Longitude setting incorrect

[Craig Young]

New installation on Raspberry PI.  All is working, am using the simulator to start with.  The longitude is 175 E but is always showing up in the browser as 175 W.  The documentation says "-" is for W longitude.  I opened and edited conf file and it does indeed show positive on the browser, but still displays W as the longitude.

How do I change this?

Craig

[Craig Young]

In addition, I did stop the service, edited conf file, saved conf file and the restarted service.

Craig

[Tom Keffer]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 2:11 PM Craig Young <craig.y...@gmail.com> wrote:

I opened and edited conf file and it does indeed show positive on the browser, but still displays W as the longitude.

Not following. What do you mean by "show positive on the browser"?

Perhaps you can post your [Station] section?

[Craig Young]

Here is the screenshot

[Craig Young]

In the conf file the number is positive.  The documentation states "-" is W.  When I installed the software I had a "-" in front of longitude.  I changed this in the conf file to positive by removing the "-" and saved.  So I now have a positive number in conf file but a W on the GUI panel.

[Tom Keffer]

Humor me. Show the [Station] section. 

Also, make sure that the file you are editing is the file that WeeWX is actually using. You can tell which configuration file is actually being used by checking the log. Shortly after startup, weewxd will log the path to the configuration file.

Trust me. This will turn out to be a simple problem.

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[Craig Young]

I got it fixed by rebooting the pi.  Now it shows E longitude.  Does that mean I need to do this each time I change the conf file?

[Tom Keffer]

No. You should only have to restart weewxd. not reboot.

I would guess that weewxd was not actually restarted. You can tell by looking at the log.

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