Re: [weewx-user] Loading Xtides with Forecast

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:17:29 -0700

Which version of weewx-forecast are you using?  I mention this issue and how to work around it in the README of my fork of weewx-forecast (https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-forecast):

If you want tide forecasts, install xtides:
  sudo apt-get install xtide
Then determine your location:
  http://tides.mobilegeographics.com/

Note: current versions of debian (bookworm) do not include xtide.
This is perhaps true of other distributions.
You'll need to build it yourself and set the 'prog' variable in the xtide
section.
Example (building xtide)
  wget https://flaterco.com/files/xtide/xtide-2.15.5.tar.xz
  (decompress and cd to directory)
  sudo apt-get install libpng-dev
  sudo apt-get install libtcd-dev
  ./configure
  make
Example (setting prog variable t point to where you have built xtide):
[Forecast]
    ...
    [[XTide]]
        location = Palo Alto Yacht Harbor, San Francisco Bay, California
        prog = /home/jkline/software/xtide-2.15.5/tide
You'll still need to install xtide-data.  Example:
    apt install xtide-data
and you'll need to create an /etc/xtide.conf file to tell xtide where to find the harmonic
data you installed with xtide-data.  Example:
/etc/xtide.conf:
    /usr/share/xtide
(xtide-data installs harmonic data in the /usr/share/xtide directory)


On Jun 16, 2024, at 10:10 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

Im loading weewx V5 from new and while installing the forecast program I notice that XTides is no longer available.
Can somebody point me in the right direction please as to how I can get XTides to work

Thanks

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