Latest Linux WD, won't start

If you’d like to run consolewd on a Pi these instructions should still work - HOWTO: ConsoleWD for Raspberry PI - Setup Instructions - New version

You’ll probably want to run it in the background too. There are a few ways of doing this. I think the best way is this one Running consolewd in the Background Using serviced

The instructions don’t include setting up the MySQL connection though and I’ve never used consolewd with a database so I’ve no experience of setting it up. I think you’ll need to do this:

  1. Get consolewd working first so that it’s downloading data from your station reliably
  2. Install MySQL (MariaDB would be better) if it’s not already installed
  3. Create a database user for consolewd to use.
  4. Manually create the database for WD to use
  5. Edit the config.txt to add the database details (hostname, user, password, database name). I think you’ll also need to turn on the MySQL option
  6. I think - run ./croncreatetable to create the data table with the required fields
  7. Run consolewd