Thanks for the quick reply, Ian. I moved realtime.txt to /var/www/html/ as you suggested and that seems to have fixed my data problem. Easy fix! Thanks!
I will play around with the APIs. Eventually I want to further customize this to show NOAA/NWS forecast and alerts. Best, Aaron On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:18 PM steeple ian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Aaron, > > Both your and Sean’s issues seem to be one of file ownership. It would > help a great deal to be able to have a graphic representation of the status > of all your files. To this end , beneficial if you could install a control > panel type application. I use Webmin which is open source and very > lightweight. From memory I think that Scientific Linux is based on RedHat > so follow the instructions here http://www.webmin.com/rpm.html. When you > have Webmin running, go to the menu on the left hand side and select Others > —> File Manger. Navigate to your root directory and you will immediately be > able to see the ownership and permissions of the files and folders. If the > ownership is root:root try setting everything to [your Linux Login > ID]:www-data > > Secondly, stop weeWX running and change the landing place of the > realtime.txt file to your root directory by editing the CRT section in > weewx.conf. In my instance this would be /var/www/html/realtime.txt (but it > could be different for you). In settings1.php the location reference would > be the same, or you could just have realtime.txt on its own. Start weeWX > again and see what happens. > > From your description, I am not quite sure what your API issues are but > again, these could be related to ownership and may resolve themselves as > well. > > Let me know how you get on. > > Ian > > > > On 17 Oct 2018, at 22:10, Aaron Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have attempted to use this on a rhel system (Scientific Linux 7.4). I am > using Apache 2.4.6 and PHP 7.2.11. I have successfully loaded the basic php > structure provided in the latest release (W34-WE(131018), however I am > unable to resolve a few problems. > > First, when I try to access the settings1.php through an internet browser, > I get a permission error that Sean got. I have double checked that all > permission in my html root are recursively 775 (/var/www/html), so I'm not > sure why I get this error. I am able to directly edit the settings1.php > file, and most of the changes I have made are reflected on the page. > > Second, a few changes I am making to the settings1.php do not seem to be > working. The big one is the realtime.txt directory which I left as the > default (/var/tmp/realtime.txt). I have checked both my weewx.conf and the > settings1.php to be sure the path is correct, and it is. I have also > verified that realtime.txt is updating every 2.5 seconds (tail -f > /var/tmp/realtime.txt). Yet this does not seem to be working on the web > page. > > Third, the API keys that I had generated do not seem to be changing > anything (CheckWX & Dark Sky) > > Check out http://canyoneastweather.ddns.net:303/ to see what I mean. > > Thanks for your help. > > -Aaron > > On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 3:55:14 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I think that we can all agree that the real strengths of weeWX are what >> goes on 'under the hood (or the bonnet for a Brit like me)', its sheer >> adaptability and a huge community working out solutions together. >> >> I came to weeWX after years of being a Cumulus user (another excellent >> software) but came to a grinding halt when changing to unsupported Weather >> Station. It was weeWX to the rescue along with the HP1000 driver and I was >> back up and running. In my Cumulus days I had been an early adopter of the >> excellent weather34 template, designed and owned by Brian Underdown. This >> was originally designed for use with Cumulus as a single dashboard concept >> where everything is accessible from a single web page. So could I use the >> template with weeWX, yes by deploying the CRT extension to generate a >> realtime.txt file. >> >> Now I wanted it to do more, I am not a coder so it takes me a bit longer >> to discover the snippets of code that I need to make things happen and this >> is where this forum and others became a valuable resource for myself along >> with contributions and technical support from others. A big thanks here to >> David Marshall who has rescued me on more than one occasion. >> >> Recently Brian Underwood took the decision to only support the >> Meteobridge version of his template going forward. However, he was very >> happy for the other versions of the template to hosted and maintained by >> others. On this basis, both the weeWX and Cumulus versions live on. I am >> now hosting the weeWX version and actively maintaining it in the spirit of >> Brian's original concept. You can find it here: - >> >> >> https://github.com/steepleian/weather34-Home-Weatherstation-Template-weeWX-adapted >> >> The latest version is now using the weeWX archive database to generate >> the pop-up CanvasJS charts instead of relying on Weather Underground. The >> setup guides are provided for general guidance only due to the multitude of >> ways weeWX can be setup by individual users. >> >> I would like to re-iterate that although Brian Underdown is very happy >> for this version to exist and be maintained, he offers no support >> whatsoever for this version. Any requests to do so will remain unanswered. >> Please respect Brian's wishes in this respect. Any issues should be >> directed to this forum. >> >> My own current version of the template shows additional features which >> may be included in future updates if there is sufficient demand. It can >> found here https://claydonsweather.org.uk >> >> When used with a smartphone or a narrow browser window, the page morphs >> into a slimline mobile version. >> > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
