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EC CS's weather software (initially installed 2014-11-16) is weewx.

About 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.

Documentation

User Manual

Doc Index

HIP

Key Directory Paths

Config: /home/weather/weewx-2.7.0/weewx.conf Databases: /var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb and ./stats.sdb Previous software: /home/weather/oldWeather

Daemon

sudo /etc/init.d/weewx [command], where command can be stop, start, status

Old notes

Weather station readings for Earlham College are available here: [1].

The software for the weather station (initially installed 2014-11-16) is weewx. Its website describes it as follows:

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: [2]

Full Documentation: [3]

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