Re: [weewx-user] Problems with weewx on MacOS

2023-05-25 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi Tom, Sorry that it took time to update on this, the remote location had a problem with their internet for a few days so i was not able to access it remotely until now. I set debug=2 in weewx.conf and below is the output. Can you make any sense of it? 2023-05-25 13:33:23 weewx[989] DEBUG

Re: [weewx-user] Re-installed weewx using setup.py and now it won't start at boot

2021-07-05 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks Vince, That is good advice. I tried that more than once and the problem persists so i'm ready to drive out to the location and collect the SD card to format it so i can start fresh. This is the first weather station I built so I probably did something wrong when I first set it up. I

Re: [weewx-user] Re-installed weewx using setup.py and now it won't start at boot

2021-07-05 Thread Sean Jahnig
> >>> 2. What version of Raspbian are you using? (Use "cat /etc/os-release") >>> >>> 3. Try using a -x switch before running /etc/init.d/weewx. It will at >>> least tell you what it's doing: >>> >>> set -x >>> sudo /etc

Re: [weewx-user] Re-installed weewx using setup.py and now it won't start at boot

2021-07-04 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the reply. It could very well be the init.d/weewx script but i've started at it and from what i understand, i can't see an error. I've attached weewx.txt which is the top half of the init.d script. I cleared the syslog and the weewx.log and then i rebooted. After the reboot i pasted

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Broadcast to weewx from Weatherflow tempest station

2021-07-04 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks! It looks like they have what i need. Thanks, Sean Jahnig On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 5:05 PM gary@gmail.com wrote: > Perhaps check the Wiki: > Home · weewx/weewx Wiki · GitHub > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki#drivers> > > > On Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite 5in1 and rtl_sdr

2021-02-03 Thread Sean Jahnig
@ p q thanks for the support! @ mksm thanks for the suggestions. I have tried many things, including taking the batteries out and then in again, and putting the station right next to the pi. I've tried changing USB ports for the dongle... i have had many theories but currently i think it is

[weewx-user] Problem with rtl_433

2020-06-20 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi, Has anyone experienced a problem with rtl_433 / rtl-sdr on a raspberry pi where the USB device becomes unreadable? I have acurite 5-n-1 with sdr and a raspberry pi. Things have been working fine but all of a sudden the rtl_433 driver is not receiving packets so weewx is not receiving

[weewx-user] Re: Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-09 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi Tom, Please let me know which page i should watch in order to stay tuned with any updated to sdr.py ? Much appreciated, thanks! Sean. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-07 Thread Sean Jahnig
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Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-07 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi Tom, Thanks a lot for the reply and for the update. If that is the case then i will be very happy to at least understand why that was happening! The question is, how was it working accurately for the past 4 months? Perhaps an update caused things to change when i was fiddling 2 weeks ago.

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-07 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the reply Tom, I think i have fixed the logging now - time stamps are there. I must've just changed DEBUG = 0 before i sent you the weewx.conf file because i have been doing a lot of fiddling. I have set it to 1 again. I have also enabled logging of the unmapped and unknown sensors

[weewx-user] Re: Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-06 Thread Sean Jahnig
Ok, so i discovered that the Acurite 5n1 was reporting in km/h (for example, 10km/h) and it was uploading to windGuru the same number of 10 - but windGuru was displaying that as knots, which is incorrect. I tried whatever i could but nothing changed this behaviour. So i went to the station,

Re: [weewx-user] Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-05 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi guys, I have identified that the acurite 5-in-1 and the SDR are working but the information coming form the sensor is km/h. This is what it looks like when i run rtl_433 from the console: https://www.dropbox.com/s/trnj0sype60w6m1/picture.png?dl=0 The problem is, weewx is broadcasting the

Re: [weewx-user] Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-04 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks Greg. I'm trying to sound smart but honestly, this command line stuff overwhelms me a bit. This is the code that i run from the pi's console: sudo PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/weewx python /usr/share/weewx/user/sdr.py --cmd="rtl_433 -M utc -F json" When i run that, it gives me a lot of data, of

Re: [weewx-user] Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-04 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi Greg, Thanks for that reply and the suggestions, i think you are right. When i was fiddling with the software 2 weeks ago i must've somehow enabled kph instead of knots. Somehow... When i run rtl directly from the console it tells me the following from the acurite 5-in-1 sensor:

[weewx-user] Acurite 5-in-1 reading too high

2020-06-04 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi guys, I have an acurite 5-in-1 that is working but appears to be reading too high. It says 22 knots but it’s more like 15. Is there possibly weewx setting i should check before checking the hardware? I know it is not reading accurately because we use it for kite surfing and it has always

[weewx-user] Re: weewx has been working for months but it's suddely offline

2020-05-17 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi Gary, Thanks for that. You are indeed right. The sensor details were there in weewx.conf, but the header [[sensor_map]]was missing. I have added it in now and restarted weewx and it is working. https://www.windguru.cz/station/2146 This is a very interesting situation and now that i think

[weewx-user] Re: weewx has been working for months but it's suddely offline

2020-05-17 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the replies, When i stop weewx using 'sudo service weewx stop' and then i run 'sudo rtl_433 -M utc -F json' this is what i get: rtl_433 version 20.02-55-gc1d1f9f branch master at 202005162227 inputs file rtl_tcp RTL-SDR Use -h for usage help and see https://triq.org/ for

Re: [weewx-user] Re: weewx has been working for months but it's suddely offline

2020-05-17 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the replies, When i stop weewx using 'sudo service weewx stop' and then i run 'sudo rtl_433 -M utc -F json' this is what i get: rtl_433 version 20.02-55-gc1d1f9f branch master at 202005162227 inputs file rtl_tcp RTL-SDR Use -h for usage help and see https://triq.org/ for

[weewx-user] Re: weewx has been working for months but it's suddely offline

2020-05-17 Thread Sean Jahnig
://www.dropbox.com/s/n2gwwslqcbwchlj/weewx_03.log?dl=0 Thanks, Sean. On Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 4:14:30 PM UTC+4, Sean Jahnig wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a weewx installation running on a RPi and connected to an acurite 5 > in 1 using SDR. It has been working well for a long time but suddenly now

[weewx-user] weewx has been working for months but it's suddely offline

2020-05-17 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi, I have a weewx installation running on a RPi and connected to an acurite 5 in 1 using SDR. It has been working well for a long time but suddenly now it is offline and i can't figure out why. I hadn't updated the RPi for a long time so i ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade but no

Re: [weewx-user] Re: pi is online and weewx driver is working - but not posting

2020-01-12 Thread Sean Jahnig
t 3:56:32 AM UTC-5, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> >> Any ideas why that would've changed? >> > > it depends on the sensor. i know that some temperature/humidity sensors > have a new, apparently random identifier each time you power cycle them. > however, i have n

Re: [weewx-user] Re: pi is online and weewx driver is working - but not posting

2020-01-11 Thread Sean Jahnig
val is not quite 'oddball' by issue > #469 standards, I would try making it something more conventional like five > minutes, restart and see if that rectifies the archive record generation > issue. > > Gary > > On Sunday, 12 January 2020 14:46:44 UTC+10, Sean Jahnig wrote: >>

[weewx-user] pi is online and weewx driver is working - but not posting

2020-01-11 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi, This is a different station that i setup about a month ago. This is using an Acurite 5-in-1 with and SDR dongle - no displays involved. The station has been online for the last 1 month with no problems. Today i woke up and the despite everything being online, the data is not being uploaded

Re: [weewx-user] weewx is working, but it's not uploading to windguru

2020-01-08 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the suggestions. You are 100% right - i managed to fix this about 1 hour ago. I got someone on site to power cycle the display and it didn't fix it. So I was brainstorming this for a few hours and i was surprised to see that *sudo apt-get update* wasn't working. So i vnc'd into the

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx errno 32 pipe error

2020-01-08 Thread Sean Jahnig
*nameserver 8.8.8.8* and viola it worked! Not sure how that setting got lost because i am the only one with access. Thanks for all the support. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:08 AM mwall wrote: > > > On Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 1:29:24 AM UTC-5, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> Than

Re: [weewx-user] weewx is working, but it's not uploading to windguru

2020-01-07 Thread Sean Jahnig
I set debug to 1 again and then i did a reboot. Attached is the weewx.log file. > > Thanks -- 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] weewx is working, but it's not uploading to windguru

2020-01-07 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the reply. Actually when i opened weewx.conf i realised debug was already set to 1. I remember doing it about a week ago to see what was happening. Just for experimentation purposes i commented out that line to disable debugging and this is the response i get now when i run sudo

[weewx-user] weewx is working, but it's not uploading to windguru

2020-01-07 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi, I have a station with acurite 5-in-1 at a remote location. The station is accessible via ssh and it appears to be working. The signal is up and down but mostly it seems like the weewx driver is getting the data from the display. See here: http://sandybeachhotel.dyndns.tv:1051/weewx/ The

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Best accurate 5 in 1 alternative

2019-12-29 Thread Sean Jahnig
gt; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVsqGX0iBOM > > it should help you > > > > On Sunday, 29 December 2019 09:20:53 UTC+2, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> It is 300. You are right, if i wait 10min it has started reporting so it >>

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Best accurate 5 in 1 alternative

2019-12-28 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the reply. It is 300. You are right, if i wait 10min it has started reporting so it is working. I am having intermittent issues though and i think it is because i am using the wrong antenna on the dongle. If i move the station more than 5m away from the dongle, it loses the signal.

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Best accurate 5 in 1 alternative

2019-12-28 Thread Sean Jahnig
> > On Friday, December 13, 2019 at 1:42:32 PM UTC-5, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> Are there any better suggestions for a weather station that is more >> reliable than the acurite? > > > many. > > but the easiest thing for you would be to buy a US$20 usb-sdr dongle, >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Best accurate 5 in 1 alternative

2019-12-21 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi All, Is there any easy solution to get this Davis anemometer/wind vane ( https://www.amazon.com/Davis-Instruments-Anemometer-Vantage-Pro2/dp/B004GK9MFO/ref=sr_1_22?keywords=davis+vantage=1576991632=8-22) working with weewx directly? This item is originally meant to be a replacement for a

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Best accurate 5 in 1 alternative

2019-12-13 Thread Sean Jahnig
9 at 1:42:32 PM UTC-5, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> Are there any better suggestions for a weather station that is more >> reliable than the acurite? > > > many. > > but the easiest thing for you would be to buy a US$20 usb-sdr dongle, > install the weewx-sdr driver

[weewx-user] Best accurate 5 in 1 alternative

2019-12-13 Thread Sean Jahnig
I built a weather station using an accurate 5 in 1! a raspberry pi and weewx. It works well but it the acurite side of things is temperamental. The usb enabled display sometimes needs to be reset and a usb hub is required to make sure it always has power. Not ideal when the station is installed

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx errno 32 pipe error

2019-11-23 Thread Sean Jahnig
> > Thanks for the suggestion, does this mean anything to anyone? > [2.770063] usb 1-1.2.4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=24c0, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 0.20 [2.770081] usb 1-1.2.4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [2.770094] usb 1-1.2.4.4: Product:

[weewx-user] Re: Weewx errno 32 pipe error

2019-11-22 Thread Sean Jahnig
As an additional note, when i run $ usb-devices, one of the items that shows up is the acurite display: T: Bus=01 Lev=04 Prnt=08 Port=03 Cnt=02 Dev#= 10 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=24c0 ProdID=0003 Rev=00.20 S: Product=Chaney

[weewx-user] Weewx errno 32 pipe error

2019-11-22 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi, I have a RPi 4 with Acurite 010361 which has been online and reporting well for the last 3 months. All of a sudden, it is giving the below error: Nov 23 07:50:27 raspberrypi weewx[606]: restx: CWOP: Posting not enabled. Nov 23 07:50:27 raspberrypi weewx[606]: restx: WOW: Posting not

Re: [weewx-user] RPi weewx acurite 5-in-1 error

2019-10-26 Thread Sean Jahnig
at 7:49 AM p q wrote: > I haven't see that exact error, but I have seen occasional random errors. > They don't seem to affect the results. > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 8:06 PM Sean Jahnig wrote: > >> I have the acurite 5-in-1 with rpi 4 and it has been running fla

[weewx-user] RPi weewx acurite 5-in-1 error

2019-10-26 Thread Sean Jahnig
I have the acurite 5-in-1 with rpi 4 and it has been running flawlessly for a week. This morning i woke up to find this error. Has anyone seen this error before? Oct 27 06:55:19 raspberrypi weewx[603]: cheetahgenerator: Generated 8 files for report SeasonsReport in 0.63 seconds Oct 27

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Bresser 6in1

2019-10-26 Thread Sean Jahnig
I have acurite 5-in-1 but i was also having connection issues. I installed a USB hub and i also used an active USB cable to connect the display to the device which was 6 or 7 meters away. This combination seems to have fixed the problem. On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 4:32 PM Sebastien ROVERCH wrote:

Re: [weewx-user] Force auto-update of web page?

2019-10-24 Thread Sean Jahnig
I used the below in the tag of the html to force the browser to refresh every 2 minutes: On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:33 PM Les Niles wrote: > There’s a refresh tag that can be added to the html. As Andrew said, > google for it to find the correct syntax. > > Or, use one of the AJAXy

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-19 Thread Sean Jahnig
and if possible temperature sensor that is a more reliable than the acurite? Thanks, Sean Jahnig m. +97150 475 4234 e. seanocas...@gmail.com On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, 16:52 Wade Graham, wrote: > Hi Sean > > I am also a kiter. > I highly recommend using Weewx it is simply great software a

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weather station recommendations?

2019-10-16 Thread Sean Jahnig
, Sean Jahnig m. +97150 475 4234 e. seanocas...@gmail.com On Wed, 16 Oct 2019, 19:51 Xant, wrote: > > After the above reference regarding Windguru, I implemented the plugin > service into WeeWX and start uploading to Windguru website (easy process, > and uploading in minute

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weather station recommendations?

2019-10-15 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the info. I'm very interested in that weatherflow station. Does it communicate seamlessly with windguru for live wind? Thanks On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:20 AM Xant wrote: > > Let me point some further features and integrations of WeatherFlow: > > 1) WF API >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite Atlas - I switched --> Ambient Weather WS-1550-IP

2019-10-14 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks for the reply, very much appreciated. If i could go back i think i would spend a bit extra and go for a different brand than acurite. But anyways, for now i'm locked in and it seems to be working with my display after i removed the USB keyboard and USB mouse. Will it work tomorrow... lets

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-13 Thread Sean Jahnig
. On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 7:12:36 PM UTC+4, mwall wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 11:04:36 AM UTC-4, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> And now, for some reason i've done multiple restarts and it weewx >> connects via usb every time. The only thing i

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-13 Thread Sean Jahnig
as the display is staying on during the reboot i don't think this problem is the case of the USB Mode resetting. It's almost like the weewx driver is not able to find the usb device in some instances. Thanks, Sean Jahnig m. +97150 475 4234 e. seanocas...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 4:52 PM Sean

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-13 Thread Sean Jahnig
- wherever i left it. Appreciate your help. Thanks, Sean Jahnig m. +97150 475 4234 e. seanocas...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 4:23 PM mwall wrote: > > > On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 5:17:45 AM UTC-4, Sean Jahnig wrote: >> >> >> Any ideas on how to fix

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-13 Thread Sean Jahnig
Mode' on the acurite display from 4, to 3, then back to 4. As well as changing the port that the device is plugged into on the pi - then it connects successfully again. Any ideas on how to fix this problem so that it can just reconnect successfully after a reboot? Thanks, Sean Jahnig m. +97150

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-07 Thread Sean Jahnig
; Sean Jahnig wrote: > > > Nah it's my fault. I thought i had researched it properly but clearly > > not. Let's hope the new display that I've bought will solve the > > problem. > > > > Thanks again for the help. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Sean Jahn

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-05 Thread Sean Jahnig
Nah it's my fault. I thought i had researched it properly but clearly not. Let's hope the new display that I've bought will solve the problem. Thanks again for the help. Thanks, Sean Jahnig m. +97150 475 4234 e. seanocas...@gmail.com On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, 21:06 p q, wrote: > Crap. I'm so

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-05 Thread Sean Jahnig
a mini-USB port on > mine. There is the little USB symbol above it. > [image: image.png] > > They could have removed it, but it would make no sense. > > On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 7:59 AM Sean Jahnig wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> Quick question, my acurite statio

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-10-05 Thread Sean Jahnig
low temperature readings. In your case, you probably don't care. For > me, I had to add a second temperature sensor. > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 9:02 PM Sean Jahnig wrote: > >> Thanks a lot Kevin, >> >> Is this the unit you have? >> https://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-09-17 Thread Sean Jahnig
Thanks a lot Kevin, Is this the unit you have? https://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-Wireless-Weather-Station-Sensor/dp/B00N1XCA9M/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=acurite+weather=1568779180=gateway=8-2 Will it connect to the rasberry pi as is or do I need to buy any other hardware? Thanks, Sean Jahnig m

[weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-09-17 Thread Sean Jahnig
; and camera results at: > > http://nb7o.ddns.net > > There is a menu on the left side. the wx info is the top menu item, the > camera images are a few menu items down, and the instructable is a little > further down. > > kevin > Hermiston, Oregon, USA > >

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-09-17 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi Jardi, Thanks for the info. I'm feeling like the acurite solution might be a better starting point for me and then i'll expand from there. Will let you know, thanks! On Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 12:27:57 PM UTC+4, Jardi Martínez wrote: > > Hi Sean, > > I don't have access to one of

[weewx-user] Re: Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-09-15 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi Jardi, Thanks a lot for the reply - much appreciated. I'm quite new to this whole world of rasberry pi so please forgive my ignorance. The reason why i was looking at that Davis anemometer and wind vane is because it is one of the few sets that i've seen which have a wind vane and

Re: [weewx-user] Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-09-14 Thread Sean Jahnig
t; to other raspberry pi's and I'm not sure your going to get 1080p streaming. > Maybe with a new Raspberry Pi 4, but you're going to use some bandwidth. > Maybe a 30 second gif from the web cam updated every 5 minutes would do > what you need with tons less bandwidth. Just a thought. >

[weewx-user] Rasberry Pi weather station with anemometer and camera only

2019-09-14 Thread Sean Jahnig
Hi, I'm new here so if this has been answered before, please just direct me to the article. I am fairly IT competent but i am not a coder. However, i can read through tutorials and hack my way most the time. *A bit of background:* I am a surfer and kitesurfer and i live in the UAE. We do not