Is WeeWx running as the same user as your user? Error looks to me like the 
weewx user hasn't done the key sharing to allow password-less rsync over 
ssh.

On Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 10:58:19 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

> WeeWX version 4.5.1 - debian install
> MQTT
> GW1000 API
> also running neowx-material skin
> --
> rsync works perfectly on the command line but it does not work in weewx.
> The web host uses port 2222 for SSH.
> I've tried all types of things with ~.ssh/config but whether or not I even 
> use the config file or not, I get the exact same error:
>
> 2022-01-12 2:39 P.M.        weewx.service        weewx[19782] ERROR 
> weeutil.rsyncupload: [['rsync', '--archive', '--stats', '-e ssh -p 2222', 
> '/var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/', 
> 'remote_user@mydomainca:public_html/glenns/belchertown']] reported errors: 
> Host key verification failed.. rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 
> bytes received so far) [sender]. rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) 
> at io.c(235) [sender=3.1.3]
>
> I did see Chri's's Jan 2 thread about his port problem for rsync but in my 
> case adding port = 2222 in the RSYNC section appears to work as I see -p 
> 2222 in the error message above.
>
> note: if you add a "/" slash in front of public_html for the target 
> directory on the remote host, rsync does not work on the command line.
>
> note: I don't "git" git - could not see a way to download Tom's patched 
> rsyncupload.py - so i just did a cut and paste of his code with notepad++ 
> and duplicated the permissions. Hopefully it worked..at least I get the 
> same error with the patched file! I have attached a copy of the patched  
> file..just in case i didn't get the right one. I also have attached a 
> debug=1 file  along with weewx.conf.
>
> Any help with this rsync problem would be greatly appreciated!
>

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