One pro to doing it this way is you can watch the LOOP data as it is coming in. A good way to debug if nothing else.
On Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 1:28:33 PM UTC-6, Tim Urberg wrote: > > One you could use screen, which allows a totally separate screen to be > running in the background. > > https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-use-linux-screen/ > > Here's what I have in /etc/rc.local (on a Raspberry Pi): > > screen -S weather_station -d -m sh -c 'weewxd /etc/weewx/weewx.conf; exec > bash' > > Then when you log in run: "sudo screen -r" which will re-attach to the > screen session. Once finished type Ctrl+A and then D to detach. > > That's one way to do it. > > On 2/24/2019 1:20 PM, Henry Denston wrote: > > Thank you. > > Another question that I would like to ask: > > Is there any downside just adding (executing) the sudo ./bin/weewxd > weewx.conf script to the /etc/rc.locatl file? > So my WeeWx installation gets started everytime on startup of my system. > > In the Docs this instruction is given: > > cd /home/weewx > sudo cp util/init.d/weewx.debian /etc/init.d/weewx > sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/weewx > sudo update-rc.d weewx defaults 98 > sudo /etc/init.d/weewx start > > > > But is there any disadvantage using the method I described above? > > > Thank you, Henry. > > On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 6:04:07 AM UTC+1, gjr80 wrote: >> >> python-pil is used by the WeeWX image generator to create/manipulate the >> image file (ie create the image file, draw points, lines, labels etc). The >> logic for obtaining the data to be plotted, working out what goes where and >> what colours are used etc are all contained in various WeeWX .py files >> (imagegenerator.py, weeplot/genplot.py etc). >> >> Gary >> > > > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > Virus-free. > www.avg.com > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > <#[email protected]_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >
