I now have WeeWx running on Pi4 / Raspbian, and for the first time am using RSYNC to push the HTML report to cloud hosting instead of FTP, which was my goal.
The SSH key authentication required for RSYNC was tricky for me, partly because I use Windows for development and Linux for both WeeWx and for the cloud hosting. Subtleties lurk about. Here is a very nice video that helped me get through it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33dEcCKGBO4 Since WeeWx normally runs as root SSH keys have to be installed under the root user on the WeeWx host. On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 12:03:32 PM UTC-7 vince wrote: > You're overthinking. Pick a method (dpkg or setup.py) and stick with it. > It's that easy. > > On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 11:53:50 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> OK, using the setup.py method, all seems well. I was using the other >> method and it did not work per my first message. >> >> Regarding my attempt to use Ubuntu, in the other thread, the failure I >> referred to was evidently Ubuntu crashing and corrupting ability to boot. >> I simply re-used my Raspbian SD and started over with WeeWx using the same >> Pi4. Now up and running. Whew. >> >> On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 11:15:50 AM UTC-7 Stephen Rogers wrote: >> >>> Hmmm. I just followed the directions on this page: >>> https://weewx.com/docs/debian.htm, which says it is for installing on >>> Debian systems. >>> >>> OK I need to go to Installation using setup.py it looks like. I found >>> that page here: https://weewx.com/docs/setup.htm. What are these other >>> instructions above? >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 10:40:51 AM UTC-7 vince wrote: >>> >>>> Did you perhaps install the second time using the dpkg (not setup.py) >>>> method ? >>>> >>>> If you used setup.py, did you skip doing a 'sudo python3 setup.py >>>> install' after the 'python3 setup.py build' step ? >>>> >>>> The locations of stuff differs depending on which way you installed >>>> things. Where things are located is in the User's Guide (link) >>>> <https://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#Where_to_find_things> >>>> >>>> -- 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/e1b25aa7-82d3-495a-8841-a4d82da26b8cn%40googlegroups.com.
