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Cycle London
Jul 30, 2019, 8:02:46 AM7/30/19
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Hi,
I've got a weewx installation on a CentOS VM that's been running happily for about a year. About a month ago, I realised that the 'forecast' wasn't working, but have only now found the time to look into it.
The station used wunderground, so I head over there, login and then to to the 'API keys' tab. I generate a new API, dump it to the clipboard, and then put it into the weewx.conf ..
[Forecast]
data_binding = forecast_binding
[[OWM]]
api_key = INSERT_OWM_API_KEY_HERE
[[WWO]]
api_key = INSERT_WWO_API_KEY_HERE
[[WU]]
api_key = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
[[NWS]]
lid = "INSERT_LOCATION_ID_HERE (e.g., MAZ014)"
foid = "INSERT_FORECAST_OFFICE_ID_HERE (e.g., BOX)"
[[UKMO]]
api_key = // no longer used
location = 1234
I restart weewx and watch the logs.
Jul 30 12:40:14 weather weewx[27038]: manager: Added record 2019-07-30 12:40:00 BST (XXXXXXXX) to database 'weewx.sdb'
Jul 30 12:40:14 weather weewx[27038]: manager: Added record 2019-07-30 12:40:00 BST (XXXXXXXX) to daily summary in 'weewx.sdb'
Jul 30 12:40:14 weather weewx[27038]: forecast: WUThread: WU: download forecast from 'http://api.wunderground.com/api/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX****/hourly10day/q/XXXXXXXX.json'
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: forecast: WUThread: WU: failed attempt 1 to download forecast: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: cheetahgenerator: Generated 14 files for report StandardReport in 0.34 seconds
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: imagegenerator: Generated 12 images for StandardReport in 0.12 seconds
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: copygenerator: copied 0 files to /home/weewx/public_html
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: restx: Wunderground-PWS: Published record 2019-07-30 12:40:00 BST (XXXXXXXX)
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: forecast: WUThread: WU: failed attempt 2 to download forecast: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: cheetahgenerator: Generated 12 files for report forecast in 0.08 seconds
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: copygenerator: copied 0 files to /home/weewx/public_html/forecast
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: forecast: WUThread: WU: failed attempt 3 to download forecast: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: forecast: WUThread: WU: failed to download forecast
Jul 30 12:40:15 weather weewx[27038]: forecast: WUThread: WU: no forecast data for XXXXXXXX from http://api.wunderground.com/api
So I think that maybe it has something to do with the fact that my default skin is 'john':
[[StandardReport]]
# See the customizing guide to change the units, plot types and line
# colors, modify the fonts, display additional sensor data, and other
# customizations. Many of those changes can be made here by overriding
# parameters, or by modifying templates within the skin itself.
# The StandardReport uses the 'Standard' skin, which contains the
# images, templates and plots for the report.
skin = john
[[[Units]]]
[[[[Groups]]]]
group_altitude = foot
group_speed2 = mile_per_hour2
group_pressure = inHg
group_rain = mm
group_rainrate = mm_per_hour
group_temperature = degree_C
group_degree_day = degree_C_day
group_speed = mile_per_hour
[[[Extras]]]
[[[[forecast_strip_settings]]]]
source = WU
num_days = 3
I can state categorically, however, that none of the files was changed, and indeed hadn't been for months. So I still think it's something to do with the api key. But since I've generated a new one, I'm a bit lost.
Cycle London
Jul 30, 2019, 12:54:21 PM7/30/19
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Paul McGeorge
Jul 30, 2019, 10:02:40 PM7/30/19
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Over in weewx-development is an unofficial? update for using the new WU API you could try that but it only does 5 days now or use a different source like NWS, Dark Sky, etc.
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