Re: [weewx-user] Dashboard

[Thomas Keffer]

Hi, Dries, and thanks for the comments.

If you mean a PHP dashboard like wview has, no, it does not. There is only one program --- weewxd.py --- so it is much simpler to administer. Usually I just use a tool like htop if I want to see what's going on.

To get FTP working, look for section [[FTP]] in the configuration file weewx.conf. Fill out the four options

user

password

server

path

as appropriate. Then restart (or reload) weewx.

I hope I'm answering your question.

-tk

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:21 AM, bushtech <busht...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Tom

 Thanks for this great program. After the nightmare of wview this is an absolute pleasure.

Just feeling a bit stupid here. Does weewx have a dashboard that can be viewed on the computer that weewx is installed on.? How do I access it? Do I need to play around with the ftp end? Been poring over the User Guide but I'm no expert at Linux so haven't recognised any clues

Dries

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[bushtech]

Hi Tom

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I'm afraid a dashboard like wview is what I'm looking for. Htop looks more like a system monitor. As I understand it ftp will publish your data to a webpage.? But for that you need to set up a webpage.? I need a "local" dashboard which is accessible to any computer on my network.

If there is no other solution is it a big job to build something like this?

Thanks for the advice

Dries

[Richard Mulvey]

It sounds like there may be some confusion in terminology here.

When you say "dashboard", are you referring to a control panel that allows you to stop/start/configure/etc the app?  Or the actual webpages that are generated for the weather data?

Both weewx and wview create webpages automatically, and can be configured to push them via ftp to your website.  Or you can access them directly on whatever machine is running the weewx software.  All the "dashboard" in wview does is give you a mechanism for configuring the station, etc.  The same task in weewx is accomplished by editing one or two text files.

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[bushtech]

Hi Rich

I am looking for something like what you would see when you look at your weather station on wunderground. The graphs, dials, data all on one screen on the local computer and then also available to other computers on my network.

As I said at the start, I'm a noobie at this, so apologies for probably a stupid question.

Dries

[Thomas Keffer]

To see the generated files on your local computer, use any browser and bring up page

  /home/weewx/public_html/index.html

If you want to see it from another machine in your home network, you will have to use a webserver, such as Apache. How to do this is way beyond the purview of weewx, but briefly

  sudo apt-get install apache2

Then edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to include a section:

Alias /weewx /home/weewx/public_html

<Directory "/home/weewx/public_html">

     Order allow,deny

     Allow from all

</Directory>

Then restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart

You should then be able to see the generated HTML pages from any machine on your local network at http://your-machine-name/weewx/index.html

-tk

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[bushtech]

Hi Tom

Thank you Thank you. That's what I needed! Brilliant.

Happy Dries