WeeWX is a free and open-source software package that allows you to collect and display weather data from various sources. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WeeWX on NetBSD.
Before we begin, you will need to have the following:
To install WeeWX on NetBSD, you will first need to install the following packages:
pkgin update
pkgin install python38 py38-pip
pkgin install py38-setuptools py38-wheel
pkgin install py38-openssl
Once the required packages are installed, you can download and install WeeWX with the following steps:
cd /usr/local/src/
ftp https://weewx.com/downloads/weewx-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
NOTE: Replace "X.Y.Z" with the latest version number.
tar -xzf weewx-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
cd weewx-X.Y.Z
python setup.py install
After installation, you will need to configure WeeWX to collect weather data from your desired source(s). The main configuration file for WeeWX is weewx.conf, which is located in the /etc/weewx/ directory.
cp /usr/local/etc/weewx/weewx.conf /usr/local/etc/weewx/weewx.conf.orig
nano /usr/local/etc/weewx/weewx.conf
Finally, you can start WeeWX with the following command:
service weewx start
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install WeeWX on NetBSD. We then walked you through the process of configuring WeeWX to collect weather data from your desired sources. With WeeWX up and running, you can easily display your weather data on your website or your personal computer.
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