HOWTO: ConsoleWD for Raspberry Pi Setup Instructions - Old version

I presume that the only way one can check if the setup is working (for the console version) is by looking at what it FTP’s to your website?..as there is no GUI…is this correct?

the 64 bit GUI version is not for the PI
consolewd is (correct version (one for pi1 /2 and one for pi3)

Thanks for that…that was my suspicion when it did no work…

what pi version do you have?
(1 2 or 3?)
the linux versions you download from
http://www.weather-display.com/fileslinux.php

I have the Pi3 and downloaded the 22 Feb 2018 version for Linux console 64 bit Rpi3

that should work
(it works for others)
(after you copy the files in the deploy folder to /usr/local/ and /usr/lib/)
and then run it as
sudo ./consolewd

Yes, that does work…I have not attached the ENVOY yet…but, as I am used to the GUI version, when I attache the ENVOY, how will I be able to read the output?

so it does run now?
the weather data is shown in the terminal output
and you can get it to produce a web page, clientraw,customclientraw, etc, so you can view the data in a browser window
and there is also a gui simple client program (uses the clientraw.txt) that you can run…double click on that executable file, wdpi

Thanks, I will give that a try over the next couple of days…

Hi, all

Have consolewd running on my PI3, one little remark though, just follow the instructions in the readme.txt, now i am just wondering how to get the cronjob working…Anybody?

Staccermaccer,

what cronjob exactly?

Hi,

I have run several times croncreatejob, but there is no response from the terminal or the WDPI, i see it isb collecting and writing data to the ini.file it’s updating the data logs and the clientraw files but a see no data live on my site…

Staccermaccer,

not sure what croncreatejob is ?

Hi,

As per instruction in the readme i have tried to get the croncreatetable to work, but to no avail…

Staccermaccer,

that is different to what you posted before
so do you mean you are trying to get a MYSQL table created?
what is the error returned?

Hi, I send you a screenshot of my terminalwindow…Perhaps this tells the story…
Staccermaccer,


consolewd.png

that just shows normal output of data from a running consolewd program
and not the error about creating a mysql table

Hi, Brian

I am just trying to get the data to uplaod to my site, WDPE is showing data but not recent ones. Do i need the mysql to work? Can it also be done just by FTP?

Staccermaccer,

yes you can use FTP
you can set that in the config file (and then restart WD)
what weather station type?

so you are not wanting to update a mysql file?

Hi, Brian

Sorry for the confusion but my ftp is working and it is updating, i just don’t see the live data appearing…

Staccermaccer,