[weewx-user] raspberry pi 3 and weewx fail at first hurdle

Hi all, bought a raspberry pi 3, came with noobs on the sd card, installed raspbian from here. followed the instructions on installing weewx at www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm configured apt, no problem installed weewx, no problem step 3 is to check the syslog for message from weewx, there are

[weewx-user] Re: raspberry pi 3 and weewx fail at first hurdle

On Friday, 27 April 2018 17:19:42 UTC+2, vince wrote: > On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 8:15:55 AM UTC-7, Stuart Smith wrote: > bought a raspberry pi 3, came with noobs on the sd card, installed raspbian > from here. > followed the instructions on installing weewx at www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: raspberry pi 3 and weewx fail at first hurdle

check ifconfig -all and see if you actually have an IP address ifconfig -agives me: eth0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether b8:27:eb:ce:73:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0

[weewx-user] Re: raspberry pi 3 and weewx fail at first hurdle

ok, after your post Andrew i decided to uninstall weewx then reinstall using the apt-get command, this time around as you said it should i was asked for my location and altitude. i then used: sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog which gave me this: May 2 11:52:07 raspberrypi weewx[1345]: engine:

[weewx-user] Re: raspberry pi 3 and weewx fail at first hurdle

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the reply and your patience! My brother-in-law bought a raspberry pi and hooked it up to a weather station a couple of years back with no linux experience so guessed it would be easy enough for me to do, he is clearly smarter than me! :-) So, looking in the weewx.conf

[weewx-user] Re: raspberry pi 3 and weewx fail at first hurdle

Hi Vince, here is what i get when i run the weewx.service status command: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status weewx.service ● weewx.service - LSB: weewx weather system Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/weewx; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since Tue 2018-05-01

[weewx-user] Re: raspberry pi 3 and weewx fail at first hurdle

On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 11:19:49 UTC+2, Stuart Smith wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for the reply and your patience! > > My brother-in-law bought a raspberry pi and hooked it up to a weather > station a couple of years back with no linux experience so guessed it would > be easy enough for me

[weewx-user] weewix on PI3 FAIL!

Hello all and thanks in advance for any help. Newbie to Linux so hoping you'll be kind ;-) Have just purchased a Raspberry Pi3 and am wanting to use it with my Fine Offset weather station running weeWX. I have installed the software but when i use the code to check the logs i see no reporting