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title = 'Update weewx-netatmo extension' summary = 'Upgrade the authentication method from password to preauthenticated refresh_token' date = '2023-07-15T17:02:10+02:00' lastmod = '2023-07-21T21:07:06+0000' categories = [ 'amateur-radio' ] tags = [ 'wx', 'weewx', 'netatmo', 'server', 'selfhost' ]

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I got an email from another weewx-netatmo user Patrick yesterday, in which he asked if my WeeWX installation was still running, because we use the same extension to fetch the weather data from the netatmo servers (this method cloud is already rediculous, but it works with that hardware, so yes...).

After looking on my servers logfiles I could confirm the extension wasn't working as expected any more.

Today I found an actual fork of the fork of the original extension:

https://github.com/Buco7854/weewx-netatmo

And this is how I upgraded the netatmo weewx extension

Uninstall the old extension:

$ doas -u weewx /home/weewx/bin/wee_extension --uninstall netatmo

Download and install the new extension:

$ doas -u weewx wget -O weewx-netatmo.zip https://github.com/Buco7854/weewx-netatmo/archive/master.zip
$ doas -u weewx /home/weewx/bin/wee_extension --install weewx-netatmo.zip

Go to https://dev.netatmo.com/apps/ and update your app to include a refresh_token.

Update the configuration with

$ doas -u weewx /home/weewx/bin/wee_config --reconfigure

That should already ask for your refresh_token. Double check this in your weewx.conf configuration file, as it might not get written properly (like in my case).

The configuration should look like this now:

[netatmo]
    client_id = ************************
    client_secret = ***************************
    refresh_token = ************************|********************************
    driver = user.netatmo
    mode = cloud

I removed the username and password variables but added the refresh_token manually because the configuration was not properly written by wee_config --reconfigure.

A restart of WeeWX should fetch the data again.

$ doas rcctl restart weewx

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And this is how I upgraded the netatmo weewx extension

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