTC+10 Graham Eddy wrote: > i can power down, pull it apart, pu

Re: [weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
> > Gary > > On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 19:53:32 UTC+10 Graham Eddy wrote: > data logger is in an envoy > > >> On 25 May 2022, at 7:25 pm, gjr80 > > wrote: >> > >> Can't you set transmitter IDs manually via the console? >> &g

Re: [weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
data logger is in an envoy > On 25 May 2022, at 7:25 pm, gjr80 wrote: > > Can't you set transmitter IDs manually via the console? > > Gary > > On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 18:18:36 UTC+10 Graham Eddy wrote: > QC is filtering out the bad values, but weewx server is curr

Re: [weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
under [StdQC]. > > On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 17:45, Graham Eddy <mailto:g...@geddy.au>> wrote: > my old vantage pro2’s additional wireless temp station at ch2 (iss is at ch1) > has carked it (crushed in tree fall). it exists no more; it is not > transmitting. my vp2 data logger is

[weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
my old vantage pro2’s additional wireless temp station at ch2 (iss is at ch1) has carked it (crushed in tree fall). it exists no more; it is not transmitting. my vp2 data logger is faithfully reporting a phantom value of about 150 C (not bad for a river!) every few seconds, how do i disable

  1   2   3   4   >