I've just updated from 3.9 to 4.0 on my RPi using Belchertown skins. Easy update - many thanks for all the work that's gone into this!
Cheers Colin 41south.nz On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 16:34, Greg from Oz <[email protected]> wrote: > I just upgraded mine from 3.9.2 to 4 and it was OK. > I had Steel series skin and that caused a problem but you just rename > rainrate to rainRate in the skin and that was fixed. > I also have Belechertown skin running so I downloaded the latest version > and that worked as well. > So it was fairly smooth upgrade and it is working. > > Good luck, you should be fine but backup if you are concerned. > > > On Friday, 1 May 2020 14:23:05 UTC+10, Gert Andersen wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I have version 3.9.2 running today. I'm a little unsure if I can update >> to 4.0 by following the installation description or I need to delete >> version 3.9.2 first and do a clean install of version 4.0. Have read >> through the guide and can't really find anything about it. If I can update, >> is there something to save, weewx.conf, weewx.dg, etc. >> >> Thank you very much for Weewx and the great work you do. >> >> Gert >> >> On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 7:09:47 PM UTC+2, Tom Keffer wrote: >>> >>> After months of waiting, Version 4 has finally arrived! The major new >>> feature is that WeeWX will not run under either Python 2 or Python 3. >>> >>> It took a long time to get the packaging right but now, thanks to >>> Matthew Wall, WeeWX is easier than ever to install. Be sure to read the >>> installation instructions for your specific operating system >>> <http://weewx.com/docs.html>. As always, a setup.py install method is >>> also supported. >>> >>> Generally, the package installers will use Python 3, if its available. >>> On older systems, the installers will use Python 2. >>> >>> >>> CHANGE LOG >>> Ported to Python 3. WeeWX should now run under Python 3.5 and greater, >>> as well >>> as Python 2.7. Support for Python 2.5 and 2.6 has been dropped. >>> >>> New facility for creating new user-defined derived types. See the Wiki >>> article >>> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/WeeWX-V4-user-defined-types >>> >>> WeeWX now uses the Python 'logging' facility. This means log, formats, >>> and other >>> things can now be customized. Fixes issue #353. >>> >>> Strings appearing in the data stream no longer cause a TypeError if they >>> can be >>> converted to a number. >>> >>> Strings can now be accumulated and extracted in the accumulators, making >>> it >>> possible to include them in the database schemas. >>> >>> The utility wee_reports now loads services, allowing it to use >>> user-supplied >>> extensions. Fixes issue #95. >>> >>> New default schema ("wview_extended") that offers many new types. The >>> old schema >>> is still supported. Fixes issue #115. >>> >>> Optional, more flexible, way of specifying schemas for the daily >>> summaries. The >>> old way is still supported. >>> >>> The install process now offers to register a user's station with >>> weewx.com. >>> >>> The package MySQL-python, which we used previously, is not always >>> available on >>> Python 3. Ported the MySQL code to use the package mysqlclient as an >>> alternative. >>> >>> The default for WOW no longer throttles posting frequency (the default >>> used to >>> be no more than once every 15 minutes). >>> >>> Added new aggregate types minsum, minsumtime, sum_le. PR #382. >>> >>> Unit group group_distance is now a first-class group. >>> >>> Added new tag $python_version. >>> >>> Ported to Python2-PyMySQL package on OpenSUSE. >>> >>> Added new aggregation types 'first' (similar to 'last'), 'diff' (the >>> difference >>> between last and first value in the aggregation interval), and 'tderiv' >>> (the >>> difference divided by the time difference). >>> >>> Created new unit group 'group_energy2', defined as watt-seconds. Useful >>> for high >>> resolution energy monitors. >>> >>> An observation type known to the system, but not in a record, will now >>> return a >>> proper ValueTuple, rather than UnknownType. >>> >>> Type "stormStart" was added to the unit system. Fixes issue #380. >>> >>> Added new aggregation type 'growdeg'. Similar to 'heatdeg', or >>> 'cooldeg', it >>> measures growing degree-days. Basically, cooldeg, but with a different >>> base. >>> Fixes issue #367. Thanks to user Clay Jackson for guidance! >>> >>> Ported OS uptime to OpenBSD. Fixes issue #428. Thanks to user Jeff Ross! >>> >>> Catch SSL certificate errors in uploaders. Retry after an hour. Fixes >>> issue >>> #413. >>> >>> Wunderfixer has been ported to the new WU API. This API requires an API >>> key, >>> which you can get from the WU. Put it in weewx.conf. Added option >>> --upload-only. >>> Thanks to user Leon Shaner! Fixes issues #414 and #445. >>> >>> Wee_import can now import Weather Display monthly log files. >>> >>> Fixed problem where sub-sections DegreeDays and Trend were located under >>> the >>> wrong weewx.conf section. Fixes issue #432. Thanks to user mph for >>> spotting >>> this! >>> >>> Added new parameters to the Weather Underground uploader. Fixes issue >>> #435. >>> >>> Added new air quality types pm1_0, pm2_5, and pm10_0 to the unit system. >>> Added >>> new unit microgram_per_meter_cubed. Added new unit group, >>> group_concentration. >>> >>> Plist for the Mac launcher now includes a log file for stderr. >>> >>> Night-day transition in plots now uses shortest travel distance around >>> color >>> wheel to minimize extra colors. Fixes issue #457. Thanks to user Alex >>> Edwards! >>> >>> Fixed bug that causes plots to fail when both min and max are zero. >>> Fixes issue >>> #463. >>> >>> Fixed problem with sqlite driver that can lead to memory growth. See PR >>> #467. >>> Thanks to user Rich Bell! >>> >>> Fixed bug that caused windrun to be calculated wrongly under METRICWX >>> unit >>> system. Fixes issue #452. >>> >>> If a bad value of 'interval' is encountered in a record, the program >>> will simply >>> ignore it, rather than stopping. Address issue #375. >>> >>> Change in how the archive timespan is calculated in the engine. This >>> allows >>> oddball archive intervals. Fixes issue #469. >>> >>> NOAA reports are now more tolerant of missing data. Fixes issue #300. >>> >>> Use of strftime() date and time format codes in template file names is >>> now >>> supported as an alternative to the legacy 'YYYY', 'MM' and 'DD'. The >>> legacy >>> codes continue to be supported for backwards compatibility. Fixes issue >>> #415. >>> >>> New --calc-missing action added to wee_database to calculate and store >>> derived >>> observations. >>> >>> wee_import now calculates missing derived observations once all imported >>> data >>> has been saved to archive. Fixes issue #443. >>> >>> wee_import now tolerates periods that contain no source data. Fixes >>> issue #499. >>> >>> wee_import now accepts strings representing cardinal, intercardinal and >>> secondary intercardinal directions in CSV imports. Partially fixes issue >>> #238. >>> >>> The field delimiter character may now be defined for wee_import CSV >>> imports. >>> >>> Ignore historical records if the timestamp is in the future. >>> >>> Can now recover from MariaDB-specific database connection error 1927. >>> >>> Changed the name of the unit "litre" to "liter", making its spelling more >>> consistent with "meter". The spelling "litre" is still accepted. >>> >>> Systemd type changed from "simple" to "forking". Thanks to user Jaap de >>> Munck >>> for figuring this one out! >>> >>> The configuration file is now an optional argument when running weewxd >>> directly. >>> This means most users will be able to use the simple command line 'sudo >>> weewxd'. >>> >>> Use correct log path for netbsd and openbsd in logger setup. >>> >>> StdWXCalculate no longer calculates anything by default. Instead, types >>> to be >>> calculated must be listed in weewx.conf. See the Upgrade Guide. >>> >>> setup.py install no longer saves the old 'bin' subdirectory. 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