Re: [weewx-user] NOAA weather radar replacement

2023-11-01 Thread Ralph Underwood
Thanks On Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 1:49:00 PM UTC-7 Ben Cotton wrote: > On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 4:17 PM Ralph Underwood wrote: > > > > I was using the NOAA Aviation Radar image ( > https://www.aviationweather.gov/data/obs/radar/rad_rala_lws.gif) > > in my Seasons s

[weewx-user] NOAA weather radar replacement

2023-11-01 Thread Ralph Underwood
I was using the NOAA Aviation Radar image (https://www.aviationweather.gov/data/obs/radar/rad_rala_lws.gif) in my Seasons skin. They improved/fixed it so it no longer works. Anyone find a replacement that works from NOAA? I find some images but they are all national US, I live on the left

Re: [weewx-user] plots and how to display a constant value ie a limit

2022-03-16 Thread Ralph Underwood
Probably not too elegant, I have been setting soilTemp4 to 32 and setting the label to "Freezing" and adding it to any charts that I want to show freezing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

[weewx-user] Unknown Type using PurpleAir sensor

2021-09-24 Thread Ralph Underwood
I recently installed a PurpleAir outdoor sensor. It’s connected on wifi and appears to be sending data. I can display all of the data points listed in the purple air driver docs on a WeeWx Seasons page. When I attempt to a create a graph - I get the errors in the log below (this is with

Re: [weewx-user] NWS Radar Changes

2021-01-12 Thread Ralph Underwood
Thanks. I now have the aviation weather radar displaying. On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 5:30:23 AM UTC-8 mjenk...@gmail.com wrote: > If you go up a level, the ones not in the folders are the current ones. > > https://www.aviationweather.gov/data/obs/radar/rad_rala_lws.gif > > > On Monday,

Re: [weewx-user] NWS Radar Changes

2021-01-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
Anybody able to make the new and improved NWS radar work? Has anyone written code to build a dynamic link for the aviation weather radar? It appears to me that we need to enter date and time into the url for the radar. I copied the aviation radar link into my skin.conf and it appeared to

[weewx-user] Re: Installation at remote site using RPi and VNC?

2020-12-09 Thread Ralph Underwood
What's wrong with using VNC? I use it to get to two remote Weewx running RPi. With the RPi, VNC has a deal to access up to five computers for free. On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 6:33:55 PM UTC-8 wa4...@gmail.com wrote: > Many good ideas here. > > My suggestion: > Set up an identical package

[weewx-user] Re: Peet Bros Ultimeter 2100 - Humidity Pad

2020-04-22 Thread Ralph Underwood
Also the humidity sensor did not come included with the Ultimeter 2100 package, it is an option. On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 6:49:26 AM UTC-7, Ralph Underwood wrote: > > Did you enter a local barometer reading to the 2100? I don't have my > manual handy, but seem to remember that

[weewx-user] Re: Peet Bros Ultimeter 2100 - Humidity Pad

2020-04-20 Thread Ralph Underwood
Did you enter a local barometer reading to the 2100? I don't have my manual handy, but seem to remember that in order for the 2100 to output the barometer reading you first have to calibrate it by entering a local value once. I don't upload to weather sites with my systems but both of my

[weewx-user] Re: draw user-defined lines in graphics

2020-03-04 Thread Ralph Underwood
I like to see the freezing level on many of my charts so I set soilTemp4 to 32 degrees in the StdCalibrate section of weewx.conf [StdCalibrate] [[Corrections]] # For each type, an arbitrary calibration expression can be given. # It should be in the units defined in the

[weewx-user] Re: MQTT client service - proof of concept/alpha code

2019-04-09 Thread Ralph Underwood
Bravo! Look forward to testing next month when I should have some free time. On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 1:45:51 PM UTC-7, bell...@gmail.com wrote: > > To further my WeeWX/MQTT/Python knowledge, I have written a WeeWX > multi-threaded service. One thread receives the MQTT messages and puts

Re: [weewx-user] Import MQTT value into weewx database, display via seasons skin

2019-04-08 Thread Ralph Underwood
Hi George, Try just writing the file with python - m1 = "test" file = open('/var/tmp/file-test.txt' , 'w') file.write(str(m1)+'\n') file.close() My first time with my python script I had a typo that I could not see for a couple of hours - I did learn a lot as I scoured the reference books for

Re: [weewx-user] Import MQTT value into weewx database, display via seasons skin

2019-04-07 Thread Ralph Underwood
Probably a permissions issue. I run my python script as sudo. Hope that helps. Ralph -- 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] Import MQTT value into weewx database, display via seasons skin

2019-04-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
I have a small python program that subscribes to mqtt and writes a text file. I then use the filepile as a service to get the data into WeeWx. The "main" data comes from a Ultimeter station via the driver. I came up with this approach while I was modifing/testing using the WeeWxMQTT driver a

[weewx-user] Re: Help with minor edit to Seasons main page

2019-03-30 Thread Ralph Underwood
You may find that you need to look to the seasons.css file to see how things are formatted in titlebar.inc. On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 6:27:40 PM UTC-7, tomn...@frontier.com wrote: > > Thanks, that's sort-of what I was thinking, but couldn't find any clues > about about where they'd be

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-25 Thread Ralph Underwood
I haven't been using TOP to monitor memory usage - I have cmon running and note the total memory use is creeping up. I restarted this station a couple of times yesterday. I had a request to show the freezing level on some charts - ended up setting soilTemp4 to 32 degrees and including it on

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
I will test v0.22. Thanks!! On Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 9:04:04 AM UTC-8, Ralph Underwood wrote: > > The URL for the development station is http://www.mapleleaf.ruresearch.com. > This station is in my basement lab area - the wind and rain stuff is > sitting on a counter s

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
The URL for the development station is http://www.mapleleaf.ruresearch.com. This station is in my basement lab area - the wind and rain stuff is sitting on a counter so that's why there are no readings for them. The "Temperature 1" reading is from a DS18B20 sensor connected to an Adafruit

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Second crash after 11 days

2019-02-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
I have a couple of stations with Ultimeter 2100 and usb-serial connections to RPi 3 B+. Both appear to have increasing memory usage. I just copied the "new" ultimeter.py driver to the driver directory and restarted - this was my result. I went back to "old" version of driver and restarted

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-12 Thread Ralph Underwood
What's involved in changing the driver to a service? My coding skills are just above minimal, however I would be happy to be involved in testing. I frequently fall asleep reading my 1,540 page "Learning Python" - using it as a pillow has only raised by knowledge level slightly. I have one

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
*IT WORKS!* I added: TIME = dateTime to wxMesh stanza of weewx.conf the stopped and restarted WeeWx - waited a few minutes and I now have values showing up in /var/www/html/weewx/index.html Thanks a lot for all of the help! Now that I have something working I can start experimenting with

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
Do I need to have TIME = date-time in my weewx..conf wxMesh stanza? I thought that the TIME sent from mosquitto would be ignored. I attempted Vince's suggestion and still same. I'll look it all over again later. Thanks On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 11:24:38 AM UTC-7, vince wrote: > > On

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
I didn't start a discussion on that but I will look for it. I have been searching for a post where (I thought it was mwall) mentions setting the dateTime to something to force weewx to use the correct one. Or maybe it was a dream :) Thanks for your help. -- You received this message because

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
pi@mapleleaf:~ $ date +%s 1523465424 pi@mapleleaf:~ $ date Wed Apr 11 09:50:28 PDT 2018 appears to match my iMac time. The Rpi does not have a realtime clock; however I have a couple in my parts drawer. I will find a battery and try one of them. I programmed the Huzzah with another Rpi -

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-11 Thread Ralph Underwood
Hi Bill I rebuilt my development system, installed Jessie, configured rpi, installed Mosquitto and weewx with the simulator. Attempted to do the extension install of wxMesh, that failed so I manually installed the wxMesh file in /usr/share/weewx/user. Changed the driver to wxMesh and made

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-10 Thread Ralph Underwood
UTC-3, Ralph Underwood wrote: >>> >>> I understand that you are using the HTU21 and think that it might be >>> best if I concentrate on that setup. Can you post the actual sketch you >>> are using? >>> >> > Attached. I use an Adafruit

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-10 Thread Ralph Underwood
I restarted mosquitto and when I use mosquitto_sub -d -t weather I get: Client mosqsub|16684-ru-pi sending CONNECT Client mosqsub|16684-ru-pi received CONNACK Client mosqsub|16684-ru-pi sending SUBSCRIBE (Mid: 1, Topic: weather, QoS: 0) Client mosqsub|16684-ru-pi received SUBACK Subscribed (mid:

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-10 Thread Ralph Underwood
Thanks Bill for the reply. I am now sending INTE:68.11 via mqtt I do note that I do not have TIME in my mqtt message. WeeWx still not happy with this as the log after starting: Apr 10 08:24:14 ru-pi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system... Apr 10 08:24:14 ru-pi weewx[6379]:

[weewx-user] Re: Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-07 Thread Ralph Underwood
I found some goof info on the development group and got closer to a working setup. I purchased an Adafruit HTU21 sensor board and using Bill Morrows code example I now get MQTT output like this: TIME:0,INTE:19.36,INHU:59.75 TIME:0,INTE:19.35,INHU:59.74 TIME:0,INTE:19.35,INHU:59.88

[weewx-user] Using WeeWxMQTT - problems

2018-04-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
My goals is to add some sensors via MQTT to my stations which are all RPi 3 and use WeeWx 3.8.0. I am running the Mosquitto broker on the same RPi as WeeWx One station uses a Ultimeter 2100 driver -* can I use WeeWxMQTT as a service*? Other stations are a combination of OWFS and FileParse

[weewx-user] Re: ds18b20 multiple sensors from esp8266 nodemcu to file

2018-01-21 Thread Ralph Underwood
I am interested in your progress. I have a esp8266 on my work bench - haven't got started with it yet. I was looking for options use wifi with my OWFS based system. I use the file parse driver to add data connected to RPi. On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 10:42:47 AM UTC-8, Andreas Otten

[weewx-user] Re: Peet Brothers [Error no 2] ttyUSB0 issue

2018-01-17 Thread Ralph Underwood
My Ultimeter 2100 has been very reliable. One time after a lightning storm it did find its way into the wrong mode. After finding the manual, I hit the right key combination and it has been rock solid. I am also currently using FSWEBCAM in test mode - haven't noticed any problems. On

[weewx-user] Re: owfs wireless ?

2017-03-01 Thread Ralph Underwood
Good suggestion. I can't wait for the ice and snow to be gone for a day or two and get the sensor down where I can really troubleshoot what is wrong. Everything is working great with that sensor disconnected. It could also be a problem with AD converter on the Hobby Board's anemometer board.

[weewx-user] Re: owfs wireless ?

2017-02-25 Thread Ralph Underwood
Those ESP8266 look interesting. I ordered a couple so I can do some experimenting. -- 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: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-07 Thread Ralph Underwood
wrote: > > shouldn't each reading be on a separate line - so it should be > soilTemp1=60.64 > pressure=29.54 > > rather than > > soilTemp1=60.64 pressure=29.54 > > > On Saturday, 7 January 2017 07:23:27 UTC+2, Ralph Underwood wrote: > >> I made a chang

[weewx-user] Re: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
I made a change so that only the pressure value shows up in my txt file and it works! Maybe tomorrow I can figure out what is wrong with the temperature. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

[weewx-user] Re: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
I used wee_extension to install fileparse.py and now I am stumped with this error: fileparse: cannot read value for '61.34,29.534': invalid literal for float(): 61.34,29.534 Appears that I might have to do some more studying about floats and such. -- You received this message because you are

[weewx-user] Re: Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-06 Thread Ralph Underwood
I decided to try the barometer sensor on the RPi i2c bus. I have managed to get data from the sensor and write out a text file in /var/tmp/wxdata. I have a cron job overwrite the file every minute (for now) with fresh readings. Attempting to follow the directions in FileParse.py gets me

[weewx-user] Barometer to use with OWFS station

2017-01-02 Thread Ralph Underwood
I have a OWFS station on Rpi going with temps, rain gauge, wind and direction. I started work on this station several years ago and and the got too busy with my day job. In the mean time I implemented at Pete Bros. Ultimeter 2100 station which was working fine until a recent power outage,

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-11-19 Thread Ralph Underwood
I installed the station last week and it appears to be working. I managed to break the anemometer while I was installing the mast so I have no wind info until my next visit to the site in a week or two. Pete Bros. had the parts available and I already have them in hand. I ended up commenting

[weewx-user] Re: wee_extension problem

2016-11-05 Thread Ralph Underwood
; wee_extension try > > ./wee_extension --install weewx-owfs-0.18.tgz > > Note the ./ > > Gary > > On Sunday, 6 November 2016 11:54:16 UTC+10, Ralph Underwood wrote: >> >> I am running weewx 3.6.1 on a Rpi using an Utilmeter 2100. I am trying >> t

[weewx-user] wee_extension problem

2016-11-05 Thread Ralph Underwood
I am running weewx 3.6.1 on a Rpi using an Utilmeter 2100. I am trying to install owfs-0.18 and I can't seem to get past the step "*wee_extension --install weewx-owfs-0.18.tgz*". I get "command not found". I can see the wee_extension file in /home/weewx/bin I have never used wee_extension

[weewx-user] Re: Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-10-30 Thread Ralph Underwood
I'll second that, great support from users and developers! This is the third weewx station I have cobbled together - one with a wireless Oregon Scientific, one with one-wire, and now this one with Pete Bros. - Plus two more carefully monitoring my basement as I test and experiment. The Rpi

[weewx-user] Re: Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-10-28 Thread Ralph Underwood
:15:45 PM UTC-4, Ralph Underwood wrote: >> >> Oct 27 17:24:15 raspberrypi weewx[6672]: engine: Unable to load driver: >> could not open port /dev/ttyUSB0: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: >> '/dev/ttyUSB0' >> > > hi ralph, > > it looks like yo

[weewx-user] Attempting to use a Pete Bros. Ultimeter2100 on a RPi3 with a serial to usb converter

2016-10-27 Thread Ralph Underwood
I could use some hints on what I need to modify to get the Ultimter to talk to WeeWx. I have a serial to usb converter as the Rpi does not have a serial port and I somehow missed that the Ultimeter was not USB when I ordered it. I tried to use this in my weewx.conf :