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On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 3:34 PM Peter Neilley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi! I've been using weewx on a raspberrypi for many years including
> uploading reports to an account on a cloud provider (1and1.com)  to post
> standard reports on my personal webpage.    About 2 weeks ago I started
> having problems with getting the reports uploaded to the cloud via the
> weewx FTPgenerator process.  Digging through log files, I'm getting
> "connection refused" errors from the ftpGenerator process.   I didn't make
> any changes to weewx or the raspberrypi to trigger the errors, hence
> suspect something changed on provider's side.
>
> But the issue is strange and I can't figure it out hence posting here even
> though I suspect the issue is not weewx related.  Since there's lots of
> smart people here I thought I might get some ideas on how to solve it.
>  Here's some facts:
>
>  1.  95% of the products I'm trying to ftp from weewx to the cloud account
> are not getting through.  Mysteriously, a handful here and there do make it
> through.
> 2.  I upgraded my rPi kernel to 4.19.x and weewx to 4.10.2 and no
> improvement in the issue.
> 3. I can manually ftp the products using the command line ftp program
> supplied with rPi linux with no issues at all.  Same if I use sftp or scp.
> 4.  I double checked my credentials in weewx.conf to make sure nothing was
> wrong with those. But again, the fact that some products get through
> suggests credentials are not the issue.
> 3.  log files in /var/log (both system.log and messages.log) indicate the
> weewx ftpGenerator process is failing with a "connection refused" error
> messages.
> 4. I can reproduce the error if I manually start a python shell and try to
> upload the files manually using ftplib in python.  I'm using python 2.7
>
> This is telling me something about a new incompatibility between the
> python library in rPi linux and my cloud provider's FTP server is causing
> the issue.  But I haven't been able to figure it out.   So wonder if anyone
> here has any guesses and ideas.
>
> Thanks for your support.
>
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