This has been my solution as well: a real-time clock, plus a UPS. But, if the power outage is severe enough to drain the UPS battery, my setup still recovers. At least, the last time that happened (about a year ago).
-tk On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 8:14 AM David VE3STI <david.beac...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had somewhat similar issues - WeeWX couldn't read from the Vantage Vue > after boot up. I needed to do the "memory clear" command then all was well. > However, it was a giant pain if I was away/busy/etc and not available to > run the command. I thought that it should be possible to "fix" this issue > in software but my feeble efforts failed. I installed a RTC. That didn't > fix it either so I gave up and now use a UPS to run the RPi. As long as my > RPi never reboots, I'm OK. > > I don't have much to contribute but I'll watch from the sidelines. I'd > love to see where this leads. > > David Beach > > On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 07:40:59 UTC-4, Thomas Keffer wrote: >> >> This is likely a case of memory corruption, brought on by time not being >> synced during the reboot, due to the lack of an on-board clock. It was not >> a problem with Weatherlink because you were not running it on an RPi. >> >> See the section *WeeWX generated HTML pages, but does not update them >> <http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#html_generated_but_not_updated>* in >> the User's Guide. >> >> But, as Andrew suggested, we would have to see the log from startup to be >> sure. >> >> -tk >> >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:04 AM Andrew Milner <andrew....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> what came just before the log you posted? why is weewx attempting to do >>> a catchup? had weewx just been started? had communications been lost for >>> some reason? We need to know what is causing weewx to attempt a catchup in >>> the first place. You can never post too much log!!!! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:52:51 UTC+3, Andrea Cecilia wrote: >>>> >>>> here it is. As you can see, there is no "added record [...] to >>>> weewx.sdb" line, which indicates that it is not downloading data from the >>>> datalogger, and the reson (I think) is explained in the highlighted line. >>>> >>>> Oct 16 10:30:14 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: vantage: Getting archive >>>> packets since 2019-10-16 09:05:00 CEST (1571209500) >>>> Oct 16 10:30:14 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: vantage: Gentle wake up of >>>> console successful >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: vantage: Retrieving 5 page( >>>> s); starting index= 4 >>>> *Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: vantage: DMPAFT complete: >>>> page timestamp 2019-10-15 13:20:00 CEST (1571138400) less than final >>>> timestamp 2019-10-16 09:05:00 CEST (1571209500)* >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: vantage: Catch up complete. >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: reportengine: Running >>>> reports for latest time in the database. >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: vantage: Requesting 200 >>>> LOOP packets. >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: reportengine: Running >>>> report 'StandardReport' >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: vantage: Gentle wake up of >>>> console successful >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: reportengine: Found >>>> configuration file /home/weewx/skins/Standard/skin.conf for report >>>> 'StandardReport' >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: cheetahgenerator: using >>>> search list ['weewx.cheetahgenerator.Almanac', >>>> 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Station', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Current', ' >>>> weewx.ch >>>> eetahgenerator.Stats', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.UnitInfo', >>>> 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Extras'] >>>> Oct 16 10:30:15 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: manager: Daily summary >>>> version is 2.0 >>>> Oct 16 10:30:17 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: cheetahgenerator: Generated >>>> 16 files for report StandardReport in 2.31 seconds >>>> Oct 16 10:30:17 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: manager: Daily summary >>>> version is 2.0 >>>> Oct 16 10:30:18 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: imagegenerator: Generated >>>> 15 images for StandardReport in 1.36 seconds >>>> Oct 16 10:30:18 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: copygenerator: copied 0 >>>> files to /home/weewx/public_html/vp2 >>>> Oct 16 10:30:18 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: reportengine: Running >>>> report 'FTP' >>>> Oct 16 10:30:19 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: reportengine: Found >>>> configuration file /home/weewx/skins/Ftp/skin.conf for report 'FTP' >>>> Oct 16 10:30:19 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: ftpupload: Attempting >>>> connection to ftp.meteoregionelazio.it >>>> Oct 16 10:30:19 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: ftpupload: Connected to ftp >>>> .meteoregionelazio.it >>>> Oct 16 10:30:19 raspberrypi weewx-vp2[511]: ftpupload: Uploaded file / >>>> www.meteoregionelazio.it/stazioni/soriano/weewx/vp2/daypond.png >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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 weewx...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/33dfe43a-f6d8-4131-b7d3-b5d4e8415b4d%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/33dfe43a-f6d8-4131-b7d3-b5d4e8415b4d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/32bb9d0c-63eb-4610-a49f-7043b5f70375%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/32bb9d0c-63eb-4610-a49f-7043b5f70375%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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