Glen, John, I deleted and replaced the double and single quotes in the code. It turns out that single quotes threw the same error when I restarted weewx. Here the log output from the restart:
DEBUG weewx.engine: Loading service user.rtgd.RealtimeGaugeData INFO user.rtgd: version is 0.5.5 DEBUG weewx.manager: Daily summary version is 4.0 INFO user.rtgd: Unknown block specified for scroller_text INFO user.rtgd: gauge-data.txt will not be exported. INFO user.rtgd: '/var/www/html/weewx/steelseries/gauge-data.txt' will be generated. min_interval is 2 seconds DEBUG weewx.engine: Finished loading service user.rtgd.RealtimeGaugeData INFO __main__: Starting up weewx version 5.2.0 DEBUG weewx.engine: Station does not support reading the time INFO weewx.engine: Using binding 'wx_binding' to database 'weewx.sdb' INFO weewx.manager: Starting backfill of daily summaries INFO weewx.manager: Empty database INFO weewx.engine: Starting main packet loop. DEBUG weewx.manager: Daily summary version is 4.0 DEBUG weewx.manager: Daily summary version is 4.0 CRITICAL user.rtgd: Unexpected exception of type <class 'KeyError'> DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** Traceback (most recent call last): DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** File "/etc/weewx/bin/user/rtgd.py", line 1825, in run DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** self.process_packet(_package['payload']) DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** File "/etc/weewx/bin/user/rtgd.py", line 1870, in process_packet DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** _conv_packet = weewx.units.to_std_system(packet, DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** self.stats_unit_system) DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/units.py", line 1613, in to_std_system DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** _datadict_target = StdUnitConverters[unit_system].convertDict(datadict) DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^ DEBUG user.rtgd: rtgdthread: **** KeyError: None CRITICAL user.rtgd: Thread exiting. Reason: None Thanks for staying with me on this! On Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 2:25:37 PM UTC-5 Glenn McKechnie wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 at 05:34, 'Ron Walker' via weewx-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> John, >> >> I deleted the max_cache_age line and retyped it, in case there was any >> text I couldn't see. >> >> Here is the line you requested: >> File "/etc/weewx/bin/user/rtgd.py", line 2893 >> log.info(\u201cts: %s (%s), self.cache[obs][\u2018ts\u2019]: %s >> (%s), max_age: %s (%s)\u201d % (ts, ts, self.cache[obs][\u2018ts\u2019], >> self.cache[obs][\u2018ts\u2019], max_age, max_age)) >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid character '\u201c' (U+201C) >> > > That syntax error is the result of non-ascii characters in your log.info > string. Specifically - smart quotes. They are showing up as \u201c and > \201d instead. > > Where you see *" or **”* ie :- 'double quotes' delete them and replace > them with the plain* " *character from your keyboard. Use a plain text > editor to do it and it will have no choice but to insert the correct > character. Use nano, vim or whatever is your favourite editor > > There is a subtle difference in their appearance and while they appear the > same, they are most definitely not. > > > Cheers > Glenn (VK3GLN) > > Various WeeWx addons at > https://github.com/glennmckechnie > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/449edf27-cfd2-4050-8700-a368880e9e6fn%40googlegroups.com.
