Permission errors and API limit exceeded.

[O S]

Hello all,

Using the Belchertown skin, I keep exceeding the API limit for the Aeris forecast and I'm not sure why this is.

The log, generate with DEBUG = 1 in weewx.conf and sudo journalctl -u weewx -f | tee /tmp/mylog in a second terminal, gives me the errors below:

Error downloading forecast data: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

and

Error writing forecast Current Conditions info to /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/current_conditions.json. Reason: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/current_conditions.json'

The fuller version of the logs is here.

Thank you,

Nick.

[Vince Skahan]

You must be running the Belchertown fork from https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-belchertown-new - the original one has no such item in it.

Try "ls -ald /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/current_conditions.json" and verify that file and its parent directories are owned by 'weewx' and group 'weewx'.

[O S]

Thanks, Vince - I get:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root weewx 2036 Feb 24 06:17 /var/www/html/weewx/belchertown/json/current_conditions.json

So, I suppose I need:

sudo chown -R weewx:weewx /var

is what i need to do.

[O S]

... sorry - yes , it's the new skin.

[Vince Skahan]

Not unless you want to break your os massively.

Just chown from /var/www/html/weewx and within…

[O S]

Ah! Thank goodness for you ;) I'll do that then!

[O S]

OK, that's all done.

Do you know how I'd go about troubleshooting the "too many requests" issue? I've got a pretty standard setup here, and it's fairly newly installed. Happy to post any/all of my weewx.conf file if needed.

[gary....@gmail.com]

Wait for tomorrow. The limits reset daily and monthly if you really hit it hard.

[O S]

Thanks, Gary, The forecast has been off overnight, so I'll enable it again soon and we'll see how long it lasts.

[O S]

OK, it's been running for most of the day and the API dashboard is looking good at only 53 accesses out of 5000 for the day, so 98.94% remaining. Not really sure why it ran out of calls.

Thanks, both for you help.