On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 2:49:57 PM UTC-5, Alex Woo wrote:
>
> I plan to run it from a Raspberry Pi and wasn't planning to use 
> lacrossealerts.com.   My experience with these proprietary web data 
> collectors is that eventually they'll make it difficult to get the data 
> back or start charging for the privilege.    I can put them both on an 
> ethernet hub and try to sniff some packets but I'm not sure what I'm 
> looking for.
>

its pretty easy.

first, you must create an account at lacrosse alerts.  do not register your 
gw1000u yet.

with the lacrosse gateway and the pi plugged in to the same hub (must be a 
hub, or a switch with port mirroring enabled), do this:

if you have never registered the gateway:

0) be sure the gw1000u is powered off

1) on the pi:

sudo tcpdump -w /var/tmp/gw1000u-capture-1.pcap -npl -s0 -i eth0 host 
X.X.X.X and port 80 and http

where eth0 is the wired interface for the pi and X.X.X.X is the ip address 
of the gw1000u

if you want to verify that the capture works, use a host of some other 
computer then visit a web site from that computer.  then use wireshark to 
look at the data.  or post it here, if you like.

2) power on the gw1000u

follow the instructions at lacrosse alerts for registering your gateway.

3) stop the capture after you see data from the weather station at lacrosse 
alerts.


if you have already registered the gateway:

0) be sure the gateway is powered off

1) on the pi, run the tcpdump command, but use a different file, say 
capture-gw1000u-2.pcap

2) power on the gw1000u

3) after you see it update two or three times at lacrosse alerts, stop the 
tcpdump


then change your lacrosse passwords and post the pcap files.

i'm pretty sure lacrosse gives you one year of full services for free, then 
after that they charge you for alerts but the basic data collection is 
'free'.

m

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