I've just tried to get my ws28xx running on a debian installation running in a LXC on a QNAP NAS.
dmesg shows the dongle was connected: [297714.611821] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd [297714.893545] hid-generic 0003:6666:5555.0002: hiddev0: USB HID v1.11 Device [LA CROSSE TECHNOLOGY Weather Direct Light Wireless Device] on usb-0001:01:00.0-2/input0 [297714.938043] [usb.001.004] /sys/devices/platform/soc/fd800000.pcie-external0/pci0001:00/0001:00:00.0/0001:01:00.0/usb1/1-2 added. lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 6666:5555 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 When I start wee_device or weewx I get this exception: Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] INFO weewx.drivers.ws28xx: found transceiver at bus= device= Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] ERROR weewx.engine: Import of driver failed: The device has no langid (<class 'ValueError'>) Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** Traceback (most recent call last): Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 119, in setupStation Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self.console = loader_function(config_dict, self) Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/ws28xx.py", line 948, in loader Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** return WS28xxDriver(**config_dict[DRIVER_NAME]) Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/ws28xx.py", line 1294, in __init__ Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self.startUp() Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/ws28xx.py", line 1415, in startUp Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self.serial, comm_interval=self.comm_interval) Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/ws28xx.py", line 4020, in setup Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self.shid.open(vendor_id, product_id, device_id, serial) Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/ws28xx.py", line 3072, in open Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self._open_device(device) Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/ws28xx.py", line 3113, in _open_device Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** log.info('manufacturer: %s' % self.devh.getString(dev.iManufacturer,30)) Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/usb/legacy.py", line 283, in getString Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** return util.get_string(self.dev, index, langid).encode('ascii') Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/usb/util.py", line 314, in get_string Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** raise ValueError("The device has no langid") Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** ValueError: The device has no langid Mar 2 21:06:34 debianNAS weewx[23083] CRITICAL __main__: Unable to load driver: The device has no langid Is this related to the LXC? Any ideas? -- 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/92dcd131-9cc0-46f5-a733-3d13866bf184n%40googlegroups.com.