Thanks Tom, that was easy enough! Got it flipped over to systemd. 

Will this also, theoretically, handle the situation where station goes 
offline? Or will weewx die after a few minutes and require manual 
intervention?

On Monday, September 26, 2022 at 2:41:54 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:

> On an RPi running a modern version of Raspbian, I much prefer systemd. 
> Easier to do things like run as a non-root user, and, as you can see, set 
> up dependencies.
>
> See the wiki article *How to configure WeeWX to run under systemd 
> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/systemd>* if you decide to switch.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 8:47 AM Ryan Stasel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for delay responding, Google groups not auto-subscribing to threads 
>> I start myself is... annoying. 
>>
>> I'm using the default init.d script I believe. Didn't even know there was 
>> a systemd option. 
>>
>> So for init.d I should be able to just add "--loop-on-init" to the 
>> "start-stop-daemon" line? 
>>
>> Or should I just switch to systemd? 
>> On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 10:54:01 AM UTC-7 [email protected] 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Are you using a systemd script? Or, init? If the former, you could 
>>> include a network target. Under the [Unit] section, you'd want something 
>>> like
>>>
>>> [Unit]
>>>   ...
>>>   After=network-online.target
>>>   Wants=network-online.target
>>>   ...
>>>
>>> Alternatively, if you do not use systemd, you can use the --loop-on-init 
>>> flag on the weewxd command line. Normally, if a device driver cannot be 
>>> loaded on startup, weewxd quits, figuring it's a configuration issue. This 
>>> flag tells it to keep trying.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 9:58 AM Ryan Stasel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just restarted my weewx Pi, and noticed Weewx wasn't running. Logs show:
>>>>
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] INFO weewx.engine: Loading 
>>>> station type Vantage (weewx.drivers.vantage)
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] ERROR 
>>>> weewx.drivers.vantage: Socket error while opening port 22222 to ethernet 
>>>> host 10.0.6.23.
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] ERROR weewx.engine: Import 
>>>> of driver failed: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable (<class 
>>>> 'weewx.WeeWxIOError'>)
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 342, in 
>>>> openPort
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** self.socket.connect((self.host, self.port))
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** OSError: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: ****
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: ****
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 119, in setupStation
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** self.console = loader_function(config_dict, self)
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 40, in loader
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** return VantageService(engine, config_dict)
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 1916, in 
>>>> __init__
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** Vantage.__init__(self, **config_dict[DRIVER_NAME])
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 514, in 
>>>> __init__
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** self.port.openPort()
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 346, in 
>>>> openPort
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** raise weewx.WeeWxIOError(ex)
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL weewx.engine: 
>>>> **** weewx.WeeWxIOError: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL __main__: Unable 
>>>> to load driver: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable
>>>> Sep 24 09:29:57 raspi-server-misc weewx[528] CRITICAL __main__: **** 
>>>> Exiting...
>>>>
>>>> Seems like it tried to start up prior to the network stack. Any way to 
>>>> keep this from happening? Or have weewx wait a bit and try again? I 
>>>> noticed 
>>>> something similar a couple weeks ago when I was updating my home network 
>>>> (firmware on Unifi switches) weewx couldn't talk to my Vantage so it gave 
>>>> up and died. Seems like it should go into some "retry" state where it 
>>>> backs 
>>>> off and tries again in like 1-5 minutes automatically. 
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! 
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