Re: [weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
under [StdQC]. > > On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 17:45, Graham Eddy <mailto:g...@geddy.au>> wrote: > my old vantage pro2’s additional wireless temp station at ch2 (iss is at ch1) > has carked it (crushed in tree fall). it exists no more; it is not > transmitting. my vp2 data logger is

[weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
my old vantage pro2’s additional wireless temp station at ch2 (iss is at ch1) has carked it (crushed in tree fall). it exists no more; it is not transmitting. my vp2 data logger is faithfully reporting a phantom value of about 150 C (not bad for a river!) every few seconds, how do i disable

Re: [weewx-user] Davis Data Logger - Issue

2022-05-18 Thread Graham Eddy
i reported earlier that i got a burst of weewx restarts by vantage driver when my extra vp2 station (wireless temp) battery started reporting low (i hadn’t noticed until this thread started). tom’s new retry patch not applied. this happened a second time recently viz. burst of restart activity

Re: [weewx-user] Davis Data Logger - Issue

2022-05-08 Thread Graham Eddy
my vp2 (15yo) recently started throwing this error (causing weewx restart) every few hours. perhaps coincidence, but it started very soon after after id #2 (a davis temperature station - the ISS has id #1) stopped reporting after several days of low battery alert on and off (i was travelling),

Re: [weewx-user] Request for assistance - GW2000/WS90

2022-04-28 Thread Graham Eddy
anyone in australia know how i can order a GW2000 from here at present? i want the ethernet port and sane power supply -- 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

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx service stops randomly

2022-04-19 Thread Graham Eddy
you will probably get a lot more info from /var/log/syslog than /var/log/messages > On 19 Apr 2022, at 2:12 pm, mup...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm running weewx 4.5.1 with a Belchertown skin on a Raspberry pi. All was > working fine, but recently the service randomly stops. There is nothing in

Re: [weewx-user] Reading rain rate more frequently than the archive period

2022-04-09 Thread Graham Eddy
ost and invoke an event when you get a LOOP Record. From there evaluate > the rain values and take action with your car windows at that moment based on > the data. > > MQTT is a small, lightweight protocol that will update in near real time. It > is used a lot in IOT devices. >

Re: [weewx-user] Reading rain rate more frequently than the archive period

2022-04-09 Thread Graham Eddy
your Acurite driver creates a ‘loop packet’ each time it receives a reading from the station. you can have a ’service’ immediately export selected data from each loop packet, not wait until the end of the archive interval (which is when database is updated). depending how you want the data

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx-Multi not quite working

2022-03-24 Thread Graham Eddy
=weewx-gw1000 with rsyslog routing weewx-gw1000 to /var/log/weewx/gw1000.log. you can wildcard the unit name e.g. # systemctl status weewx@* ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 25 Mar 2022, at 3:19 am, matthew wall wrote: > > finally, it is my intent to push the capabilities of weewx-multi into the &g

Re: [weewx-user] Change unit from "cb" to "%" for WH51

2022-03-21 Thread Graham Eddy
i do this ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 21 Mar 2022, at 11:49 pm, Thomas Hackler wrote: > > It is possible to add this to the extensions.py? > > import weewx.units > weewx.units.obs_group_dict['soilMoist1'] = 'group_percent' -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: [weewx-user] skins stuck on wrong skin

2022-03-13 Thread Graham Eddy
with debug=1 in weewx.conf, which reports does the log say you are generating? > On 14 Mar 2022, at 1:20 am, Cat22 wrote: > > Even tho have only steel series enabled i get the seasons skin. Sometimes i > have found it enabled after i am sure it was not,and after disabling it and > verifying

Re: [weewx-user] want to have /home/weewx/public_html in a ramdisk

2022-03-13 Thread Graham Eddy
feasible ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 14 Mar 2022, at 12:18 am, Tom Keffer wrote: > > High-end consumer SD cards are better than you think. As an experiment, I > spun up a WeeWX instance using full logging on a Sandisk Extreme Plus SD > card, thinking it would last a year or so. That was over

Re: [weewx-user] want to have /home/weewx/public_html in a ramdisk

2022-03-12 Thread Graham Eddy
as well as doing nightly system backups (rsnapshot) to a separate on-site server, i also specifically save weewx.sdb *often* to on-site backup and nightly to off-site backup: graham@messmate:~$ sudo -u weewx crontab -l # local backup production weewx.sdb every 15 mins, rollover one hour 2-59/15

Re: [weewx-user] want to have /home/weewx/public_html in a ramdisk

2022-03-12 Thread Graham Eddy
have file /etc/tmpfiles.d/weewx.conf containing d /run/weewx 0755 weewx weewx - ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 13 Mar 2022, at 11:13 am, Eric K wrote: > > Vince, thanks for your idea of manually creating the > /home/weewx/public_html/json directory. > I tried it and it did al

Re: [weewx-user] $day($data_binding=...).wind.avg not working

2022-03-11 Thread Graham Eddy
‘daily’ with respect to the reporting date, but maybe something is trying to compare to current real date? ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 12 Mar 2022, at 3:17 pm, Tom Keffer wrote: > > The type 'wind' exists only in the daily summaries. In the main archive, it's > been flattened into windSpeed

Re: [weewx-user] $day($data_binding=...).wind.avg not working

2022-03-10 Thread Graham Eddy
i hasten to clarify that those plot images are generated by the weewx instance that owns the gw1000 database. the other weewx instance generates html that only points to the existing image, but it does (try to) generate the text values via the tags ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 11 Mar 2022, at 11:17

[weewx-user] $day($data_binding=...).wind.avg not working

2022-03-10 Thread Graham Eddy
under 4.7.0 $day.wind.avg works fine but $day($data_binding=...).wind.avg does not. is this expected? (i have not tried the latter on earlier versions.) Mar 10 21:17:42 ironbark wee_reports[3057643] DEBUG weewx.cheetahgenerator: Unrecognized: $day($data_binding='gw1000_binding').wind.avg --

Re: [weewx-user] 'wee_database --calc-missing' long to execute

2022-03-09 Thread Graham Eddy
)? has anyone seen such behaviour elsewhere? cheers ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 9 Mar 2022, at 4:16 pm, vince wrote: > > Well I'd still try either splitting it up into pieces, or running it and > measuring its resource usage in another shell. If it's not out of ram and > you're not

Re: [weewx-user] 'wee_database --calc-missing' long to execute

2022-03-08 Thread Graham Eddy
cpu but the smaller dataset (gw1000-originated) <0.3%. it must be something to do with the nature of the data, not the quantity. ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 9 Mar 2022, at 12:11 pm, vince wrote: > > Need some info on which computer(s) you are doing this on. Normally when I > see long run times and

[weewx-user] 'wee_database --calc-missing' long to execute

2022-03-08 Thread Graham Eddy
around copies of weewx.sdb rather than programmatically splitting the data, and see if i get —calc-missing issue again…) cheers ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiv

Re: [weewx-user] Clean your rain gauges

2022-02-28 Thread Graham Eddy
please send some of it to here in *south*east australia, vegetation is crispy > On 1 Mar 2022, at 6:54 am, Tim Tuck wrote: > > LOL - you can have some of ours - we have too much now, the flooding is > getting ridiculous! > > Tim on the East Coast of Australia. > > > On 1/3/22 06:35, p q

Re: [weewx-user] Problem with units

2022-02-13 Thread Graham Eddy
at risk of hijacking this thread, there is only one copy of user/extensions.py, used in all instances of weewx (if you are running multiple instances off same code base). is there an easy way to distinguish instances from within user/extensions.py? ⊣ Graham Eddy ⊢ > On 14 Feb 2022, at 11:58

Re: [weewx-user] High CPU usage with Mysql and GW100 driver

2022-01-26 Thread Graham Eddy
Try running program “top" (install if necessary) to identify the processes consuming all that cpu (type ‘q’ to quit “top”) > On 26 Jan 2022, at 9:53 pm, carlo74 wrote: > > What can I do? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx Messages going to Gmails Spam Folder

2022-01-25 Thread Graham Eddy
gmail suddenly started marking [weewx-users] and [rtl_433] as spam since the quiet post-christmas period. I have just now whitelisted them in google mail by subject as recommended here - see what effect it has over next couple of days > On 26 Jan 2022, at 12:17 am, Greg Troxel wrote: > > You

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx Messages going to Gmails Spam Folder

2022-01-24 Thread Graham Eddy
Ditto > On 25 Jan 2022, at 2:25 pm, Clifford Snow wrote: > > Many, but not all of my weewx-user group messages end up in the spam folder. > Is anyone else seeing this behavior. If so, any recommended fixes? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [weewx-user] Path to charts images

2021-12-22 Thread Graham Eddy
i have been doing this in my skin for some time - works well, i didn’t realise it wasn’t supported [[[plots/daybarometer]]] yscale = 980, 1050, None barometer > On 23 Dec 2021, at 00:33, Tom Keffer wrote: > > Not quite following what you are asking for.

Re: [weewx-user] VP2 datalogger possible issue (?)

2021-12-12 Thread Graham Eddy
i have started seeing same thing on 15yo vp2 starting some months ago: * a few consecutive periods of DMPAFT msgs then none for a while, repeat; and * high incidence of LOOP try# errors of 2 or more (but rarely 4 causing restart, perhaps 6 months between restarts). i think the higher rate of

Re: [weewx-user] Hardware that "Connects to the Internet vi WiFi..."

2021-11-23 Thread Graham Eddy
yes. that’s why you should buy a vantage pro2 (but won’t) > On 23 Nov 2021, at 22:40, Rick M0LEP wrote: > > On Tue 23 Nov Stephen Hocking wrote: >> Something that transmits using the 433MHz can be done using the SDR >> driver, but for most of the devices, the pressure is measured in the >>

Re: [weewx-user] import data via MQTTSubscribe from VEML6075 sensor

2021-10-07 Thread Graham Eddy
mismatched brackets On 7/10/21 11:27 pm, Ian Prescott wrote: *827 #            VEML6075_UvIndex]]]* -- 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] Re: Run weewx as just a collector, run the reports on a different server (mysql database backend)

2021-10-05 Thread Graham Eddy
maybe collector instance can emit everything via mqtt and recorder/reporter instance can receive mqtt messages as its driver. note that collector instance's 'stored' data is not much use as it will be lost every time ramdisk is unmounted (eg on reboot) so it should emit only current

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Run weewx as just a collector, run the reports on a different server (mysql database backend)

2021-10-03 Thread Graham Eddy
maybe collector instance can emit everything via mqtt and recorder/reporter instance can receive mqtt messages as its driver. note that collector instance's 'stored' data is not much use as it will be lost every time ramdisk is unmounted (eg on reboot) so it should emit only current

Re: [weewx-user] Complex calibration formula for pm2.5 sensor

2021-08-15 Thread Graham Eddy
i have long thought my pair of ecowitt units read too high, but i have no reference hereabouts to calibrate them. does anyone know of a correction algorithm for them? On 12/08/21 3:02 am, Alan Stankevitz wrote: I have been attempting to make corrections to the Ecowitt unit cuz it's much less

Re: [weewx-user] Complex calibration formula for pm2.5 sensor

2021-08-11 Thread Graham Eddy
in [[Corrections]] section of weewx.conf you can do something like pm2_5 = 0.52*pm2_5 - 0.085*outHumidity + 5.71 slightly off-topic, does anyone know if the purpleair correction applies to other sensors, or just the purpleair? > On 11 Aug 2021, at 10:25 pm, Alan Stankevitz wrote: > > I am

Re: [weewx-user] Re: recommend IP cameras that are easy to grab a single frame from?

2021-08-10 Thread Graham Eddy
i mount a ramdisk on /home/weewx/public_html > On 11 Aug 2021, at 10:26 am, Eric K wrote: > > I just tried making a symlink to the /tmp/ramdisk directory, inside the > public_html directory, and that worked. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [weewx-user] Highchart Air Quality

2021-07-12 Thread Graham Eddy
i like to put “#if False” at the top and “#end if” at the bottom, and progressively move the ‘def’s closer together > On 13 Jul 2021, at 1:24 pm, vince wrote: > > Cheetah is notoriously hard to debug. > > FWIW, if it's me I take all the if-then-else and table stuff out (at least > initially)

Re: [weewx-user] MQTTSubscribe - when no data is avail, archive function appears to halt

2021-07-09 Thread Graham Eddy
perhaps introduce a ‘null’ driver which just pumps out empty packets, and everything else is a service that augments it > On 10 Jul 2021, at 7:22 am, bell...@gmail.com wrote: > > Ironically I just finished up. an enhancement that might meet your needs. I > added an option,

Re: [weewx-user] Highchart Air Quality

2021-07-08 Thread Graham Eddy
weewx-aqixtypes-0.0.2.tar.gz is not the purpleair aqi extension. it works differently and is configured differently (much simpler) > On 9 Jul 2021, at 10:33 am, Mitchell Tuckness wrote: > > Thank you Tim. I must be missing something. I installed the > weewx-aqixtypes-0.0.2.tar.gz. > > Then

Re: [weewx-user] Highchart Air Quality

2021-07-06 Thread Graham Eddy
oups.com> > mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf > Of Graham Eddy > Sent: Sunday, July 4, 2021 8:58 PM > To: weewx-user@googlegroups.com <mailto:weewx-user@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: [weewx-user] Highchart Air Quality > > if all you want is to

Re: [weewx-user] Highchart Air Quality

2021-07-05 Thread Graham Eddy
if all you want is to convert PM2.5 using the US EPA AQI tables i.e. not get variants or labels, see weewx extension http://geddy.id.au/downloads/weewx-aqixtypes-0.0.2.tar.gz (haven’t got around to putting lots of stuff up on github

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Aussearch error accessing the BOM

2021-05-30 Thread Graham Eddy
i thought BOM was pushing non-commercial ‘citizen scientist’ stuff to project based on/in UK’s WOW > On 30 May 2021, at 10:42 pm, 'Cameron D' via weewx-user > wrote: > > Yes, I "entered into the conversation" a couple of weeks ago. So far it's > been very one-sided. > The impression I got

Re: [weewx-user] YEAR Tab graph dates

2021-05-17 Thread Graham Eddy
i expect x-axis has mm/dd format labels - change it in weewx.conf > On 17 May 2021, at 4:52 pm, Rick wrote: > > Month looks ok but year does not, /01 on the axis. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: [weewx-user] Re: possible for weewx to accept data via MQTT devices?

2021-05-11 Thread Graham Eddy
mosquitto doesn’t need a pidfile - pidfiles are legacy from init.d (my times!) > On 12 May 2021, at 1:55 pm, Eric Koester wrote: > > I expected a pid file to be created, but it isn't. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To

Re: [weewx-user] Re: possible for weewx to accept data via MQTT devices?

2021-05-11 Thread Graham Eddy
> On 12 May 2021, at 1:22 pm, Eric Koester wrote: > > I would bet I need to get mosquitto running properly before I start > configuring MQTTSubscribe? yes, it is pointless looking at a mosquitto apps unless mosquitto itself is working > I used the example mosquitto.conf file >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: rtl_433 not found when run at boot or as service

2021-05-11 Thread Graham Eddy
you probably have, but it doesn’t hurt reminding: before even considering weewx, make sure you repeated *all* the installation steps for rtl433, not just dropped stuff in, and from a blank slate not from an earlier attempt. i have had to do this several times (migrating hosts), and i have made

Re: [weewx-user] overloading gw1000?

2021-05-09 Thread Graham Eddy
i’m not sure what is being comparing to. in my case, it is one gw1000 being polled from three different locations independently each at 20 sec intervals > On 9 May 2021, at 4:59 pm, Rainer Lang wrote: > > I don't think that that's a phenomenon to be generalized. > My GW1000s (s !) are running

[weewx-user] overloading gw1000?

2021-05-08 Thread Graham Eddy
every 24 hours or so recently my gw1000 has become unresponsive and required a power cycle. i am not only polling it every 20 secs in production weewx instance, i am also polling it every 20 secs in two more test weewx instances → i think i am overloading it. just because the api is there

Re: [weewx-user] Re: rebuild-daily fails

2021-05-01 Thread Graham Eddy
and the table ‘was not there’ because it was created within a transaction that was rolled back because of the error > On 2 May 2021, at 2:23 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > found it: duplicate entry in user.extensions.gw1000_schema > > i was under the impression that that schema was

Re: [weewx-user] Re: rebuild-daily fails

2021-05-01 Thread Graham Eddy
found it: duplicate entry in user.extensions.gw1000_schema i was under the impression that that schema was used only when the database is created, but that is incorrect: the schema is also used in —rebuild-daily > On 2 May 2021, at 12:28 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > my weewx-gw

Re: [weewx-user] Re: rebuild-daily fails

2021-05-01 Thread Graham Eddy
i don’t know how to reproduce it (so many changes, as vince pointed out). i was hoping someone had seen it before: maybe a default value going astray it is worth a first-pass inspection, but no more than that if i can’t reproduce it or not seen elsewhere. summary of problem statement would be

Re: [weewx-user] Re: rebuild-daily fails

2021-05-01 Thread Graham Eddy
> You are changing so much i am trying a different split of data between two drivers (one database into two), where both have data in columns in one database > (why ?) you don’t jump a gap in two hops > in a seemingly random order the sequence is logical to me: make a copy for second driver,

[weewx-user] rebuild-daily fails

2021-05-01 Thread Graham Eddy
rebuilding daily summary on weewx database is not working, hopefully someone can help in the leadup to this, * i copied producton weewx.sdb to dev/test (different host) weewx-gw1000.sdb, * in which i dropped lots of columns and renamed others (using wee_database —drop-columns and —rename-column

Re: [weewx-user] Extract station data for use in script...

2021-04-28 Thread Graham Eddy
you can easily create a template just like wview’s parameterlist.htm. look at the NOAA templates as a related example. weewx 4.5 has introduced json as generated values format (i haven’t tried them yet) which should suit you perfectly > On 28 Apr 2021, at 5:33 pm, bus...@gmail.com wrote: > >

Re: [weewx-user] Using weewx-vitalstats & graphing data from data-services

2021-04-27 Thread Graham Eddy
> Using this service as an example: https://github.com/g-eddy/weewx-vitalstats. > How can I get the data from that into something graphable by the Belchertown > skin? you will be creating new data_types(s). i don’t know belchertown; use its method to add new items to template files > Is it

Re: [weewx-user] Re: new weewx install not creating database or webpage

2021-04-26 Thread Graham Eddy
… and wait 5 minutes for the first report i.e. for index.html to be created. see whether logfile reports errors generating it > On 27 Apr 2021, at 12:42 pm, p q wrote: > > Where does the log file say the files are being copied to? > Where does weewx.conf have for HTML_ROOT ? > > On Mon, Apr

[weewx-user] data_binding in 'for' ?

2021-04-23 Thread Graham Eddy
where in the following should i place ‘($data_binding=vp2_binding)’ ? note that other tags within the #for scope need to have a different data_binding #for $day in $month.days #if $day.outTemp.count.raw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user"

Re: [weewx-user] gw1000 - wh41 wh57 battery values

2021-04-22 Thread Graham Eddy
). is this level of loss normal for gw1000? > On 22 Apr 2021, at 5:55 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > this reminds me strongly of windDir value when windSpeed==0 > >> On 22 Apr 2021, at 3:46 pm, gjr80 > <mailto:gjroder...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Sensor signal le

Re: [weewx-user] Re: gw1000 - wh41 wh57 battery values

2021-04-22 Thread Graham Eddy
this reminds me strongly of windDir value when windSpeed==0 > On 22 Apr 2021, at 3:46 pm, gjr80 wrote: > > Sensor signal level 0 is a valid signal level so we cannot just omit a sensor > entirely just because the GW1000 reports signal level = 0. At the same time > we know that the battery

Re: [weewx-user] Re: gw1000 - wh41 wh57 battery values

2021-04-21 Thread Graham Eddy
an extract from test system - RPi with gw1000 as driver > On 21 Apr 2021, at 6:30 pm, gjr80 wrote: > > Either way post the logged data here and I can decode what the driver was > receiving. —logged config— Apr 21 21:33:09 stringybark weewx-gw1000[341] DEBUG __main__:

[weewx-user] gw1000 - wh41 wh57 battery values

2021-04-20 Thread Graham Eddy
i have been tracking battery and signal values for 36 hours for my various sensors hanging off a gw1000. for wh41 and wh57 i expected to see values 0-5, but i have see other values. wh41 has shown 15 quite often. wh57 has shown 255 once. 15 and 255 look suspiciously like bit masks. i should add

Re: [weewx-user] Adding a new type to an SQLite DB

2021-04-19 Thread Graham Eddy
and —config takes a weewx.conf (not a weewx.sdb) as its arg > On 20 Apr 2021, at 5:57 am, vince wrote: > > Your weewx is too old. You need to update to 4.5.0 or later according to the > release notes at https://github.com/weewx/weewx/releases > > >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wewx is not rebooted with the system

2021-04-18 Thread Graham Eddy
change the weewx.service file to point to your weewxd executable. when you use someone else’s configuartion file, you must always check that it matches your own system configuration and requirements > On 18 Apr 2021, at 5:13 pm, P C wrote: > > /home/weewx/bin/weewxd: No such file or directory

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wewx is not rebooted with the system

2021-04-17 Thread Graham Eddy
see weewx util/systemd/weewx.service for an example config file. you will copy this to /etc/systemd/system/. see online manual systemd.unit(5) to understand its content (you are unlikely to need to change the file) see online manual systemctl(1) for the commands to start/stop weewx service,

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Wewx is not rebooted with the system

2021-04-17 Thread Graham Eddy
nothing relevant shown in the tiny extract of the very long syslog… post a copy of your .service file and the systemctl commands you have used > On 17 Apr 2021, at 10:52 pm, P C wrote: > > Sorry, I do not see how we can put this service on the way. > Thank you for help > > log after reboot « >

Re: [weewx-user] Database Disk Image Is malformed

2021-04-17 Thread Graham Eddy
two RPi’s report db failure 10 mins apart. i assume they are SD-based. SD cards are notoriously susceptible to power spikes → must have USB/power conditioning. or you’ve been incredibly unlucky and near-simultaneous failure is coincidence > On 17 Apr 2021, at 10:22 pm, Tom Keffer wrote: > > I

Re: [weewx-user] Re: weewx.cheetahgenerator debug

2021-04-16 Thread Graham Eddy
it would be really helpful if the temporary file created by cheetah was not deleted when an error occurred > On 17 Apr 2021, at 2:32 pm, gjr80 wrote: > > Unfortunately sometimes Cheetah gives only limited info and often the best > you can do is try to deduce from the error message where or

Re: [weewx-user] Re: set 'group_time' to 'unix_epoch_ms' causes crash in weewx.almanac

2021-04-12 Thread Graham Eddy
i am using https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-forecast v.b12, which, as you say, calls almanac i think i understand. deep in weewx (call it weewx ‘kernel’), monotonic time is a fundamental always measured in time_t. in the upper levels of weewx, in the world of weewx units, time is an

[weewx-user] set 'group_time' to 'unix_epoch_ms' causes crash in weewx.almanac

2021-04-12 Thread Graham Eddy
my upgrade from 4.4.0 to 4.5.1 was not as clean as i indicated earlier. it crashed on test system every time it tried to generate reports but i fixed that, and production system update was clean. so, reporting the error: cheetah crashed apparently inside weewx.almanac, so i inserted a print() -

Re: [weewx-user] Version 4.5.0 released

2021-04-11 Thread Graham Eddy
4.5.1 updated cleanly here (from 4.4.0 using setup.py on current RPi OS) i ran into the as_value_tuple() API change, as documented - minor fix to change my services (added ‘except KeyError’ to ‘vt[0] is None’ test) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [weewx-user] WH57(lighning detection) and GW1000 send daily summary on every records

2021-04-10 Thread Graham Eddy
post your gw1000 config especially map. suspect you are accumulating an already-accumulated count > On 11 Apr 2021, at 7:12 am, Johann Destombes wrote: > > The GW1000 show 5 lightnings, this number is ok on the WS View apps and on > ecowitt.net but it's now more than

Re: [weewx-user] WeeWX-MQTTSubscribe - use of - sanity check

2021-04-08 Thread Graham Eddy
i am nearly finished doing something similar, except (1) i position weewx as the manager of the wx hardware via station-specific interface - weewx is the app that encapsulates the wx and provides its data as mqtt to the world (unless the wx is natively mqtt). e.g. the vantage driver is solid.

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx-envoy driver

2021-04-04 Thread Graham Eddy
a quick peek at the code indicates it is python2-only (the exception handling is the giveaway) > On 5 Apr 2021, at 7:53 am, weather list wrote: > > Does anyone have this running? > Installed it on my WeeWx install and it appears in the

Re: [weewx-user] 'systemctl stop' sends SIGKILL not SIGTERM on RPi

2021-04-02 Thread Graham Eddy
some of my services do have state that i need to save on termination, so it is important to me > On 3 Apr 2021, at 1:42 am, Tom Keffer wrote: > > SIGKILL is unclean behavior, but it should not cause any harm. The only state > worth worrying about is the database and, there, all writes are

[weewx-user] 'systemctl stop' sends SIGKILL not SIGTERM on RPi

2021-04-02 Thread Graham Eddy
using the provided weewx.service on an RPi, ‘sudo systemctl stop weewx’ sends SIGKILL instantly (twice), which is a very unclean termination of weewx and causes me problems. has anyone encountered this and has a proper fix? so far as i can tell from the manuals (particularly ‘systemd.kill' and

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Vantage Pro data logger corruption - Daylight Saving Time?

2021-03-28 Thread Graham Eddy
so *that* was what the upgrade was. they would only rent us that device (don’t recall how much but it was a lot) and couldn’t say what it did. as you would expect, i refused. glad i did: the change was not even relevant to my country. and the vp2 has ticked quite nicely since, without the

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Vantage Pro data logger corruption - Daylight Saving Time?

2021-03-28 Thread Graham Eddy
i have never seen this problem viz having to clear logger memory to fix DST transition. heck, i have never had to clear logger memory > On 29 Mar 2021, at 12:32 am, John Kline wrote: > > The issue being reported here sounds different. Are you guys saying you > *always* have this problem

Re: [weewx-user] MQTT for Belchertown skin

2021-03-27 Thread Graham Eddy
what’s not working? > On 28 Mar 2021, at 12:33 am, Tom Hackett wrote: > > I just can't figure this out. -- 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] Re: Database merge?

2021-03-17 Thread Graham Eddy
no lines removed or added i.e. line 153 still in situ? i seem to recall configobj has difficulties with empty stanza and more so with trailing comment lines. probably worth a try ensuring neither of those in the file e.g. leave enable=false uncommented > On 18 Mar 2021, at 10:19 am, PJO

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Replaced Davis Envoy (tripping) and replaced with another - no connection

2021-03-10 Thread Graham Eddy
i do recall that davis introduced an incompatability between old firmware and new datalogger but i don’t recall the details. i’m sure a search of the forum archive would see if that was relevant > On 11 Mar 2021, at 2:17 pm, monmul wrote: > > Yes I am using the original data logger and cable

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Replaced Davis Envoy (tripping) and replaced with another - no connection

2021-03-10 Thread Graham Eddy
how much is ‘new’ and much much ‘old’? i.e. with the new envoy, are you using the old known-working data logger and cable? > On 11 Mar 2021, at 2:09 pm, monmul wrote: > > New Envoy shows no response to TEST or NVER...so that one is definately dead > I think! -- You received this message

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Installing Weewx on a Raspberry Pi with a Weatherlink Live

2021-03-09 Thread Graham Eddy
macos puts users under /Users, linux puts them under /home. windoze has its convention for users too > On 10 Mar 2021, at 3:51 pm, troutwitted wrote: > > To specify an install location different from the default /home/weewx, modify > the parameter home in the setup.cfg file. Mac users will

Re: [weewx-user] Weather station on Raspberry Pi with LTE/4G connect

2021-03-05 Thread Graham Eddy
a driver creates the original packet with a timestamp, a service changes (usually adds to) the existing packet. some modules, like gw1000, can be configured to be in either mode (i.e. originate packets, or augment existing packets produced by some other driver). i do this, with vantage as

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Replaced Davis Envoy (tripping) and replaced with another - no connection

2021-03-04 Thread Graham Eddy
or just note which /dev/ttyUSB* comes and goes once identified i like to put in a udev rule to create a known device file such as /dev/vp2 > On 5 Mar 2021, at 12:33 pm, vince wrote: > > One good way to identify a USB device is to unplug it, plug it back in, and > see what the 'dmesg' command

Re: [weewx-user] Weather station on Raspberry Pi with LTE/4G connect

2021-03-03 Thread Graham Eddy
i’m headed to gitub discussions now... > On 4 Mar 2021, at 9:03 am, bell...@gmail.com wrote: > > Graham, > I am still very much in the ‘idea stage’, but would be happy to chat. In > order to not hijack this thread we should probably start another thread or > start a di

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Skin not change

2021-03-02 Thread Graham Eddy
if you have any other skins enabled, and they point to the same directory, they would be overwriting the new specification > On 3 Mar 2021, at 6:13 pm, gjr80 wrote: > > [[StandardReport]] > # This is the old "Standard" skin. By default, it is not enabled. > skin = neowx-material > enable =

Re: [weewx-user] Weather station on Raspberry Pi with LTE/4G connect

2021-03-02 Thread Graham Eddy
i’ve implemented my own bidirectional gateway and i also parked this issue - next version’s problem, as i had no present need for it. but i am moving my system (of which weewx is a component) to mqtt backbone (e.g. my alarms weewx service moving to mqtt for more general use) so i would be very

Re: [weewx-user] Weather station on Raspberry Pi with LTE/4G connect

2021-03-01 Thread Graham Eddy
do you really want to push the raw data form RPi to webserver, on which you will have to generate the reports (e.g. another instance of weewx), or generate the reports on RPi and push the reports to the webserver? > On 1 Mar 2021, at 7:52 pm, Christian Radermacher > wrote: > > So the best

Re: [weewx-user] Tracking Rainfall 9 AM to 9 AM (Australia)

2021-03-01 Thread Graham Eddy
after adding since.py file to bin/user/, and adding user.since.Since to skin.conf, you could just edit your .html.tmpl files to change ‘$day.rain.sum’ to ‘$since($hour=9).rain.sum’ (i.e. ‘$day’ → ‘$since($hour=9)’), so that all your daily rain is since 9am instead of since midnight. i think

Re: [weewx-user] Tracking Rainfall 9 AM to 9 AM (Australia)

2021-02-28 Thread Graham Eddy
AA/NOAA-%Y-%m.txt.tmpl update your .html.tmpl to use the $since timespan e.g. $since($hour=9).rain.sum.format(add_label=False) > On 1 Mar 2021, at 3:59 pm, Robert D wrote: > > Thanks Graham - looking at it with a text editor...it looks like it has been > written to do what want. > But b

Re: [weewx-user] Tracking Rainfall 9 AM to 9 AM (Australia)

2021-02-28 Thread Graham Eddy
i have been using this for a while#evilbunny2008 attributed this in 2018 to Gary in australia -- 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] Re: Replaced Davis Envoy (tripping) and replaced with another - no connection

2021-02-25 Thread Graham Eddy
vnc makes no relevant difference. command = ‘screen’ below shows program ‘screen’ has a ‘pi’ user process open on /dev/ttyUSB0 at the moment. not weewxd. probably left over from earlier troubleshooting. kill it with “sudo killall screen”. check if any weewxd’s or screen’s hanging around with “ps

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Reboot GW1000 using monit?

2021-02-16 Thread Graham Eddy
internet our here in the bush is flakey and goes down often. i have UPS on internet connection so have not looked out for gw1000 rebooting every 20 mins while running on battery. i will look out for it next time. *very* unsatisfactory if lack of external internet interrupts my local data

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Cheetah Generator Errors

2021-02-15 Thread Graham Eddy
that was my point. i think it was a subtle config error, not yet picked up by the authour, that did not cause a syntax error, but would truncate his expected reports. but, not knowing belchertown, perhaps this strange configuration was correct for it... > On 16 Feb 2021, at 4:31 pm, gjr80

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Cheetah Generator Errors

2021-02-15 Thread Graham Eddy
dunno whether this is a config error but the indentation and number of ‘[’s are not consistent here > On 16 Feb 2021, at 7:06 am, Parker Lohrenz wrote: > > [[Belchertown]] > template = js/belchertown.js.tmpl > > [[[home]]] > template = index.html.tmpl >

Re: [weewx-user] WOW data upload customisation

2021-02-13 Thread Graham Eddy
the ecowitt WH51 reports soil moisture as percent. i changed unit_group in user.extensions to reflect this. (‘percent of what?’ is a good question → calibration for own soil type, which i’ve yet to do, but it gives me sensible ballpark numbers out of the box) > On 14 Feb 2021, at 1:26 am, Tom

Re: [weewx-user] Failed install of Cheetah on Mac Catalina

2021-02-09 Thread Graham Eddy
mine are case sensitive > On 10 Feb 2021, at 3:04 pm, Gary Strand wrote: > > related to Macs being case-insensitive -- 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

Re: [weewx-user] Pausible values for UV sensor?!

2021-02-07 Thread Graham Eddy
https://wiki.cancer.org.au/skincancerstats/UV_radiation : The UV Index is a standardised measure used to express UV radiation intensity. It is equal to 40 times the erythemally effective power of the sun in W/m2. The UV Index at solar

Re: [weewx-user] Having trouble installing on Mac

2021-02-05 Thread Graham Eddy
did you run bin/weewxd as root, to have needed permissions for creating /var/log/weewx.log? as an aside, you are thinking of moving weewx from mac to rpi. do it. macos continues to diverge from its linux roots into strange lands opaque to mere mortals e.g. i found daemons via launchd becoming

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Graph not update

2021-02-04 Thread Graham Eddy
is this the correct target ftp location? > On 5 Feb 2021, at 5:24 pm, ginfo...@gmail.com wrote: > > Feb 5 05:55:32 raspberrypi weewx[7414] DEBUG weeutil.ftpupload: Connected to > it31.siteground.eu > Feb 5 05:55:32 raspberrypi weewx[7414] DEBUG weeutil.ftpupload:

Re: [weewx-user] Unable to wake up Vantage console

2021-01-25 Thread Graham Eddy
sorry, i should also have said: set debug to 1 (near top of weewx.conf). that will tell us more about the dialogue between vantage and weewx > On 25 Jan 2021, at 9:05 pm, Txo wrote: > > Jan 25 10:54:31 raspledeuix systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system... > Jan 25 10:54:32 raspledeuix

Re: [weewx-user] Unable to wake up Vantage console

2021-01-24 Thread Graham Eddy
you need to post your syslog from the time *before weewx first starts* until after its says EXITING. pay particular attention to anything said about the serial port > On 25 Jan 2021, at 4:56 pm, Txo wrote: > > Bonjour, > I have recently buy a Vantage station with a meteo-pi >

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