@Bob Atchley - Thanks! Not confusing (to me) at all! ;-) Very helpful- particularly the Wiki links. My usage of GitHub has been very limited from what I now see for WeeWX, so I'll have to do some exploring. I've used Wikis often but was unaware GitHub has such a rich capability.
Thanks Again- Bob On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 1:12:29 PM UTC-4 Bob Atchley wrote: > And just as a slight addendum to your original post ... > > I personally choose to run weewx as a non privileged user. Its relatively > simple to set up but the user does need to be in the www-data group to > interface with the web server (assuming the web server is local) and needs > permission to read/write to the usb see: > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Run-as-a-non-root-user > > I use systemd to start/stop the weewx service and you need to add the user > name into the [service] part of the configuration e.g. > User= myUser > Group=myUser > Again the brilliant weewx Wiki has some stuff on using systemd see: > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/systemd > > But as Vince says no need to do this, the default works out of the box ... > but it can be done. I found it useful while developing the WS6in1 driver. > > Hope this helps rather than confuses > > Bob > > > > On Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 19:52:13 UTC+1 radi...@gmail.com wrote: > >> @vince - Yeah, overthinking is likely... >> >> My intent was to install WeeWX "out of the box" and get it up and >> running, to get familiar with it (quite possibly reinstall using one of >> the other methods later thinking that might ease updates). I ran into GPIO >> access issues when trying to manipulate them through a web page a while >> ago, so I planned to stick with "pi" initially. I confess when I saw >> /home/weewx mentioned several times, I *assumed *this implied a user. >> Nowhere does it say this that I recall, so not a valid assumption. (A >> little sys admin bias perhaps.) I've used Apache on most of my Pis, having >> failed to get nginx to run at one time, and having used Apache for some >> time. I do have a hosted server which will be the target for observations >> eventually. >> >> "*Why mess with setup.cfg?*" The short answer is >> https://weewx.com/docs/setup.htm says "To specify an install location >> different from the default /home/weewx, modify the parameter home in the >> setup.cfg >> file." Again, I didn't want to create a weewx user (my assumption), and >> didn't understand the implications of what one chooses for home. >> >> I did note that the code has to run under root / sudo. Eventually I'll >> run it under systemd (using root). >> >> I'll try wee_config --reconfigure when I get back to it. Helpful tip, >> thanks! >> >> >> @paul...@gmail.com >> >> When researching what station to buy I did note Bob Atchley's driver but >> didn't have the Logia model number on hand at the time. Amazingly it does >> match! I was looking for a USB-connected station, and they are getting >> harder to find it seems. Appreciate the pointer to his git, and knowing >> that you've had good success with it. (With Cumulus I had written a >> separate watchdog process because the comms were dropping fairly often.) >> >> I had planned on registering once I was up and running - so we'll be 12! >> ;-) >> >> Thanks Folks- Very favorable experience with my first post to the forum! >> Bob >> >> On Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 11:07:19 AM UTC-4 paul...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Hi Bob >>> >>> Your Logia looks to be identical to the Bresser 5-in-1 PC station I use >>> (model 7002571). With it being the PC version (as opposed to the wireless >>> version) you can use Bob Atchley's driver WS6in1. I've been using it since >>> November 2020 and it has worked flawlessly for me. You'll find full details >>> about it on Bob's github page: >>> https://github.com/bobatchley/weewx-ws6in1 >>> >>> In fact I've just checked and indeed the LOWSB510PB is listed. >>> >>> Don't forget to register your station when you setup WeeWX then you will >>> join a select band (currently 11 of us) on the WeeWX map who use the WS6in1 >>> driver ;-) >>> >>> Paul >>> On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 23:50:37 UTC+1 vince wrote: >>> >>>> You're perhaps overthinking a bit. >>>> >>>> 1. weewx runs as root by default, so there's little gained by making a >>>> non-'pi' user really. As long as your pi is adequately secured (change >>>> the 'pi' password of course) you're probably ok with the default setup. >>>> You could choose to make a different non-privileged user but it gains >>>> little unless you change things to run as that non-privileged user rather >>>> than root, which ups the ante a bit re: permissions to talk to the >>>> hardware >>>> etc. I'd suggest just running the defaults at least initially. >>>> >>>> 2. I don't know why you're messing with setup.cfg at all. If you want >>>> to run a setup.py install, just go with it. It'll put everything under >>>> /home/weewx in one place. All you'll have to do is connect the >>>> public_html tree that will be created under /home/weewx/public_html to >>>> your >>>> webserver. FWIW, I just symlink it. You 'do' need to add a webserver on >>>> a pi since the os doesn't do that automagically for you. I recommend >>>> nginx. >>>> >>>> 3. When you ran 'python3 setup.py install' it should have asked you the >>>> questions needed to populate weewx.conf including which driver to use. >>>> I'd >>>> recommend using the Simulator for starters until you get used to the >>>> software. Once you have that set up you can stop weewx, delete your >>>> archive and public_html contents, reconfigure weewx to the right driver >>>> for >>>> your station, and restart weewx. Unfortunately I don't know anything >>>> about FO stations or if yours is supported or not so I can't help there. >>>> >>>> I think you want to run "sudo /home/weewx/bin/wee_config --reconfigure" >>>> and answer the questions again so it populates weewx.conf appropriately. >>>> >>>> -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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