Early in 2020, I had a rash of issues. In troubleshooting and reading up on the Weewx website and forums, I was either having issues with the Davis Datalogger or my SD card in the Pi. I had been contemplating getting a newer Pi anyway, so I figured I'd go ahead and get one and see if it helps. This was maybe April 2020.
Wouldn't you know, after getting it, the problems mostly went away. So here it was December 2020, and this new Raspberry-Pi is still sitting there. I had dreaded making the switch, because I knew it would be a few days of work, getting all backed up and transferred over, plus I had this other skin and numerous customizations. But I went ahead and started it last Sunday.
I initially got it going after about 10 hours, and realized there was a new default skin in Weewx named "Seasons". It was much improved over the old standard one. The Bootstrap one I was using before has some features this one doesn't, but I thought it was time to simplify things by using the default skin. I'm still doing a few customizations, but not too many.
Here it is Wednesday, and I'm still tweaking here and there, but it is running and looks good. I finally ordered a UPS, so that will hopefully handle the occasional power glitches that can corrupt the file system and SD card.
I think I may need to revisit the datalogger serial to USB converter issue. I may have messed up the udev rule or I may need to add ferrites to the USB cable, as my power arrangement for the Pi has changed.
I try to keep this up-to-date as time permits and the situation changes.
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