HOWTO: ConsoleWD for Raspberry Pi Setup Instructions - Old version

I just download it, and the only thing it has is a file. Here is a screen shoot . Maybe I’m doing something wrong.
What version of the Pi is this image for?


Unzip and restore the image to the SD card. Plug the SD card to your RPi and set the config.txt file in the consolewd directory.
Image was created from the 8 GB SD card but the size may slightly vary. I suggest you use a 16 GB SD card.

I’m not sure what the “Irox station type” is…I google searched and I believe it is a different weather station. Will this setup for the RPi be compatible if I’m using the Davis Vantage Pro 2?

Thanks!!!

Okay, please bare with another dumb question from me…

How do I launch the program? I loaded that image on an SD card and booted the Raspberry Pi up and am at the terminal.

Thanks!!!

I don’t have it on my RPi right now, but it goes something like:


cd consolewd
nano config.txt

This is the consolewd’s configuration file. Please check out the comments in the file. For Davis station, you must set value 31 in line 1. Check other settings as well.

Save the file and run:


./GoWdconsole.sh

That’s it.

Woo hoo…I got it to work. Not perfect yet, but it is working. I need to check the config.txt file again.

Thanks!!

Any chance libhid is available other than from alioth? I don’t have an account there nor a debian one, and when I tried to create a debian account, the captcha over IE on XP isn’t working and I was then blacklisted from debian (!!!) for having tried to create an account a couple of times (the web page timed out as well).

NEVER MIND, I had not noticed this thread was larger than a single page and saw the tar ball… will try it out.

Cheers

I thought I would post the following for anyone who wants to set their Raspberry Pi up to run the WD Console automatically at boot. I had been looking for a way to run the WD Console on my Raspberry Pi and by using the file provided by Mihec I was able to get it up and running, but every time the RPi lost power it would re-boot, then stop at the login prompt. So I would have to login, then issue the command to start the WD Console. I finally found a way to have all of this done automatically, so now if the RPi reboots, it will automatically login, then start the WD Console. Doesn’t sound like it should have been very complicated to do, but it took some digging because no one would comment to give direction which would allow the application to actually do what it was supposed to do. It would run, but would error “not able to find ./cronwu” thus it would work correctly. Like I said, I found a way to make everything work as it should. Below is what I found.

There are 2 parts to the problem:
1.Automatically login.
2.Automatically launch the program.

Assuming you’re logging into the command prompt (no GUI):

To automatically login to the command prompt:

Create a file with sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/override.confwith the following content:
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin pi --noclear %I $TERM

For some reason, it works with the 1st ExecStart but not without it, so I just include it.

To Automatically launch the program:

a. Open up .bashrc for configuration:

sudo nano .bashrc

b. Scroll down to the bottom and add the following lines:

cd consolewdfiles
sleep 5
./GoWdconsole.sh

c. Save and exit:

Ctrl+X, Y, Enter

d. reboot the RPi (now it will automatically login, then start the WD Console)

sudo reboot (press enter)

I hope this helps others out. I worked on it on/off for a few months before I finally figured it out. I am fairly new to the RPi, so it’s no surprise it took me this long.

Enjoy,
Rick

thanks for doing that ! :slight_smile:

My install on Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 Stretch returned an error at the final step:

 `./consolewd: error while loading shared libraries: libhid.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`

I’m expecting this is an easily resolved error but I’ve not been able to successfully troubleshoot it and would greatly appreciate any suggestions!!

Many thanks,

James

Try
Copy the files in the deploy folder to /usr/local/lib/
And /usr/lib/
Using sudo cp . from the deploy folder

Hi guys,
I’m going to buy a raspberry pi 3 and put the raspbian image, to replace my pc, where currently is installed weather display that manages my weather station PEET BROS ULTIMETER 2100, I saw on the site that there is a version dedicated to the raspberry pi 3, by chance there is a guide to install it step by step, since I am not at all an expert on this operating system in order to put online as I’m doing now?

Thanks a lot to those who give me a hand.

Greetings

First try just copying the files in the deploy folder
To /usr/lib/ and /usr/local/lib/
As admin ( sudo cp *.so )

Hello Weather,
those are the directions for me after I installed the weather display for raspberry pi3?
Or before installing it?

after

"Raspberry Pi 3 Official Desktop Starter Kit (16GB, Black) 1gb RAM "

is this raspberry model okay or does it take more memory for the files that the Weather display program generates or is it enough? 1 GB of Ram is enough to make it work well?

heaps

is this guide fully functional today?

you might find you do not need to do all this
instead , using the latest download, simply copy the files from the deploy folder to /usr/local/lib, and /usr/lib/, as sudo (i.e cp *.so)

Copy the libraries to the correct directories, now Can someone tell me the settings to put in the config.txt file having a PEET BROS ULTIMETER 2100 station?