Can't Post To WOW

[Banana Bob]

I have an account with WOW and am trying to post my records there.

I get the following message

restx: WOW: Bad login; waiting 60.0 minutes then retrying

I have specified this in the conf 

   [[WOW]]

        # This section is for configuring posts to WOW.

        # If you wish to do this, set the option 'enable' to true,

        # and specify a station and password.

        enable = true

        station = 46****long number goes here******f

        # To guard against parsing errors, put your password in quotes:

        password = ******

Password and station ID have been blanked out in this post.

The password I understand to be a PIN number that I specify in my WOW setup.

Can anyone help with this please?

Thanks

James

[ge...@cusick.org.uk]

What yo are doing looks right to me. My first instinct would be to check the Site ID - that (very) long number. Since it contains what may be reserved characters, it might need to be enclosed in quotes.

Geoff

[Banana Bob]

Tried the quotes and no luck there - So I assume there is something wrong with the site id or pin number.

But can't find where to get help from WOW.

[Geoff Cusick]

I agree that finding your site ID on WOW is far from obvious.  I managed to do it from the WOW homepage (wow.metoffice.gov.uk), searching for stations at my location (in my case, Holsworthy, UK), then selecting my site from the map displayed and clicking on “Show Full Observation”.  The site ID is in parentheses (in my case, 935666001, but mine is a pre-2016 site - your site ID is probably much longer) below the site name (in my case, GCHolsworthy).  Quite why the met office makes it so hard to find is a bit of a mystery.

To find your PIN, you need to log in to wow.metoffice.org.uk, then select My Sites, then Edit Site.  Your PIN is then down the way, labelled Authentication Key.

Hope that’s helpful.

Geoff

17 Westcroft Road Holsworthy, EX22 6BY

Phone: +44 (0)1409 254330

Mobile: +44 (0)7976 285950

Web: http://www.cusick.org.uk

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[gjr80]

Once you have confirmed your WOW credentials you can set debug = 2 in weewx.conf and restart WeeWX. This will up the level of log output from StdRESTful (as well as a lot of other things) and you should be able to see in the log what is actually being posted to WOW. Your site authentication key (PIN?) will be obliterated but you should see everything else. That is about the limit of the debug info you can get from WeeWX.

Gary

[Banana Bob]

Thanks for that information.

I have since logged on to WOW and found that I was using my User Id string instead of my Site Id string. 

Now that I am using the correct string I can post the data.

Why do they make this stuff so complex? (No need to answer that)

Regards to all 

James