Hi John Thanks a mil for your response. Ok, weewxd now owned by user weewx, was root. And did this: sudo usermod -aG dialout weewx to try and sort out the USB. No discernable difference noted
Then ran: sudo journalctl -u weewx -n 50 --no-pager Oct 03 14:23:52 Ubuntuserver weewxd[1986]: DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: Successfully woke up Vantage console Oct 03 14:23:52 Ubuntuserver weewxd[1986]: ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: send_data: no <ACK> received from Vantage cons The second line is where the wheels came off. Hmmm, lots of head scratching currently On Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 1:34:20 PM UTC+2 John Smith wrote: > status=4/NOPERMISSION > > > That pretty much says it all, weewxd doesn't have permission to access the > USB device. > > Have you looked at this page? > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Understanding-permissions > > It has a section on USB permissions > > On Sat, 3 Oct 2026 at 18:14, bushtech <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> Conf. file 5.5.2 >> Davis Vantage pro using USB to serial cable >> During ubuntu update got the usual conf file out of date so kept old one. >> But afterwards >> decided to use later conf. file. >> >> What worries me is Ubuntu 26 uses python 3.14. >> >> The weewx documentation says this: >> >> *"Python* >> Python 2.7, or Python 3.5 or later is required." >> >> Am I between a rock and a hard place or am I being stupid >> >> This is what I get when doing sudo systemctl status weewx: >> >> Oct 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver weewxd[19832]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** >> File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/v> Oct 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver >> weewxd[19832]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self.hardware_type = >> self._determine> Oct 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver weewxd[19832]: CRITICAL >> weewx.engine: **** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Oct 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver >> weewxd[19832]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File >> "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/v> Oct 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver >> weewxd[19832]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** raise >> weewx.WeeWxIOError(msg) Oct 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver weewxd[19832]: >> CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** weewx.WeeWxIOError: Unable to read hardw> Oct >> 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver weewxd[19832]: CRITICAL *main*: Unable to load >> driver: Unable to read hardware type. C> Oct 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver >> weewxd[19832]: CRITICAL *main*: **** Exiting... Oct 02 16:05:12 >> Ubuntuserver systemd[1]: weewx.service: Main process exited, code=exited, >> status=4/NOPERMISSION Oct 02 16:05:12 Ubuntuserver systemd[1]: >> weewx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. >> >> Please tell me what is gong on here. Is this a hardware problem now Am I >> missing something stupid >> >> -- >> 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/317e81b0-ee8b-43c5-98fb-e4168c00d7ddn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/317e81b0-ee8b-43c5-98fb-e4168c00d7ddn%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/3c4d4e1a-aaaa-437f-baaf-17f7142e4bc8n%40googlegroups.com.
