newbie question on drivers

[Kurt Rosenberger]

Hey everyone

OK, this really shouldn't be that hard, but somehow I can't get it to work. I'm trying to use an Airmar PB200 sensor with weewx on a RasPi 3B+, and downloaded the driver from the user group. I have put the driver in etc/weewx/bin/user as suggested, and added Airmar as the station in my .conf file (driver = weewx.drivers.airmar), but weewx can't seem to find the driver. What am I doing wrong? See output from systemctl status below:

:~ $ sudo systemctl status weewx
× weewx.service - WeeWX
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/weewx.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2024-09-28 10:03:05 PDT; 29s ago
   Duration: 605ms
       Docs: https://weewx.com/docs
    Process: 1850 ExecStart=weewxd /etc/weewx/weewx.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 1850 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 606ms

Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi weewxd[1850]: CRITICAL __main__:     ****  Exiting.
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi weewxd[1850]:     engine = weewx.engine.StdEngine(config_dict)
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi weewxd[1850]:              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi weewxd[1850]:   File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 80, in __init__
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi weewxd[1850]:     self.setupStation(config_dict)
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi weewxd[1850]:   File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 104, in setupStation
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi weewxd[1850]:     __import__(driver)
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi weewxd[1850]: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'weewx.drivers.airmar'
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi systemd[1]: weewx.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 28 10:03:05 raspberrypi systemd[1]: weewx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

[Karen K]

Kurt Rosenberger schrieb am Samstag, 28. September 2024 um 20:15:13 UTC+2:

Hey everyone

OK, this really shouldn't be that hard, but somehow I can't get it to work. I'm trying to use an Airmar PB200 sensor with weewx on a RasPi 3B+, and downloaded the driver from the user group. I have put the driver in etc/weewx/bin/user as suggested, and added Airmar as the station in my .conf file (driver = weewx.drivers.airmar), but weewx can't seem to find the driver. What am I doing wrong? See output from systemctl status below:

I highlighted the relevant lines in your post. You said you put the file to the user directory, but in the configuration file you said it would be at /usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers. 

So try using driver = user.airmar.