As I unfortunately have to say too many times here, we are not clairvoyant. Without seeing logs and config files sorry can’t help. I certainly have not seen any difference between trixie and any other release. On Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 4:21:39 PM UTC-7 Peter Fletcher wrote:
> That I have done - as far as I can see, relevant sections of relevant > files are comparable. I would be more confident if I didn't have the > impression that device handling has some new quirks under Trixie! > > On Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 7:01:29 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: > >> Use your old working pi as a reference and compare them line by line. My >> guess is you didn’t do whatever initial setup is required so the meteopi >> hardware appears as a serial device to the pi os. >> >> On Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 2:52:14 PM UTC-7 John Smith wrote: >> >>> Have you set debug=1 in the config file? >>> >>> Then you need to post, redacted where needed, a full startup log. >>> >>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 at 08:36, 'Peter Fletcher' via weewx-user < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I am trying to move my 'workhorse' (it runs weewx, as well as a fair >>>> bit of home-brew home monitoring and control software) Raspberry Pi 3B to >>>> Trixie, and I must confess that I am getting increasingly frustrated with >>>> the problems introduced by Debian's assumption that you should be happy to >>>> (essentially) recreate your system configuration from scratch every 2 >>>> years >>>> for the new release. I do have two 3Bs, so I was able to do much of the >>>> recreation on a new copy of Trixie on the 'spare' 3B, but I don't have two >>>> RTCs, and I don't have a duplicate of the Meteo-Pi that acts as the serial >>>> interface to my Vantage Pro 2. I was fairly easily able to install and run >>>> weewx (5.1, now updated to 5.2) under Trixie with its simulator driver, >>>> and >>>> I am now at the point of trying to move the configured Trixie SD card to >>>> the hardware-equipped 3B and to run weewx 'for real'. After a few gotchas, >>>> I got the RTC working, and made the appropriate modifications to my >>>> existing weewx.conf to conform it to the layout of the Trixie >>>> installation. >>>> I disabled the Console TTY and enabled the serial interface on the Pi, and >>>> pointed weewx (successively) to dev/tty, dev/tty0, and dev/tty1. weewx >>>> starts up without errors, but reports that it is getting no response from >>>> the serial port, and cycles between the 'no response' and 'retrying' >>>> messages. I don't believe that this is, strictly speaking, a weewx >>>> problem, >>>> but has anyone got weewx working with this or a similar combination of >>>> operating system and hardware, and/or got any helpful suggestions? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/c6dd5038-da0e-496c-bb67-42b31cc29eb6n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c6dd5038-da0e-496c-bb67-42b31cc29eb6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- 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/f0347a43-9912-47c1-b2a7-712dfccd34dbn%40googlegroups.com.
