The production instance is running on a VM but I think the host is being hammered already, so spinning another one up isn't an option. Besides, would VMWare let me share a USB controller and peripheral between two VMs?
But that does give me the idea of setting up a VirtualBox environment on my PC. Only thing I won't have is the data but I can manually copy it over and use outdated stuff, just to see what it looks like. Perfect. Thanks very much. On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 at 23:41, p q <[email protected]> wrote: > That's what I do. Use simulator as the weather station and a VM thats a > copy of my real station weewx implementation. I make any significant > changes on the vm first. > > I have considered using docker but lack motivation. > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 3:34 PM vince <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 9:59:28 AM UTC-7, Andy Sloane wrote: >>> >>> I am using the standard skin on Weewx, and would like to create a >>> "staging area" where I can experiment with different skins. This area >>> would be completely hidden from public view, unless you had the URL. Is >>> this possible? >>> >>> >>> >> Another option is to spin up a throwaway instance of weewx on a pi, or in >> docker, or in a virtual machine. That lets you fiddle and possibly break >> things without affecting your production configuration. I've learned the >> hard way to never test in production. >> >> (and also have learned multiple times the hard way that I forget that >> sometimes too) >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/86945e42-8745-4dd2-923b-a49ee6ae6ac1o%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/86945e42-8745-4dd2-923b-a49ee6ae6ac1o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/pS3qjKcGoAo/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAA1SM224pRQy2%2BR2Vgk_m%2B9UnUcLMfei58w_iY4p-0wDrNyDhA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAA1SM224pRQy2%2BR2Vgk_m%2B9UnUcLMfei58w_iY4p-0wDrNyDhA%40mail.gmail.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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAAV0Npb-K3Y1JHcadrLaj_DSkV%2BLk5xw2q9Ed0oADO2fp%2BbdyA%40mail.gmail.com.
