Thanks for that, John.

It all looks good using your command.

All the best,
Nick.
On Monday, February 2, 2026 at 9:11:41 AM UTC John Smith wrote:

> Not sure if -u weewx is enough or not but I always do tab completion and 
> it expands to weewx.service
>
> -f is for following the last 10 matching log lines and then any new ones, 
> you can also do -n 1000 to get the past 1000 log lines and ctrl+g will jump 
> to the end of the past log lines, someone posted logs previously to this 
> list and used a reverse flag to make the logs go from most recently to 
> oldest but I can't remember if it was -r or what exactly.
>
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 at 11:54, O S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello John,
>>
>> OK, many thanks and understood. I appreciate your patience.
>>
>> This is a bit embarrassing but I can't recall the command I issues to get 
>> the errors I listed in my last post, I think it was sudo journalctl -u 
>> weewx -f
>> I hope it was, because I went and got a copy of the skin.conf file from 
>> GitHub and overwrote the one I have on my installation, and now I get 
>> this <https://pastebin.com/Yp5G5aRs> when I run the journalctl -u weewx 
>> -f command.
>>
>> So, I hope that's fixed it.
>>
>> On Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 10:34:12 PM UTC John Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, that appears to have fixed it as the error has gone, I still 
>>>> have the 429, and now this has appeared:
>>>>
>>>> Shall i just nuke the whole thing and start again?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No point, that error is coming from a remote server, it's harmless 
>>> usually, some services are overly strict for time between receiving 
>>> updates. The UK MetOffice's WOW API, which isn't shutting down, but is 
>>> going to stop accepting data from hobbyists is notorious for this. If the 
>>> update is 4 minutes and 59 seconds since last upload you get 429 errors. 
>>> Nothing you can do but ignore the errors/warnings.
>>>  
>>>
>>>> ERROR user.belchertown: Aeris/Xweather error: cannot access local 
>>>> variable 'forecast_file_result' where it is not associated with a value
>>>>
>>>
>>> That skin seems to want to output to a file, but the variable isn't set 
>>> telling it where to write it and what filename to use. As I haven't used 
>>> that skin you'll need to do some searching in the skin.conf and/or web 
>>> searches or waiting for a kindly person to reply.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 at 08:36, O S <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... think this is the issue - XWeather says:
>>>>
>>>> [image: Screenshot from 2026-02-01 21-34-55.png]
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