Thanks Gary, two instances it is. Rich
On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 12:59:46 AM UTC-7, gjr80 wrote: > > Hi, > > Short answer is you will need to run two instances of WeeWX, either on a > single device or separate devices. I am in much the same boat having run > the vantage driver for many years and recently bought a GW1000 and a number > of temp/hum sensors and soil moisture sensors. A given WeeWX instance can > only run one driver so hence the need for separate WeeWX instances. You can > have a WeeWX service that can obtain observational data and add it to loop > packets/archive records emitted by the driver, some drivers can run as a > driver or a service but the vantage and interceptor drivers cannot. > > To run separate WeeWX instances you will need separate config files and > databases for each. Reporting is up to you but if you intend combining data > from both devices it may be easiest to have one instance handle the > reporting, though if you intend having separate reports then each instance > will require its own reporting. The wiki has a fairly good article on > setting it up (https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/weewx-multi). > > I have found the biggest challenge was remembering I have two WeeWX > instances running and the need to use specific service names when > controlling the individual services/instances (after being used to just > using systemctl xxxxxx weewx that now affects both services). Getting your > logs sorted is also important, log entries for each instance will be > identified separately but I found it easier to send each to separate log > files, This is covered at the bottom of the Put log messages from WeeWX in > a separate file article in the wiki ( > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/logging). > > Both running fine now under WeeWX 4.1.0/python 3. > > Gary > > -- 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/75584941-5588-4817-8a25-499d3c372b08%40googlegroups.com.
