Re: [weewx-user] Advice on new installation

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Form
please.  A quick google search for 'weewx 1wire' will return lots of info.  A quick google search of 'this' group for '1wire' will return lots more info. On Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 12:07:41 PM UTC-8 Michael Form wrote: Hi: I currently have weewx installed on a couple of Raspberry

Re: [weewx-user] Advice on new installation

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Form
Hi: I currently have weewx installed on a couple of Raspberry Pis (one dealing with indoor sensors and another with outdoor sensors) using 1-Wire devices, DSB1820 sensors, 1-Wire rain gauge, 1-Wire Wind direction and speed, etc. I am wondering if v5 will support 1-Wire devices and if so

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Corrupted Memory card. Now I lost 6 months of data?

2021-01-01 Thread Michael Form
As someone has previously suggested, you can boot and run a Raspberry Pi off of a SSD. These are a lot more reliable than most SD cards and are available with huge capacities. Unless you are buying a 1 TB or 2 TB SSD, they are also relatively inexpensive. I am running several Pis, both models

Re: [weewx-user] Register your WeeWX station!

2020-10-04 Thread Michael Form
Tom: A question on 1. below. What if you do not have a web page or use any other (e.g. Weather Underground) site? Are you saying that we can make up any arbitrary URL as long as it is unique? Thanks. Mike On 10/4/2020 1:41 PM, Tom Keffer wrote: While we don't require it, I strongly

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

2020-08-22 Thread Michael Form
Philipp: Why don't you just boot and use a SSD for the Pi storage. SSDs are much more reliable, especially for all of the writes, and longer lasting than an SD card. You can get a relatively inexpensive 250 or 500 GB SSD which should give you plenty of storage.  There are many descriptions on

Re: [weewx-user] Suggestions on best way to upgrade to 4.1.1

2020-06-21 Thread michael form
Glenn: I will follow up on what you said and hopefully, things will go smoothly with the upgrade to 4.1.1. I will certainly let you know if it doesn't. :) Michael On Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 8:25:00 PM UTC-4, Glenn McKechnie wrote: > > On 22/06/2020, Michael Form > wrote:

Re: [weewx-user] Graphs not updating

2020-06-21 Thread michael form
when they arrive later this week and hopefully, the problem will never come up again. Thanks for your response. Michael On Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 8:57:24 PM UTC-4, vince wrote: > > > On Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 3:54:56 PM UTC-7, michael form wrote: >> >> ...saw no

Re: [weewx-user] Graphs not updating

2020-06-21 Thread michael form
> It's well worth spending the $5 and installing a realtime clock. > > -tk > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:42 PM michael form > wrote: > >> I have attached a section of the syslog file. Somewhere around 3:13:54 AM >> on 20 June the system seems to have lost

Re: [weewx-user] Graphs not updating

2020-06-21 Thread michael form
d the log? > > See the Wiki article *Help! Posting to weewx-user > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Help!-Posting-to-weewx-user>*. > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:45 AM michael form > wrote: > >> I have Weewx 3.9.2 running on a Raspberry Pi 3 using the Debiam i

[weewx-user] Graphs not updating

2020-06-21 Thread michael form
I have Weewx 3.9.2 running on a Raspberry Pi 3 using the Debiam install. Until this morning, everything was working fine. When I went to look at the web page this afternoon, the system was unresponsive. This included the Pi itself. I rebooted the system and it came up OK but now the graphs on

Re: [weewx-user] Suggestions on best way to upgrade to 4.1.1

2020-06-21 Thread Michael Form
with using owfs with Python 3 under buster. See this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/weewx-user/ntrwrTl1xew/37u0_b7nAgAJ -tk On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:30 AM michael form <mailto:mike.f...@gmail.com>> wrote: I have Weewx 3.92 running on a Raspberry  Pi3 using One-Wire

[weewx-user] Suggestions on best way to upgrade to 4.1.1

2020-06-19 Thread michael form
I have Weewx 3.92 running on a Raspberry Pi3 using One-Wire sensors for all measurements via a USB to 1-Wire interface (DS9490). The Pi is running Buster and I installed Weewx using the Debian installation package. Everything is now working fine and I want to tempt fate by upgrading to Weewx

[weewx-user] Confusion on installing Weewx 4.1

2020-05-27 Thread michael form
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Re: [weewx-user] Trying to get a Rainwise Tipping Bucket to work

2020-05-03 Thread michael form
t; > owfs.py defaults to the usb adaptor. You need to specify the iface if > using something else > > On 04/05/2020, Glenn McKechnie > > wrote: > > Michael Form wrote: > >> Well, it communicates with all 1-Wire devices but I do not know the > >> answ

Re: [weewx-user] Trying to get a Rainwise Tipping Bucket to work

2020-05-03 Thread Michael Form
ort = localhost:4304 server: port = 4304 On 5/3/2020 9:28 PM, Glenn McKechnie wrote: On 04/05/2020, Michael Form wrote: Glenn: You have come to the rescue once again. Ah, Okay. I'll find and review our previous discusion However, I have what you suggested in the type and map entries which do

Re: [weewx-user] Trying to get a Rainwise Tipping Bucket to work

2020-05-03 Thread Michael Form
our setup 2. version of weewx 3. which script / driver are you using 4. the syslog output ! On 04/05/2020, michael form wrote: Through much help from this forum, I have gotten WEEWX generally working on a Raspberry Pi 4. The only thing that does not seem to work is the input from my Rainwise

[weewx-user] Trying to get a Rainwise Tipping Bucket to work

2020-05-03 Thread michael form
Through much help from this forum, I have gotten WEEWX generally working on a Raspberry Pi 4. The only thing that does not seem to work is the input from my Rainwise Tipping Bucket using a DS2423 1-wire counter. My question is how should the device be listed in weewx.conf? Should the

Re: [weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread Michael Form
elected?  If so, you will see the plots since they are not commented. I take it index.html is now updated, but you have not given us that key piece of information. On Apr 25, 2020, at 8:12 PM, michael form wrote:  Here is the complete index.html.tmpl file: ## Copyright 2009-2018 Tom

Re: [weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread michael form
ke for the > week, month and year? > > Also, please verify each time you try something that index.html is still > not being written by checking the date with ls -l. (And, of course, wait > for an archive cycle.) > > Lastly, for sure there must be errors in the log for this. &

Re: [weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread michael form
ata or $day.extraTemp2.has_data or $day.extraTemp3.has_data #end if #if $day.rxCheckPercent.has_data #end if On Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 10:26:28 PM UTC-4, John Kline wrote: > > # is cheetah > ## is a comment > > On Apr 25, 2020, at 7:25

Re: [weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread michael form
Apr 25, 2020, at 6:30 PM, michael form > > wrote: > >  > Yes. I have cleared the browser cache. > > Where do I find " public_html/index.html" on a Debian install? > > I forget, but probably /var/weewx/public_html/index.html > If that doesn’t wor

Re: [weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread michael form
> It could be that you broke something when editing index.html.tmpl. If >> you did, you would see errors in the log and public_html/index.html would >> never be regenerated. >> >> What the date on public_html/index.html? >> >> Do something like: >

Re: [weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread michael form
; > Do something like: > ls -l /home/weewx/public_html/index.html > > On Apr 25, 2020, at 2:12 PM, michael form > > wrote: > >  > Here it is: > > > [[SeasonsReport]] > # The SeasonsReport uses the 'Seasons' skin, which contains the > # image

Re: [weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread michael form
u have said you already changed index.html.tmpl. What does > your entry for the SeasonsReport look like in weewx.conf? > > On Apr 25, 2020, at 11:12 AM, michael form > wrote: > >  > I will admit that I am a novice when it comes to Linux, but I have > searched and followed

Re: [weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread michael form
On Apr 25, 2020, at 11:12 AM, michael form > wrote: > > > -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.co

[weewx-user] Need help removing plots from web page display

2020-04-25 Thread michael form
I will admit that I am a novice when it comes to Linux, but I have searched and followed directions in posts regarding the removal of plots from the web page that weewx displays. Weewx is running nicely on a Raspberry Pi 3 but when I look at the generated web page it includes things like WIND

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Cannot get Weewx to run on a Raspberry Pi 4

2020-04-17 Thread michael form
Thanks again. A little while ago I checked to see if 1-wire was disabled in raspi-config, as you suggested. I explicitly disabled it anyway and rebooted. The magic of re-booting---Now things seem to be working, at least for my test setup. I will see if it can start up again and work and add

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Cannot get Weewx to run on a Raspberry Pi 4

2020-04-17 Thread michael form
PM UTC-4, Glenn McKechnie wrote: > > On 17/04/2020, michael form > wrote: > > Glenn: > > > > Thank you for your response. > > > > apt show ow-python <<< does not show anything > > Ah, that's just me and the keyboard having issues again! &

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Cannot get Weewx to run on a Raspberry Pi 4

2020-04-16 Thread michael form
UTC-4, Glenn McKechnie wrote: > > On 17/04/2020, michael form > wrote: > > I am using a DS9490R USB to 1-Wire controller, not the 1-Wire interface > on > > the Pi using a GPIO pin. > > > > So, no, I did not configure it using raspi-config. > > > >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Cannot get Weewx to run on a Raspberry Pi 4

2020-04-16 Thread michael form
. On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 2:38:04 PM UTC-4, p q wrote: > > Did you configure the raspi to turn on the one-wire interface using the > raspi-config utility? > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:26 AM michael form > wrote: > >> The sensor value of the DS18B20 was obtained f

[weewx-user] Cannot get Weewx to run on a Raspberry Pi 4

2020-04-16 Thread michael form
Hello - I am running into problems getting WEEWX to work on a new 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 running the latest version of Raspbian Buster. It boots from the SD card and then runs from a 525 GB SD card using a USB port.I am planning on using 1-Wire sensors using the DS9490R USB to 1_wire interface.