I think lost connection:64 indicates a lost connection beteen base station
and external transmitter - probably caused by a low battery - have you
tried changing the batteries in the external transmitter??
On Saturday, 15 February 2020 23:50:05 UTC+2, Dave, G1OGY wrote:
>
> I believe I have identified a hitherto unreported "lockup" situation with
> a Fine Offset system.
> The USB lockup suffered by certain systems is known and work-arounds have
> been published
> (not least by me); this problem is manifest by Wind, Rain, Temp/Humidity
> being absent while Solar
> data continues to be reported on the console.
> The weewx log prints the following report:
> <day> <time> <hostname> weewx[<PID>]: fousb: station status {'unknown': 0,
> 'lost_connection': 64, 'rain_overflow': 0} (64)
>
> Note that this print is ~similar~ to that printed after startup and
> catch-up of EEPROM data:
> <day> <time> <hostname> weewx[<PID>]: engine: Starting main packet loop.
> <day> <time> <hostname> weewx[<PID>]: fousb: station status {'unknown':
> 0, 'lost_connection': 0, 'rain_overflow': 0} (0)
>
> The difference being the `'lost_connection': 64,` inclusion and the final
> characters: `(64)`.
> This is the (new) lockup condition. There is no "Errno" print.
>
> Because the majority of the log text is printed while the system is in a
> benign state and not
> being sufficiently clever to grep out either/or of the error condition
> prints - the quoted long text within the
> string defeated me - I have modified my lockup-detector script to capture
> the unique `(64)` and fire off the
> USB power cycler script.
> It is sufficient.
>
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # monitorlockup
> # watch the weewx log file for lockup condition and use USB power
> recycling to clear the lockup
> # 20190622+20200110
>
>
> LOGfile=/home/weewx/weather/logs/weewx.log
> tail -Fn0 $LOGfile |
> while read line ; do
> echo "$line" | grep -qe 'Errno 110' -e '(64)'
> if [ $? = 0 ]
> then
> logger -t monitorlockup Error No 110 or lost connection 64
> Observed in weewx.log
> /home/weewx/powercycleusb
> fi
> done
> READY=1
>
>
>
>
> and the power-cycler (requires acquisition and build of `uhubctl`)
>
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> /home/weewx/uhubctl -d 15 -a cycle -p 2
>
>
> logger -t powercycleusb USB port 2 power cycled
>
> READY=0
>
>
> YMMV!
> [RPi2B, Raspian 10.2, Weewx 3.9.2: http://g1ogy.com/wx ]
>
> --
> Dave, G1OGY
>
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