Ya, I have been banging against it. I can't sniff packets due to my network setup. When I read the guides, there was a lot of talk about USB drivers so I had hoped I could pull data from the USB port on the WS-2000. I might try the SDR bit.
On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 2:06:25 AM UTC-6, mwall wrote: > > On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 12:31:54 AM UTC-5, torrin wrote: >> >> From what I have gleaned, the way to interface with the WS-2000 is by >> capturing http calls from the WS-2000? Is this the correct approach (I >> have pretty strong network controls and there is no easy way to >> promiscuously monitor traffic without adding more gear (or until I get my >> pfsense router set up)). >> > > have you browsed the weewx wiki? > > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki > > there are two approaches that are known to work: > > option 1: weewx-interceptor. install the weewx-interceptor driver to > capture the tcp/ip packets sent by the weather station. the readme in the > weewx-interceptor code has extensive explanations about different ways to > configure your network/devices to either listen or sniff the packets. > there are a few guides in the weewx wiki that describe users' approaches to > doing this. > > https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-interceptor > > option 2: weewx-sdr. purchase a US$20 usb software-defined radio module > to capture the signals from the station sensors. then use the weewx-sdr > driver to capture the data from the sdr device. > > https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-sdr > > here is a step-by-step guide that shows how to use the weewx-sdr driver: > > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/sdr-rpi-recipe > > finally, there is an outside chance that you can talk directly to the > ws-2000 over tcp/ip. fine offset makes an older bridge device called the > 'observer', and it will respond to certain network queries. aussiesusan > reverse-engineered this protocol and wrote a driver to use it: > > https://github.com/AussieSusan/HP1000 > > you might want to poke at the ws-2000 to see if it supports the same or > similar protocol. > > m > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
