On Sunday, 6 January 2019 14:20:09 UTC+10, monmul wrote:
>
> Hmmm! I would have to pass on that one....I am not sure I even know what 
> it means.....is it something I set up when following the instructions about 
> installing nginx?
>
> Ok, you posted a screen capture with a couple of loop packets (the lines 
starting with LOOP: ). This was part of the output you would have seen when 
you ran weewx directly using sudo weewxd /etc/weewx/weewx.conf. Since you 
only showed us a couple of loop packets things could be running fine, its 
hard to say with such a small snapshot. The loop packets were 5 seconds 
apart, if you station emits loop packets every 5 seconds then this is fine, 
if it emits loop packets every 2 seconds then maybe there is an issue. 
Having a look at a good couple of archive periods of output would give a 
better feel for things rather than just a couple of loop packets. We would 
also see some archive records (they occur once per archive period) and 
start with REC: on screen. Would also be handy to know the station 
type/model.

You might want to have a read through Loop packets vs. archive records 
<http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#_________LOOP_packets_vs._archive_records_______>
 
in the Customization Guide <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm> - it 
will give you a bit of background. Also, have a look at your log (likely 
/var/log/syslog) from when you start weeWX, you will see a whole pile of 
info there as to how your station and weeWX are configured. teh log is good 
for seeing startup config and events as they happen (including errors). 
Screen output from running weeWX directly is handy for seeing the actual 
data weeWX gets off the station.

nginx will have nothing to do it, nginx is purely serving web pages/data to 
your browser, the sleeping/retrying etc is weeWX interacting with your 
weather station.
 

> One other thing....I have not done anything about setting up the NTP 
> Daemon thing....do I need to do that also?
>

Horses for courses. If it were me I would get NTP setup and working 
properly. Correct time is critical for weeWX to operate trouble free, some 
really bad and unusual things happen if weeWX and your station have 
significantly different times. That being said, once you have the correct 
time set all will likely be well until you have to reboot or turn your RPi 
off or there is a power interruption. RPis (as distinct from a desktop type 
PC or laptop) are a common source of concern as they have no battery backed 
clock for when the power is off, they have a fake hardware clock that can 
come up in the past. Various improvements have been applied to weeWX over 
the years to make it better handle temporal displacements and it is 
probably the best it has been but as a minimum I would get NTP up and 
running and I would also consider an add-on battery backed RTC module, they 
are just a couple of dollars on ebay or the like.

Gary

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