You're going to have to quantify "loses contact with". Is the gateway or pi rebooting ? Is your home wifi all polluted by misconfigured neighbors ?
Gary's GW1000 driver is rock solid for what it does. Rather than worrying software at least initially I'd probably start with working it as a network issue and perhaps catchup isn't critically needed. Why are you losing connection ? Is the GW1000 dropping off the network ? Or is the pi ? Or is one or the other rebooting ? Do you have ip addresses set to be reserved in your router for both boxes so that they always have a predictable ip address ? Do you have the gateway ip address set in weewx.conf ? What model pi are you running ? For me any pi zero has always been 'very' unstable trying to stay up over wifi. I turned all my pi zero off for this reason. Anything pi3 or later is great. Lastly - the GW3000 has wired ethernet too as do all pi3/pi4/pi5, so if you can use ethernet for the gateway 'and' the pi, you will likely have a much more stable setup. Pretty much everybody these days is surrounded by misconfigured neighbors disturbing 2.4GHz wifi and short of out-radiating there's not much you can do there typically if the underlying issue is messed up wifi. Start by dropping the GW3000 in as a replacement for the GW1000 and see if that helps any. You might not to do much more than that... On Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 4:39:39 PM UTC-8 Dr__Bob wrote: > Hi All, > I currently have a GW1000, which works fine, except that my raspyberrypi > (rpi) periodically loses contact with it. Of course, when that happens, I > lose all the data that the GW1000 would otherwise have sent. While I try > to debug what's going on with the rpi, I figured I might as well pick up a > GW3000, since it can have an SD card and allow for catchup when the rpi > can't get the live data. I assume (always dangerous!) that this is a valid > reason for trying to "catch up". It appears that the ecowitt_http driver > is ideal for this, since there is the claim that the catch up mode works. > However, it also appears that there are two different forks, which may > have diverged significantly. One is apparently the original, created by > Gary and now hosted by Ian Millard. There doesn't appear to have been any > development on that version (or rather, there was, but everything has been > rolled back to Gary's original). The other is maintained by Werner Krenn, > and appears to have a *lot* of additional stuff by now, necessitating, I > believe, a new database schema. In addition, at least to my humble > abilities, the installation of Werner's version seems involved, with, eg, > plugins, and new skins. > > (Sorry for the length of this post!) > Bottom line: does Gary's original version, hosted by Ian work? Does the > catch up functionality work? Or should I bite the bullet and try to figure > out which of the numerous schemas and database update scripts I should > use, and try to get Werner's driver working? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions! > > Bob > PS: I am not a total newb. I have, in the past, managed to debug a piece > of MWall's cmon package, so I know a bit of programming and weewx. It's > just that I got a little overwhelmed by Werner's structure. > -- 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]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/cfe5c7f5-e73a-4820-8b13-e2b835e47047n%40googlegroups.com.
