I did the FileParse thing - manual setup - data in /home/pi/obs.txt I know it gets read - lines like 'windDir'=250.0 - because when I had quotes around the number bit, there was an error message in /var/log/syslog - unable to parse etc
But nothing appears in the html file .... ???? On Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 10:42:30 AM UTC+13, mwall wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 5:24:23 PM UTC-4, Ian Boag wrote: >> >> I think I have it ..... >> >> In simulator.py ..... getLoopPackets >> >> for obs_type in self.observations: >> _packet[obs_type]=self.observations ... blah .. blah >> >> Hijacking this looks like it should work ..... ? >> > > just use the fileparse driver. that will read name=value pairs from a > file. you can easily modify fileparse.py to parse json instead of > name=value pairs. or you can modify it to read json via urllib then parse > the json that it downloads. > > look for fileparse.py in the weewx source distribution. > > m >
