On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 12:18:29 AM UTC-4, Tim Phillips wrote: > > I spent the day trying to get this to work at all am quite proud of it > "just" working with WU's site. >
nice! hopefully most of that time was general learning about pi and linux rather than fighting weewx. if you were battling weewx, please let us know so we can fix the sharp edges so the next person does not get as many scars. > So what you're saying is that I should set the "Station" for my personal > use, using my WU site and I can use the "StdRESTful" for my private use, > using my WAN IP address? > make the Station.station_url your lan-accessible url, and make StdRESTful.StationRegistry.station_url your publicly-accessible WU url. > **I had a hard enough time trying to edit the conf. file since the package > got installed to my "etc" folder on my RPi3 and I ended up using "sudo > leafpad /etc/weewx/weewx.conf" to edit my config file. I'm sure I went > wrong somewhere but that's the workaround I eventually found. Does that > seem right? > you got it. there are many editors, including nano, vim, vi, emacs, or even ed. none of them can edit the system configuration files (the files in /etc) unless you run them as root. and as you figured out, that is what sudo does. m -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
