Problem with bookworm install wee_config appears missing

William Webb

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May 31, 2024, 5:06:40 PM5/31/24

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First some background then my question:

I just installed a fresh installation of Weewx 5 on a PI 4 running bookworm . I uses the apt-get install method. All is nearly well. I discovered that:

to look at a real-time system log you need to use: journalctl -f

to stop and start you need to use: sudo service weewx stop

sudo service weewx start

Files appear to be located in: /usr/share/weewx/ and /etc/weewx

Strange but okay. I had to put my wmII.py driver directly in the driver folder.

Now the question: I can not find wee_config anywhere. Am I blind? Is it missing? I am starting to be sorry that I am using bookworm. There doesn't appear to be bookworm instructions.

I don't have any hair left to tear out.

Bill

michael.k...@gmx.at

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May 31, 2024, 5:17:03 PM5/31/24

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5.0 did change the utilities. Take a look at

https://www.weewx.com/docs/5.0/utilities/weectl-station/

If you don't like journalctl, you can configure your own weewx logs like this (just an example, it will, log to /home/pi/weewx-data/log/weewxd.log ):

##############################################################################

[Logging]
version = 1
disable_existing_loggers = False

# Root logger
[[root]]
level = INFO
handlers = rotate, #console

# Additional loggers would go in the following section. This is useful for tailoring logging
# for individual modules.
[[loggers]]

# Definitions of possible logging destinations
[[handlers]]

# Log to a set of rotating files
[[[rotate]]]
level = INFO
formatter = verbose
class = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler
filename = /home/pi/weewx-data/log/weewxd.log
maxBytes = 10000000
backupCount = 4

# Log to console
#[[[console]]]
# level = DEBUG
# formatter = verbose
# class = logging.StreamHandler
# Alternate choice is 'ext://sys.stderr'
#stream = ext://sys.stdout

# How to format log messages
[[formatters]]
[[[simple]]]
format = %(levelname)s %(message)s
[[[standard]]]
format = {process_name}[%(process)d] %(levelname)s %(name)s: %(message)s
[[[verbose]]]
format = %(asctime)s {process_name}[%(process)d] %(levelname)s %(name)s: %(message)s
# Format to use for dates and times:
datefmt = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S