install issues

[Alex Vanuxem]

Hi Sirs,

So after a lot of time fiddling about, I made some progress but nearly there.

I'm using

windows 11 pro version 22H2

virtual box 7.0

ubuntu 20

and filezilla to view the ubuntu host dir

the ubuntu vm is bridged through virtual box to my windows pc

problem is : when i start sudo weexd i get data in from from my vantage (ethernet ip), and stored in the db, but nothing in /var/www/html/weewx/ nor to my website.

when i start the sudo /etc/init.d/weewx the service is started but immediately stopped, i get an exit code

in attchement the full syslog

can somebody please point me in the correct dirrection?

I'm not an expert in linux (yet), but i've learned a massive but already .

tank you Sirs!

KR

Alex

[gjr80]

Your system appears to be running fine, the archive records being downloaded are historical archive records that have been saved in the logger memory. The logger can store up to 2560 records, at a one minute archive that is some 40+ hours. Easiest thing is to start WeeWX and let it run to finish downloading the records from the logger (the log extract you provided showed a key press was used to exit WeeWX). Once the logger history is downloaded WeeWX will download an archive record once per minute and then generate the reports/output.

You might want to start another terminal screen and monitor the WeeWX log with something like:

$ tail -f /var/log/syslog

This way you can monitor the log output and see exactly what WeeWX is doing.

Gary

[Alex Vanuxem]

Thx for your answer. 

I see now that I have reports in the var/html/www/weewx folder, updated every minute. I view this by logging in to the system through filezilla.

This means the historica data download is already finished?

The system is running now by the command sudo weewxd.

On the terminal i see data being downloaden.

I dont dare to stop it again. 

Should i be patient a little more, because nothing is to been seen on my website.

Many thanks again, so glad i'm getting somewhere at last.

Kr

Alex

Op vr 11 nov. 2022 22:00 schreef gjr80 <gjrod...@gmail.com>:

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[gjr80]

From what you describe it sounds like WeeWX has finished downloading historical archive records and is now running normally. Presence or absence of files on a website is a gross error check only - you can tell things are (likely) working or not working. To see exactly what your system/WeeWX is doing look at the log. If something doesn't work - go to the log. The tail command I gave you will show new log entries as they come in, but it only shows you log entries from the time you enter the command. If you are using FileZilla to view generated files use it (FileZilla) to open your log and scroll to the end, then scroll up to where WeeWX was last started, look for the WeeWX startup and history download from the logger, then you will see records being saved to archive every minute and reports being run. Are there any errors or reports being skipped that shouldn't?

If WeeWX seems to be running error free then look at your web server. Is is local (eg your WeeWX machine) or is it remote? If it is a different machine to that which runs WeeWX how are you transferring the WeeWX generated HTML files etc to the web server? Is WeeWX doing it - in which case look at the log, or are you doing it some other way? Are the files being transferred successfully? To the correct location?

These are the sorts of things you need to look at, you need to start with WeeWX and work through the data flow to your web server verifying operation as you go.

Gary

[Alex Vanuxem]

thank you Sir again for your answer,

what i can tell you:

sudo ./bin/weewxd doesn't work (not such file found, although present)

and when I command sudo /etc/init.d/weewx start the terminal does nothing anymore forever, I only see the cursor blinking at the end of the command.

only the command sudo weewxd works, i get files in the var/www/html/weewx folder

i'm using filezilla to view it.

the server i'm using is on a different machine, a server i subscribe too, it's the same company which provides with tv, wifi, phone, subscription.

it's an apache server, which runs already 3 weather websites i made so far.

when i log in through filezilla to my webpages the settings are : ftp protocol, use explicite ftp through tls if available, it's a unix server, and the folder is /wwwroot

i see in the syslog file the debug is set to 0, while the debug is set to 1 in the config file??

i see that my website , although blank, is showing up on the weewx map for users, 

i've added some screenshots, syslog, and my conf  file (weewx.txt below)  with passwords removed. Is my configuration correct? Can you please have a peak?

 I hope that i've been as complete as possible, if you need  anything else, please let me know?

Thank you again sir, learning a lot !!!

KR

Alex

Op vr 11 nov. 2022 om 22:50 schreef gjr80 <gjrod...@gmail.com>:

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[gjr80]

The 'sudo ./bin/weewxd' problem is likely because you were trying to execute the command from a directory other than /home/weewx (or wherever you installed WeeWX). A package install will add the appropriate WeeWX directories to your path so you can execute weewxd and the WeeWX utilities from any directory. You have a setup.py install which does not make such additions to your path so you need to be cognisant of what directory you are in and add paths to your commands as required. Best to try using the full path:

$ sudo /home/weewx/bin/weewxd

'sudo /etc/init.d/weewx' is likely working as it should as it starts WeeWX as a daemon ie WeeWX is run in the background and does not display anything on screen, you should just be returned to the prompt. This is exactly what I see in your start and startup2 captures (By the way, please avoid posting screen captures as images if at all possible. It makes it very difficult for us to read, especially on mobile devices and where output is across more than one screen. Most terminal programs allow you to scroll the screen and copy text which you can then paste/post. show you do this depends on the terminal program being used and the system you are running it on). 

When you execute weewxd that is what we call running WeeWX directly, when run directly WeeWX displays incoming loop packets and archive records on the console/screen just as in your data capture. Running WeeWX directly is fine to testing/troubleshooting but in almost all other cases you will want to run WeeWX as a daemon. 

When you run WeeWX as a daemon try $ sudo /etc/init.d/weewx status to see if WeeWX is running (or look at the log).

Your syslog extract looks fine, WeeWX is running without error, records are being saved to database and reports generated. However, nothing is being transferred to your web server. You either need to have WeeWX do the necessary transfers or arrange some other mechanism to do the transfers. I would suggest having WeeWX take care of it. 

The weewx.conf you posted has the FTP and RSYNC reports enabled. These reports are exactly what you need to transfer files to your web server, but you should really only use one or the other. Rsync is more secure and efficient than FTP but can be difficult to set up and is not supported by all hosts. I would look at your hosting service and find out what file transfer protocols they support. Choose one and get that running under WeeWX. Disable the other in weewx.conf. 

Whilst both the RSYNC and FTP reports are enabled in the weewx.conf the log extract you posted does not show either being run (self evident entries would appear in the log after the generation of the Seasons skin files). Whenever you make changes to weewx.conf you need to stop/start or restart WeeWX for the changes to take effect:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/weewx restart

Perhaps you did not do that? This would explain the debug = 0/debug = 1 discrepancy.

Sites are published to the WeeWX station map if there is a valid URL at the [Station] station_url setting and [StdRESTful] register_this_station is set to True in weewx.conf. It has nothing to do with the availability or otherwise of your site or the presence of website file on your WeeWX machine and/or web server.

Gary

[Alex Vanuxem]

Thx again. 

Sorry for posting picture.

I reinstalled everything, and since i am using a virtual box, i did the install according to the wiki for virtual environments. But i have the same issue.

Used also now ' ' in my password, but no succes.

No extra info in logs.

Do i need to  install any ftp program in linux to copy files to my website? 

Can it be because the server website is https?

Also tried to set the path to my website as only /.

Are there any software programs that can grab the files from weewx and copy them to my website?

Feeding a little bit frustrated, but i keep trying...

Thx

Alex

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[gjr80]

You should not need to install anything extra to use FTP, neither should whether your website is https (or http) affect your FTP setup. The path will need to be set correctly, but I would suggest that first you need to ensure that FTP is connecting and uploading to your web host without error.

You should setup the [StdReport] [[FTP]] stanza in weewx.conf as per the requirements for your hosting service, ie user, password, server etc. The [[FTP]] section in the Users Guide explains what each setting is for. Once you have the [[FTP]] stanza set correctly locate the debug setting near the top of weewx.conf and set it to debug = 1. Save weewx.conf and restart WeeWX. The log should now show the FTP report being called and whether it was successfully generated or not. If there was an error it should be logged. If you cannot work out from the log what the problem is, post a copy of the log here showing the full WeeWX startup and the first couple of report cycles.

Gary

[Alex Vanuxem]

Hi Gary,

finally getting somewhere.

i installed ubuntu server instead on virtual box, did the install again as correct as i can.

in the ftp settings, i should have set the ip address instead of the name.

in the log the system can connect to my host;

but i see a lot of ftp errors.

in attachment the log, but here an extract:

2022-11-13 12:17:19  weewx[2148] DEBUG weeutil.ftpupload: Attempting connection to 85.255.199.22

2022-11-13 12:17:19  weewx[2148] DEBUG weeutil.ftpupload: Connected to 85.255.199.22

2022-11-13 12:17:19  weewx[2148] DEBUG weeutil.ftpupload: 0 ./weekradiation.png e4e9d09c9a410af104aeb54059eb45247f7d51cf4f85a10f8be03d8e4b345f57

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weeutil.ftpupload: Failed uploading /var/www/html/weewx/weekradiation.png to server 85.255.199.22. Reason: '553 Could not create file.'

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine: ftpgenerator: (2): caught exception '<class 'ftplib.error_perm'>': 553 Could not create file.

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****  Traceback (most recent call last):

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****    File "/home/weewx/bin/weewx/reportengine.py", line 437, in run

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****      n = ftp_data.run()

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****    File "/home/weewx/bin/weeutil/ftpupload.py", line 220, in run

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****      ftp_server.storbinary(stor_cmd, fd)

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ftplib.py", line 498, in storbinary

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****      with self.transfercmd(cmd, rest) as conn:

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ftplib.py", line 393, in transfercmd

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****      return self.ntransfercmd(cmd, rest)[0]

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ftplib.py", line 359, in ntransfercmd

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****      resp = self.sendcmd(cmd)

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ftplib.py", line 281, in sendcmd

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****      return self.getresp()

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ftplib.py", line 254, in getresp

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****      raise error_perm(resp)

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine:         ****  ftplib.error_perm: 553 Could not create file.

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] ERROR weewx.reportengine: ftpgenerator: Upload failed

2022-11-13 12:17:20  weewx[2148] DEBUG weewx.reportengine: Report 'RSYNC' not enabled. Skipping.

thank again!!!

grtz

alex

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[Alex Vanuxem]

Succes! 

My path was incorrect , lol. 

One thing though weewxd is resetting everytime i run to utc time.

I need CET time.

Can you tell me how? 

Thx a lot. It was a pain. But i am there.

Grtz

Op zo 13 nov. 2022 13:28 schreef Alex Vanuxem <vanuxe...@gmail.com>:

[Alex Vanuxem]

All good now i will close this thread.

Thank you.

Op zo 13 nov. 2022 14:59 schreef Alex Vanuxem <vanuxe...@gmail.com>:

[gjr80]

Did you sort the timezone issue mentioned previously? If so good, if not you will need to expand on what is wrong.

Gary

[Alex Vanuxem]

Hi Gary 

Yes it sorted. Thx again.

Grtz

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