Upgrade to 4.1 and shift to Interceptor from ObeserverIP

[Jonathan Zitelman]

After six years I am finally upgrading my Raspberry Pi to a newer model, and re-vamping my base image.  While transitioning to Debian 10, I am upgrading from WeeWX 3.8 to 4.1.  My biggest issue has been getting a working driver.  I have an Ambient WS-1400 and was originally using the ObserverIP driver (mwall version) with no issues.  The device is running "Ambient Weather 4.5.8" and reports directly to Weather Underground (non-customizable).

I have tried installing Interceptor, but have had no luck with either the sniff or listen modes.  I have run the driver directly, separately from WeeWX, in both modes with no errors, but no results either.  I looked to reinstall ObserverIP, but unfortunately I have not been able to find the location of a release. (Matthew Wall, any suggestions? I looked on GitHub but couldn't find a file).

I just wanted to seek some advice before intercepting and re-directing the traffic, as noted in the Interceptor documentation, as that seems to add a larger level of complication and creates more opportunities for issues.  If I can find the ObserverIP driver, I would probably go that route.

Thanks,

Jonathan †

[Bill Arthur]

I had several stations using ObserverIPs, and switched them all over to Ecowitt GW1000s.
So with my (now surplus) ObserverIPs I tried getting them to report to WeeWx. I finally gave up from frustration.
The solution to your problem may be getting a GW1000, it's only about $35 and works flawlessly.