Last week I registered my copy of WD for Linux and have been attempting to run it on an Intel NUC in ‘headless’ configuration (no monitor or keyboard required). The primary reason for my purchase of an Intel NUC is to run a video surveillance system using Ubiquiti software and that is running sweetly with all functions controlled via a web browser. After reading recent reports of the ‘Broadway’ extensions to WD for Linux, I was hoping I could do the same with WD as I’m doing with Ubiquiti’s NVR software.
However, the Broadway extensions won’t work for me, as per the error messages I posted last week. So I thought of an alternative way around the problem which is to use VNC to remotely control my Intel NUC via the LAN. After much effort I got VNC Server running as a service under Ubuntu, with autostart and a double click loads the viewer on my Windows PC. So far, so good, but then I attempted to install and run WD under the remote terminal session created by VNC. The screen shot attached shows what happens. The initial warning about non-root ownership appears when WD loads, and the next error messages appear when I attempt to save any changes in setup.
If I don’t try to change anything, WD appears to run OK, but I don’t have my Davis weather station connected at this point.
I suspect this may all end up being too hard, but have made this post in the hope that someone else can see a way to fix it, or else confirm that I’m wasting my time and should invest in a Monitor/Keyboard switch for my Intel NUC because WD runs fine on the default Ubuntu desktop.
At first I tried to download that file using a web browser, but kept getting redirected to http://www.weatherdisplay.de/
So I found a script which let me download to a USB Flash Drive after fixing an error. Now I have Project118.tar.gz in my Home folder, of size 15.1kB.
However, when trying to open it, I get the following message:
‘An error occurred while extracting files. Unrecognized archive format.’
What have I done wrong?
I’ve also noted the frequent appearance of an error message concerning GTK since installing WD (screenshot attached).
Is this a concern?
you simply run Project118 in that directory where you have extracted it (and where the libmx.so file is)
like you would be running ./weatherdisplay with the broadway settings
I realised that my thinking was wrong before when trying to invoke Project118 from the same terminal window. After executing the ‘Listening’ command, the first terminal window did nothing further, simply echoing back whatever was typed, without executing it.
Below is what I get when invoking Project118 from a second terminal window.
To me this looks OK, so I then captured a screenshot of ‘Form116’ shown in next post.
Below is the window that appears after Project118 is invoked, entitled ‘Form116’.
None of the buttons or boxes do anything, and if I invoke Firefox, pointed at http://127.0.0.1:8085 it does the same as before, just showing a blank window with the ‘Broadway 2.0’ text.
Above was in a VNC session. Earlier I tried it standalone and it looked the same but that was before I realised about needing the second terminal window.
the last screen shot shows a connection refused error
that is to do with the gtk broadway and not to do with any program execution
there is something not right with the way you have that set