Hi , Vince this is helpful. I think I am confused as  thought PI user ID 
had full privileges, weewx folder seems to have full read write access. Do 
I need to set up another user to allow USB comms ?

rw-r--r--  1 root root     771 Jun  9  2012 staff-group-for-usr-local
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     291 Sep 23 03:52 subgid
-rw-------  1 root root     272 Sep 23 03:49 subgid-
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     291 Sep 23 03:52 subuid
-rw-------  1 root root     272 Sep 23 03:49 subuid-
-r--r-----  1 root root     697 Sep 23 02:38 sudoers
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:37 sudoers.d
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    2084 Mar  6  2015 sysctl.conf
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:37 sysctl.d
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:23 systemd
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:21 terminfo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      14 Sep 23 04:14 timezone
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 03:38 timidity
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 17 20:20 tmpfiles.d
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:27 triggerhappy
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1260 May 26  2014 ucf.conf
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:23 udev
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Oct  6  2014 udisks2
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:33 ufw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     888 Aug 18  2014 usb_modeswitch.conf
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Apr 14  2015 usb_modeswitch.d
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      51 Jan 12  2016 vdpau_wrapper.cfg
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:24 vim
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    4096 Sep 23 03:52 vnc
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root    4096 Oct  3 15:45 weewx
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    4812 Sep 17 18:33 wgetrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:56 wildmidi
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:39 wpa_supplicant
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root    4096 Sep 23 03:36 X11
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:56 xdg
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:37 xml
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Sep 23 02:56 xpdf
pi@weatherPi:/etc $ sudo nano /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf


On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 7:19:16 PM UTC+1, vince wrote:

> I googled for "Unable to claim USB interface 0: could not claim interface 
> 0: Operation not permitted" and found a 2013 threadd here saying 
> permissions indeed.
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/weewx-user/mvV-0o9hLgI
>
> (hint - try 'sudo' on a pi almost always, you are running as a 
> non-privileged user by default on a pi)
>
>

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