Hi,
System information:
Platform: TL-MR3020 (plus USB hub)
RAM: 29364 kB total, 3348 kB free (88% used)
SW Version: Meteobridge 5.3 (Mar 13 2022, build 14677), FW 1.4
I am getting an error on the Weather Network page under Weather Underground with red X marks by the Station ID and key. I've rechecked these (been using the same ones for years) and they correspond to what I see under my account at WU.
Any ideas? It may be tied to the new SW. I manage two other similar sites, running on older SW, and they are not having problems.
Thanks.
unable to upload to Weather Underground
Moderator: Mattk
Re: unable to upload to Weather Underground
Even under 5.2 it's doing the same thing. Guessing it's on WU's end then.
Re: unable to upload to Weather Underground
Sorry to keep replying to my own message.
One option I'd like to try is removing the WU configuration from my MB and then adding it back again. But as far as I can tell there is no way to remove a weather network. Is there a way to do that?
One option I'd like to try is removing the WU configuration from my MB and then adding it back again. But as far as I can tell there is no way to remove a weather network. Is there a way to do that?
Re: unable to upload to Weather Underground
Figured this out...
The issue was that the DNS lookups were failing. Which was weird, because a) only the WU destinations were failing and b) I could resolve the address just fine on my laptop, which is on the same network and uses the same address (that of the home router) for DNS resolutions as the MB.
Next step was to try an nslookup via the terminal app on my laptop. And, bingo!
I installed a new router last weekend. One of the new features I took advantage of is having the router use DNS-over-TLS for encrypted queries. Basically, every query that leaves the house (assuming the client is using the router's address for a resolver) gets encrypted and no one can gather data about where we're going on the internet. I pointed the router to Cloudflare's servers.
So, on the theory that the Cloudflare resolution was too big for the UDP query that the MB made, I set up the MB to manual assignment (the router is configured to give it the same IP address all the time anyway) which then allowed me to also bypass the router's DNS and point to OpenDNS instead.
And... everything is working again!
The issue was that the DNS lookups were failing. Which was weird, because a) only the WU destinations were failing and b) I could resolve the address just fine on my laptop, which is on the same network and uses the same address (that of the home router) for DNS resolutions as the MB.
Next step was to try an nslookup via the terminal app on my laptop. And, bingo!
So it appears if this happens on the MB, it doesn't retry (maybe a future mod to add this?). But what changed?? It worked before!% nslookup rtupdate.wunderground.com
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
I installed a new router last weekend. One of the new features I took advantage of is having the router use DNS-over-TLS for encrypted queries. Basically, every query that leaves the house (assuming the client is using the router's address for a resolver) gets encrypted and no one can gather data about where we're going on the internet. I pointed the router to Cloudflare's servers.
So, on the theory that the Cloudflare resolution was too big for the UDP query that the MB made, I set up the MB to manual assignment (the router is configured to give it the same IP address all the time anyway) which then allowed me to also bypass the router's DNS and point to OpenDNS instead.
And... everything is working again!
Re: unable to upload to Weather Underground
Thanks for sharing your investigation results.