For future reference, directions are at https://help.weatherflow.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050786593-Troubleshooting-Guide-Setup-WiFi-Hub-Tempest-Device-#h_01FF0NC5246N6GVMTTCA2TKDWB and several posts here in the forum.
Thank You SO muchā¦
Iāll file it away for the future.
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@peter (or someone)
Is there any way to see the screen of running WF PiConsole remotely via VNC viewer?
This would allow to see the nice graphics of the weather station on other home stationary tablets. Nicer than the native app.
Assuming the parent WF PiConsole is running, of course.
Normally I can only see the RPi desktop in the VNC viewer remotely connected to the RPi with WF PiConsole running.
Yes, but it is only possible on a Pi 4. As you said, if you a running a Pi 3 or lower you will only see the RPi desktop. This is due to how the Pi3 renders the console on the screen.
Thanks, Peter. Well, thatās too bad.
Hi All,
I can certainly vouch for the replace device function. Recently all the sensors on my newish tempest failed and it needed to be replaced. The Replace device function not only preserved all the data, but it seamlessly took over the place of the old device in external applications like PiConsole and Wunderground, without having to make any adjustments to the external software. A big shout out to the team at Tempest - without hesitation, they had a new unit on the way, at no cost to me all the way to Australia.
Regards
Paul
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My wfpiconsole has not been providing live data for about a month now and I just now getting around to troubleshooting it. My console will not start up. It says unable to fetch station metadata. The wfpiconsole.ini file lists the correct station and device IDās for the Tempest, which is in working order. I donāt know what else to check.
Sorry you are having issues @charles1. The error you are seeing either indicates a network issue on your Pi (it canāt access the internet), or in your .ini file, one of the station/device IDs is wrong or there is a mistake in your WF personal access token.
Can you double check all of this, and if you are still having issues can you send me the contents of your .ini file in a PM?
Hi Peter ā I had an odd thing happen today: I noticed that there was a red exclamation more in a circle on the display partially covering the date/time area. First thing I tried was to run an update, but it told me I was current, so I tried a reboot which fixed the problem. Itās fine now, but Iām a bit curious as to what might have happened? Apologies for not taking a screenshot while it was happening.
I had the same thing happen with the exclamation point showing up. I first noticed that the data wasnāt updating. When I selected Menu it said my station was offline. I checked and it wasnāt really offline. Since the Raspberry Pi had been up for a very long time I just figured it probably just need to be rebooted. I rebooted and everything went back to normal.
Iāve seen that red-circled " ! " every once-in-a-while. . .esp when I switch from the main Tempest station. . .to another station / device. Seems it takes a few moments (like 5-10 seconds) for the signal from the other station to make its way into the āwfpiconsoleā. . .then after thatā¦all is fine. The red-circled " ! " disappears all on its own. Then I switch back from another deviceā¦back to the main station. . .and the red-circled " ! " does Not reappear.
@DavidK, @lauraf13 and @storm_tracker, the red exclamation mark pops up when the console has not had a new observation for the last 5 minutes. It can mean that your station has gone offline, but more often than not it means that your Pi has lost its connection to the network/internet. Usually a quick reboot of the PiConsole (or the Pi) will fix it. Itās intended as a visual warning that something isnāt right, but it usually isnāt too critical.
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This happened to me yesterday as well, I did the same, rebooted and it went away. I am in Australia - where abouts are you @DavidK ? Usuallt this means your station has gone off line, but I still had a green light on the hub.
Iām in the US, in New Jersey. I didnāt look at the hub but as in the other cases here a reboot fixed the issue.
If I see it again Iāll dig into it now that I know what causes this.
I also had this red exclamation mark about a few times in the last month or so. Station was active on the tempest app, only off-line on the PiConsole. A reboot fixed it, but it would then reappear sometimes within hours others times after a few days. Based on the comments above, I switched from a wi-fi connection to ethernet on the console. No issues since for the last week or so it seems to be fixed
I did the install from https://peted-davis.github.io/wfpiconsole on my Ubuntu 22-04 LTS system.
I have python3 version 3.10.6 and cython version 0.29.26.
I get this error when I start wfpiconsole:-
ImportError: /home/trevor/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/kivy/_event.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: _PyGen_Send
Is wfpiconsole compatible with these versions?
Thanks.
Unfortunately not. Kivy (the Python GUI module that powers the wfpiconsole) is only compatible with Python v3.6-3.9 (Release Kivy 2.0.0 Ā· kivy/kivy Ā· GitHub). Youāll either have to create a virtual Python environment (using miniconda/anaconda for example) with a compatible Python version, or downgrade to Ubuntu LTS 20.04 which ships with Python 3.9 by default.
Thank you! I did note that the docs said LTS 20.04 
but tried anyway.
I might have a headless PC still running 20.04, else Iāll try the virtual Python solution.
Works perfectly on my 20.04. Thanks.
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First, I would like to say thank you for creating such an awesome program. Now to my question -
I am VERY new to linux and not a coder by any means. I did however manage to install Ubuntu 20.14 LTS āDesktop Imageā on an older i5 machine. From there, I was able to get ipconsole working and displaying data on my connected monitor.
Now, step 2 is getting this data displayed on 2 Android based tablets (a Samsung Tab 4 and a Amazon Fire HD 8 Tablet) used in the home on the same network.
What is the best way to send/duplicate/view on these tablets through an always on screen? I did have a fellow Reddit member provide a tutorial using VNC viewer. Is this the best option? If so, it appears I will need to install Ubuntu server for it to work? Any other options out there?
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