Daemon Not Starting

[carter.hu...@gmail.com]

Hi,

So I recently had to re-install WeeWx on my Raspberry Pi and setting it up using the setup.py, I’m able to run it via sudo ./bin/weewxd but when I setup the daemon nothing seems to happen. I’m used to get console output saying it started and seeing it in the log but there’s absolutely nothing.

Any ideas?

[gjr80]

Yes, post the exact commands you entered to set up the service as well as the exact responses received on the console.

Gary

[Carter Humphreys]

Commands:

cd /home/pi/EW5321

sudo cp util/init.d/weewx.debian /etc/init.d/weewx 

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/weewx 

sudo update-rc.d weewx defaults 98

sudo /etc/init.d/weewx start

This is all that shows in the log, even with the debug option set:

Dec 17 05:42:31 raspberrypi-1 systemd[1]: Reloading.

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Carter J. Humphreys

B.S. Meteorology, State University of New York at Oswego '20

A.S. Computer Science, Finger Lakes Community College '19

[gjr80]

Aha, you've installed WeeWX to other than /home/weewx and the WeeWX startup script you copied to /etc/init.d/weewx is set to look for WeeWX in /home/weewx.

No problems, the script is designed to allow overrides. I haven't used them (overrides) before but I *believe* what you need to do is create a file /etc/default/weewx with the following contents:

WEEWX_BIN=/home/pi/EW5321/bin/weewxd

Gary

[Carter Humphreys]

Looks like that got me a little closer, I got the normal [ ok ] Starting weewx (via systemctl): weewx.service. console output but it doesn’t seem to be doing much according to the log:

Dec 17 06:20:42 raspberrypi-1 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system...

Dec 17 06:20:42 raspberrypi-1 weewx[769] INFO __main__: Initializing weewx version 4.2.0

Dec 17 06:20:42 raspberrypi-1 weewx[769] INFO __main__: Using Python 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44) #012[GCC 8.3.0]

Dec 17 06:20:42 raspberrypi-1 weewx[769] INFO __main__: Platform Linux-5.4.79-v7l+-armv7l-with-debian-10.6

Dec 17 06:20:42 raspberrypi-1 weewx[769] INFO __main__: Locale is 'en_US.UTF-8'

Dec 17 06:20:42 raspberrypi-1 weewx[769] INFO __main__: PID file is /var/run/weewx.pid

Dec 17 06:20:42 raspberrypi-1 weewx[759]: Starting weewx weather system: weewx.

Dec 17 06:20:42 raspberrypi-1 systemd[1]: Started LSB: weewx weather system.

And that’s all that happens.

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[gjr80]

Try adding the following to /etc/default/weewx:

WEEWX_CFG=/home/pi/EW5321/weewx.conf

Assuming of course that is where your weewx.conf is.

Gary

[Carter Humphreys]

That did the trick!  Thank you so much Gary!

Carter

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[gjr80]

Good! We both learnt something tonite.

Gary

[Carter Humphreys]

Yup! When I had it setup before I left it as the default so it worked fine then. Makes sense now.

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