Greg, that's brilliant! If I thought I'd have some free time, I'd ask about the code for the cron job script, etc. I better not!
Sounds like you're very well-prepared. Thanks for your input! On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Greg from Oz <ubeau...@gmail.com> wrote: > I took the battery out of my console...permanently and I put in a normally > closed relay into the 5V of the usb cable that goes to the console. > I run a cron job that checks to see if the weather index.html file has NOT > been changed in 20 minutes. If is has not then the same script restarts > weewx. If it still doesn't update then the home automation turns on the > power to the relay and it opens and drops the power to the console and > resets the console. Weex is started again. > If all of that doesn't work then the script runs wee_device --clear-memory > > if all of that doesn't work I have a backup console........... > > Touch wood...I haven't had any issues with the fineoffset console for > years. I wrote the script when I was USING cumulus....it locked up lots. > > > On Sunday, 13 May 2018 23:42:24 UTC+10, Michael Messer wrote: >> >> All: I posted here about being unable to resolve fine offset USB errors >> preventing my >> > > >> Ambient WS-2080 weather station's data from getting up to the Weather >> Underground. >> >> All attempts involving resetting the weather station console did not fix >> it. Even wiped my SD card and went back to a known GOOD image from when I >> first set up Weewx successfully. Same errors. >> >> Today I decided to connect the console to my old laptop and run Cumulus >> to see if Cumulus would, too, be unable to get data. Upon connection, >> Cumulus immediately began displaying the data from my weather station! >> >> I looked for some way to get Cumulus to maybe reset my console, but saw >> no such options. >> >> Just for grins, I restarted my Rapsberry Pi, connected the console, then >> started Weewx. Boom. Instant connection, no FOUSB errors! >> >> So my guess is that my Cumulus session somehow cleared some sort of issue >> within my PWS console. >> >> Not 100% comfortable since I still have no idea how/why FOUSB issues >> started, but at least it looks like I now know of a fix! Hopefully I'll >> get another couple of years of good service from my Pi and Weewx, and when >> I win the lottery I'll get a new top-of-the-line weather station... and >> will install it at my new house. Maybe in Fiji or Italy or Colorado. Or >> all of the above. >> > -- > 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/WETchOWLPsE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
