Tom, 

I can monitor for the  "(2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')" error with 
the try statement.  Perhaps I can use that to restart the connection to the 
mysql server, as long as I know the command to use?  This way you dont have 
to change the driver.  



On Thursday, 1 June 2017 05:46:43 UTC-7, Tom Keffer wrote:

​That would require a rewrite of the MySQL driver. It also introduces a 
> problem: if the retries are tried in the driver, it will cause weewx to 
> block in the driver until the database server comes back online. So, the 
> retries would have to be limited to 60 seconds or so at the most.
>
> Let me think about this.
>
> Posted as issue #259 <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/issues/259>.
>
> -tk
>
> ​
>

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