Re: [weewx-user] Re: steelseries-gauge dont works on path ../weewx/skins/seasons WHY ?

2020-12-12 Thread Graham Eddy
symlinks might be more manageable > On 13 Dec 2020, at 10:32 am, gjr80 wrote: > > The trick in your case, since you are using one copy of gauges.js to support > the Seasons skin and ss skin, will be to add path info that works for both > your Seasons and ss skins. You will need to find a suita

Re: [weewx-user] GW1000 - solar radiation data lost while switching from Interceptor to API driver

2020-12-16 Thread Graham Eddy
syslog shows you have mapped 'UV’ from ‘uv’ and ‘radiation’ from ‘solar_radiation’. my working config has ‘UV’ mapped from ‘uvi’ and ‘radiation’ from ‘uv' > On 17 Dec 2020, at 10:41 am, 'Rainer Lang' via weewx-user > wrote: > > I was running Weewx with the GW1000 interceptor and everything ran

[weewx-user] [[Calculations]] on archive record not loop packet?

2020-12-18 Thread Graham Eddy
my reading of the 4.3.0 source is that [[Calculations]] calculates the specified xtypes on each loop packet. is there a simple way now, or is it in plan, to be able to have them calculated for archive records only? i do not want to calculate AQI from averaged pollutant values except when the av

Re: [weewx-user] Has Anyone Reached out to Ecowitt about an API or Some other Connectivity with Weewx?

2020-12-19 Thread Graham Eddy
via wifi, see https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000 > On 20 Dec 2020, at 12:37 am, ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: > > an API for weewx to poll or receive broadcasts directly from their GW-1000? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [weewx-user] [[Calculations]] on archive record not loop packet?

2020-12-21 Thread Graham Eddy
; [[Calculations]] > aqi = software, record > > That is, it takes an optional second positional parameter that can be one > of 'loop', 'record', or 'both'. The default would be 'both'. > > > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 7:10 AM G

[weewx-user] 4.2.0 simulator - bug & fix for configuring list of observations

2020-12-25 Thread Graham Eddy
hello tom, hopefully a simple fix that can make it into 4.3.0... problem: weewx 4.2.0 simulator crashes when i specify the list of observations to include weewx.conf extract: (note: ‘observations = ‘ line is one line. the line break is an artifact of copy&paste) [GeSimulator] # This section

Re: [weewx-user] Is it after sunset?

2020-12-26 Thread Graham Eddy
put a test into script to see if celestial time is in interval between now and now+5mins. then either (a) generate the script, embedding the celestial time inside the script, or; (b) generate a file with the celestial timestamp, and your script reads the value from this generated file > On 26 D

Re: [weewx-user] [[Calculations]] on archive record not loop packet?

2020-12-26 Thread Graham Eddy
‘push request’ created (i think… github said something about deprecated) for ‘loop’ and/or ‘archive’ i.e. aqi=software (defaults to both bindings) or aqi=software,loop or aqi=software,archive or aqi=software,loop,archive > On 22 Dec 2020, at 11:47 am, Graham Eddy wrote: > > good i

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

2020-12-26 Thread Graham Eddy
sounds like some files might not be generating. are the timestamps on the generated files current? errors in log? > On 26 Dec 2020, at 9:56 pm, Joe wrote: > > Looks like its all working and accessing the davis OK. > > Only problem Im having now is the dates and times on the generated HTML are

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

2020-12-26 Thread Graham Eddy
to reduce the problem space, maybe ignore FTP for now - just look at the generated files locally. if timestamps are all over the place, either new ones are not being attempted (skin config error) or they are failing (template content failure) watching tail, sometimes many screenfulls of log are

Re: [weewx-user] 4.2.0 simulator - bug & fix for configuring list of observations

2020-12-26 Thread Graham Eddy
i tried sending a pull request for [[calculations]] change - did that arrive? i also then tried re-sending the simulator fix as a pull request but following the same procedure in github didn’t find a change to send - did that get gobbled into the other pull request somehow? github is all strange

Re: [weewx-user] Re: gw1000 driver fail on wifi loss

2020-12-27 Thread Graham Eddy
suggestion: gw1000 install set loop_on_init to true by default. we will always have this kind of problem when the wifi (re)starts and weewx races ahead of it > On 28 Dec 2020, at 8:12 am, gjr80 wrote: > > That would explain the behaviour then, if loop_on_init is not set the loss of > connectiv

Re: [weewx-user] Re: weewx-cmon doesn't read cpu_temp of Raspberri PI

2020-12-27 Thread Graham Eddy
an alternative to repurposing an existing data_type is to define an xtype (e.g. see https://github.com/g-eddy/weewx-vitalstats) > On 28 Dec 2020, at 9:05 am, Kevin Chapman wrote: > > Thank you. I will check it out. > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 6:00 AM Mike Revitt

Re: [weewx-user] weewx-cmon doesn't read cpu_temp of Raspberri PI

2020-12-27 Thread Graham Eddy
hmm, the ‘novelty’ i think is having an xtype calculated with values from outside weewx (eg cpu temperature), and the expense of the calculation is not really at issue - though normally they would be light-weight in case they are used often (eg barometer) architecturally anything external is su

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

2020-12-27 Thread Graham Eddy
the .html timestamps are all current (assuming Dec 27 19:50 is current). the .png timestamps are current until middle of the month images, then all old → stopping part way through image generation. some of the .png timestamps are very late in the 5 minute reporting period → maybe not finishing on

Re: [weewx-user] weewx-cmon doesn't read cpu_temp of Raspberri PI

2020-12-27 Thread Graham Eddy
i forgot to acknowledge the design consideration you raised that by calculating value once and storing it in the packet, unlike an xtype it is not re-calculated each time it is referenced > On 28 Dec 2020, at 12:54 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > hmm, the ‘novelty’ i think is having

Re: [weewx-user] Independent weewx backup script

2021-01-11 Thread Graham Eddy
looking at https://sqlite.org/backup.html (extract below; my emphasis), the Backup API restarts the backup if an update (not a read) occurs during the backup → might silently never complete if backup takes longer than archive interval. this could be dealt with by

Re: [weewx-user] Independent weewx backup script

2021-01-11 Thread Graham Eddy
as a once-off i did nothing fancy, even hard-coding the number of pages and filename of database (trivial to fiddle), using shell time to measure elapsed time import sqlite3 con = sqlite3.connect('/opt/weewx-4.2.0-test/archive/weewx.sdb') bck = sqlite3.connect('backup.db') with bck: con.bac

Re: [weewx-user] Independent weewx backup script

2021-01-11 Thread Graham Eddy
i use ‘cp’. heck, i use ‘scp’… i just make sure i work in the window from 2 mins after archive interval (long after my archive updates are completed) to a few secs before next archive interval. could make BACKUP a new built-in report like FTP and RSYNC - unless want to make backup independent of

[weewx-user] ecowitt ws80

2021-01-20 Thread Graham Eddy
the top of my ecowitt ws80 (the light sensor) has partly filled with condensation and stopped working. the rest of the ws80 is still working. is this ‘expected’ of an exposed ws80 (how else to get UV?) or is it a fault (demand a replacement)? Graham Eddy -- You received this

Re: [weewx-user] ecowitt ws80

2021-01-21 Thread Graham Eddy
. > > I guess a replacement you can only ask for, if you have the heating > implemented (what quite some people don't seem to do, wanting to save on the > rather expensive power supply for it > [a decicated power supply unit]). > On 21.01.2021 03:59, Graham Eddy wr

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx 4.3.0 and weewx multi on a fresh install

2021-01-22 Thread Graham Eddy
this sounds like the posting i made about 12 months ago where ‘stop’ does not work because the options on start-stop-daemon changed and you had to add an extra argument - without the new arg the ‘stop’ silently fails > On 23 Jan 2021, at 9:02 am, vince wrote: > > Gary - I would agree that 'sto

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx 4.3.0 and weewx multi on a fresh install

2021-01-22 Thread Graham Eddy
hmm just recalled that was only for weewx process owned by non-root user - presumably not relevant > On 23 Jan 2021, at 1:18 pm, Graham Eddy wrote: > > this sounds like the posting i made about 12 months ago where ‘stop’ does not > work because the options on start-stop-daemon cha

[weewx-user] PM10 in ecowitt WH41 sensor?

2021-01-23 Thread Graham Eddy
fiddling with SDR trying to find some other sensor, i notice the following from rtl_433: time : 2021-01-24 00:02:08 model : Fineoffset-WH0290 ID: 4 2.5um Fine Particulate Matter: 8 ug/m3 10um Coarse Particulate Matter: 9 ug/m3 Integrity : CRC whic

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 > (https://wifilog

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 we

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

2021-01-25 Thread Graham Eddy
the syslog says it is successfully opening the serial device file, but not getting a sensible response (probably no response at all), in other words a communication problem between port and vantage pro this forum contains many cases where people have had to check their serial port communicating

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] 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 i

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 noo

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] 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 Ke

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] 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 wrot

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 collect

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] 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), k

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 w

[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 this

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

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
QC]. > > 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 fai

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

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
data logger is in an envoy > On 25 May 2022, at 7:25 pm, gjr80 wrote: > > Can't you set transmitter IDs manually via the console? > > Gary > > On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 18:18:36 UTC+10 Graham Eddy wrote: > QC is filtering out the bad values, but weewx server is

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

2022-05-25 Thread Graham Eddy
he envoy? > > Gary > > On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 19:53:32 UTC+10 Graham Eddy wrote: > data logger is in an envoy > > >> On 25 May 2022, at 7:25 pm, gjr80 > > wrote: >> > >> Can't you set transmitter IDs manually via the console? >

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

2022-05-26 Thread Graham Eddy
ources, including batteries, waiting for 10-20 seconds for any capacitance > to discharge and then power up again. Don't know I would put the batteries in > reverse though. > > Gary > > On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 21:05:36 UTC+10 Graham Eddy wrote: > i can power down, pull it

Re: [weewx-user] LOOP try problem ...

2022-06-17 Thread Graham Eddy
not the reported problem, but config error needs to be fixed nonetheless > On 18 Jun 2022, at 1:14 am, mup...@gmail.com wrote: > > Jun 17 08:09:38 weewx-RPi weewx[83743] ERROR weewx.engine: The archive > interval in the configuration file (300) does not match the station hardware > interval (1

Re: [weewx-user] LOOP try problem ...

2022-06-17 Thread Graham Eddy
as tom noted, you need to configure the vp2 console device to 300 secs to get reports each 5 mins (or change weewx.conf file to 1800 secs if every 30 mins sufficient) this would not cause the read errors on the vp2, so is off-topic, but worth pointing out. cheers > On 18 Jun 2022, at 2:23 pm,

Re: [weewx-user] howto fix weewx sqlite database

2022-07-10 Thread Graham Eddy
15 years of data, running happily on RPi 4B: graham@paperbark:/home/weewx/archive $ ls -l weewx.sdb -rw-r--r-- 1 weewx weewx 175935488 Jul 11 00:55 weewx.sdb > On 11 Jul 2022, at 12:43 am, Fische Namenlos wrote: > > my station is using sqlite database (weewx.sdb) for nearly 5 years, and now -

Re: [weewx-user] Only use wee_import without connecting a weather station

2022-08-29 Thread Graham Eddy
perhaps consider the provided ‘fileparse’ driver - see ~weewx/examples/fileparse/readme.txt > On 29 Aug 2022, at 7:43 pm, Stein Arne Storslett wrote: > > Is there a way to only run the weewx database with data through "wee_import" > without connecting a weather station? > I.e. just producing t

Re: [weewx-user] Never thought it could happen

2022-12-31 Thread Graham Eddy
i was travelling when it flooded back home (se oz) 6 weeks ago. lots of folk watch my river depth graph so as the value unexpectedly went off the top of graph, i updated the y-scale to compensate a few times. someone asked me to stop increasing it because i was dragging the river level up :-) ⊣G

Re: [weewx-user] Davis VP2 reliability with Rasp Pi zero

2023-01-05 Thread Graham Eddy
It is much more likely your power supply being the problem. Get a ups to smooth the spikes (dunno if rpi hat does that)⊣ GE ⊢    phone➔brevityOn 6 Jan 2023 12:46 pm, "iams...@gmail.com" wrote:"What happens if you 'pull the plug' on your VP2? Does it keep running? Perhaps the batteries are bad?Yes,

[weewx-user] line gaps

2023-01-17 Thread Graham Eddy
i am getting a sequence of points plotted rather than a line showing. line_type = solid line_gap_fraction = 0.3 the points are 20 mins apart. 20min/24hrs = 0.013 so i expect the points to be joined. i have tried line_gap_fraction 0.9 and - just to be thorough - 1.0 and (being silly) 10.0 - with n

Re: [weewx-user] line gaps

2023-01-18 Thread Graham Eddy
love the ‘mark’ not the ‘line'. thanks ⊣GE⊢ > On 19 Jan 2023, at 2:49 am, Tom Keffer wrote: > > You're not doing something dumb. None values always mark line breaks. > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 6:30 AM Graham Eddy <mailto:g...@geddy.au>> wrote: > -- You

Re: [weewx-user] line gaps

2023-01-18 Thread Graham Eddy
t;> wrote: >>> >>> You're not doing something dumb. None values always mark line breaks. >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 6:30 AM Graham Eddy >> <mailto:g...@geddy.au>> wrote: >>> >> >> >> -- >> You rec

[weewx-user] new river level monitor

2023-01-19 Thread Graham Eddy
i posted some time ago about my trusty old river level monitor. i am still receiving occasional enquiries about it - yes, unfortunately that product i used is no longer available. whilst it is still working for me, i have now deployed a new river level monitor in parallel, some details below ol

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] 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 weewx-user+unsubscr..

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

2021-02-28 Thread Graham Eddy
put file in /home/weewx/bin/user/since.py (if /home/weewx is where weewx in installed) so python sees it as module user.since add class user.since.Since to search_list_extensions in your skin.conf e.g. [CheetahGenerator] # Possible encodings are 'html_entities', 'utf8', or 'strict_ascii'

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 that

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 way

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 i

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

2021-03-03 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 discussion over here, > ht

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

2021-03-05 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 driver

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 wan

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 beca

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 t

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 wrote:

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 weewx-us

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 going

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 update

[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] '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 done

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 wee_extension

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] 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 1000

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 "w

[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] 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 ob

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 wha

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: 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] 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, onc

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] 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 > > >

[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 t

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__: Initializi

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 stat

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

2021-04-22 Thread Graham Eddy
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

[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" gr

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 2

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 nec

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: > > >

[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] 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,

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
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
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

[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 doesn’

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 w

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 t

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