Loopdata Installation problem

[Michael Boccabella]

Hi All,

I am new to this group, and weewx in general. I just installed weewx about 4 weeks ago and am still playing around with configurations. I tried to install the loopdata extension and I am getting an error when wee_extension is trying to do the install. I am not sure if it is loopdata or some configuration problem with weewx in general.

Weewx is running on a raspberry pi system. When wee_extension is run, the text below is printed out on the console window.. any help would be appricieated.

pi@AstroNetWeather1:/usr/share/weewx $ sudo wee_extension /var/tmp/weewx-loopdata-2.7.2.zip 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_extension", line 88, in <module>

    main()

  File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_extension", line 67, in main

    config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config, _args)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 180, in read_config

    default_encoding='utf-8')

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1229, in __init__

    self._load(infile, configspec)

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1287, in _load

    content = self._handle_bom(content)

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1437, in _handle_bom

    return self._decode(infile, self.encoding)

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1517, in _decode

    infile[i] = line.decode(encoding)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb3 in position 54: invalid start byte

Thanks in advance for any help. 

Mike

[John Kline]

Are you using python3?  What version of WeeWX?

Have you tried re-downloading the loopdata release?

On Feb 3, 2021, at 5:07 PM, Michael Boccabella <m.bocc...@ieee.org> wrote:

Hi All,

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[Tom Keffer]

You almost have the syntax right, but you're missing the --install option. You want

sudo wee_extension --install=/var/tmp/weewx-loopdata-2.7.2.zip 

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[John Kline]

Thanks, Tom.  I did not notice that.

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[Michael Boccabella]

Thank you. It installed without a problem.

To answer John's questions, python 3 and weewx version 4.4.0.

I will start to play around with this.  I am looking to set up a tablet inside the house with a fairly responsive temperature and wind speed update.

Again, thanks for the quick response.

Mike