On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 1:33:26 PM UTC-5, John Cheesbrough wrote:
>
> Hi
> Having successfully used weewx 3.7 on a Pi with a Davis Vue for some time 
> I wanted to see if I could use Weewx 3.8.0 on my MAC and get the 
> information from weatherlink.com. So far I have not successfully got 
> Weewx to run for the first time.
>
> I followed all the instructions on the Weewx documentation for installing 
> and running on Mac OS
>
> I was trying to use Matthew Wall's Wlink driver version 0.11
>
> The console log shows the following
>
>
> default 16:30:45.848346 +0000 Python engine: Caught unrecoverable 
> exception in engine:
>
> default 16:30:45.848397 +0000 Python     ****  'station_type'
>
> default 16:30:45.849524 +0000 Python     ****  Traceback (most recent 
> call last):
>
> default 16:30:45.849593 +0000 Python     ****    File 
> "/Users/Shared/weewx/bin/weewx/engine.py", line 865, in main
>
> default 16:30:45.849648 +0000 Python     ****      engine = 
> engine_class(config_dict)
>
> default 16:30:45.849698 +0000 Python     ****    File 
> "/Users/Shared/weewx/bin/weewx/engine.py", line 71, in __init__
>
> default 16:30:45.849748 +0000 Python     ****      
> self.setupStation(config_dict)
>
> default 16:30:45.849798 +0000 Python     ****    File 
> "/Users/Shared/weewx/bin/weewx/engine.py", line 86, in setupStation
>
> default 16:30:45.849847 +0000 Python     ****      stationType = 
> config_dict['Station']['station_type']
>
> default 16:30:45.849895 +0000 Python     ****    File 
> "build/bdist.macosx-10.13-intel/egg/configobj.py", line 554, in __getitem__
>
> default 16:30:45.849944 +0000 Python     ****      val = 
> dict.__getitem__(self, key)
>
> default 16:30:45.849996 +0000 Python     ****  KeyError: 'station_type'
>
> default 16:30:45.850048 +0000 Python     ****  Exiting.
>
>
>
there is a comment character at the beginning of the station_type line in 
your weewx.conf, so no station_type is defined.

remove the comment character.

m 

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