Good suggestion from John, and probably the safest. You'll have to decide for yourself whether to do an *in situ* upgrade.
I can say that we have worked hard on common upgrade paths, and Debian 8 to 9 is one of them. If you decide to go the upgrade route, remember to upgrade your interceptor driver as well. -tk On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 10:57 AM John Kline <j...@johnkline.com> wrote: > If another Raspberry Pi is affordable for you, you might consider setting > up a completely new system. That would give you time to get things right. > If you are successful, you could then stop both WeeWX instances, copy over > the database (weewx.sdb) to the new system and restart. > > On Oct 24, 2020, at 10:51 AM, Boston Tom <tkav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, that's the reason behind wanting to upgrade. I want to keep up to > date every so often so that I don't wind up with a set up that gets > completely phased out. Do you recommend just leaving it alone until > something stops working? > > On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 1:44:14 PM UTC-4 tke...@gmail.com wrote: > >> If your system is working fine, why mess with it? Especially if it >> involves an OS upgrade. >> >> The only catch is that eventually Python 2 will be phased out and, to >> keep up with security upgrades, you may be forced to switch. >> >> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 10:27 AM Boston Tom <tka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I am running 3.7.1 on an rpi with the interceptor driver to collect data >>> from my Lacrosse system and publish it to the web, CWOP, APRS, etc. >>> >>> Everything has been running fine for several years, but I am considering >>> upgrading. I am not Linux or programming savvy. I just do things >>> logically by trial and error and eventually get things to work.....somehow. >>> >>> It took me quite a while to get my existing set-up working, so now I am >>> a little nervous to tinker with anything. >>> >>> I am running Raspian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie), release 8.0 >>> >>> Should I upgrade to weewx 4.1.1, or just leave it alone? >>> >>> If upgrading will not be too disruptive to my system, it looks like I >>> will need to upgrade the operating system (based on the weewx page >>> prerequisites). >>> >>> Will an operating system upgrade affect my current set-up? >>> Will updating to weewx 4.1.1 wipe out my current config settings, or >>> mess with the interceptor driver I need to run to collect the data? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> -- >>> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8b2a66c0-2ff0-4091-ac25-8ba07f32b1a8n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8b2a66c0-2ff0-4091-ac25-8ba07f32b1a8n%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/f50cea27-a70a-46ae-b10a-efad8873c491n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f50cea27-a70a-46ae-b10a-efad8873c491n%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/B90993D6-014E-4151-A59D-09BA59932AC6%40johnkline.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/B90993D6-014E-4151-A59D-09BA59932AC6%40johnkline.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/CAPq0zEDvG7oRDg-%3DbkLKzZRCpZvauWmBkPb1Soc9usDn4yPVtg%40mail.gmail.com.
