@Rainer, I have acted on your suggestion and now DEFAULT_RETRY_WAIT <https://github.com/Millardiang/weewx-ecowitt_local_http/commit/92ffc87a78114515369195ecee3f8b69bdf0fd4d> = 3
Ian On Friday, November 21, 2025 at 10:40:17 AM UTC Rainer Lang wrote: > I think there are a few things to consider > 1. is your GW3000 on latest firmware ? 1.1.4 that is > 2. one should increase the (probably hard coded) number of retries in the > driver from three to 5 or 10 (depending on the time gap in between - but > within the default reporting period of 300 seconds > 3. a WLAN can be a tricky beast, prone to many possible interfence factors > - hence the Ethernet connection is definitely more stable > > I had such issues as described recently more often - after the number of > WLAN devices had increased significantly - it wasn't the live data but the > MAC address request by the driver, but doesn't matter - one of the requests > either fails completely or cannot be reestablished in time - then the > driver and subsequently weewx exit. > My point 2. above could help here so the driver doesn't give up so fast. > This timeout is somewhere in the Python code. > > > @Ian, @Werner - it might be a good idea to make the > retries-when-unsuccessful a parameter to be set in weewx.conf with the > default value 3 for the EcowittHttp driver. > On 19.11.2025 04:09, vince wrote: > > 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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/ff5dc3e5-26c9-4e2d-b965-c59b71d6a770n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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]. 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