Hopefully, we are getting very close to a final release for V5.0! *Warning!* But, until then, this is still very much a beta release. You could break your installation, and it might take skills to recover. If you're using pip in a virtual environment, the risk is low of breaking other things, but you will have to shut down your production instance temporarily. For a package installer, try it in a VM, or on another computer, first.
*Pip* For pip installs, please delete your old virtual environment, then install from scratch by following the new pip install instructions <https://weewx.com/docs/5.0/quickstarts/pip/#install-in-a-virtual-environment>. While upgrading should work, we are particularly interested in the experience of a new install, including setting up a daemon and udev files. Make sure to follow the new instructions that use a daemon setup script. *Debian* For Debian package installs, modify /etc/apt/sources.list as follows: *echo "deb [arch=all] https://weewx.com/apt-test/python3 <https://weewx.com/apt-test/python3> buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list* Note the "apt-test". This tells apt to look there for the beta release, instead of the normal repository. You may want to change it back when you're done. *Red Hat* For Red Hat package installs, put this in /etc/yum.repos.d/weewx.repo *[weewx] name=weewx baseurl=http://weewx.com/yum-test/weewx/el9 <http://weewx.com/yum-test/weewx/el9> enabled=1* Note the "yum-test". This tells yum to look there for the beta release, instead of the normal repository. Again, you may want to change things back when you're done. *What we're looking for* 1. We are interested in your upgrade experience. Did the installers get your configuration file right? Skins? Is the daemon configured correctly? 2. With this release, we have included udev rules to set the correct permissions for devices. Did it work? If not, did unplugging then replugging the device work? 3. How about logging? Version 5 will log to a dedicated weewx file, generally /var/log/weewx/weewx.log. Is that what you're seeing? *Thanks!* -Tom & Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zEAPKxz_NKXEAoJgySTYnJovEj_AL4xWo1JrSWFEOyixiQ%40mail.gmail.com.
