weewxd

The weewxd application is the heart of WeeWX. It collects data from hardware, processes the data, archives the data, then generates reports from the data.

It can be run directly, or in the background as a daemon. When it is run directly, weewxd emits LOOP and ARCHIVE data to stdout. When it is run as a daemon, it will fork, output will go to log, and the process ID will be written to the pidfile.

Specify --help to see how it is used:

weewxd --help

usage: weewxd --help
       weewxd --version
       weewxd [FILENAME|--config=FILENAME]
              [--daemon]
              [--pidfile=PIDFILE]
              [--exit]
              [--loop-on-init]
              [--log-label=LABEL]

The main entry point for WeeWX. This program will gather data from your
station, archive its data, then generate reports.

positional arguments:
  FILENAME

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --config FILENAME     Use configuration file FILENAME
  -d, --daemon          Run as a daemon
  -p PIDFILE, --pidfile PIDFILE
                        Store the process ID in PIDFILE
  -v, --version         Display version number then exit
  -x, --exit            Exit on I/O and database errors instead of restarting
  -r, --loop-on-init    Retry forever if device is not ready on startup
  -n LABEL, --log-label LABEL
                        Label to use in syslog entries

Specify either the positional argument FILENAME, or the optional argument
using --config, but not both.