weewx and weewx-sdr - problems

[Andrew Dibbins]

Hi All,

I've been using weewx on my RPI thru the USB connection to my weather station's LCD, it's the cheap Maplin WS based on WH1080 , I think.

The LCD frequently stops working and then so does weewx, as a solution I decided to remove the LCD, by using Matthew Walls weewx-sdr extension.

However, I've clearly got something wrong, as I can definitely see the sensors sending info (see part of my message log), however weewx doesn't respond to this activity.

Is someone available to guide me as to what I've done wrong ?

Regards

Andrew  

[Andrew Milner]

The log seems to say that the readings are unmapped - shouldn't the mapping be more like

outTemp = temperature_C.0119........

windGust = gust.0119......

where left of = is weewx column name and right of = is reading name from the SDR messages

just a thought ....

[Ian A]

The mappings looks ok, mine look like this:  windGust = wind_gust.37.FOWH1050Packet

What do you get when you with     <   sudo PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/weewx python /usr/share/weewx/user/sdr.py --cmd="rtl_433 -q -U -F json -G -R 32"  >

You may have to check those paths are correct for your install.

Ian

[Andrew Dibbins]

Hi Ian,

Here's the output from sdr.py command.

How should we interpret it ?

Thanks

Andy

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[Ian A]

Looks like the station ID isn't being passed  "should be "0119" where its currently displaying "NONE"

As i understand it the "input" taged  lines are the json nput to sdr.py from rtl_433 and the "passed" lines are the data as passed to WEEWX

You could try uncommenting line 775 of /usr/share/weewx/user/sdr.py and commenting out line 776 then try executing sdr.py again,

 If that fails maybe show a dump of just "sudo rtl_433 -q -U -F json -G -R 32"

Ian

[Andrew Dibbins]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for your help, here.

I've changed the Identifier in lines 775/776 as you suggested, I'm still seeing the none records.

I've attached the out from the rtl_433 command, that seems OK in my limited opinion, so I assume the problem exists within the sdr.py script ?

Thanks

Andy

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[Ian A]

Andy

All I can suggest is that you try replacing  obj.get('station_id') with obj.get('id') in line 726 then save and rerun the script.

Maybe this is yet another variation in the rtl_433 device

Ian

[mwall]

On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 7:47:59 AM UTC-4, Ian A wrote:

Andy

All I can suggest is that you try replacing  obj.get('station_id') with obj.get('id') in line 726 then save and rerun the script.

Maybe this is yet another variation in the rtl_433 device

Ian

andy,

ian's suggestion should work.  it looks like 'station_id' became 'id' in a change to rtl_433.

i have released weewx-sdr 0.37 with a fix that should work with either the old or new rtl_433

m 

[Andrew Dibbins]

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for the updated version 0.37, but I'm seeing a further problem

root@raspberrypi:/usr/share/weewx/user# /etc/init.d/weewx status

● weewx.service - LSB: weewx weather system

   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/weewx; generated; vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: active (exited) since Wed 2017-11-01 12:42:58 GMT; 18min ago

     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

  Process: 2810 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/weewx stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

  Process: 2924 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/weewx start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 865, in main

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****      engine = engine_class(config_dict)

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 71, in __init__

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****      self.setupStation(config_dict)

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 95, in setupStation

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****      __import__(driver)

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/user/sdr.py", line 1

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****      opyright 2016-2017 Matthew Wall

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****                  ^

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****  SyntaxError: invalid syntax

root@raspberrypi:/usr/share/weewx/user#

Thanks

Andy

[mwall]

On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 9:03:23 AM UTC-4, Andrew Dibbins wrote:

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/user/sdr.py", line 1

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****      opyright 2016-2017 Matthew Wall

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****                  ^

Nov 01 12:42:58 raspberrypi weewx[2939]:     ****  SyntaxError: invalid syntax

root@raspberrypi:/usr/share/weewx/user#

that smells like a corrupt file.  how did you download the extension?

open sdr.py in an editor that knows how to do syntax coloring for python

or just download the sdr zip/tgz again

m 

[Andrew Dibbins]

Thanks all, it appears now to be updating, however there's a further problem, I assume with the mapping, as only the humidity appears to update, see ?

Any ideas, please?
Thanks

[mwall]

On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 11:19:24 AM UTC-5, Andrew Dibbins wrote:

Thanks all, it appears now to be updating, however there's a further problem, I assume with the mapping, as only the humidity appears to update, see ?

what does the log say?

maybe someone could do a spoof of 'what does the fox say' but call it 'what does the log say'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

pa pa pa pa-pa-pow :)

[Andrew Milner]

Perhaps the font size in the group heading section needs to be increased, and underlined since bold is obviously not good enough!!

[Andrew Dibbins]

OK, I get it, apologies.

Attached is a snip from the message and syslog.and user.log

I seem to be plagued, by oilwatchman and I assume smart meters