Weewx v5.1 - Altitude not changing when moving system

[Steve Rhoades]

I'm having an issue with my new Weewx install. The install is on a RaspberryPi 4 talking to a Vantage Pro 2 via a hardwired Weather Envoy. 

I've been successfully collecting and displaying data from my workbench for the last week and everything has been working ok. 

In the /etc/weewx/weewx.conf file, I had initially setup an altitude in the [Station] section of the config when I had the system on my workbench, which is a different altitude of the final installation. 

I now have the unit deployed to it's final resting place and I changed the altitude to it's correct value. I restarted the weewx service. I also tried to reboot the Raspberry Pi but the altitude will not change to the new value I set when viewed on the web interface (which is running on the same Pi.).

Any ideas on what I need to do to reset the altitude ?

Thanks.

[Steve Rhoades]

Update: I was able to figure it out. For anyone else who may run across this issue, and it could also happen where the lat/long doesn't update, I used weectl to set the parameters on the device. 

I did that and restarted the weewx service but the web page didn't reflect the changes. I manually ran a report and that fixed it.

This is for a Vantage Pro2 using the Weather Envoy box, more details.

Set the location:

weectl device --config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf --set-latitude=<your lat>

weectl device --config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf --set-longitude=<your long>

weectl device --config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf --set-altitude=<your altitude in feet>

restarted weewx service:

systemctl restart weewx

Check if it's running ok:

systemctl status weewx

I also ran this:

weectl report run --config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf

(this runs all enabled reports)

- Steve