Colin FYI Thomas IS mr weewx - it is HIS creation and HIS design. If you are going to continue with weewx you'd be well advised to listen to what Thomas says!!!!
Have you tried setting the debug options to gain further information?? The simulator does not use any hardware, does not obtain timestamps from anywhere other than the host machine - this could be why a new db with simulator works. The vantage driver has many years of successful operation with Davis hardware - whilst your Davis lookalike appears to generate archive types and timestamps which would not come from a real Davis device. Have you run from the command line rather than as a background daemon?? This then gives Loop and Rec data as received - see the weewx user documentation for more information. Since the hardware appears to be 'under development' I would recommend using only the standard weewx software - as downloaded from weewx repository, using the standard skin (not Belchertown) until such time as you have got everything working correctly - and then, and only then, start to use other skins. The standard weewx uses much less cpu processing power than some of the other skins such as forecasts, Belchertown etc. Slowly but surely is the best way to sort out new hardware and software - and you would appear to have both involved here!! weewx is great, it is very stable, and it just works straight out of the box. It rarely has bugs and very rarely has issues even. It is flexible, versatile, adaptable, extendable - how many more adjectives do you need??!! However - whilst the standard weewx is well proven the same is not necessarily true for user supplied add-ons and enhancements. On Monday, 29 October 2018 06:05:45 UTC+2, Colin Larsen wrote: > > Hi Thomas > > While I may agree with you that it's a station hardware problem I do find > that a particularly unhelpful statement. > > When you say "clearly" where do you see that in my information and what > could I pass to them to help debug the issue please? Is there a way to > capture the information being sent to Weewx via the driver? > > Interestingly if I create a new Weewx db file, start weewx with simulator > and then swap to the vantage driver it seems to work ok. > > I went the Weewx route because I saw that the help from the developers and > users was fantastic. Unfortunately your blanket and somewhat unhelpful > statement dims that a little. I hope this isn't starting to shape up as 'he > said, she said' problem > > I really like this software so hopefully there is a solution here > somewhere :) > > Cheers > Colin > > On Monday, 29 October 2018 14:57:48 UTC+13, Thomas Keffer wrote: >> >> Why don't you ask the WeatherDuino people about this? Clearly, your >> instrument is emitting some strange timestamps and archive types... >> >> -tk >> >> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 6:43 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I wonder if the Pi I'm using is a little cranky now - so many confusing >>> problems popping up. >>> >>> Just saw this one in the log - another time anomaly though - 27392398.74 >>> seconds fast ???? >>> >>> Oct 29 14:37:01 raspberrypi weewx[10296]: engine: Starting up weewx >>> version 3.8.2 >>> >>> Oct 29 14:37:01 raspberrypi weewx[10296]: engine: Clock error is >>> 27392398.74 seconds (positive is fast) >>> >>> Oct 29 14:37:02 raspberrypi weewx[10296]: vantage: Clock set to >>> 2018-10-29 14:37:02 NZDT (1540777022) >>> >>> Oct 29 14:37:02 raspberrypi weewx[10296]: manager: Unable to add record >>> 2018-10-29 14:35:00 NZDT (1540776900) to database 'weewx.sdb': UNIQUE >>> constraint failed: archive.dateTime >>> >>> Oct 29 14:37:02 raspberrypi weewx[10296]: engine: Internal error >>> detected. Catchup abandoned >>> >>> Oct 29 14:37:02 raspberrypi weewx[10296]: **** Unknown archive type = >>> 0x7a >>> >>> Oct 29 14:37:02 raspberrypi weewx[10296]: engine: Starting main packet >>> loop. >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
