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EC CS's weather software (initially installed 2014-11-16) is weewx. Its website describes it thusly:
 
 
The software for the weather station (initially installed 2014-11-16) is weewx. Its website describes it as follows:
 
  
 
<blockquote>weewx is a free, open source, software program, written in Python, which interacts with your weather station to produce [databases,] graphs, reports, and HTML pages. It can optionally publish to weather sites or web servers. It uses modern software concepts, making it simple, robust, and easy to extend. It includes extensive documentation.</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>weewx is a free, open source, software program, written in Python, which interacts with your weather station to produce [databases,] graphs, reports, and HTML pages. It can optionally publish to weather sites or web servers. It uses modern software concepts, making it simple, robust, and easy to extend. It includes extensive documentation.</blockquote>

Revision as of 15:19, 16 November 2014

EC CS's weather software (initially installed 2014-11-16) is weewx. Its website describes it thusly:

weewx is a free, open source, software program, written in Python, which interacts with your weather station to produce [databases,] graphs, reports, and HTML pages. It can optionally publish to weather sites or web servers. It uses modern software concepts, making it simple, robust, and easy to extend. It includes extensive documentation.

User Manual: [1]

Full Documentation: [2]

A few key directory paths on new-proto:

Configuration File: /home/weather/weewx-2.7.0/weewx.conf

Databases: /var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb and *stats.sdb

Stop command: sudo /etc/init.d/weewx stop

Start command: sudo /etc/init.d/weewx start

Old software is in: /home/weather/oldWeather