Another newbie - my experiences

[RobinEd]

I've had a weather station for a few years, managed by MrHouse until recently when I upgraded my server and my weather station co-incidentally failed.  So, fresh approach, all new.

My new setup:  Excito B3 server,  Scientific Oregon WMR88 and wview.

First, thank you all, whoever has contributed for a great piece of software, it dropped in and started working like a treat, apart from my errors and some dubiousness around SO wireless comms, neither can be blamed on wview.

I, needless to say, have some questions.

1: I had a power fail and it was a devil of a job to get wview working again.  First I didnt spot it had not autorestarted, then I could not get it to start from a command line, after deleting pid files and killing tasks finally got it going.  I did try the force-reload option at one point but that did not have a positive effect.  I cant find anything about this in the manual.  Where did I go wrong?  Is there something I can set up so that on restart of server (after a power fail) it will start OK?

2: I mistakenly left my test data (first day) in wview.  That was 14th April and there does not appear to be a day archive for that (if that's the right term).  When I look for it from the web interface no file found.  Can somebody recommend best approach, I'm keen to keep as much as possible but during the first day a member of my family turned the rain guage over and now I have an 11,000mm rainfall as my high rainfall!

3: The install process I used was as documented in the quick start, once I'd defined the repositories I issued an 'apt-get install wview'.  Lots of packages were installed, everything seems good with the exception of the online management. If I try to use it by pointing my web browser at http://192.168.1.4/wviewmgmt/system_status.php I get SqliteDBOpen /etc/wview/wview-conf.sdb failed: could not find driver .    I did find a reference to this on the forums but I'm not sure I followed how to correct it.

Other than these three problems (of which I'm sure at least two are user error) everything is going great guns.  Thank you. robin