Hi Gary, I've watched the unit on/off most of the day and the logs have been very quiet. Starting from scratch was an easy choice in the end. Plus following the setup.py really wasn't that hard. The footprint of nginx is obviously far smaller than Apache. So yep, another easy choice.
re: the SD card. That makes sense. I'm running a Sandisk Ultra 32gb class 10 card. I noticed in the wiki (somewhere) that the Sandisks are recommended. I'm presuming you're Australian based Gary? Re: the ramdisk. geezzz mate. you're taking me way back to my old Amiga days when I used to run a ramdisk! such a long time ago! :-) Another quick note of thanks. I love niche little communities like this! People helping each other for our love of 'weather watching / recording / analysing' etc. I've been meaning to do it for years and finally got around to purchasing the Vantage pro. You only live once. :-) ( here's my live station : https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IBACCHUS5 ) Now the next steps which is to - Work out how to back up the SD card ( on a mac ) - Copy the sqlite database to my NAS - I'm thinking about running mysql instead of sqllite (but thought initially, get the weewx running in a stable fashion, and then move across). Plus do all the same again for my in-laws! <hahaha!> With completing a copy of the SD card, it should be a matter of updating a few config items and away we go! Take care mate. Benjamin On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 3:39:56 PM UTC+11, gjr80 wrote: > > That's good news Benjamin. Not sure why that would have fixed things, but > if its working... I use nginx on my RPis as well, Apache is just too much > of a hog for my liking and needs. Sometimes takes a little more effort to > do something with nginx since a lot of things seems to have instructions > for Apache. > > Your comment re the SD card reminded me, do be careful if you are doing > everything on SD card. There can be a lot of write activity on the card and > some folks have had problems with longevity of cards. There are a myriad of > ways to mitigate the issue; use a good quality SD card, logging to ramdisk, > have weeWX generate to ramdisk, move all except boot partition to USB disk, > install rorpi and the list goes on. A search of the forums will reveal > quite a few threads and there is at least one wiki entry > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Minimize-writes-on-SD-cards> that is > relevant. > > Gary > > On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 14:24:46 UTC+10, Benjamin Fox wrote: >> >> >> Hi Gary, >> >> The results of the logs overnight were fine mate. However, once I tested >> rebooting the PI the error came back. >> >> So I bite the bullet ( had a spare SD card ), installed Raspbian from >> scratch and installed Weewx via setup.py and decided to go >> with nginx instead of apache. >> >> Guess what?? No issues. Even when powering down the pi and starting it >> up. I'm not experiencing the same issues as before. Plus WU isn't >> reporting any issues with RapidFire. >> >> Thank you for your help my friend. >> >> Take Care. >> Benjamin >> >> -- 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.
