The error that I get is: ERROR user.gw1000: Failed to obtain response to command 'CMD_GW1000_LIVEDATA' after 3 attempts
Sometimes it recovers immediately (after weewx automatically restarts), but other times it just keeps cycling with the same error message. During all of this, as far as I can tell, the GW1000 is up, as it also sends data to Wunderground. And my raspberry pi 5 is up as well, since I don’t see any network errors in the system journal. Alas, my setup doesn’t really allow for hardwired Ethernet, so I have to rely on wifi. On Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 5:43:54 PM UTC-8 vince wrote: > 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/94f0121c-36fd-4908-82e9-8f3467e8a5f6n%40googlegroups.com.
