Gain access to the box running the service, same as how you get to issue the commands to start and stop and get status for the service.

This is usually by either
- sitting at box with monitor and keyboard
- remote access over the network

At box
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If you are using a keyboard and monitor at the computer running the service, start a terminal and edit the file with an editor, for instance
$ sudo nano /path/to/file

nano is a simple editor with prompts.

Make the changes and save the file
You can use any editor you like.

Remote access
=============
If you are remote from the computer running the service, use ssh (putty on windows) to get terminal access and proceed as before. You can also use a remote desktop instead of ssh if you have that set up.

hello
then I don't have a problem to open it, but I can't modify it, because, I don't have the authorization to modify it.

If you use sudo you should be able to edit it, sudo makes you the super user.

If you tried sudo and it did not work please post the command you tried and the output you got back.

hello
so I managed to modify the command line, more than waiting for the next crash to see where the problem comes from.

Christophe

Here are two useful commands for you to try to monitor the situation

Check that indi is working
====================
$ ps aux | grep indiserver

You should see a line saying that indiserver is working, it will include the command including indi_weatherradio

Check the output of the logfile
=======================
$ tail -f /tmp/logfilename.txt

Instead of /tmp/logfilename.txt put in the path to the log file you used in the service script

This will show the output from the indiserver being put into the log file.
-f means follow and uou need to press ^C to get your command prompt back again.

Changing verbosity of indi
====================
You can increase the amount of information that indi outputs by adding extra v to the service file.

The service file above has one v as in
To make it more verbose use -vv or -vvv

Hopefully your mystery will be solved soon.

hello
so here it is, it happened, my weather station crashed.
So now I'm doing how to find and read the file that will tell me what happened.
because I can't find a file

See you
Christophe

hello
so I have a good look, in the "tmp" file.
there is nothing .

Why?

Did your system reboot? On some systems, /tmp gets cleaned when the system is started.

No, I did not reboot !

Christophe, sorry to hear you are still having problems.

Did you check that something was being entered into the logfile withafter you set up things?

It is wise to check that what you have done is working, in case of simple typing errors, etc.

If you did check that and the file has disappeared then something deleted it, perhaps the system
lost power and rebooted? This would explain your issue.

Anyhow - you can easily put the logfile somewhere else that isn't deleted on a system reboot.

Please post your init script after you have changed it and we will check it for you.

In addition, at a terminal you can typewhich will tell you how long the sytem has been running. If it rebooted the uptime will
be much shorter than you think it should be.

Kind regards,

Hi to all,
I've assembled my weather station on an arduino uno With dht sensor, IR sensor and water sensor and ll works fine on kstars.
My only problem is that I can't find the way to use the water sensor output to automatically close he roof because the rain data are not between the weather parameters shown on the dome tab.
Can anyone help me?

Tks

Matteo

Hi Mattheo,
please be a little bit patient, release 1.12 of weather radio will contain this option. If you know what you are doing, you could check out the branch weatherradio-v_1.12 from my indi-3rdparty clone github.com/sterne-jaeger/indi-3rdparty.git

The INDI driver is ready, the integration into the web page is missing.

With this upcoming release, I added the option for rain drop detectors, i.e. as soon as first rain drops are recognized, the weather status changes to ALARM so that for example the observatory controller could close the roof.

Wolfgang