WeeWX 5.1.0 on Pi 5 MPiE and weewx.conf

[9sl...@gmail.com]

WeeWX 5.1.0 on Pi 5 MPiE and weewx.conf

Long-time fan of WeeWX.

Worked perfectly with my Meteo-Pi-Ethernet Logger and WeeWX 4.9.1

It sent its data directly to its built-in sites: (WL/WU/WOW/CWOP).

I was able to pause it once a minute for WeeWX to update my other recipient sites: WeatherCloud, AWEKAS, Windy, OpenWeatherMap, PWS Weather, WeatherCloud, Windfinder.

I bought a Pi 5 and installed V5.1 in November and tried to replicate this, but tripped at the first hurdle - setting up weewx.conf.

Install was pip (Debian) with venv.

Somehow (operator error, for sure), I mislaid my 4.9.1 weewx.conf files, so I couldn't trace the errors.

I was always editing it, so the host and port lines for 5.1 are the same as with 4.9.1

I'm using the same Meteo-Pi Ethernet Logger, which continues to work flawlessly.

I know v5.1 handles logging differently, so I get these errors

LOGS:

sudo systemctl status weewx

Rpiwx5:~ $ sudo systemctl status weewx
× weewx.service - WeeWX
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/weewx.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2025-01-03 16:51:36 NZDT; 1 week 4 days ago
   Duration: 163ms
       Docs: https://weewx.com/docs
   Main PID: 724728 (code=exited, status=4)
        CPU: 158ms

Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 weewxd[724728]: CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****      Vantage.__init__(self, **config_dict[DRIVER_NAME])
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 weewxd[724728]: CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 536, in __init__
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 weewxd[724728]: CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****      self.port.openPort()
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 weewxd[724728]: CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 359, in openPort
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 weewxd[724728]: CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****      raise weewx.WeeWxIOError(ex)
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 weewxd[724728]: CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****  weewx.WeeWxIOError: [Errno 111] Connection refused
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 weewxd[724728]: CRITICAL __main__: Unable to load driver: [Errno 111] Connection refused
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 weewxd[724728]: CRITICAL __main__:     ****  Exiting...
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 systemd[1]: weewx.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=4/NOPERMISSION
Jan 03 16:51:36 Rpiwx5 systemd[1]: weewx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Here's the [Vantage]

[Vantage]
 59     # This section is for the Davis Vantage series of weather stations.
 60  # 221116: trying to sort out ports, etc  
 61     # Connection type: serial or ethernet
 62     #  serial (the classic VantagePro)
 63     #  ethernet (the WeatherLinkIP or Serial-Ethernet bridge)
 64 #241228_REVERTING TO ETHERNET
 65 #       type = serial
 66        type = ethernet
 67     # If the connection type is serial, a port must be specified:
 68     #   Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Fedora, and SuSE:
 69     #     /dev/ttyUSB0 is a common USB port name
 70     #     /dev/ttyS0   is a common serial port name
 71     #   BSD:
 72     #     /dev/cuaU0   is a common serial port name
 73 #       port = /dev/ttyUSB0
 74 #241228_REVERTING TO ETHERNET
 75
 76 #       port = /dev/ttyS0
 77         port = 22222
 78     # If the connection type is ethernet, an IP Address/hostname is required:
 79 #    host = 1.2.3.4
 80 #241228_REVERTING TO ETHERNET
 81             host = 192.168.1.103

It's in Simulator mode: that part of weewx.conf untouched.

[vince]

Long answer follows....

You said you used a pip venv but "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py" would be the path if you had a packaged installation.  Do you have multiple weewx installations ?   In that case I'd recommend just reimaging the SD card, start over from scratch and pick 'one' way to install weewx (pip 'or' dpkg), and do one thing at a time.  Get the simulator working.  Try to switch to the Vantage driver.  One step at a time under control and not randomly editing or cutting+pasting things.

I have no idea what MPiE means at all. You're going to need to tell us what your setup is, verify which driver you're running and that you have no typos,  set debug=1 and restart weewx and maybe we can get you there.

In general, the usual answers apply.  For starters, you want to run "sudo journalctl -u weewx" to see 'all' weewx log entries.  Save it to a file with extension .txt please if you upload it here.  Definitely set debug=1 for more debugging and restart weewx to make it take effect.

Your last line "it's in simulator mode" does not agree with your log entry which says you're running the Vantage driver.  The simulator wouldn't try to connect to a network port.    You might want to run 'weectl station reconfigure" and answer the questions again to verify which driver you're running or switch drivers if needed.  You'll need to restart weewx after changing weewx.conf as always.

Seeing 'connection refused' means the remote computer typically is not listening on that ip:port combination.  Verify you have no typos for host ip and its listening port.

The NOPERMISSION 'might' be you trying to talk to a privileged port as the unprivileged user 'weewx' that weewx v5 runs as, but you need to take a minute to spell out what exactly you're trying to connect to and what gear has which addresses.   There have been issues recently with some folks running the interceptor driver along those lines, trying to listen to ports the weewx user is not by default permitted to listen on, but I can't find those threads in a quick search.

I'm sure it's frustrating, but given your somewhat scattered description, I'm not 100% certain you know what you did at this point.   It's possible that a SD reimaging and starting over from scratch step-by-step might be the fastest way to get it done successfully...

[9sl...@gmail.com]

Thanks, Vince.

You are right - I did too much at once.

I'll save what I need and start from clean image.

MPIE = Meteo-Pi Ethernet Logger - Direct feed from Vantage Pro2 to WU, WOW, CWOP, WeatherLink.