Impossible to answer in a meaningful way without knowing what you are trying to do to what and in what way. Simple answer is that no, one of the binding does not need to be wx_binding; however, wx_binding is the default binding so if whatever you may be doing cannot find a binding to use it will try the default.
Gary On Monday, 25 April 2022 at 14:13:49 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/manager.py", line 701, in > get_manager_dict_from_config > raise weewx.UnknownBinding("Unknown data binding '%s'" % e) > weewx.UnknownBinding: Unknown data binding ''wx_binding'' > > I am getting this error. Does one of the bindings have to be called > wx_binding? > > On Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 3:38:08 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote: > >> If you have two weather stations and wish to run weewx-multi you will >> typically run two WeeWX instances not three. In terms of combined reporting >> there are two basic options; first have one of your instances generate the >> combined reports or second, as Matthew mentions in a post in the thread >> cited in your last post, use wee_reports >> <http://weewx.com/docs/utilities.htm#wee_reports_utility> to generate >> your combined reports based on a third config file (note that this 'third >> config file' is not used with a WeeWX instance, rather it is used solely by >> wee_reports to generate the reports specified in it's [StdReport] stanza; >> most of the rest of the third config file (eg driver, services etc) can >> specify whatever you want, though data bindings/datbases etc will need to >> be correctly specified.) >> >> Generally speaking my preference is the former, no need for a third >> config file nor the mechanism (cron?) to run it, everything is taken care >> of by WeeWX. >> >> Gary >> >> -- 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/9ac88b8f-8f16-4d0d-a369-0010a6c7feaan%40googlegroups.com.
