Has Anyone Reached out to Ecowitt about an API or Some other Connectivity with Weewx?

[ch...@chrismaness.com]

Getting a little frustrated with the Interceptor plugin.  I am happy
with my cheapie ecowitt station.  It does the job nicely, but the
unreliable link has been interceptor.  Every time I have upgraded the
system has broken.  This last one with no resolution.  I posted my issue
on Gethub and it has been a while with no response.   I do understand
that coding for these little projects is a voluntary basis, so I am not
looking a gift horse in the mouth.  To my point in the subject line. 
Would not it be better to work with ecowitt directly to provide either
RAW APRS packets out to an APRS gateway (for CWOP), or have an API for
weewx to poll or receive broadcasts directly from their GW-1000? I do
see that they already have a nice website for posting the product from
their GW-1000 (ecowitt.net and Wunderground), but there is an advantage
to having a local system running on a Rasbperry Pi in case of internet
outage.  Moreover, to have an inexpensive way to participate in CWOP is
really cool too.  Though their product may not be physically robust like
more expensive models.  The data I get seems to be really good.  My only
bad data set is the wind, but the placement of that equipment could
definitely use improvement.  I can't blame the product if it is not
placed properly.

Thanks,

Chris KQ6UP

[Graham Eddy]

via wifi, see https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000

[Chris Maness]

Perfect, thank you so much!

Chris KQ6UP 

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[ch...@chrismaness.com]

Is it 20minute poll by default, or 20s?  It only updated once in about the past 25 minutes.

-Chris KQ6UP

[gary....@gmail.com]

From the readme:

As the default GW1000 poll interval is 60 seconds not all loop packets will be augmented with GW1000 data.

You can put whatever value you want in the GW1000 stanza like this for a 15 second poll.

poll_interval = 15

[Chris Maness]

Thanks Gary.  Going to mess with it some more tomorrow.

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