aww man! I was hoping to turn the lamp on and off from Cron. On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 9:50:29 AM UTC-5, mwall wrote: > > On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 10:36:56 AM UTC-4, Steve McGrane wrote: >> >> I actually started out with a powered hub and moved to a direct >> connection to see if that was the problem. >> >> Is the wee_device command supposed to not return any data at all? Even >> with --debug I get no results. >> > > wee_device cannot be used with acurite stations. this is because the > acurite stations cannot be controlled from software; the only way to change > the console parameters is to push buttons on the console > > the early model raspberry pi have usb power issues - they do not work > reliably with some weather stations, including acurite, fine offset, and > te923. using a powered hub usually eliminates the usb power issues. the > pi2 and pi3 seem to have fewer usb issues. > > however, there are also kernel-related usb issues on the rpi (and also on > other arm-based architectures). we have seen cases where one kernel > version works fine on an rpi, but upgrading to a later kernel causes > problems. > > there are also issues with different libusb versions (and to a lesser > extent, different pyusb versions). for example, i have had problems with > libusb 1.0.11 that went away when i upgraded to libusb 1.0.20. > > i'm sorry i cannot provide specific kernel or operating system versions to > back this up or steer you in the right direction > > m >
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