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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'
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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]
username = email@address.com
password = ****
client_id = ************************
client_secret = ***************************
refresh_token = ************************|********************************
driver = user.netatmo
mode = cloud
I basically left it the same as before, but I had to manually add the refresh_token
line to the configuration.
A restart of WeeWX should fetch the data again.
$ doas rcctl restart weewx