So what is the forums advice on OS ?
(what do You recommend)
And
“consolewd” only picks up data from the station local on the disk so if I wanted to display the data I need to send it to a webserver?
Is that correct?
Another question, with the console version, can you see the program it self like in a windows version? Or do i have to run the full linux to see everything on a virtual os
I cant save the file => That is a system file you have to modify so you need to have the highest permissions to do that.
sudo => sudo - Wikipedia
Or use the editor in root mode.
can you see the program it self like in a windows version? No but you can see the program doing its thing when you “connect a display or use VNC”, it shows a dynamic log window, line by line spitting out what it is doing.
The name of the program is consoleWD. console => is a typewriter-like device without a GUI, no printing of current weather values. That makes less overhead so it is extremely small and fast as that was important in the time it was developed.
It can generate / upload / store a few html files containing most weather-data to use in a browser. Those 4-5 pages evolved into the original first Carterlake-template. A Raspberry has also a complete website, so you can use a browser to check those pages.
Hope this helps, but if “sudo” and “root mode” sound like Dutch or Swedisch to you, you should consider using 1. another device or 2. another program or 3. both another program and another device.
I have no acces to a raspberry, not even to the document you are using, but there is more then one answer using Google, one on this forum: http://discourse.weather-watch.com/p/460225
Allright, now i plugged my Davis VP2 in the PI3 (working with the 64 version) and when i start the consolewd, everything is going fine untill he’s setting the baud rate line:
Setting baud rate to 19200 → 0
After that line i’m getting this for about 100 times:
No, i never used weatherlink, always WD on my windows system with an USB datalogger
(had to run the silabs.com program to make a virtual com port on my windows system)
This is my config.txt file:
Weather station type=31 // Irox=59,WMR100=232,WMR200=233,WMR300=235,WMR968=8,WMR918=3,Davis VP=31,Davis WMMII=4, WH1081=166,2310=60,WXT510=190,3600=61,Davis IP=32, OWWfile=71
Davis com method=2 //1 for serial, 2 for usb data logger
OWW file location=
Davis VP IP port=
wh1080 read delay= // Port for Davis VP IP data logger
Davis VP IP address= // IP address " " " " " "
latitude=50.9218218 /// latitude, e.g -38.375 for southern hemisphere
longitude=-3.19553 /// e.g -175.456 for east of UTC/London
Station name=WeerstationIzegem
Start up daily rain(mm)=0.0
Start up monthly rain(mm)=32.8
Do wunderground=N //For updating wunderground.com (set to Y for yes, N for no) (every 5 minutes)
Wunderground username=
Wunderground password=
Wunderground timezone=-5 // e.g 12 for 12 hours ahead of GMT, -12 for - 12 hours
timezone= (to change the local PC hour used)
Direction offset (whole degrees)=0
Barometer offset(hpa)=0
Comport number (e.g 1)=U //For non USB stations (e.g Davis, OS WMR968), use U for ttyUSB0 (i.e usb to serial)
Davis com method=1 // 1 for regular 2 for special davis serial read
Revb Davis VP=Y (Y for Yes (new model (default) ) N for No)
Davis rain gauge=3 (1 for 0.1 inch, 2 for 0.01 inch, 3 for 0.2mm)
Do mysql=N //for mysql updates (see the readme for the table structure), every 5 minutes
Mysql username=
Mysql password=
Mysql server=
Mysql databasename=
Mysql tablename=
Mysql metric=Y (set N for oF, inches of rain, inches for baro)
Mysql time=300 (time interval between mysql update in seconds from 60 to 10000 sec)
Do CWOP updates=N //every 10 minutes
CWOP station id=
CWOP ham call sign=-1 // -1 is default (you do not have a Ham call sign)
CWOP Latitude=
CWOP Longitude=
Do clientraw FTP=N //(set to Y for yes, N for no), uploads every 1 minute
FTP server=
FTP username=
FTP password=
FTP port=21 //default is 21
FTP remote dir=
FTP use passive=Y //(set to Y for yes, N for no)
FTP use remote file rename= //Write here the remote name: NOTE that not all FTP servers allow remote file rename"
FTP time interval=60 //the interval between two upload of the clientraw.txt and custom file
Save logfile=Y //to save the .txt logfile (set to N to save on disk space)
Logfile metric=Y
Create custom file=N //converts the custom tags in a file called wxlocal.html to wx.html
Use this filename instead of wx.html=
Use this filename instead of wx2.html=
Use this filename instead of wx3.html=
Use this filename instead of wx4.html=
Use this filename instead of wx5.html=
FTP the custom file=N //will FTP the wx.html or filename you set to FTP server specified (clientraw FTP needs to be enabled too)
Units for custom tag file output:
Temp in celsius=Y
Wind in=kph // options are: mph,kts,kph,m/s (changes the custom tags)
Baro in metric=Y
Rain in metric=Y
run cron files=Y // set to N to not run the separate cron files
do custom log=N // set to Y to create an appended logfile from a template (customlog.txt)
custom log out=customlogout.txt
temp offset= //C
The only thing I can see for now, as i have no raspberry running, is that there are two comport settings
line 2:
Davis com method=2 //1 for serial, 2 for usb data logger
a lot of lines lower:
Davis com method=1 // 1 for regular 2 for special davis serial read
The last line is used.
So check all lines for Davis settings, as I know for sure it worked perfectly in the past.
And when Brian is awake in NZ he will probably has more ideas.