raspberry pi reinstall (full remove + reinstall) problems

[Tim St. Clair]

I have raspbian on a pi3b with previously working FineOffsetUSB wh1080 station. I broke several things with some bad updates and at the same time the batteries on the usb unit went flat. After changing them the station appeared to be in the lockup problem (similar to https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/FineOffset-USB-lockup).

I did a full apt-get remove / autoremove / removed the configs and data folders, rebooted, updated and apt-get install weewx again. This did not generate any errors.

the /etc/weewx/weewx.conf file was not written at all.

I stopped the weewx service, then I copied it out of the conf off github (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weewx/weewx/master/weewx.conf) and created it, then I modified the conf to have my station details plus these details (copied from http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#[FineOffsetUSB]):

debug = 1

[Station]

station_type = FineOffsetUSB

[StdArchive]

    record_generation = software

[FineOffsetUSB]

    model = WH1010

    polling_mode = PERIODIC

    polling_interval = 60

manually trying to run weewx with this config yields:

pi@raspberrypi:/etc/weewx $ sudo weewxd ./weewx.conf

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/weewxd", line 64, in <module>

    weewx.engine.main(options, args)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 888, in main

    engine = engine_class(config_dict)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 72, in __init__

    self.setupStation(config_dict)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 90, in setupStation

    driver = config_dict[stationType]['driver']

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 554, in __getitem__

    val = dict.__getitem__(self, key)

KeyError: 'driver'

Modifying the config so that the driver is specified in the FineOffsetUSB section

 driver = weewx.drivers.fousb

then re-running the program manually now yields

pi@raspberrypi:/etc/weewx $ sudo weewxd ./weewx.conf 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/weewxd", line 64, in <module>

    weewx.engine.main(options, args)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 888, in main

    engine = engine_class(config_dict)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 78, in __init__

    self.loadServices(config_dict)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 142, in loadServices

    self.service_obj.append(weeutil.weeutil._get_object(svc)(self, config_dict))

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 500, in __init__

    self.setup_database(config_dict)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 608, in setup_database

    dbmanager = self.engine.db_binder.get_manager(self.data_binding, initialize=True)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/manager.py", line 871, in get_manager

    default_binding_dict=defaults)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/manager.py", line 1002, in get_manager_dict_from_config

    manager_dict['schema'] = weeutil.weeutil._get_object(schema_name)

  File "/usr/share/weewx/weeutil/weeutil.py", line 1107, in _get_object

    mod = __import__(module)

ImportError: No module named wview_extended

I can't get the config to run. Worried that it didn't install properly even after a full reinstall and wondering why not.

[gjr80]

Hi,

When did you copy weewx.conf from GitHub? I'm guessing it was in the last few hours. If so you have inadvertently been caught up in the release preparations for WeeWX 4.0 and you have ended up with a default WeeWX 4.0 weewx.conf. That will cause problems for a pre-4.0 install. You don't say what WeeWX version you are using, but if it's 3.9.2 then try this weewx.conf. If it's an earlier version again just change the 3.9.2 in the link address to the version number you are using.

Gary