Something has really gone wrong here. Can you try rebooting the entire Pi and see whether that fixes the display for a start?
I chose to edit the wfpiconsole.ini file with the correctly āmatchedā information. . .EVERYthing now works just fine. . .and Iām back in business! Thanks Peter for your diligent work for the āWeatherFlow PiConsole.ā
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I did some hard power cycles that had no affect but a proper shutdown has worked. Now Iām back at the original issue. Iām not sure how the screen issue originated but it was after the screen went to sleep. Iāll leave it running again and see what happens.
Jim
Great! Good to hear youāre back up and running.
@eric, Iām pretty sure you had the same error as well based on the error log you messaged me. Itāll probably continue to crop up as well as more people update and find that their Station names in the PiConsole no longer match. Iāll add a fix for future versions that automatically updates the station name.
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Great! Glad the screen is back as that was weird. Iām still at a loss as to why you are seeing the other issue while no one else is. Can you send the contents of your wfpiconsole.ini file to me in a PM so I can test your setup?
Hmmm. Upgrade didnāt go well. Running on a Pi4B. Had to use sudo for both the update as well as the autostart command. rerunning without threw a permission error for both.
wfpiconsole comes up, but no station data is populated, just the forecast panel. Selecting Menu/Station does show the correct station details and the wfpiuconsole.ini file has the key. Wasnāt asked to recreate the file.
Thought it might be related to the space in the middle of the station name, but editing the .ini file to add double quotes didnāt help. In fact, it caused the pressing menu reset problem mentioned upthread.
This isnāt right, and is probably the root cause of the problem. Can you share the error that you see when you run without sudo? The install file should handle sudo correctly whenever it is required without having to run the whole command as sudo
pi@weatherflowpi:~/wfpiconsole $ wfpiconsole autostart-enable
-bash /usr/local/bin/wfpiconsole: Permission denied
Try running
sudo chown pi:pi /usr/local/bin/wfpiconsole
And then try the update command again
Thanks for sending the .ini file. Unfortunately it works perfectly for me, so I really am at a loss as to what is happening. I am wondering if something has got a bit messed up during the install. I think the best bet is to start from scratch again. First uninstall the main GUI Python package
python3 -m pip uninstall kivy and answer y at the prompt
Then delete the PiConsole directory
rm -rf ~/wfpiconsole keeping a backup of your wfpiconsole.ini file.
Then reinstall the console
curl -sSL https://peted-davis.github.io/wfpiconsole | bash
If this doesnāt work, let me know. I didnāt test on a Pi4 with the 7 inch screen as that requires me to dismantle my own PiConsole which is still running on a Pi3.
Itās late here, so I wonāt be back around until tomorrow!
I Really Like Everything about this updated firmware v22.3.1 ! Itās like being a kid again. . .having a new toy! I especially like how the Sager Forecast will automatically update. I have mine set up for every 3 hours. . .to track important changes.
Peter. . .I think I can speak in behalf of all of us on this WeatherFlow PiConcole topic who have WF PiConsoles. . .that we are grateful to you and your efforts to create such a wonderful / useful tool. Thank You Very Much.
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Thank you, Peter. No rush. That did indeed allow me to run autostart without sudo. Unfortunately, Iām still not seeing any station data. Iāll keep poking around and see what I can find.
And all is well. I recursively chowned the ~/wfpiconsole directory, then reran the installer without elevated privileges. Autostart works fine and all the station data is being displayed.
Thanks again!
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A big thank you @peter , really appreciate it.
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Hi @peter, thanks for the new update. No real issues with the update, but during the process I noticed the following warnings:
[ā] Updating Python package manager
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/secretstorage/dhcrypto.py:15: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: int_from_bytes is deprecated, use int.from_bytes instead
from cryptography.utils import int_from_bytes
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/secretstorage/util.py:19: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: int_from_bytes is deprecated, use int.from_bytes instead
from cryptography.utils import int_from_bytes
[ā] Updating Python module cython
From what Iāve been able to tell, this is harmless and is probably the results of the version of SecretStorage installed on my pi (2.3.1), as I believe itās been fixed in a newer version.
This isnāt actually an issue with wfpiconsole, but I figured Iād mention this in case someone else is searching for the error here.
Is there any way to stop it mention the new update everyday? i have the 4.0.2 ant it works great and iām afraid to update and maybe run to new problems.
Thanks!!
Add this future to a next update wonāt be a solution LOL (just kidding)
There is, but you will have to edit the code directly. You need to open main.py and comment out line 304 (i.e. add a # at the beginning of the line). Line 304 should look like this:
Clock.schedule_once(partial(system.checkVersion,self.Version,self.config,updateNotif))
I will add something to the next release that suppresses this notification. I completely understand not wanting to run into new problems, but I think if you give it a couple of weeks for the latest update to bed in and for bugs to found and fixed, you should be pretty safe updating.
Yep, I see the same thing on my PiConsole and I think it is harmless. I might cause issues one day, but weāll cross that bridge when we get to it!
Great, glad you are up and running. It sounds like you had some permission issues along the way and the wfpiconsole directory was owned by the wrong user (maybe root?).
Thanks for the kind words @storm_tracker! Itās great to hear that people enjoy using it so much 
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Thatās annoying! Can you post the error log that is printed to the terminal when the console crashes?
EDIT: can you also let me know what hardware you are using and what version of Raspberry Pi OS? You can see the OS version by running this command in the terminal: lsb_release -a
Hi Peter , i try to update and receive this error : (however my internet connection is up and running, double checked with various pings)
pi@weatherraspi:~/wfpiconsole $ wfpiconsole update
[ā] Root user check passed
[ā] Hardware check passed (armv7l)
[ā] OS check passed (Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster))
==============================
Updating WeatherFlow PiConsole
[ā] Checking for updated packages
Error: Unable to update local package cache. Please check your internet connection
Get:1 Index of /debian buster InRelease [32.6 kB]
Get:2 Index of /raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
Reading package listsā¦
E: Repository āā changed its āSuiteā value from āstableā to āoldstableā
E: Repository āā changed its āSuiteā value from ātestingā to āoldstableā
thanks
Gerold