Uploading missing data to Weather Underground

Ernest Jillson

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Feb 1, 2020, 11:36:19 AM2/1/20

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Even today, I can't get weewx to upload data to WU reliably using https. I'm using http and it's working fine. I've read that many people have been able to switch back. Not me.

With all these recent changes to WU, does anyone know if there is a way to upload my previous several days of data that were missed on WU? I tried the wunderfixer utility, but that just hits a forbidden (403) wall. While not entirely necessary, it would be nice to fill in the multi-day gap.

Thanks in advance,

Ernie

Thomas Keffer

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Feb 1, 2020, 2:04:08 PM2/1/20

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Wunderfixer is normally the way you do this, except the V3.9 version stopped working when WU changed their API. That has been fixed, but will not appear until Version 4. If you're comfortable with the thought, you can try the beta of V4.

Download from weewx.com: http://weewx.com/downloads/development_versions/ into a convenient spot.
Unpack the tar file. For example, if the file is weewx-4.0.0b11.tar.gz:
```
 tar xvf weewx-4.0.0b11.tar.gz
```
Change directory (cd) into the resultant subdirectory:
```
 cd weewx-4.0.0b11.tar.gz
```
Run wunderfixer from the directory, using your old weewx.conf file. For example,
```
 ./bin/wunderfixer /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
```

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Ernest Jillson

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Feb 5, 2020, 9:39:28 PM2/5/20

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Hey Thomas,

Just got around to this. Looks like it's working great! I had to add my api key to the older version weewx.conf.

Thanks!

Ernie

On Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 2:04:08 PM UTC-5, Thomas Keffer wrote:

Wunderfixer is normally the way you do this, except the V3.9 version stopped working when WU changed their API. That has been fixed, but will not appear until Version 4. If you're comfortable with the thought, you can try the beta of V4.
Download from weewx.com: http://weewx.com/downloads/development_versions/ into a convenient spot.
Unpack the tar file. For example, if the file is weewx-4.0.0b11.tar.gz:
 tar xvf weewx-4.0.0b11.tar.gz
Change directory (cd) into the resultant subdirectory:
 cd weewx-4.0.0b11.tar.gz
Run wunderfixer from the directory, using your old weewx.conf file. For example,
 ./bin/wunderfixer /etc/weewx/weewx.conf

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 8:36 AM Ernest Jillson <etji...@gmail.com> wrote:

Even today, I can't get weewx to upload data to WU reliably using https. I'm using http and it's working fine. I've read that many people have been able to switch back. Not me.

With all these recent changes to WU, does anyone know if there is a way to upload my previous several days of data that were missed on WU? I tried the wunderfixer utility, but that just hits a forbidden (403) wall. While not entirely necessary, it would be nice to fill in the multi-day gap.

Thanks in advance,

Ernie

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Ernest Jillson

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Feb 5, 2020, 9:43:44 PM2/5/20

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Except...I may have waited too long. Looks like data is only available back to 2020-01-31. Will be good for future issues, though.

Louis De Lange

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Feb 5, 2020, 11:36:27 PM2/5/20

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I tried this method of updating today as well. Jan 29 and 30 simply fails. Jan 31 appears to upload missing data successfully, but the data never shows up at on WU.

Ernest Jillson

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Feb 6, 2020, 6:27:42 AM2/6/20

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Noticed the same thing. Even though it showed it upload successfully, it never updates on weather underground.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 23:36 Louis De Lange <kilo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried this method of updating today as well. Jan 29 and 30 simply fails. Jan 31 appears to upload missing data successfully, but the data never shows up at on WU.

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John

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Feb 6, 2020, 10:22:40 AM2/6/20

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I added the API key to my weewx.conf and wunderfixer would work but then weewx broke because of the extra key added to weewx.conf.

I suggest just adding the api-key to the command line for wunderfixer rather than weewx.conf

gjr80

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Feb 6, 2020, 3:12:29 PM2/6/20

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Hi,

Simply adding a key to weewx.conf should not cause any problems. Would you please give us some details (console output, log extract etc) so we can see if indeed there is a problem with WeeWX and if so fix it.

Gary

Ernest Jillson

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Feb 6, 2020, 4:21:57 PM2/6/20

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Definitely does cause weewx to fail. Keep in mind that we are adding the key to version 3.x, not 4, then running the wunderfixer pointing at our old weewx.conf file.

Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]: restx: WU essentials: {}
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]: engine: Caught unrecoverable exception in engine:
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****  __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'api_key'
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****  Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 888, in main
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****      engine = engine_class(config_dict)
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 78, in __init__
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****      self.loadServices(config_dict)
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 142, in loadServices
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****      self.service_obj.append(weeutil.weeutil._get_object(svc)(self, config_dict))
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/restx.py", line 632, in __init__
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****      **_ambient_dict)
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****  TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'api_key'
Feb  6 15:56:56 LakeFantasia weewx[21278]:     ****  Exiting.

Leon Shaner

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Feb 6, 2020, 4:27:11 PM2/6/20

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Ernest, you would need to pull a newer version of 3.x to avoid this error and for api_key to have any meaning.

Ernest Jillson wrote on 2/6/20 4:21 PM:

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Ernest Jillson

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Feb 6, 2020, 5:07:34 PM2/6/20

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Hi Leon,

I'm using 3.9.2, which I believe is the latest of the 3.x series.

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gjr80

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Feb 6, 2020, 5:31:12 PM2/6/20

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OK, that explains the api_key issue. 3.9.2 (the latest release version) does not use api_key, hence the error you receive. Subsequent to the 3.9.2 release there have been numerous wunderfixer commits in an attempt to have wunderfixer work properly given the changes/chaos at WU. Somewhere in these commits api_key was introduced. WeeWX 4.0 will include the wunderfixer with all of these commits, I have not kept across wunderfixer/WU changes so i will let others advise on what wunderfixer version to use with 3.9.2.

Gary

iain MacDonnell

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Feb 9, 2020, 2:46:30 PM2/9/20

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On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 2:31:12 PM UTC-8, gjr80 wrote:

OK, that explains the api_key issue. 3.9.2 (the latest release version) does not use api_key, hence the error you receive. Subsequent to the 3.9.2 release there have been numerous wunderfixer commits in an attempt to have wunderfixer work properly given the changes/chaos at WU. Somewhere in these commits api_key was introduced. WeeWX 4.0 will include the wunderfixer with all of these commits, I have not kept across wunderfixer/WU changes so i will let others advise on what wunderfixer version to use with 3.9.2.

FWIW, I was able to use wunderfixer from the master branch, with the workaround from https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/weewx-user/P_omYBcdrFY . I just cloned the github repo, applied the workaround, and ran ./wunderfixer (after adding my api_key to my v3.9.2 weewx.conf)

~iain

Thomas Keffer

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Feb 10, 2020, 11:37:31 AM2/10/20

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I've made the changes in commit 0658f05.

With a response code of 204, wunderfixer now assumes a good station with no data, instead of assuming a bad station ID.

Wish there was some way of telling them apart, but there isn't.

-tk

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