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Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Topics about the Beta trials up to Build 3043, the last build by Cumulus's founder Steve Loft. It was by this time way out of Beta but Steve wanted to keep it that way until he made a decision on his and Cumulus's future.

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Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by fury88 »

Hi all,

Very excited to get Cumulus up and running on Linux! Thankfully no more dealing with Windows.

I've worked through several issues so far by reading the forums, faq, and posts but I'm stuck at the moment with Cumulus MX 3043 not reporting to Weather Underground. It did an initial report when I first started up but now it refuses. I don't see anything in the debug log (unless I'm overlooking something). Also because I have pre 1.9.3 firmware I did turn off the LOOP back. I thought that was the magic trick but it didn't seem to help.

I've attached the log. A second set of eyes would be great!

Thanks, all!

-Matt
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by mcrossley »

First, it looks like you have the Cumulus log interval set to 10 minutes, but the Davis to something different? This causes the Davis to send the entire contents of the logger to Cumulus - which takes some time to process!

One archive record is sent to WU, but then the next live updates receive an error - "An error occurred while sending the request." which to me sounds like Cumulus could even send the data. Steve may have more of an idea what is causing that.

I'd stop Cumulus, fix your Davis logger interval issue, then restart Cumulus and see where you are then.
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by fury88 »

Ok that makes sense. I completely missed any error in there. Too many log debuggings in my other gig. ;-) I ran Cumulus 1.x for 7 years. I didn't think but I probably could just use the original .ini file. I wasn't sure if I'd break something by doing that though I did see it can be done.
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by fury88 »

Ok I changed the interval but also figured out the reason why it wasn't sending data was because I used my username for Weather Underground instead of my station ID. This is different I think. In the 1.x version it required the username.
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by fury88 »

Another question related to this thread but not part of the problem. I notice that it's sending a REST call for the WX API? The password is getting embedded in the link. Is that a good idea? I assume the WX API is taking https so it SHOULD be encrypted but I'm surprised they did that.
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by mcrossley »

WU define the interface. They need the password, otherwise anybody could upload to your station. As you say it uses SSL so it should be secure, same as using a password to log on to any other web site.

https://weatherstation.wunderground.com ... tation.php
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

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No I understand that but you typically don't pass a URL directly with a password. Regardless it's ok and working. Whatever floats their boat. IBM owns it now.
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by mcrossley »

True, i haven't looked into it but when is the secure connection made, before or after the URL is passed to the server? You'd hope before!
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by steve »

fury88 wrote:Ok I changed the interval but also figured out the reason why it wasn't sending data was because I used my username for Weather Underground instead of my station ID. This is different I think. In the 1.x version it required the username.
Cumulus 1.x also requires the station ID, it's required by the protocol and it's the only way to identify the station uniquely (a user might have more than one station). The protocol doesn't use the username at all.

Cumulus still uses http (rather than https) for the upload URL. I'll look into changing it (in MX) at some point to use https (it's not just a case of changing the URL).
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Re: Davis Pro 2 (fm 1.7.3) and Cumulus MX not reporting to Weather Underground

Post by fury88 »

Steve,

You're right. My bad. I looked at my old .ini file and realized it WAS the station id as well. Not sure why I got hung up with my user id. LOL

Yes, I realize the http/https is not a simple change. Integrating certificates and whatever SSL library you are using is not simple. I appreciate the thought! I had a crash this morning and I will open up another thread unrelated to this and upload the zip file.

-Matt
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