No joy on the options you reccomended.......that I am capable of performing.....my skills are not high.
I'm running weewx on an RPI. I'm thinking of setting up the RPI as a wifi access point and directing the traffic from the weather station to the pi (instead of to the main router like it is now). Do you think that has any chance of success? On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 2:16:20 PM UTC-4, mwall wrote: > > On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 1:00:52 PM UTC-4, Boston Tom wrote: >> >> Thanks Matt, Yes I have been using your interceptor driver for a while >> now on my GW1000U Lacrosse bridge and it works great! I bought this new >> lacrosse model and want to retire my old equipment and start feeding data >> from this new set-up. I can't configure any DNS settings on my comcast >> router, so I am trying to figure out which option to set on the interceptor >> driver to capture the traffic. Any suggestions? I changed the device type >> to "observer", but when I add the IP of the lacrosse 330-2315 (address = >> 10.0.0.32), I get an error message in the weewx status report. No luck >> leaving the device type as "lacrosse-bridge either. >> > > the device type should be 'observer' > > the ip address is the address that the interceptor listens (or sniffs) on, > so it should be the ip address of the computer on which weewx is running. > > you have a few options: > > a) hijack dns so that the weather station sends to weewx instead of > weather underground > > b) configure the weather station to send to the ip address of the computer > on which weewx is running (is it possible to configure the weather station?) > > c) run the interceptor in listen mode. this can be tricky, but when it > works it is rock solid. the computer on which weewx is running must be > able to see network traffic from the weather station. that means one of > these: > > c1) the weewx computer must see wireless traffic (but wifi must not have > encryption) > c2) the weewx computer must bridge the weather station - two network ports > on the weewx computer, one to the weather station or > router/switch/access-point upstream from the weather station, and one to > the network's regular router/switch > > d) run packet capture on the edge router and feed that into the interceptor > > since you have no control over the router, you could only do (a) or (d) by > inserting your own router between your network and the comcast router. > (imho, this is usually a smart thing to do, especially given the > shenanigans that at&t, comcast, verizon, and other isp are prone to do). > > (c1) is an easy one if it works, but i've had mixed luck sniffing wifi > packets. sometimes it just works, sometimes you only see your own traffic. > i don't have the mojo to know why. > > in lieu of that, you might have to run weewx on a computer that bridges > your network and the comcast router, then do (c2). > > (b) is probably the easiest, but you'll have to probe the station to see > if it has an http-accessible configuration. or it might have a usb/sd card > that has its configuration. > > m > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
