Excellent, thankyou. Yes that worked. I don't remember seeing that sequence in the documentation.
Gordon On Tue, 27 May 2025, 17:55 vince, <[email protected]> wrote: > Kinda hard to magically divine what you can't work out specifically, but > here's how I do it FWIW > > # this assumes your weewx-data is under /home/pi/weewx-data > sudo apt install rsyslog > sudo cp /home/pi/weewx-data/util/rsyslog.d/weewx.conf > /etc/rsyslog.d/weewx.conf > sudo systemctl restart rsyslog > > The result is the logs will be under the directory /var/log/weewx - doesn't > get much simpler than that :-) > > Lastly - if you used a packaged installation of weewx the rsyslog.d config > file to copy into place would be /etc/weewx/rsyslog.d/weewx.conf > > The wiki page is perhaps a bit dated in my opinion. The simple steps > above are plenty good enough these days... > > On Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 9:04:35 AM UTC-7 Gordon Train wrote: > >> I installed using pip, and l am using a venv environment. >> >> I have tried following the instructions >> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/logging but l can't work out how to >> get it to write logs. >> >> Gordon >> >> On Tue, 27 May 2025, 16:52 vince, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What in particular are you struggling with? >>> >>> On Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 2:17:50 AM UTC-7 GordonT wrote: >>> >>>> Just a note to say the system has been performing perfectly since >>>> adding the rtc to the Pi. >>>> >>>> I have struggled to get any logs working >>>> >>>> On Sunday, 25 May 2025 at 12:49:56 UTC+1 Tom Keffer wrote: >>>> >>>>> Totally forgot that package installs include a udev rule. >>>>> >>>>> For how to read the log, see section *Log messages >>>>> <https://www.weewx.com/docs/5.1/usersguide/monitoring/#log-messages>* in >>>>> the documentation. >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM GordonT <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for the help. >>>>>> >>>>>> 1) l found a udev rule, 60-weewx.rules. l didn't write it so assume >>>>>> the installation did. I don't know why it didn't show up as /dev/vantage >>>>>> earlier but working now. >>>>>> >>>>>> 2) The Pi having incorrect time and date at boot seems to be the >>>>>> issue, l have seen no issues so far after installing an rtc. >>>>>> It appears to corrupt the vantage pro2 logger which l can only solve >>>>>> by clearing the memory, which results in lost data. >>>>>> >>>>>> Where do l find the log ? I found a reference to /var/log/syslog but >>>>>> can't find any relevant log. I have set debug=1 in the conf. >>>>>> >>>>>> Overall l find weewx very good and hopefully can get rid of my old PC >>>>>> with weatherlink. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> On Saturday, 24 May 2025 at 19:33:45 UTC+1 Tom Keffer wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. If the Vantage is showing up as /dev/vantage, you added a udev >>>>>>> rule. Perhaps you forgot about it? See *Installing a udev script >>>>>>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Troubleshooting-the-Davis-Vantage-station#installing-a-udev-script>* >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2. If you did not have an RTC, then the Pi uses the last recorded >>>>>>> time, which as you noted, could be the previous day. See the *Time >>>>>>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Raspberry-Pi#time>* section in >>>>>>> the article about RPis. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If you have any additional problems, be sure to include a log. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -tk >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM GordonT <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Firstly when l installed it the vantage showed up as /dev/ttyUSB0 >>>>>>>> but now its /dev/vantage, has something changed ? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I also had an issue where after a period it would stop downloading >>>>>>>> any data from the vantage, normally after a boot of the pi. I noticed >>>>>>>> when >>>>>>>> the pi was booted, connected to the Internet but no rtc, the pi time >>>>>>>> would >>>>>>>> be the same as when it was shutdown until it got the current time from >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> Internet. In this period the vantage would show the time from the pi, >>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>> could be from the previous day. 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