Setting up my Raspberry Pi Zero W to work with my father's Acurite 5 in 1.

[Matthew Van Arsdale]

I have been following this tutorial https://www.instructables.com/id/Acurite-5-in-1-Weather-Station-Using-a-Raspberry-P/ to get my father's weather station to report to weather underground. Somewhere along the process I installed the web server (apache2) for local hosting went through and configured the Weather underground station info in the weewx.config. When I have everything hooked up I then start Weewx and Apache2 and let it collect data for a bit (20-30 minutes). When I go to the local site that the Pi is hosting, I get the standard "this page is a place holder. If I try the localipaddress/weewx/ I get page does not exist error. Do I need to specify in the weewx.config where the site should be?  When I go to Weather underground and look at the station it says that it is offline. 

Any advice? 

[vince]

On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 11:00:58 AM UTC-8, Matthew Van Arsdale wrote:

Do I need to specify in the weewx.config where the site should be?

Yes.   You need the webserver to look in a location weewx is writing its public_html tree to.

You can either edit weewx.conf to match your webserver config, or edit your webserver config to match weewx, or fake it with a symlink.

[Matthew Van Arsdale]

Thanks, I went in and changed what I thought was the correct files . I changed this in weewx config    

# Where the generated reports should go, relative to WEEWX_ROOT

    HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/index.html

I then ran sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog

and got this: 

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****      engine = engine_class(config_dict)

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 75, in __init__

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****      self.preLoadServices(config_dict)

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 116, in preLoadServices

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****      self.stn_info = weewx.station.StationInfo(self.console, **config_dict['Station'])

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/station.py", line 49, in __init__

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****      self.latitude_f      = float(stn_dict['latitude'])

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****  ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 43°26'55.2"N

Mar  1 04:01:58 raspberrypi weewx[1185]:     ****  Exiting.

Mar  1 04:17:01 raspberrypi CRON[1214]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

What am I missing? 

[Matthew Van Arsdale]

I think I am making progress:

    # Where the generated reports should go, relative to WEEWX_ROOT

    HTML_ROOT = /var/www/weewx/index.html

I created a few different things thinking that might solve the problem, no luck. 

pi@raspberrypi:/var/www/html $ ls

index.html  weather  weewx

Fixed what I noticed to be wrong the latitude.

pi@raspberrypi:/var/www/html $ sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 888, in main

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****      engine = engine_class(config_dict)

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 75, in __init__

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****      self.preLoadServices(config_dict)

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 116, in preLoadServices

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****      self.stn_info = weewx.station.StationInfo(self.console, **config_dict['Station'])

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/station.py", line 35, in __init__

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****      self.altitude_vt = weewx.units.ValueTuple(float(altitude_t[0]), altitude_t[1], "group_altitude")

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****  ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 623 feet

Mar  1 05:12:53 raspberrypi weewx[2449]:     ****  Exiting.

still having a problem with altitude. 

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

    # from the station if the hardware supports it.

    altitude = 623 feet, 623 feet

[Matthew Van Arsdale]

When I navigate to http://192.168.1.31/weewx/index.html

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

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Apache/2.4.38 (Raspbian) Server at 192.168.1.31 Port 80

[gjr80]

Hi,

Re altitude the format for the altitude setting is:

altitude = value, unit

where unit is foot or meter. You will find in settings, units etc WeeWX use singular units; so foot not feet, meter not meters etc. In your case you want:

altitude = 623, foot

Gary

[Matthew Van Arsdale]

thank you, 

Now that thats fixed I'm having problems with weewx.html 

[rich T]

Are you still getting this error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

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Apache/2.4.38 (Raspbian) Server at 192.168.1.31 Port 80

Do you have the folding file in these folders:

/etc/apache2/conf-available/weewx.conf

/etc/apache2/conf-enabled/weewx.conf

This conf file should contain the following:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Alias /weewx /home/weewx/public_html
<Directory /home/weewx/public_html>
  Options FollowSymlinks
  AllowOverride None
# for apache 2.2
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
# for apache 2.4
  Require all granted
</Directory>

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

If you need to update or add the files, need to restart apache server.

[Matthew Van Arsdale]

I did not have those folders, were they supposed to be created automatically somewhere or is the tutorial I'm following wrong?

Should my code be exactly  be under 

Alis  /weewx/home/weewx/public_html

If my Weewx directory is located in /etc/ ?

[rich T]

Check out the following link: http://www.weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm , it gives information where all the files are located for different types of installations.

I used the "setup.py" method to install, so the apache information is for the setup.py  method.

[p q]

When I set up my station, I had all kinds of trouble getting Apache to get the right rights and permissions. I ended up moving the weewx publichtml directory to where Apache worked rather than the other way around.

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