Thank you. I will make sure I have the realtime gauge-data extension installed and enabled.
How do I disable the generation of the gauge-data.txt by the SteelSeries skin? Marty On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 6:56:03 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote: > Thanks. The logs indicate that you have the SteelSeries skin > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/steelseries> installed and the Realtime > gauge-data extension <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-realtime_gauge-data>, > if installed, is not enabled. The SteelSeries skin generates gauge-data.txt > during the report cycle at the end of every archive period, in your case > every five minutes. The wiki you are referring to is for the Realtime > gauge-data extension which can generate gauge-data.txt on receipt of each > loop packet, in your case every 2.5 odd seconds. The setting for the > Realtime gauge-data extension have no effect on the SteelSeries skin. > > If you want gauge-data.txt to be generated on every loop packet then you > need to install (or enable if already installed) the Realtime gauge-data > extension. Note you will then. need to disable generation of gauge-data.txt > by the SteelSeries skin or you will have the skin and the extension both > generating gauge-data.txt. This would be bad. > > Gary > > On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 10:40:54 UTC+10 Marty b wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for the response. The logs are attached.... >> >> Marty >> >> On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 4:22:58 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> There are two means of having WeeWX generate gauge-data.txt; one is via >>> the SteelSeries skin and the other is via the real-time gauge data >>> extension. The former generates gauge-data.txt no quicker than every >>> archive interval the latter up to every ‘loop interval’. It sounds like you >>> may be using the former. It would help to know what you have installed and >>> enabled. Could you please set debug = 1 in weewx.conf and then restart >>> WeeWX. Let WeeWX run for at least two archive intervals and then post the >>> log showing the full WeeWX startup through until the two archive intervals >>> have passed.nThat will tell us exactly what your install is doing. >>> >>> Gary >>> On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 08:03:42 UTC+10 Marty b wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> I am trying to figure out how to get gauge-data.txt to update each time >>>> a loop packet is received. Currently it only updates at the same interval >>>> as the rest of the weewx files (~every 10 minutes). I looked at the wiki >>>> page for extension, but the section for ' Changing how often >>>> *gauge-data.txt* is generated' says ' To be written.' >>>> >>>> Any help would be appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>> -- 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/e8da8f9f-a2a7-4d23-85a4-a0dce06c9a94n%40googlegroups.com.
