I expect that this may be documented somewhere else, if so please can someone post a link for others who may be looking?
I've recently made the move from ver 4.x to 5.1 and like a few others on here hit problems with permissions. I use a Bresser station via SDR & a BME280 for internal measurements.
In the end I only needed to make 2 changes:
SDR
sudo usermod -aG plugdev weewx
I2C
sudo usermod -aG i2c weewx
A suggestion for the user guide - monitoring section
journalctl --follow -u weewx