Ah, yes, now I remember. In a later commit
<https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/8929d365ab5f878671bec8ca3a62c77f2e156f99>,
I changed the strategy so there is now an option to prevent hardware catch
ups.
Under [StdArchive], add option no_catchup and set it to True:
[StdArchive]
...
no_catchup = True
-tk
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:52 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Thomas, that's what I thought but my install of 3.9.1 still required
> the engine.py file to be updated, so I'm not sure what happened there. I'm
> up and running so I guess I'm just passing this on for the devs info,
> perhaps something hasn't been updated or included :)
> I'll make sure I have that file safely saved somewhere too
>
> Colin
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 4:21 PM Thomas Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes, this was in commit 6e7f3aac
>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/6e7f3aac1b2926cacfa63229db2dbbd55f3f2cab>,
>> which is now part of v3.9.1.
>>
>> -tk
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 5:11 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Just upgraded my installation as above. The hardware is WeatherDuino
>>> emulating the Davis comms protocol. On a previous occasion I had an issue
>>> which I think was similar to the errors below and was asked to use an
>>> updated engine.py file - which fixed the problem. After the upgrade I had
>>> to once again copy over the "new" engine.py to sort out this error. I'm not
>>> sure if the fix I was supplied was supposed to be rolled through to the
>>> 3.9.1 upgrade? Log below of the error.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Colin
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:16 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather
>>> system...
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21102]: engine: Initializing weewx
>>> version 3.9.1
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21102]: engine: Using Python 2.7.13
>>> (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22) #012[GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21102]: engine: Platform
>>> Linux-4.14.71-v7+-armv7l-with-debian-9.4
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21102]: engine: Locale is
>>> 'en_NZ.UTF-8'
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21102]: engine: pid file is
>>> /var/run/weewx.pid
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21090]: Starting weewx weather
>>> system: weewx.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started LSB: weewx weather
>>> system.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Using configuration
>>> file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Loading station type
>>> Vantage (weewx.drivers.vantage)
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: StdConvert target
>>> unit is 0x10
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: wxcalculate: The following
>>> values will be calculated: barometer=prefer_hardware,
>>> windchill=prefer_hardware, dewpoint=prefer_hardware, appTemp=software,
>>> rainRate=prefer_hardware, windrun=prefer_hardware,
>>> heatindex=prefer_hardware, maxSolarRad=prefer_hardware,
>>> humidex=prefer_hardware, pressure=prefer_hardware,
>>> inDewpoint=prefer_hardware, ET=prefer_hardware, altimeter=prefer_hardware,
>>> cloudbase=prefer_hardware
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: wxcalculate: The following
>>> algorithms will be used for calculations: altimeter=aaNOAA, maxSolarRad=RS
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Archive will use data
>>> binding wx_binding
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Record generation
>>> will be attempted in 'software'
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Using archive
>>> interval of 300 seconds (software record generation)
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Using binding
>>> 'wx_binding' to database 'weewx.sdb'
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: manager: Starting backfill of
>>> daily summaries
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: StationRegistry:
>>> Station will be registered.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: Wunderground: Posting
>>> not enabled.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: PWSweather: Posting
>>> not enabled.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: CWOP: Data for station
>>> ZL2ARL will be posted
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: WOW: Posting not
>>> enabled.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: AWEKAS: Posting not
>>> enabled.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: MQTT: service version
>>> is 0.18rc1
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: MQTT: binding to loop
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: MQTT: topic is
>>> weather/41south
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: MQTT: desired unit
>>> system is METRIC
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: restx: MQTT: data will be
>>> uploaded to mqtt://192.168.20.121:1883/
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Starting up weewx
>>> version 3.9.1
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Clock error is -1.44
>>> seconds (positive is fast)
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: No <ACK> received
>>> from console
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: DMPAFT try #1;
>>> error: No <ACK> received from Vantage console
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: No <ACK> received
>>> from console
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: DMPAFT try #2;
>>> error: No <ACK> received from Vantage console
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: No <ACK> received
>>> from console
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: DMPAFT try #3;
>>> error: No <ACK> received from Vantage console
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: No <ACK> received
>>> from console
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: DMPAFT try #4;
>>> error: No <ACK> received from Vantage console
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: vantage: DMPAFT max tries (4)
>>> exceeded.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Main loop exiting.
>>> Shutting engine down.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: engine: Caught WeeWxIOError:
>>> Max tries exceeded while getting archive data.
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:57:17 raspberrypi weewx[21106]: **** Waiting 60 seconds
>>> then retrying...
>>>
>>> Apr 7 11:58:02 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: weewx weather
>>> system...
>>>
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