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
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