Maplins N23DQ Weather Station

[ramw...@uk2.net]

Of course it will be rebranded, but I'm wondering what it really is and if are there drivers for WeeWX?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-professional-solar-powered-wi-fi-weather-station-n23dq

[ramw...@uk2.net]

Looks rather like a Fine Offset HP1003 which isn't on the list of supported devices.  I wonder if it's much different to the other Fine Offset USB devices?

http://www.foshk.com/Weather_Professional/HP1003.htm

On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:19:06 AM UTC+1, ramw...@uk2.net wrote:

[Andrew Milner]

I guess you may be the guinea pig and be ablle to tell us!!  It is certainly different in that its firmware can be updated - all the other FineOffset devices were fixed firmware, so the chances are that its protocol and memory layouts will be different from the existing drivers knowledge....  Maybe matthew knows about these models ....

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[mwall]

On Friday, October 24, 2014 11:38:04 AM UTC-4, ramw...@uk2.net wrote:

Looks rather like a Fine Offset HP1003 which isn't on the list of supported devices.  I wonder if it's much different to the other Fine Offset USB devices?

http://www.foshk.com/Weather_Professional/HP1003.htm

it looks like the fine offset hp100x stations do not have any way to connect to a computer.

if that is the case, then you would either have to intercept the rf signals (hp1003) or the wifi signals (hp1000) then write a weewx driver to handle the intercepted data.

m

[ramw...@uk2.net]

On doing some more reading I think you are right.

[Simon]

I looked at the offset one of these previously and had contacted Maplins regarding this. the console automatically updated to some Weather sites like WU.  i think however it maybe programmable by editing the firmware/ini file and to then configure it for whatever system you want.

I gave up waiting to this product to hit the UK market with a descent price and went for the Davis Vantage Vue. 

Simon

[ramw...@uk2.net]

I found it frustrating that I couldn't find the manual online - that should have answered any questions about it.

[Michael VK5MW]

I have the HP1000 and it is sporting a USB port and uSD card slot. There must be a way?

[Michael VK5MW]

https://sites.google.com/site/ozweathercenter/professional-weather-station/wifi-weather-station-hp1000 is the closest I can find to a manual. But its not really a manual. More a features list.

On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 6:39:05 PM UTC+10:30, catsfiveuk wrote:

[mwall]

On Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 8:06:01 AM UTC-4, Michael VK5MW wrote:

I have the HP1000 and it is sporting a USB port and uSD card slot. There must be a way?

michael,

we an create a driver if you provide some captures of the network traffic.  use wireshark or tcpdump to capture wifi communication to/from the station.

as for the usb port, the first step is to get the product and vendor id.  post the output from 'lsusb -v'.

m

[Season Ticket]

I have a N23DQ but I'm unable to capture a wireshark trace from it or redirect to my weewx installation. Has anyone else had success using this weatherstation with weewx?

[mwall]

On Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 11:47:42 AM UTC-5, Season Ticket wrote:

I have a N23DQ but I'm unable to capture a wireshark trace from it or redirect to my weewx installation. Has anyone else had success using this weatherstation with weewx?

i think the N23DQ is a fine offset HP1000

this weewx wiki page might help:

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/observer

m 

[Season Ticket]

yes I think fine offset is the closest match and so I've configured by weewx to use fine offset observer configuration.  But for some reason when I change the console configuration to point to my weewx installation rather than www.wunderground.com   I don't see any traffic arriving.
So I setup a webserver (apache httpd) listening on port 80 on my laptop.  I then changed the console config to point to my apache server,  and ran wireshark to trace the traffic.  

I don't see any traffic at all.

I can run a http client on my phone and connect to the webserver ok,  and wireshark shows that traffic.

Any ideas on why the weatherstation doesn't seen to even connect to the webserver?

[mwall]

On Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 2:37:38 PM UTC-5, Season Ticket wrote:

Any ideas on why the weatherstation doesn't seen to even connect to the webserver?

can you do packet capture at the edge of your network (i.e., on the router)?  see exactly what the weather station is sending, and where it is sending it.  it is possible that the console configuration did not 'stick', or that there is a bug in the firmware, or you mistyped the address when configuring the console.

try using an ip address in the console, not a hostname

if you have control of your router, change the dns entry for www.wunderground.com (or whatever hostname the console is using to contact weather underground - i am pretty sure it is not www.wunderground.com), preferably just for the console.

if your network configuration supports it (mirrored port on a switch or ethernet hub), put the weewx-interceptor into sniff mode instead of listen mode, and have it capture whatever traffic the console is sending.

m

[Ian Millard]

Have a look here:- https://claydonsweather.org.uk

This uses the same Maplins device which is a clone of Fine Offset HP1000 / Ambient WS-1001

I am using the HP1000 driver (Aussie Susan) and the CRT extension to generate a realtime.txt file in conjunction Brian Underdown’s Smart Home Weatherstation template. Charts both static images (WeeWX style) and dynamic (Brian Underdown style) are driven from WeeWX MySQL database. Everything including timelapse running and served from a single RaspberryPi3/Debian 9 combination.

If there is sufficient interest I will put together a ‘how to’

Steepleian