weewx 5.2 No start

[Ian of Awai]

Hi guys.

I'm having what seems to be a somewhat common issue.

I've had weewx running about 6 yrs on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 perfectly fine with weewx ver 4xxx I think it was and that after a no-brainer install.

This stopped working when my hosting outfit was trying to fix an email posting problem.

I've since moved to another hosting firm and trying to get weewx  posting again to a site I can check when not home.... obviously.

When I got interested in setting it up at my new host I did an update of Buster to Linux-4.19.50-v7+-armv7l-with-debian-10.0 and weewx became ver 5.2

Anyway I've been whittling away at this for a couple of weeks and getting no where as not linux savvy.

Have checked various posts/docs etc re the same problem but not advancing at all and usually just shutting down with  linux cmd overload.

Usually get side-tracked learning how to chase something then forget why I want to anyway.

A bit overwhelming.

So it seems to run ok  with sudo weewxd 

but shows a fail with  sudo systemctl status weewx

Says it using Python 3.7 but system?

python -V
Python 2.7.16

dunno if this is a problem or not.

Have attached a txt of various cmd clips that may help...

Let me know if more is needed.

I know this will be a simple fix and hopefully I can rescue my historical data.

Thankyou for any help someone can shed on this.

cheers

ian

[vince]

IsLogin:/ $ sudo adduser weewx dailout
adduser: The group `dailout' does not exist.

That's a typo.  It is "dialout" not "dailout" but this command is incorrect anyway.

 You probably want to "sudo usermod -aG dialout weewx" to add the weewx user to the dialout group in order to be able to access the hardware.

re: your question about python versions, you probably have an old os with legacy python v2 installed.  Try "python3 -V" and I suspect it will report what you're expecting.

Add weewx to the dialout group and see if it works now....

[Ian of Awai]

Hullo Vince and thanks for taking the time to help.

Ok re the Py ver, comes back as 3.7.3

Did the dial group add and weewx seems to be happy now tho with some peculiarities..

If I check via browser and locally, http//hostpi/weewx, it comes back with non-current data. If I check via weewx reg-stations then it shows correct data (name).

 I haven't got the ftp working for my hosted site yet it seems....

When I check in the skins folder there isn't anything.

Under  var/www I think, there is a collection of png with an index file that generates the old web page.

But not sure where lives the current report generator or it's results.

More learning needed.

May be simpler to format the sd card and go new. Its becoming an endless warren at this rate.

Anyway, that's where it is at present.

Thank-you again for your help so far 👍

warm regards

ian

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