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chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

It seems..... that since I tried to upgrade to 3.0.0, I've completely broken wview.

Since upgrading I have not been able to successfully start wview again... I've also tried downgrading to 2.0 and can't get it to work.. so now I'm flustered...

i've upgrade to radlib 2.6.1

I've tried with my modifications... and with just a straight wview default install.

symptoms:

when starting... wviewd seems to hang after logging this:

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Sounds like a serial communications problem... either your config file is goofy or something is up with your cable or VP console.

The next thing in the log you should see is:
"Vantage Pro on /dev/ttyS0 opened..." (or whatever your serial device is)
It appears to be hanging on the serial port.

Did you run wviewconfig after building and installing but before starting (as indicated in the UPGRADE file)?

Mark

chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

wondering out loud... could this be a communication problem with the Vantage Pro system?

when the configure I set it with --enable-vantagepro --enable-mysql --enable-wunderground

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Should be "--enable-station-vpro" -

And as in my previous post, yes, a serial/console/setup problem appears to be happening...

chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

yep.. that's the station command I used.

OK, when I get home, I'll unplug and replug in the console. I haven't been very happy with my USB extension... not very reliable.

for now, I'll blame it on my cats... Wink

THogland · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 33

FWIW, when I did the 3.0 installs (couple of betas and now the 3.0 official), I used "./configure --enable-wunderground", then "make && make install-env" since the html templates and such were noted as changing. (I've got my changed templates backed up, so all I have to do is copy/paste the minor tweaks...) I didn't use a station enable command, and all is well with the VPro.

Now if I can figure out how to make daily/monthly/yearly rain dials start at zero I'll be happy Confused

(I read your thread in the wish list, read the images.c and htmlgenerate.c and apparently I'm not as literate as you <g>)

Either that or I need to get a VPro2+ instead Smile

chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

once i get mine running I'll probably have to update the code for those dials anyway so i'll tweak the examples and stuff there.

NorwegianWould · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 23

The installation works, but you have to follow the instructions 'as advertised'. (Procedure section here http://www.wviewweather.com/release-notes/wview-Quick-Start.html).

No shortcuts. It is important to do wviewconfig, and sudo make install-env (your old configs will be preserved). (I only did sudo make install at first and had problems due to my old .conf files.

Any custom templates etc must be merged in afterwards.

chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

i've resolved the problems... the main problem was that I forgot to reset the serial port setting to ttyUSB0 when redoing the config files... the USB connection itself was also acting up which complicated things. I'm taking my extension back to Radio Shack.. piece-o-junk...

I also notice that the image generation code has changed, so I had to update all my user-images. I'll post the changes to the appropriate thread here.