Weather not updating

[anthonyjclarke]

I'm finding that intermittently the weather is not updating, I'm not plugged into a serial monitor so can't see any logs... clock timing is spot on... but a couple of times I see the weather is way out....

A simple reset, reconnect and it gets corrected.

Any suggestions, please?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/rWLJWug3ZGwjwXe37

[lmirel]

hmm.. it depends a lot on the response (if any) from the weather server (assuming both devices use the same data source).
without the serial log, I cannot tell what's happening unfortunately.

btw, weather data refreshes every 5minutes at the 30th second (you'll see the morph animation stop for about 5-7sec - in my setup).

[anthonyjclarke]

ok, Will reconnect to Computer, done, logging serial port, this seems to happen every day. Will post serial log when error occurs again!

[anthonyjclarke]

ok, it happened.... :(

Here is some of the serial log... doesnt seem to be much there?

I've no way of knowing if its because it loses internet connection? or what else?

How often does the NTP "Got NTP time" get checked?

Here is the log, you can see I then did a reset and all started working again.

i:connecting to weather server.. w:unable to connect
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
i:connecting to weather server.. w:unable to connect
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
showing the weather
temperature: 21C
weather conditions 2
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*WM: timeZone
*WM: Adding parameter
*WM: military
*WM: Adding parameter
*WM: metric
*WM: Adding parameter
*WM: date_fmt
No Double Reset Detected
*WM:
*WM: AutoConnect
*WM: Connecting as wifi client...
*WM: Using last saved values, should be faster
*WM: Connection result:
*WM: 3
*WM: IP Address:
*WM: 192.168.1.5
timezone=+10
military=N
metric=Y
date-format=D.M.Y
WiFi connected, IP address: 192.168.1.5
i:connecting to weather server.. connected.
weather:{"coord":{"lon":151.11,"lat":-33.81},"weather":[{"id":800,"main":"Clear","description":"clear sky","icon":"01d"}],"base":"stations","main":{"temp":26.18,"pressure":1014,"humidity":56,"temp_min":23,"temp_max":29},"visibility":10000,"wind":{"speed":8.2,"deg":40},"clouds":{"all":0},"dt":1536897600,"sys":{"type":1,"id":8233,"message":0.0053,"country":"AU","sunrise":1536868602,"sunset":1536911177},"id":2150767,"name":"Ryde","cod":200}
cond Clear
temp 26.18
press 1014
humi 56
display color range [0 .. 65535]
day mode brightness
showing the weather
temperature: 26C
weather conditions 1
showing the date
Got NTP time: 14:44:53 14/09/2018
showing the weather
temperature: 26C
weather conditions 1
showing the date
showing the weather
temperature: 26C
weather conditions 1

[lmirel]

you seem to have an unreliable wireless / internet connection. this message appears in consecutive attempts to retrieve weather data unsuccessfully:

i:connecting to weather server.. w:unable to connect

[lmirel]

Got NTP time

this depends on the sync interval which in the beginning is shorter but after a successful sync it slows to once a day or something

[lmirel]

did you find the issue? it might help others troubleshoot their own.
thanks

[anthonyjclarke]

Unfortunately not. I have two Wifi networks at home, tried the other and same thing happened after 24 hours. I'm waiting for some of these https://github.com/hallard/WeMos-Matrix-Shield to arrive, will rebuild the hardware incase it was my ESP32 so I can try and pinpoint the issue... I'll keep this open so I can update!

Is there anywhere in the code that perhaps we could look to "check if internet connected" and if not "reconnect"?

[lmirel]

unfortunately, the connectivity is handled via the WiFiManager https://github.com/tzapu/WiFiManager
forcing a reconnect every time we need to contact the weather server would require quite a bit of refactoring.