How to detect/recover restx thread exiting?

David Hathaway

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Dec 10, 2019, 8:14:59 AM12/10/19

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Every once in a while, I get an exception posting to Wunderground :

Dec 8 01:48:52 hathaway weewx[1353]: restx: Wunderground-PWS: Unexpected exception of type <class 'ssl.CertificateError'>

Dec 8 01:48:52 hathaway weewx[1353]: restx: Wunderground-PWS: Thread exiting. Reason: hostname 'weatherstation.wunderground.com' doesn't match either of '*.wpengine.com', 'wpengine.com'

Further, Wunderground has stopped sending me alerts that my station isn't reporting, so I may go many days without posting to WU. And as of now, wunderfixer doesn't work to populate the history.

Is there a way to automatically detect that restx isn't running and to restart it? Or to email me an alert?

Thomas Keffer

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Dec 10, 2019, 9:36:13 AM12/10/19

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Wunderground has a habit of fiddling with their SSL certificates, and/or letting them expire, which can cause this error. See issue #413. There's a fix for this, appearing in V4. Instead of exiting, the thread will wait 60 minutes, then retry.

In the meantime, you can try using logwatch to send you an email if the thread exits.

-tk

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David Hathaway

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Dec 10, 2019, 9:47:48 AM12/10/19

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Thanks for this. I'll give logwatch a try. I appreciate the suggestion.

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Xant

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Dec 10, 2019, 9:59:44 AM12/10/19

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WeatherCloud have saved me a few times. Its the only WX Service I know today that has consistently alert me if data is not been uploaded.

You may consider also uploading to WeatherCloud, even if just for "parallel" alert.