WeeWX is an open-source software application which collects and displays weather data from personal weather stations. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing WeeWX on OpenSUSE Latest.
First, you need to install some packages that are required for WeeWX to work properly.
Open the terminal and type the following command:
sudo zypper install python3-devel python3-pip sqlite-devel
This command will install the required packages.
Download the latest version of WeeWX from the official website https://weewx.com/downloads/.
You can download it using the following command:
wget http://weewx.com/downloads/weewx-4.5.1.tar.gz
Change the version number accordingly.
Extract the downloaded file using the following command:
tar -xvzf weewx-4.5.1.tar.gz
Once you have extracted the file, change the directory to the extracted folder using the following command:
cd weewx-4.5.1
Now, install WeeWX using the following command:
sudo python3 setup.py install
This command will install WeeWX on your system.
Now, you need to configure WeeWX. To do this, run the following command:
sudo weewxd /home/weewx/weewx.conf
This command will start WeeWX and configure it to use the default configuration file. You can change the configuration file path accordingly.
To start WeeWX, run the following command:
sudo systemctl start weewx
This command will start WeeWX.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install WeeWX on OpenSUSE Latest. Now you can collect and display weather data from personal weather stations.
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