On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 12:16:37 PM UTC-7, Mark Roberts wrote: > > this was helpful. fired up VNC. saw terminal command line. got it > running and typed in > > sudo weewxd weewx.conf > > alas! it didn't work. says it can't find the .conf file. > > thoughts? ideas? > > > Thoughts - sure. Get yourself some Linux training. Really.
I'm not trying to be harsh, but you will drive yourself nutso battling this stuff if you're a "gimme a ok button to click" kind of person. Save yourself the blood pressure. There are a variety of free Linux classes online. One good one was the edx.org Linux class. There are a zillion others. At a minimum you need to learn how to navigate the filesystem, be able to edit a file, understand the concept of users and permissions (and how/when to use 'sudo'), how to check services are ok, and where logfiles are and how to view them effectively. You mentioned it's a pi, so you are probably running as user 'pi' by default. That means you'll generally need to preface your commands with "sudo" in order to do things. Biggest question is whether he installed weewx using the packaged software, or if he installed it manually using the "setup.py" method. The prepackaged software should have done the right thing to enable weewx to run at boot. The setup.py method has some additional manual steps the installing person needs to do to enable it to run at boot. The installation instructions are at http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#Where_to_find_things which has some tabs that have the (varying) locations stuff might be installed to for the different operating systems and installation methods. You're on a pi so you're the Debian or setup.py methods. If he installed via setup.py you should find the installed software via: - ls /home/weewx If he used the packaged version, the software is in a bunch of places: - ls /etc/weewx - ls /usr/share/weewx Start there. One of the two variants will find stuff. Which one does on your system ? We can work the startup file thing after we figure out how he installed your system..... -- 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.
