Can't Upload to Weather Underground - Please Help

[Thomas D.]

Hi all,

I've been using Weewx for years, and never had any problems. Great application!

I recently performed an upgrade to my NAS where I had to completely reinstall Weewx, and now I'm getting the following in my logs:

Jul 25 15:34:13 NAS user.err weewx[23663]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed to publish record 2019-07-25 15:34:06 PDT (1564094046): Failed upload after 1 tries

I tried logging into the Weather Underground site, and there was a message that the site had been changed/updated, and if you had any problems logging in to change your password. I tried that and still have the issue.

Can anyone help me figure out why Weewx can't upload? I don't remember ever having to create a weewx user or change anything other than write permissions for the Weex folder.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Thomas

[vince]

On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 7:41:57 AM UTC-7, Thomas D. wrote:

Can anyone help me figure out why Weewx can't upload? I don't remember ever having to create a weewx user or change anything other than write permissions for the Weex folder.

WU is historically a bit of a mess, and seems to be getting more and more unstable from the various reports folks are posting.   Personally I'd shop elsewhere.

Anything you need to configure re: WU is in that section of your weewx.conf file.  If you changed your WU password, you probably need to edit weewx.conf to put in the new password there, then restart weewx.

[Thomas D.]

Thanks for the reply Vince. I appreciate it.

This app has served me well. I have almost 4 years of weather data, and Weewx has reliably posted this data to the web for just as long.

I have already changed the WU password in weewx.conf and surrounded it in quotes. Same issue. It seems other python apps on my NAS can access the internet and use FTP, so it's really strange that Weewx can't, especially since I had it working before the reinstall.

Is there a way of getting a verbose log report that might give me more info than "Failed to publish record"

Thanks,
Thomas

[Thomas D.]

I just turned weewx debugging on, and this is failing due to SSL certificate verification:

Jul 25 12:09:53 NAS user.err weewx[12469]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed to publish record 2019-07-25 12:09:47 PDT (1564081787): Failed upload after 1 tries
Jul 25 12:09:53 NAS user.debug weewx[12469]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed upload attempt 1: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:661)>

Is there any way to turn of this verification?

Thanks,
Thomas

[vince]

On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 12:15:25 PM UTC-7, Thomas D. wrote:

I just turned weewx debugging on, and this is failing due to SSL certificate verification:

Jul 25 12:09:53 NAS user.err weewx[12469]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed to publish record 2019-07-25 12:09:47 PDT (1564081787): Failed upload after 1 tries
Jul 25 12:09:53 NAS user.debug weewx[12469]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed upload attempt 1: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:661)>

Is there any way to turn of this verification?

ok that helps a lot - this is an old one we've seen before I think.......something to do with the python version you're running if I remember correctly.   My recollection is there was a python version that changed how ssl stuff worked.

Do a google search for "SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed" and also I guess search this group's archives for the error message.