Need help: Bresser Weather 6in1 Pro WiFi and weewx Interceptor

[Steinwolf]

Hello,

I need help with the Bresser 6in1 Pro Wifi. (sends data to WeatherUnderground). Unfortunatelly it is the "stupid" not FINEOffset version, so I have to use the interceptor, but I'm unable to get the interceptor working.

I'm really unhappy with WU (now they even dont let you download your own data!) and thats why I will use weewx.

By the way - this whole raspbian, linux,... thing is also new to me, so I struggle with this all and can only do things I found on the internet. So please, in case you write back, dont think I know anything - tell me like I'm a litte kid or so ;)

My setup:

Bresser Weather 6in1 Pro WiFi (the one with the display) (IP 192.168.188.60- I guess, because the Bresser configuration site is here)

Raspberry Pi3 (with weewx, interceptor and apache)

Fritz.Box as router

IPs: 

Bresser Weather IP 192.168.188.60 (I guess, because the Bresser configuration site is here)

Raspbi IP LAN 192.168.188.34, IP WLan  192.168.188.35 (raspbiweather.fritz.box also works)

FritzBox IP (as gateway?) 192.168.188.1

The problem:

I permanently get this error:

pi@raspbiWeather:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/weewx status
● weewx.service - LSB: weewx weather system
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/weewx; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Sun 2021-01-17 13:50:40 GMT; 3s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 2410 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/weewx start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****      self._server = Consumer.TCPServer(address, port, handler)
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/user/interceptor.py", line 584, in __init__
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****      TCPServer.__init__(self, (address, int(port)), handler)
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****    File "/usr/lib/python3.7/socketserver.py", line 452, in __init__
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****      self.server_bind()
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****    File "/usr/lib/python3.7/socketserver.py", line 466, in server_bind
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****      self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL weewx.engine:     ****  OSError: [Errno 99] Die angeforderte Adresse kann nicht zugewiesen werden
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL __main__: Unable to load driver: [Errno 99] Die angeforderte Adresse kann nicht zugewiesen werden
Jän 17 13:50:40 raspbiWeather python3[2426]: weewx[2426] CRITICAL __main__:     ****  Exiting...

So that " Die angeforderte Adresse kann nicht zugewiesen werden" means in english "The requested address cannot be assigned".

I think that the IP address of the PWS is wrong or so?

If I do (didn't know what the commands exactly do, but found this on another help thread of some user) "sudo tcpdump -Anpl -s0 -w - -i eth0 src 192.168.188.60 | stdbuf -oL strings -n8", I get (after a few seconds waiting and Cntr+C) this:

tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
        _services
3881D711F7A3-mysimplelink
3881D711F7A3-mysimplelink
3881D711F7A3-mysimplelink
^C2 packets captured
2 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel

" 3881D711F7A3-mysimplelink" is the Bresser PWS on the Fritzbox. Pakets received are sometimes more, sometimes less. I guess that the PWS sends every 10 secs or so, and thats why.

So is this correct? Than why it doesn't work?

In the weewx config I have:

station_type = Interceptor

##############################################################################

[Interceptor]
    # This section is for the network traffic interceptor driver.

    # The driver to use:
    driver = user.interceptor
    #device_type = lw30x
    device_type = wu-client
    #mode = sniff
    address = 192.168.188.60
    #port = 80

##############################################################################

Port is with "#" because I dont know the port and the the query above only works without " and port 80".

Please be so kind and help.

BR,

Steinwolf

[galfert]

It is not true that WU doesn't let you download your own data. The confusion is that you can't download data the old way with a .csv download file. The new way to download your own data is to use an API key that you can generate under your account setting. Then you must use this new API method to download your data. There is even a WeeWX extension to use this new method that has been created.

The reason for this change is that before anyone could download any amount of data and there were no controls to limit bandwidth usage. With the new API key method you are limited in the amount of bandwidth you can use on a monthly basis. This limits bandwidth abuse and it allows WU to better run their servers and reduce costs. If you are a business and you were previously downloading tons of data from WU, then those efforts have been blocked. You'll now have to purchase a commercial license in order to continue to download the amounts of data that you were before. You could say that a few bad apples with their abuse ruined the simplicity of the previous .csv download method. There were a few years where WU servers were hardly ever up. Sure things are not still perfect with WU but they certainly are a lot better than they were before these controls were implemented.

[Steinwolf]

Oh Ok. So I think I maybe misunderstood some posts I found online. So I dont pay anything aslong as I dont download the data to frequently? In some postings they say, that you have to pay after one year anyway.

I saw the API thing before, but here you can only download the real time data, I guess. For me it would be enough to download all data once a month or so. Is this possible?

Whatever - I would prefer to have a self-managed datalogger for many reasons.

The most important reason is, that I would also see the inside temperature which is not possible because of " privacy policies". Also there is one more temp-sensor, which also dont show up.

And to have "everything in my hands".

So can anyone help me?

BR,

Steinwolf

[Steinwolf]

Sorry I cannot edit my previous post - So here as additional question - Do you maybe have the link to the weewx extension? Didn't find it here https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki.

[galfert]

The tool to import from WU is built into WeeWX. It is called wee_import. There may be an update for it though that is not part of WeeWX....not sure. I've actually never used it.

I don't know what the data limit is nor how much you need to import. I suppose you could do it in chunks if necessary. You'll never have to pay even after a year. The API key that you get as a contributor is just limited per day to 500 queries and 10 times per minute. Don't ask me to explain that. That is what I read and I don't have more details. I'm sure that you'll learn more as you learn to work with the wee_import. You should be able to grab all of your history. It may take a while but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.