it looks to me as though xtide no longer supports locations outside usa since ukho took offence http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/faq.html#60
maybe u need a different source for the data?? On Monday, 5 February 2018 11:25:59 UTC+2, Cycle London wrote: > Still no luck. Tried with 'UK', 'England' and with no country. > > [root@weather~]\ [ $\ 09:24] tide -l "London Bridge" > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > XTide 2 Copyright (C) 1998 root Flater. > > This software is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public > License, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version. > > Although the package as a whole is GPL, some individual source files > are public domain. Consult their header comments for details. > > NOT FOR NAVIGATION > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but > WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The author > assumes no liability for damages arising from use of this program OR > of any 'harmonics data' that might be distributed with it. For details, > see > the verbose documentation at http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/. > > This obnoxious message will go away permanently if you click "Don't show > this again" in the disclaimer window of the X windows client (xtide), or > if you create a file in your home directory called > ".disableXTidedisclaimer". > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-nonfree.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-free.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-initial.tcd... > XTide Error: STATION_NOT_FOUND > The specified station was not found in any harmonics file. > > Error details: > Could not find: London Bridge > > [root@weather~]\ [ $\ 09:24] tide -l "London Bridge, UK" > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > XTide 2 Copyright (C) 1998 root Flater. > > This software is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public > License, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version. > > Although the package as a whole is GPL, some individual source files > are public domain. Consult their header comments for details. > > NOT FOR NAVIGATION > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but > WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The author > assumes no liability for damages arising from use of this program OR > of any 'harmonics data' that might be distributed with it. For details, > see > the verbose documentation at http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/. > > This obnoxious message will go away permanently if you click "Don't show > this again" in the disclaimer window of the X windows client (xtide), or > if you create a file in your home directory called > ".disableXTidedisclaimer". > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-nonfree.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-free.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-initial.tcd... > XTide Error: STATION_NOT_FOUND > The specified station was not found in any harmonics file. > > Error details: > Could not find: London Bridge, UK > > [root@weather~]\ [ $\ 09:24] tide -l "London Bridge, England" > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > XTide 2 Copyright (C) 1998 root Flater. > > This software is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public > License, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version. > > Although the package as a whole is GPL, some individual source files > are public domain. Consult their header comments for details. > > NOT FOR NAVIGATION > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but > WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The author > assumes no liability for damages arising from use of this program OR > of any 'harmonics data' that might be distributed with it. For details, > see > the verbose documentation at http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/. > > This obnoxious message will go away permanently if you click "Don't show > this again" in the disclaimer window of the X windows client (xtide), or > if you create a file in your home directory called > ".disableXTidedisclaimer". > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-nonfree.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-free.tcd... > Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-initial.tcd... > XTide Error: STATION_NOT_FOUND > The specified station was not found in any harmonics file. > > Error details: > Could not find: London Bridge, England > > [root@weather~]\ [ $\ 09:24] > > > On 5 February 2018 at 09:23, Andrew Milner <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Try London Bridge instead of London >> >> >> >> >> >> On Monday, 5 February 2018 10:48:23 UTC+2, Cycle London wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> I grabbed that file, unzipped it and put it into /usr/share/xtide. >>> >>> root@weather:/usr/share/xtide# ls -alrt >>> total 2828 >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1737203 May 30 2010 >>> harmonics-dwf-20100529-free.tcd >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 509808 May 31 2010 >>> harmonics-dwf-20100529-nonfree.tcd >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 509808 Dec 31 2011 >>> harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tcd >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120041 Oct 24 2014 harmonics-initial.tcd >>> drwxr-xr-x 204 root root 4096 Feb 2 11:25 .. >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 08:43 . >>> >>> Ran tide -l London (with various attempts to use the correct country) >>> with and without quotes... >>> >>> root@weather:/usr/share/xtide# tide -l London >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-nonfree.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-free.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-initial.tcd... >>> XTide Error: STATION_NOT_FOUND >>> The specified station was not found in any harmonics file. >>> >>> Error details: >>> Could not find: London >>> >>> root@weather:/usr/share/xtide# tide -l London, UK >>> XTide Fatal Error: BAD_OR_AMBIGUOUS_COMMAND_LINE >>> The command line could not be rationalized. Probably you have provided >>> an >>> unrecognized switch or invalid argument. However, you can also get this >>> error by using ambiguous syntax. For example, the shorthand -lw5 could >>> mean >>> "set the line width to 5" (-lw 5) or it could mean "load the location >>> named w5" (-l w5). >>> >>> root@weather:/usr/share/xtide# tide -l "London, UK" >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-nonfree.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-free.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-initial.tcd... >>> XTide Error: STATION_NOT_FOUND >>> The specified station was not found in any harmonics file. >>> >>> Error details: >>> Could not find: London, UK >>> >>> root@weather:/usr/share/xtide# tide -l "London, England" >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-nonfree.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20100529-free.tcd... >>> Indexing /usr/share/xtide/harmonics-initial.tcd... >>> XTide Error: STATION_NOT_FOUND >>> The specified station was not found in any harmonics file. >>> >>> Error details: >>> Could not find: London, England >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3 February 2018 at 21:00, mwall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 7:19:06 AM UTC-5, Cycle London wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This is going to be really easy, and I'll kick myself when someone >>>>> points it out to me.... >>>>> >>>>> >>>> perhaps try a more recent harmonics file? dwf no longer dos the world >>>> harmonics, but this one is more recent than the one you tried: >>>> >>>> ftp://ftp.flaterco.com/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tar.bz2 >>>> >>>> m >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>>> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/pf1lJVztTdA/unsubscribe. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/pf1lJVztTdA/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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