Elevation reports incorrectly on webpage

[David Barto]

I've got Weewx up and running (http://www.kdbarto.org/weather/Current.htm) and it all looks fine except the elevation.

The configuration shows

altitude = 850, foot # choose 'foot' or 'meter' for unit

The website shows

Altitude

0 feet

Anyone care to point out what I've done wrong?

Searching the discussion group got me past the other setup issues for MacOS and I'm up and it looks good.

I did the following (maybe one of these was the problem)

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

sudo -H python ./get-pip.py

sudo -H pip install pysqlite

sudo -H pip install configobj

sudo -H pip install Cheetah --ignore-installed

sudo -H pip install Pillow

sudo -H pip install pyserial

sudo -H pip install pyusb

sudo -H pip install pyephem

[Station]

    

    # Description of the station location

    location = "Midland Road Extension, Poway CA"

    

    # Latitude and longitude in decimal degrees

    latitude = 32.983056

    longitude = 117.04

    

    # Altitude of the station, with unit it is in. This is downloaded from

    # from the station if the hardware supports it.

    altitude = 850, foot    # Choose 'foot' or 'meter' for unit

    

    # Set to type of station hardware. There must be a corresponding stanza

    # in this file with a 'driver' parameter indicating the driver to be used.

    station_type = Vantage

    

    # If you have a website, you may specify an URL

    #station_url = http://www.example.com

    

    # The start of the rain year (1=January; 10=October, etc.). This is

    # downloaded from the station if the hardware supports it.

    rain_year_start = 10 

    

    # Start of week (0=Monday, 6=Sunday)

    week_start = 6

[gjr80]

Hi,

The clue is in the config file comment for the altitude setting:

# Altitude of the station, with unit it is in. This is downloaded from
# from the station if the hardware supports it.

Your station supports a hardware altitude setting and that is likely overriding your weewx.conf altitude setting. Did you set altitude in the console when you setup your station? You can manually set the altitude through the console setup routine (ie pushing buttons) or you can use the WeeWX wee_device utility (http://weewx.com/docs/hardware.htm#vantage_notes). If you do use wee_device make sure you stop WeeWX first.

Gary