They just keep coming don't they! What is happening with the FtpGenerator error is that when rtgd creates gauge-data.txt it actually builds the file in gauge-data.txt.tmp and once the file is complete it is copied to gauge-data.txt. This is known as an atomic write and is done to lessen the chance that gauge-data.txt is open for writing (by rtgd) and thus unavailable for access by other processes. The .tmp file is created in the same directory as gauge-data.txt. When FtpGenerator kicks off it gathers the details of the files it is to upload and then works its way through uploading each in turn (so it could be some seconds after gathering the list that the file is uploaded), if the .tmp file exists when the FtpGenerator gathers its list of files it is included for upload but if the .tmp file is subsequently removed you get the FtpGenerator error you are seeing. If you like, the holes in the swiss cheese are aligning to cause the error, the more frequent gauge-data.txt is produced and the more frequent the FtpGenerator is run the more chance of the holes aligning and the error occurring.
The long term fix is for me to change rtgd to create the .tmp file somewhere that is unlikely to be uploaded by the FtpGenerator. You can work around the issue by changing the location in which that gauge-data.txt is created. Edit weewx.conf and under [RealtimeGaugeData] comment out the rtgd_path setting (it will then use the default of /var/tmp) or change it to something else not used by weeWX. Save weewx.conf and restart weeWX or do a config reload. If you are transferring the rtgd generated gauge-data.txt to a remote server the location of gauge-data.txt is not important, it's location is only important if using the file on the weeWX machine (eg your weeWX machine is also your web server) but in such cases chances are you are not uploading via FTP. Gary PS. I'll drop you an email sometime re astronomy to hear what you are up to. On Saturday, 27 October 2018 00:07:29 UTC+10, Steve2Q wrote: > > Hi Gary. > > The gauge 2 second loops are working perfectly now. > > I did the changes, however that started throwing errors (I always watch > syslog for a bit to see if anything obvious happens). > > Attached is syslog. Once I saw the errors I did the following: Put the > comments back in weewx.conf in[StandartReport][[SteelGauges]], and changed > to debug = 1. I left in the change you recommended in skins/ss/skin.conf. I > restarted weewx at 9:11 and let in run until 9:43. > > Next I uncommented the [[SteelGauges]] section in weewx.conf, and > restarted at 9:45. I only let in run for a few minutes because weewx would > not start. I then recommented [[SteelGauges]], set debug = 0, and that is > where I am now. > > Besides the "parsing" error at 9:45, I find the "unrecoverable exception" > at 9:17:13 of interest (and you can see it occurred earlier before I made > ANY of the changes like at 6:43. > > Steve > > Seems like we have some other common interests. Astronomy is also one of > mine. > > Steve > -- 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.
