WeeWX is a free and open-source weather software platform designed to interact with personal weather stations (PWS). Its main purpose is to collect data from the PWS and to generate weather reports, charts, and graphs. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of WeeWX on Debian Latest.
We need to install some dependencies before installing WeeWX. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-configobj python3-serial python3-usb python3-requests python3-pil -y
This command will update the package list and install Python and all required packages.
The latest stable version of WeeWX is 4.5.1 (as of August 2021). Download the WeeWX source package from the official website using the following command:
wget -O weewx.tar.gz https://weewx.com/downloads/weewx-4.5.1.tar.gz
Then, extract the package using the following command:
tar -xzf weewx.tar.gz
This will create a directory named weewx-4.5.1. Change your current directory to the newly created directory with the following command:
cd weewx-4.5.1
Now, you can install WeeWX using the following command:
sudo python3 setup.py install
This will install WeeWX along with all dependencies.
WeeWX has a powerful configuration system, and the default settings are sufficient for most users. However, you may need to adjust some settings according to your requirements. You can find the configuration file at /etc/weewx/weewx.conf.
To open and edit the configuration file, run:
sudo nano /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
Here you can update the relevant settings, save and exit.
Now that we have installed and configured WeeWX, we can start the WeeWX service with the following command:
sudo systemctl start weewx
To verify that WeeWX is running, run:
sudo systemctl status weewx
This will show you the status of the WeeWX service.
WeeWX is now installed on your Debian Latest operating system. You can access the WeeWX interface and start collecting data from your PWS. We hope that you find this tutorial helpful.
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