Topic: Is it possible to install Weather Display on Raspberry Pi4

[karss]

Just want to check whether it is possible to install weather display on Raspberry Pi.

[92merc]

Their page claims it does work on RPI.

https://www.weather-display.com/features.php

[karss]

I checked their download page, they have three recent versions, two for Linux Console (32 bit and 64 bit) and one for Linux GUI 64. I am running Debian on my 32 bit RPi4. I am not very familiar with Linux/Debian, so not sure what is the difference between Linux Console and Linux GUI and also how to install them on Debian. Would be nice to see some installation procedure for Weather Display on RPi. There are nice installation procedures for WeeWx/RPi on GitHub, even a novice like me can follow and install. Looking for something similar for Weather Display. Hope someone who has WD on RPi responds.

[92merc]

This is the WD group now.  They should be able to help.

https://discourse.weather-watch.com/

[Vasco]

Would be nice to see some installation procedure for Weather Display on RPi.

AFAIK there is an installation readme.txt with the downloads.

This is the WD group now.  They should be able to help.

https://discourse.weather-watch.com/

There is a Forum category "Weather Display for Linux", you might find some answers there.

[karss]

Thanks for the link, will check it out

[gabba]

Definately does work on the Raspberry pi 4. You ideally need to run one of the console versions ideally (ie no or little gui, designed to be run without a screen). There are other linux versions that do have a gui with them, but not sure what they are like.

 found the instructions in the readme file sufficient but not ideal, so I wrote up a "how to" across a number of articles here:

https://weather.net.nz/education/the-raspberry-pi-weather-stations

Start here:
https://weather.net.nz/latest-news-blog/members-blogs-menu/consolewd-weather-display-for-raspberry-pi

...and feel free to yell out if you get stuck.

It's a really stable way of doing things - far more stable than my windows weather display build that kept on restarting with Microsoft updates! Consolewd isn't as fully featured as the windows version, but there is nothing I'm missing from it.

Cheers

[karss]

@gabba - Thanks for the reply and for the links to the instruction page for setting up WD on RPi. I followed your exact procedure and manged to get the WD run on my RPi, but facing some issues. I wanted to connect my old Acurite, but it seems the WD on Linux doesn't support Acurite stations, so I tried with a Tempest station and tried to upload data to Weather Underground, but it only transmits, temperature, dew point and pressure data correctly. The wind speed and wind direction data is not correct, also, when it comes to rain, UV and solar radiation data, it is not updated in WU. Any help would be much appreciated.

[gabba]

Strange that some data is being sent but not all, and not all correctly

As a starting point I would look at the datafile that's being created. For WU there should be a file called cronwudata.txt. Check that and see if it's got the right data in it.

If the data looks right then check the console window to make sure the data you are missing is actually being picked up. Look for the line that begins with current data, and then a timestamp. There should be a few of them. Check that the data changes eg check wind speed, and wind direction. This will be the raw data that the program is reading in, so if it's out then it will need to be adjusted - that can be done in the config.txt file (or use the config.html file to build / update the config.txt file)

If it's all looking good so far, then check the console window again for the wunderground data send, and see if this has errors. It might be hard to find amongst all the other stuff. Setting Rapid fire might help.

I've never used a Tempest station before, so not sure what you need to do on that side to get everything to work. For example on my ecowitt, I'd be checking that all the different sensors connected into the hub etc. but guessing you've done that!

Anyway's the above might give some pointers on where to look next. Let us know how you get on
Cheers