[weewx-user] Re: Aeris forcast with belchertown

2024-01-29 Thread MikeQ
The latest version of the Belchertown skin v1.3.1 recommends using windy.com for maps: - Q: Do I have to use the radar? - A: Nope! If you leave it disabled you'll just have a big blank box on the website. But windy.com provides a free animated radar, so why not include it? :)

Re: [weewx-user] Re: METAR data site changed?

2023-11-05 Thread MikeQ
I did not work on the original metargenerator.py, I'm just confirming your question about it not working. On Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 10:32:01 AM UTC-7 Nate Bargmann wrote: > I'm guessing you'll be pushing the changes out when you're more > satisfied with it. > > - Nate > > -- > "The

[weewx-user] Re: METAR data site changed?

2023-11-05 Thread MikeQ
Correct. Back on the 26th the NWS rolled out their new Aviation Weather Center website and it is a total re-write of the old site. The old extension screen-scraped the web page to obtain the METAR & TAF data. That doesn't work with the new site and you have to use the AWC Data API to obtain

[weewx-user] Is the WeeWx documentation down?

2023-09-05 Thread MikeQ
All the links to Docs including http://www.weewx.com/docs.html have been returning 404 errors since yesterday. -- 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] Wrapping Custom Content on the Belchertown front page

2023-08-25 Thread MikeQ
I am using index_hook_after_forecast.inc on the Belchertown front page to add two rows with two columns of METARs (four total METARs). Here is my .inc file: METARs https://www.aviationweather.gov/taf/data?ids=KEUL,KBOI,KWMC,KMEV,KSCK=raw=off=on;>TAFs $KONO_metar $KEUL_metar

Re: [weewx-user] Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

2023-06-02 Thread MikeQ
; > In reviewing the steps provided by MikeQ above, I see an issue with step > > 3. The search_list_extensions under the [[[CheetahGenerator]]] section > > should not be modified in weewx.conf but in skin.conf. If you don't find > > the search_list_extensions line in that section

Re: [weewx-user] Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

2023-06-02 Thread MikeQ
o find out exactly what is happening in def statsHTMLTable(self, airport): when it tries to get the metar. On Friday, June 2, 2023 at 12:58:21 PM UTC-6 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2023 02 Jun 13:31 -0500, MikeQ wrote: > > One more thought - what version of Python are you running? The

Re: [weewx-user] Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

2023-06-02 Thread MikeQ
wrote: > * On 2023 02 Jun 12:36 -0500, MikeQ wrote: > > Did you test the URL from the box running WeeWX? I'm wondering if you > have > > a DNS or some other connectivity problem on that box. You could try > > running: > > > > curl > > -s > https://ww

Re: [weewx-user] Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

2023-06-02 Thread MikeQ
Did you test the URL from the box running WeeWX? I'm wondering if you have a DNS or some other connectivity problem on that box. You could try running: curl -s https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/metars?station_ids=KBIE+_trans=translated_metars=on=most+recent+only_tafs=on=Get+Weather and

[weewx-user] Re: Display METAR Data in Seasons 4.6.2

2023-06-01 Thread MikeQ
I am in the process of upgrading my WeeWX installation and switching to the Belchertown skin. Since you posted the steps for adding METARs to the Seasons skin, I will post them for those using the Belchertown skin and both will be here for anyone who searches the forum for "metar". Augment

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

2023-04-18 Thread MikeQ
Having worked on industrial water systems for many years, I highly recommend you use a pressure transducer to measure water tank levels instead of ultrasonics. I have a 2500 gal poly irrigation tank in my yard with a booster pump. It was there when I bought the house so I didn't get to pick

[weewx-user] Re: Power outage without RTC module

2022-08-21 Thread MikeQ
I have had a similar issue twice but not since January 2021. I have my Davis console on wall power plus batteries, assuming the batteries would work like a UPS but that might not be reliable. Look at the weewx wiki:

Re: [weewx-user] Re: National Weather Service location IDs

2022-07-09 Thread MikeQ
nformation for quite specific locations using gridpoints, but that's not > integrated into weewx AFAIK. > > Walt > > On Friday, July 8, 2022 at 10:56:16 AM UTC-5 MikeQ wrote: > >> Does someone here understand how the NWS generates a forecast for a >> specific location? I used

[weewx-user] Re: National Weather Service location IDs

2022-07-08 Thread MikeQ
Does someone here understand how the NWS generates a forecast for a specific location? I used the API link above and it says my forecast zone is IDZ033. When I put this in weewx I get the following error: Jul 8 09:30:20 weatherpi weewxd: forecast: NWSThread: NWS: no PFM found for IDZ033 in

[weewx-user] Re: SQL Hosted on Synology NAS

2019-07-25 Thread MikeQ
In your original post, I missed you are using MariaDB 10 so the default port for it is 3307 instead of 3306 used by Maria DB 5. I also should have mentioned a way to test your connection from remote. Are you running WeeWX on a Raspberry PI? If so, you can install just the MariaDB client

[weewx-user] Re: SQL Hosted on Synology NAS

2019-07-25 Thread MikeQ
The Synology does not have any remote user accounts enabled by default. I assume you are running phpMyAdmin on the Synology. Did you login to the Synology using SSH and create a remote account? You can check if you have a remote account configured by doing this: 1. Verify you have SSH

[weewx-user] Re: SteelSeries Gauges and Weather Forecast?

2019-07-14 Thread MikeQ
There is documentation on the forecast extension in the file /usr/share/weewx/user/forecast.py. It creates a database at /var/lib/weewx/forecast.sdb to store the forecast data and generates the forecast variables. In your SSG skin directory at /etc/weewx/skins/, there is a template file

[weewx-user] Re: weewx-highcharts problem with rainfall & US units

2019-07-07 Thread MikeQ
Gary - Thanks for the easy fix! Those two edits fixed the problem. Just a couple of notes in case someone else tries to use this fix in the future: 1. My file is plots.js instead of plot.js 2. The lines I needed to edit were off one line number in my plots.js file which was easy enough to

[weewx-user] weewx-highcharts problem with rainfall & US units

2019-06-30 Thread MikeQ
I installed weewx-highcharts and added a page (using the sample HTML page) to my Seasons skin. I am in the US, so I changed weewx.conf for US units and ranges: Groups group_altitude = foot group_speed2 = mile_per_hour2

[weewx-user] Re: RTGD Zambretti Forecast Blank

2019-06-12 Thread MikeQ
I put a Dark Sky API Key into the RTGD config section and changed the scroller source to DS. That works fine, so it looks like this is just a Zambretti forecast problem. Using Dark Sky solves my problem since I just needed some kind of forecast in that box at the top of my SteelSeries page

[weewx-user] Re: RTGD Zambretti Forecast Blank

2019-06-11 Thread MikeQ
I copied over forecast.sdb and here are the last few rows from SQLite Browser -- 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] Re: RTGD Zambretti Forecast Blank

2019-06-11 Thread MikeQ
I copied forecast.sdb over and opened it in the SQLite Browser. Here is the last record with the Zambretti forecast: [image: Selection_001.png] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

[weewx-user] Re: RTGD Zambretti Forecast Blank

2019-06-11 Thread MikeQ
Gary - Here is the requested info Thanks, Mike Jun 11 13:03:45 weatherpi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system... Jun 11 13:03:46 weatherpi weewx[4882]: engine: Initializing weewx version 3.9.1 Jun 11 13:03:46 weatherpi weewx[4882]: engine: Using Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 26 2018,

[weewx-user] RTGD Zambretti Forecast Blank

2019-06-10 Thread MikeQ
I installed a SteelSeries page this weekend and installed RTGD to create and upload gauge-data.txt. All that is working fine. I also have the Forecast extension installed and that is working fine. At this point, the only forecast I am trying to use on the SteelSeries page is Zambretti. I

[weewx-user] Re: Cumulus Data Import & File Generation Questions

2019-01-03 Thread MikeQ
I have another RPi on the shelf waiting to go into a case and all my Cumulus files I imported from, so it would not be too difficult to get a database back into the same condition as I had before my drop then rebuild. Let me know if you need some future testing and I should be able to help

[weewx-user] Re: Cumulus Data Import & File Generation Questions

2019-01-02 Thread MikeQ
Gary, I have weeWX running on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1 sqlite> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM archive; 788656 wee_database returns no extra info on the command line when running only a --rebuild-daily and it takes less than a second: pi@weatherpi:/var/lib/weewx $ sudo wee_database

[weewx-user] Re: Cumulus Data Import & File Generation Questions

2019-01-02 Thread MikeQ
Thanks for the replies. Gary - I have a question on the --rebuild-daily option. Docs say "In most cases it is not necessary to drop the daily summaries tables using the action --drop-daily before rebuilding them." I ran --rebuild-daily and it took less than a second to run. Is this typical

[weewx-user] Cumulus Data Import & File Generation Questions

2019-01-01 Thread MikeQ
I am moving over from Cumulus to weeWX both running on a RPi, both talking to a VP2 Console, and both ftp'ing the generated web pages to my Web Server on another box.. I had no problems getting weeWX running on the RPi with the standard options. Now I am trying to import my old Cumulus data