just tried that and get:
Apr 9 16:17:18 weewx weewx[1719] DEBUG weewx.drivers.ultimeter: Close
serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: Caught unrecoverable
exception:
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** startswith
first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** Traceback
(most recent call last):
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** File
"/home/weewx/bin/weewx/drivers/ultimeter.py", line 346, in _decode
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** v =
int(s, 16)
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** ValueError:
invalid literal for int() with base 16: b'----'
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: ****
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** During
handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: ****
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** Traceback
(most recent call last):
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** File
"/home/weewx/bin/weewxd", line 157, in main
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: ****
engine.run()
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** File
"/home/weewx/bin/weewx/engine.py", line 208, in run
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** for
packet in self.console.genLoopPackets():
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** File
"/home/weewx/bin/weewx/drivers/ultimeter.py", line 132, in genLoopPackets
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** data =
Station.parse_readings(readings)
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** File
"/home/weewx/bin/weewx/drivers/ultimeter.py", line 317, in parse_readings
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: ****
data['inHumidity'] = Station._decode(buf[28:32], 0.1) # percent
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** File
"/home/weewx/bin/weewx/drivers/ultimeter.py", line 354, in _decode
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** if not
s. startswith('--'):
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** TypeError:
startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str
Apr 9 16:17:19 weewx weewx[1719] CRITICAL __main__: **** Exiting.
On Friday, 9 April 2021 at 16:03:24 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
> The driver should work fine with Python 3.
>
> However, the driver has a small, non-functional bug that causes it to emit
> that error message when it encounters a "dash" value. It's non-functional
> because it emits the right value ("None"). It just shouldn't log an error.
>
> Try this version. I've taken the occasion of having a real, live Ultimeter
> user to also fix some ambiguities around byte array types. Let me know if
> it works.
>
> -tk
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 7:26 AM Chris Thompstone <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, the ultimeter isn't supported on Python 3 and ver 4 weewx ?
>> Is that what your saying?
>> Oh, had not planned on that.
>> I found some sort of error in my template, which I've kind of resolved.
>> But the Ultimeter driver... not sure on this one.
>> Thanks
>> Chris
>>
>> On Friday, 9 April 2021 at 15:20:41 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like you switched to Python 3 from Python 2.7 and the driver isn't
>>> compatible, based on the error message.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 6:56 AM Chris Thompstone <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>> I have been trying to upgrade to version 4 since my Pi decided to throw
>>>> a strop.
>>>> Anyway, it's been fairly hardwork.
>>>>
>>>> I have this message continuous in the logs:
>>>> DEBUG weewx.drivers.ultimeter: Decode failed for '----': invalid
>>>> literal for int() with base 16: '----'
>>>> just coming every 1s or so.
>>>>
>>>> I also have some other issue which I can't seem to find:
>>>> ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: Generate failed with exception '<class
>>>> 'TypeError'>'
>>>> Apr 9 14:45:16 weewx weewx[868] ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: ****
>>>> Ignoring template /home/weewx/skins/Standard/index.html.tmpl
>>>> Apr 9 14:45:16 weewx weewx[868] ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: ****
>>>> Reason: '>' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'float'
>>>> Apr 9 14:45:16 weewx weewx[868] ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: ****
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> Apr 9 14:45:16 weewx weewx[868] ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: ****
>>>> File "/home/weewx/bin/weewx/cheetahgenerator.py", line 326, in generate
>>>> Apr 9 14:45:16 weewx weewx[868] ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: ****
>>>> unicode_string = compiled_template.respond()
>>>> Apr 9 14:45:16 weewx weewx[868] ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: ****
>>>> File "_home_weewx_skins_Standard_index_html_tmpl.py", line 1378, in respond
>>>> Apr 9 14:45:16 weewx weewx[868] ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: ****
>>>> TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'float'
>>>>
>>>> My wind vein has blown off the roof, so wind direction and speed are
>>>> probably both None.
>>>> Whether this is something to do with it I don't know, but I can't get
>>>> the index template generated.
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Chris
>>>>
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