Difficulty setting up WoW

[Alastair L]

Hi

Could someone please point out what I could be doing wrong that is stopping me sending data to WoW?  I'm seeing lots of error messages that I can't interpret.

Thanks in advance

Alastair

Relevant portion of weewx.conf

   [[WOW]]

        # This section is for configuring posts to WOW.

        

        # If you wish to do this, set the option 'enable' to true,

        # and specify a station and password.

        # To guard against parsing errors, put the password in quotes.

        enable = true

        station = "2051cb0d-531c-ec11-b76a-0003ff597a5e"

        password = “435683”

Relevant section of Log file 

Oct  5 09:06:38 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: weewx weather system...

Oct  5 09:06:38 raspberrypi weewx[24674] INFO __main__: Initializing weewx version 4.4.0

Oct  5 09:06:38 raspberrypi weewx[24674] INFO __main__: Using Python 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44) #012[GCC 8.3.0]

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24674] INFO __main__: Platform Linux-5.4.79-v7l+-armv7l-with-debian-10.7

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24674] INFO __main__: Locale is 'en_US.UTF-8'

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24674] INFO __main__: PID file is /var/run/weewx.pid

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO __main__: Using configuration file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO __main__: Debug is 0

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.engine: Loading station type Vantage (weewx.drivers.vantage)

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24662]: Starting weewx weather system: weewx.

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started LSB: weewx weather system.

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.engine: StdConvert target unit is 0x1

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.engine: Archive will use data binding wx_binding

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.engine: Record generation will be attempted in 'hardware'

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.engine: Using archive interval of 300 seconds (specified by hardware)

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.restx: StationRegistry: Station will be registered.

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.restx: Wunderground-PWS: Data for station ILAIRG10 will be posted

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.restx: PWSWeather: Data for station CLASHNESSIE will be posted

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.restx: CWOP: Posting not enabled.

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.restx: WOW: Data for station 2051cb0d-531c-ec11-b76a-0003ff597a5e will be posted

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.restx: AWEKAS: Posting not enabled.

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO __main__: Starting up weewx version 4.4.0

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.engine: Clock error is -1.32 seconds (positive is fast)

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.engine: Using binding 'wx_binding' to database 'weewx.sdb'

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.manager: Starting backfill of daily summaries

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.manager: Daily summaries up to date

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.engine: Starting main packet loop.

Oct  5 09:06:39 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.wxxtypes: Type beaufort has been deprecated. Use unit beaufort instead.

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.manager: Added record 2021-10-05 09:10:00 BST (1633421400) to database 'weewx.sdb'

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.manager: Added record 2021-10-05 09:10:00 BST (1633421400) to daily summary in 'weewx.sdb'

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: WOW: Unexpected exception of type <class 'UnicodeEncodeError'>

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: *** Traceback (most recent call last):

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/restx.py", line 381, in run_loop

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     self.process_record(_record, dbmanager)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/restx.py", line 446, in process_record

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     self.post_with_retries(_request, data)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/restx.py", line 475, in post_with_retries

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     _response = self.post_request(request, data)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/restx.py", line 1083, in post_request

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     _response = urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=self.timeout)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     return opener.open(url, data, timeout)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     response = self._open(req, data)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 543, in _open

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     '_open', req)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     result = func(*args)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1352, in http_open

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPConnection, req)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1324, in do_open

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1244, in request

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1255, in _send_request

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     self.putrequest(method, url, **skips)

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1122, in putrequest

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: ***     self._output(request.encode('ascii'))

Oct  5 09:10:15 raspberrypi weewx[24681] ERROR weewx.restx: *** UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in position 105: ordinal not in range(128)

Oct  5 09:10:16 raspberrypi weewx[24681] CRITICAL weewx.restx: WOW: Thread terminating. Reason: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in position 105: ordinal not in range(128)

Oct  5 09:10:16 raspberrypi weewx[24681] INFO weewx.restx: PWSWeather: Published record 2021-10-05 09:10:00 BST (1633421400)

[gjr80]

Hi,

It’s been a while since I last uploaded to WOW but did you edit weewx.conf with something other than a text or programmers editor? The ‘password’ setting in the config snippet you provided is enclosed within opening and closing double quotes (curly quotes - look closely and you will see the opening and closing double quotes are different), try replacing them with standard ASCII double quotes. ‘station’ looks OK.

Also, if that is you real station I’d and password you might want to change your password.

Gary

[Alastair L]

I really should wear my specs more often.  Missed that completely.
It was curly quotes (and non-programmers editor).  Many thanks

Alastair