If you have any problems like I did with Bullseye and Bookworm they have a
64bit version of Buster at
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/raspios_arm64-2021-05-28/
I had way to many problems with the weewx 4.10.2 and 5 with mqtt running
them on Bullseye and Bookworm so I
The only thing I would add is that if you're using the original "wview"
schema, there is no reason to switch to the "wview-extended" schema unless
you need the extra types. For a VantagePro, the original schema works fine.
Conversion is a lot of work.
-tk
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Thanks Michael and Vince. My Vantage Vue is connected to the Pi ZeroW with
a serial to usb cable. Both of your recommendatons are directionally
similar. I'll go with Vince's step by step to reduce my chances of making
an error.
Vince, thanks for the suggestion of pre-seeding NOAA data. I've
oh - just to add. I found that pre-seeding your NOAA files helps speed up
a new installation first boot. Just copy things over from your zeroW to
the new box and weewx will update the current month+year files as needed.
The other thing is if you run Belchertown (unlikely on a slow zeroW) it
I would personally recommend using the pi3b+ to set up a clean new v5 setup
rather than worrying upgrade scenarios
- install the latest raspios 32bit on the 3b+
- install the latest weewx v5
- configure it to run the Simulator (initially) to get it running and
stable running a
Do you need to connect the station physically to the PI to get the data
from the station(usb, serial, ...) or can you obtain data over the network?
Or can you connect the station simultaneously to both PIs? If so, start
from scratch with an OS update and a 5.x installation, and keep the old
