WeeWX is a popular open-source software that can be used to create your own weather station. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the installation process of WeeWX on Fedora Server Latest.
The first step is to install the required packages to run WeeWX on your Fedora Server Latest. Open the terminal and type the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3 python3-devel libusb-devel git gcc make
This command will install Python3, Python3-dev, libusb-dev, git, gcc and make packages needed for WeeWX installation.
In this step, we will clone the WeeWX repository from GitHub. Open the terminal and type:
git clone https://github.com/weewx/weewx.git
This command will download the WeeWX repository to your local machine.
In this step, we will run the WeeWX setup to install it.
cd weewx
sudo python3 setup.py install
This command will start the installation process of WeeWX, and it may take some time to complete.
Once installation is complete, you can configure WeeWX setup by editing the configuration file.
sudo nano /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
This command will open the configuration file in the nano editor. You can make any necessary changes to the configuration file based on your weather station requirements.
Finally, start WeeWX by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo systemctl start weewx
This command will start the WeeWX service, and you can now access your weather station data using a web browser.
In this tutorial, we have explained the installation process of WeeWX on Fedora Server Latest. WeeWX is a powerful open-source software that can be used to create your own weather station. Once you have installed and configured WeeWX, you can access your weather data using a web browser.
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