You might try dropping the GW3000 into service then and try to site it close to your access point. I don’t have my gateway posting to anywhere at all, as weewx does that fine for me.
On Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 6:42:10 PM UTC-8 Dr__Bob wrote: > The error that I get is: > ERROR user.gw1000: Failed to obtain response to command > 'CMD_GW1000_LIVEDATA' after 3 attempts > > Sometimes it recovers immediately (after weewx automatically restarts), > but other times it just keeps cycling with the same error message. During > all of this, as far as I can tell, the GW1000 is up, as it also sends data > to Wunderground. And my raspberry pi 5 is up as well, since I don’t see > any network errors in the system journal. Alas, my setup doesn’t really > allow for hardwired Ethernet, so I have to rely on wifi. > > On Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 5:43:54 PM UTC-8 vince wrote: > >> You're going to have to quantify "loses contact with". Is the gateway >> or pi rebooting ? Is your home wifi all polluted by misconfigured >> neighbors ? >> >> Gary's GW1000 driver is rock solid for what it does. Rather than worrying >> software at least initially I'd probably start with working it as a network >> issue and perhaps catchup isn't critically needed. >> >> Why are you losing connection ? Is the GW1000 dropping off the network >> ? Or is the pi ? Or is one or the other rebooting ? >> >> Do you have ip addresses set to be reserved in your router for both boxes >> so that they always have a predictable ip address ? Do you have the >> gateway ip address set in weewx.conf ? >> >> What model pi are you running ? For me any pi zero has always been >> 'very' unstable trying to stay up over wifi. I turned all my pi zero off >> for this reason. Anything pi3 or later is great. >> >> Lastly - the GW3000 has wired ethernet too as do all pi3/pi4/pi5, so if >> you can use ethernet for the gateway 'and' the pi, you will likely have a >> much more stable setup. Pretty much everybody these days is surrounded by >> misconfigured neighbors disturbing 2.4GHz wifi and short of out-radiating >> there's not much you can do there typically if the underlying issue is >> messed up wifi. >> >> Start by dropping the GW3000 in as a replacement for the GW1000 and see >> if that helps any. You might not to do much more than that... >> >> On Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 4:39:39 PM UTC-8 Dr__Bob wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I currently have a GW1000, which works fine, except that my raspyberrypi >>> (rpi) periodically loses contact with it. Of course, when that happens, I >>> lose all the data that the GW1000 would otherwise have sent. While I try >>> to debug what's going on with the rpi, I figured I might as well pick up a >>> GW3000, since it can have an SD card and allow for catchup when the rpi >>> can't get the live data. I assume (always dangerous!) that this is a valid >>> reason for trying to "catch up". It appears that the ecowitt_http driver >>> is ideal for this, since there is the claim that the catch up mode works. >>> However, it also appears that there are two different forks, which may >>> have diverged significantly. One is apparently the original, created by >>> Gary and now hosted by Ian Millard. There doesn't appear to have been any >>> development on that version (or rather, there was, but everything has been >>> rolled back to Gary's original). The other is maintained by Werner Krenn, >>> and appears to have a *lot* of additional stuff by now, necessitating, I >>> believe, a new database schema. In addition, at least to my humble >>> abilities, the installation of Werner's version seems involved, with, eg, >>> plugins, and new skins. >>> >>> (Sorry for the length of this post!) >>> Bottom line: does Gary's original version, hosted by Ian work? Does >>> the catch up functionality work? Or should I bite the bullet and try to >>> figure out which of the numerous schemas and database update scripts I >>> should use, and try to get Werner's driver working? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions! >>> >>> Bob >>> PS: I am not a total newb. I have, in the past, managed to debug a >>> piece of MWall's cmon package, so I know a bit of programming and weewx. >>> It's just that I got a little overwhelmed by Werner's structure. >>> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/ff5dc3e5-26c9-4e2d-b965-c59b71d6a770n%40googlegroups.com.
