Apologies - by 'the GUI' I mean the weewx web frontend. I reckon it's about time I moved to MySQL. That involves raising a change - which in my case, means asking my wife if she has anything planned the weekend after next. :-)
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 13:28, Andrew Milner <[email protected]> wrote: > to answer that one it may help to know how you installed weewx in the > first place!! Different installation methods put things in different > places. > > what exactly do you mean by 'getting data on the GUI'?? > > the likely explanation is that the webpages are being generated from a > version of weewx.sdb which is located in a different place - and weewx > itself is possibly using a version of weewx.conf which is not the one you > looked at!! > > > > On Monday, 21 January 2019 15:16:01 UTC+2, Cycle London wrote: >> >> Oh, you are so right, man. >> >> If I could, I'd be travelling the world as a landscape photographer. Or >> flying in the Royal Air Force. But although I'm 'not bad' with a camera, >> the world is full of people who are 'not bad'. And my eyesight was too bad >> for the RAF to accept me. >> >> Anyway, I digress. In response to your other post, I note that the >> weewx.sdb file in /home/weewx is owned by root but is empty. Inside >> ./archive there is another file of the same name. .table works on that >> file. Curiously, however.. >> >> [root@weather weewx]# pwd && grep sdb weewx.conf >> /home/weewx >> database_name = weewx.sdb >> >> Can't figure out how, if the weewx.conf file is pointing to what is >> essentially an empty file, how I'm getting data on the GUI. >> >> >> >> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 13:09, Thomas Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The thing is that I work in IT but I hate it. I have a set of skills >>>> (RHEL, Citrix, MySQL, OpenVMS..), but have little desire to increase that. >>>> I do what I do because it pays the bills, and lets me buy nice toys like >>>> the weather station, like my Nikon D850, and I get to go on nice holidays. >>>> But when I think of extracting data for the weather last year, I think "why >>>> bother to learn sqlite when I already know MySQL?". >>>> >>> >>> That's unfortunate. Life is way too short to work on something you don't >>> love. >>> >>> "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live >>> forever." --- Gandhi >>> >>> -tk >>> >>> -- >>> 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/nlfPiicnLsw/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/nlfPiicnLsw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
