Oh and I forgot to say that if you are using Python3 you will have to go into the "extra_sensors_service.py" and change line 23 to read : "except Exception as e:" and restart weewx.
GV On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 9:33:31 PM UTC-7 Glenn Vadney wrote: > I am successfully using the BMP180 for barometer with weewx. I followed > this guys tutorial to the letter and it explains everything pretty well ... > so I didn't have any issues at all. I got 5 BMP180 sensors on Ebay. They > shipped from China & made it here in 6 days. The author of the tutorial > explains that the BMP180 is the most weewx friendly of the Baro sensors. > Don't know if that's true but I took him at his word and everything is > working perfect for me. You might want to go with the BMP180 and follow > his tutorial and you will be good to go. Here's the link & I would make a > save a copy of his tutorial webpage just in case it were to go away while > you are working on this issue: > > https://www.oneeyedman.net/posts/2020052301-weatherstation.html > > Scroll down to the bottom where he discusses the barometer sensor add-on. > Good luck !!!! > > GV > > On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 4:24:40 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> Ok, I have been doing a lot of research, but can’t seem to find what I >> need to do exactly. >> >> >> >> My setup is as follows: >> >> WeeWX Version 4.5.1 running on a Raspberry Pi 3 >> >> Station_type of SDR to get the weather data from acurite >> atlas 5-n-1. >> >> >> >> I am trying to add a BME280. I have it connected to the same RPi that is >> running weewx. I can run a test program to verify that it does in fact get >> the temp, humidity, pressure, altitude. >> >> >> >> What I would like to have done is when I go and view weewx web pages, I >> mainly want the barometer reading to populate. I am not too concerned about >> the others. With that being said does this mean that I need to have 2 >> instances of weewx running or can I add this sensor into the weewx.conf >> file and still have all of my SDR config. >> >> >> >> 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/a00f3415-d259-4c47-a724-c5bf9285967bn%40googlegroups.com.
