Remove weewx-multi

[Mauro De Lauretis]

Hi

I was wondering if somebody can explain me how to remove a multiple instance of Weewx previously created. It does not work with just deleting configuration files, because the system still looks for the .conf located in /etc/weewx.

root@raspberrypi:/etc/weewx# /etc/init.d/weewx restart

[ ok ] Restarting weewx: weewx.

[....] Restarting weewx: weatherflowThe instance weatherflow does not have a config at /etc/weewx/weatherflow.conf

My goal is to restart a single instance from the .conf located in the main Weewx folder (in my case located in /home/weewx).

Thanks for your help

Mauro

[gjr80]

Installing weewx-multi involves two fundamental steps; installing (and configuring) the weewx-multi init.d script and setting up a config file for each instance. It sounds like you may well have reverted the config file changes, but without changing the operation of the weewx-multi init.d script you will continue to experience issues.

I haven't reverted a weewx-multi install but two approaches come to mind. 

First, you could work through the How to run multiple instances of WeeWX wiki article and 'undo' the weewx-multi setup. This would involve going back to a single WeeWX config file (/home/weewx/weewx.conf or /etc/weewx/weewx.conf depending on your WeeWX install) and replacing the weewx-multi init.d script by installing the standard WeeWX init.d script. For a setup.py install the instructions for installing the WeeWX init.d script can be found at step 4 of the WeeWX: Installation using setup.py page. For a package install you will need to manually download the WeeWX init.d script from GitHub before installing/configuring it. Something like (untested):

$ wget -P /var/tmp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weewx/weewx/master/util/init.d/weewx.debian

$ sudo cp /var/tmp/weewx.debian /etc/init.d/weewx

$ sudo update-rc.d weewx defaults

 

The second approach would be to continue with weewx-multi but configure it to use a single WeeWX instance rather than two (or more) instances. This would involve working through the steps in the How to run multiple instances of WeeWX wiki article but only configuring for one instance (in the context of the current wiki article this would be configuring for 'house' but not 'paddock'). I have no idea if this will work, the script was written for multiple instances but on first glance it appears this may work.

Or I guess you could take the Windows approach and re-install everything :)

If it were me I would be reverting to the standard, single user init.d script. Less complex and more standard so likely easier to troubleshoot if things go awry.

Gary

[Mauro De Lauretis]

Thank you for your help, Gary :-)