4.10 to 5.1 upgrade observations

[Mark Jenks]

I just did a fresh install of 5.1 from yum-test, and migrated everything from my 4.10 over to it.   Everything went as expected, except a few things I noticed.

One thing to note, is to install the extensions, before start editing the data in them.  I'm running Belchertown, and coping the skins folder over first was a bad idea.  Just let them install and them tweak the folder as needed.

Seems this is supposed to come with v5?  But did not for me.  I did a dnf install, which was never done before on my system.

INFO weewx.engine: 'pyephem' not detected, extended almanac data is not available

Also, when I do a weectl database reconfigure, it doesn't use what is already in weewx.conf (like what configuring the hardware does), but wants to create a weewx_new database?  That threw me for a loop, because I was trying to make sure everything was right, before I started it up for the first time.

Otherwise, all back up and running and can now archive my /home/weewx install.

Thanks!

[Tom Keffer]

Thanks for your report.

The library pyephem is not available as a package under RH, so you have to install it using pip. 

The creation of a new database with suffix "_new" by "weectl database reconfigure" is normal behavior. See the docs.

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[Mark Jenks]

Is there a schema change?  Or am I good with just running weectl database update?  I did that before I started it too, but didn't seem like it did much?

-Mark

[vince]

Why do you think you need to update your database ?

If your skins process in a reasonable couple/few second time without errors, you're good as is.

[Mark Jenks]

See my new post..  :)