Hello, Inouk from Foobot here. Available to help if necessary. Not sure why you guys don't use our API though: http://api.foobot.io/apidoc/index.html
Best On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 6:06:12 PM UTC+2, mwall wrote: > > here are a few more observations about the foobot data transmissions: > > it is running a web server. a username and password are required. does > anyone know what name/pass to use? > > the 'sensor' packet with all sensor data is transmitted every 300 seconds > or so (it is not precise) > > the 'keep alive' packets are transmitted every 10 seconds > > occasionally the amazon server responds with a 'patate' message or a > 'ping' message. these seem to trigger a similar 'patate' or 'ping' reply > from the foobot (i think that the amazon server initiates the transaction, > but it could be the foobot - hard to tell from the pcap files thus far) > > it looks like we have at least two approaches for making a weewx driver > for this thing: > > 1) capture network traffic and parse the 'sensor' packets > > 2) run an mqtt server as a thread in a weewx driver > > prolly easiest to do (1) until we know better the interactions between the > foobot and the amazon web services. > > it is nice that foobot does not encrypt its communication. if vendors > *do* decide to encrypt, they should provide the hardware owner some way of > decrypting. netatmo used to be unencrypted, but changed to encryption > instead of removing the information that they should not have been sending > over the network anyway. let's hope foobot stays unencrypted. > > it looks like foobot will be a nice complement to a weather station. > foobot has co2, pm, and voc whereas netatmo has co2 and audio. but foobot > is easier to set up and much easier to decode. > > m >
