As a follow-up I did a clean install of bookworm and WeeWX 5, using apt-get, on my Pi. I did nothing else except set up Rsync and I am getting the same sporadic errors as before. No crons. No extensions. Nothing was added to the base install.
On Monday, October 30, 2023 at 8:19:09 AM UTC-5 Tom -KQ5S wrote: > Thanks to Vince and Chris for the help. At this point I am giving up. > I'll try a fresh install and see what happens. > > Tom. > > On Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 9:20:23 PM UTC-5 vince wrote: > >> Tom - I'm at a loss at this point as to why you're not working (or >> failing) consistently. >> >> I did a setup of rsync over ssh on a clean pi and here are the steps. >> Worked first time for me :-) >> >> (this example uses weewx v5.0b15 as user 'pi') >> >> # reimaged a raspberry pi >> # installed rsyslog to get traditional syslogging rather than systemd >> sudo apt-get install -y rsyslog >> >> # logged into the pi as unprivileged user pi (for this example) >> >> # installed weewx with the simulator driver >> >> # created a new ssh keypair for the user pi >> # taking the defaults to make a passwordless keypair >> # which will be ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ssh-keygen >> >> # added this key to the appropriate user@host for my server host >> ssh-copy-id vince@nuc2 >> >> # verified I could log into the remote server >> ssh vince@nuc2 >> # at this point ssh is known to work using the new ssh key.... >> >> # edited weewx.conf to set debug=1 for more verbose logging >> >> # edited weewx.conf to configure the RSYNC uploader >> # so this will upload the default public_html to the specified path >> >> [[RSYNC]] >> skin = Rsync >> enable = true >> server = nuc2 >> user = vince >> path = /home/vince/weehtml >> log_success = true >> log_failure = true >> delete = 0 >> >> # restarted weewx, waited 5 minutes, I see the successful rsync of the >> Seasons skin in syslog >> >> 2023-10-29T19:00:20.236994-07:00 raspberrypi weewx[2416] DEBUG >> weeutil.rsyncupload: rsyncupload: cmd: [['rsync', '--archive', '--stats', >> '-e', 'ssh', '/home/pi/weewx-data/public_html/', >> 'vince@nuc2:/home/vince/weehtml']] >> >> 2023-10-29T19:00:20.680310-07:00 raspberrypi weewx[2416] INFO >> weeutil.rsyncupload: rsync'd 73 files (526,454 bytes) in 0.44 seconds >> >> # Notes: >> # - no /home/pi/.ssh/config file was needed on a pi as long as the >> specified 'server' resolves >> # because ssh on the pi defaults to using ~/.ssh/id_rsa as the >> private key >> # - weewx assumes the local user is the one it is running as >> # - weewx uses the RSYNC 'user' as the remote user it connects to >> >> >> -- 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/b226eed0-523f-42ab-8d32-4b16330e847cn%40googlegroups.com.
