Is your database being updated? On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 12:23:35 PM UTC-7 Philip Wolff wrote:
> Thanks for that tip - it got me off the ground. All is now well except > that /var/www/html/weewx hasn't been updated since just before I did the > upgrade to 5.0.1. Anyone else seeing this? > > On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 8:09:36 AM UTC-8 Tom Hogland wrote: > >> In case anyone else runs into this - my Ubuntu server/Davis VP2 and >> serial datalogger had ownership set to root:dialout, so I had to add the >> weewx user to the dialout group for things to work. >> >> On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 6:23:15 AM UTC-9 matthew wall wrote: >> >>> when you install rtl-sdr, it typically, but not always, installs udev >>> rules for *many* sdr devices. the udev rules that it installs make it >>> possible for anyone in the 'plugdev' group to read/write to the sdr >>> device. (this is true when you install rtl-sdr from source - if you >>> install rtl-sdr from a deb/rpm package, it might be different - anyone with >>> this configuration please let us know) >>> >>> weewx v4 runs as root:root, so it has access to the sdr device no matter >>> what the udev rules might be >>> >>> weewx v5 runs as weewx:weewx (for a deb/rpm install) or as a regular >>> non-root user (for pip installs). so udev rules are required. >>> >>> btw, weewx 5.0.1 *always* converts to weewx:weewx, whereas 5.0.0 did not >>> (it would continue to run as root - we changed in 5.0.1 because overall >>> security and best practice) >>> >>> the udev rules installed by rtl-sdr will not help for a deb/rpm install, >>> since the user 'weewx' is not in the plugdev group. you can either added >>> the user weewx to the plugdev group, or modify the udev rules to use >>> 'weewx' instead of 'plugdev' as the group. this is how to do the former: >>> >>> sudo usermod -aG plugdev weewx >>> >>> for a pip install, be sure that the user running weewx is in the >>> 'plugdev' group. >>> >>> restart of the weewxd daemon is almost certainly required so that the >>> daemon process has the right group. reboot is not necessary. >>> >>> m >>> >> -- 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/872b0b73-d942-487d-bbe3-61883e3d00aen%40googlegroups.com.
