Dear Leaf need your help to correct my system because I am having the same issue of logging so kindly advice of the correction to done to bme280wx.py and which lines to be commented.
thanks On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 10:11:22 PM UTC+3 LeaF wrote: > So taking your advice, I looked into the bme280wx.py file and noticed that > there were a number of places where it was writing out information to > various file; syslog, debug and user. When I commented those lines out, > voila no more excessive logging. > Thanks again tk > Lee > > On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 10:58:46 AM UTC-8 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Those things are generally set in /etc/rsyslog.d >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:54 AM LeaF <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> tk >>> Thanks for the observation. I'll do some snooping around the bme280 and >>> see what I can find. >>> >>> (It's not only syslog getting overwhelmed with entries, but debug and >>> user log files are filled with the same info) >>> >>> Thanks >>> Lee >>> >>> On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-8 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> It looks like an extension you are using, bme280, is what is creating >>>> the chatter. Unfortunately, from the little log snippet you gave, it does >>>> not appear to be WeeWX V4 compliant, so muzzling it will not be as easy as >>>> a weewx.conf setting. You could ask the author to update it to V4, then >>>> you >>>> could follow the directions in the Wiki article *WeeWX V4 and logging >>>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/WeeWX-v4-and-logging>*. >>>> >>>> OTOH, fortunately, it looks like the log entry is a debug entry, so >>>> setting debug=0 in weewx.conf should help reduce the number of entries. >>>> >>>> -tk >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:39 AM LeaF <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have a question regarding what goes into the /var/log/syslog file. >>>>> >>>>> I’m running the latest version of weewx on a Raspberry Pi 4. My >>>>> station is a Peet Bros Ultimeter 100. I also added a Adafruit BME280 >>>>> breakout board to measure pressure and humidity. >>>>> >>>>> This all works very well. Thank you >>>>> >>>>> When I run sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog, there appears to be three >>>>> entries per second being written to the log file. So as you can >>>>> imagine, the log file has a lot of info that I don’t want in there. Any >>>>> errors are being written to weewx.log file. >>>>> >>>>> How can I limit what is going to the log file so they don’t grow so >>>>> large? I looked at rsyslog.conf, but don’t know if this is the >>>>> correct place to limit the log entries. >>>>> >>>>> Example, one entry into log file: >>>>> >>>>> Jan 20 10:22:47 WeatherPi /weewxd: bme280: {'dateTime': 1611166967, >>>>> 'usUnits': 1, 'windSpeed': 0.0, 'windDir': 55.058796, 'outTemp': >>>>> 38.300000000000004, 'rain_total': 0.5, 'barometer': None, 'inTemp': None, >>>>> 'outHumidity': 77.02371597125266, 'inHumidity': None, 'day_of_year': 19, >>>>> 'minute_of_day': 620, 'daily_rain': 0.0, 'wind_average': 0.0, 'rain': >>>>> 0.0, >>>>> 'pressure': 29.53154056121909} >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your help. >>>>> >>>>> Lee >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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/7c9cae95-4bcd-4dd6-b293-2113d6a5054cn%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7c9cae95-4bcd-4dd6-b293-2113d6a5054cn%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 [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/08c304c3-aa29-4a12-a1ac-d0824643d2f7n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/08c304c3-aa29-4a12-a1ac-d0824643d2f7n%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/6cfbd987-a296-4442-bc17-6e904c1441efn%40googlegroups.com.
