# WeeWX UDP driver for WeatherFlow station **URL:** \ **Category:** Third-Party Integrations\ **Tags:** weewx\ **Created:** [January 27, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283 "2018-01-27T19:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![vinceskahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vinceskahan/32/2785_2.png) [@vinceskahan](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vinceskahan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/122 "2020-05-01T17:44:32Z")
FWIW, you can still use python2 with weewx4 if you are using the ‘setup.py’ installation method. If you are on a relatively recent debian version using the apt-get packages, those will default to python3 in weewx v4, so you’ll need all your extensions and drivers to be python3 compliant. ---
**Author:** ![brians](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@brians](https://community.tempest.earth/u/brians)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/123 "2020-05-07T19:22:45Z")
New user of WeeWx and Weatherflow. Installed on Ubuntu 18.04 and I’m getting this error, Any ideas? May 7 13:20:03 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] INFO weewx.engine: Starting main packet loop. May 7 13:20:03 bs-medianuc /weewxd: weatherflowudp: MainThread: Listening for UDP broadcasts to IP address on port 50222, with timeout 90 and share\_socket False… May 7 13:20:05 bs-medianuc dhcpd[2365]: DHCPREQUEST for 172.17.18.103 from 70:f1:1c:05:0e:1e (gogogate) via eno1 May 7 13:20:05 bs-medianuc dhcpd[2365]: DHCPACK on 172.17.18.103 to 70:f1:1c:05:0e:1e (gogogate) via eno1 May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] INFO weewx.engine: Main loop exiting. Shutting engine down. May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : Caught unrecoverable exception: May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* a bytes-like object is required, not ‘str’ May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* Traceback (most recent call last): May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* File “/home/weewx/bin/weewxd”, line 154, in main May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* engine.run() May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* File “/home/weewx/bin/weewx/engine.py”, line 188, in run May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* for packet in self.console.genLoopPackets(): May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* File “/home/weewx/bin/user/weatherflowudp.py”, line 295, in genLoopPackets May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* m0 = m[0].replace(",null",",None") May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not ‘str’ May 7 13:20:06 bs-medianuc weewx[20711] CRITICAL **main** : \*\*\*\* Exiting. ---
**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/124 "2020-05-07T21:10:36Z")
Is this a one-off error after hours/days of running normally, or a repeatable failure shortly after starting WeeWX??? ---
**Author:** ![brians](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@brians](https://community.tempest.earth/u/brians)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/125 "2020-05-07T21:32:13Z")
shortly after starting, I nuked python3 and reinstalled weewx and the udp driver and I’m functional now. I may attempt installing on a RPi in the next day or so with Python3 ---
**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/126 "2020-05-07T22:34:11Z")
Drop me an email at the address in the readme file, and I’ll send you the pre-release Python3 driver… ---
**Author:** ![brians](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@brians](https://community.tempest.earth/u/brians)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/127 "2020-05-08T15:12:55Z")
I have responded as requested. ---
**Author:** ![alex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/alex/32/5256_2.png) [@alex](https://community.tempest.earth/u/alex)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/128 "2020-05-09T01:56:17Z")
Should we hold off on upgrading to v4 till the new version is released? ---
**Author:** ![vinceskahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vinceskahan/32/2785_2.png) [@vinceskahan](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vinceskahan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/129 "2020-05-09T04:48:50Z")
You can always go to v4 and still run python2.7 and you’ll be fine. You can switch to python3 when all the drivers and extensions you use are updated. No rush. ---
**Author:** ![brians](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@brians](https://community.tempest.earth/u/brians)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/130 "2020-05-11T17:09:19Z")
still havent see the updated plugin, did you get my email? ---
**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/131 "2020-05-11T20:18:26Z")
Sorry for the delay. I sent it an hour ago. FYI, I am finishing up the Tempest-specific docs for the driver now, since WF officially published the new UDP API for it. (Thanks, @corrineb!) I’ll be pushing it up to GitHub in a day or so… ---
**Author:** ![th18045](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@th18045](https://community.tempest.earth/u/th18045)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/132 "2020-05-24T17:13:16Z")
Thanks again! I figured out what I needed to do to fix my weewx for WU… When they ask for password, what they are really asking for is the ‘device’ key… As opposed to the section asking for the API key, which is for the wufixer app. I’m subscribed to the weewx Google group now, but I’m wondering… is there a add-in for uploads to DarkSky? (and other weather services???)… I do have my connection to CWOP back in, as well as PWS Weather… I’m wondering about others not mentioned by default… BTW - Hope you’re doing well… enjoy the long holiday weekend as best you can! Thanks again! Tony ---
**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/133 "2020-05-25T01:04:06Z")
Some of the community-developed uploaders are listed near the bottom of the WeeWX wiki page: [https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki](https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki) Search the Google group though, since it seems like uploaders to everything including your kitchen toaster are buried in the archives there. In case you haven’t heard yet, DarkSky was bought by Apple last month and most of their services are going away… ---
**Author:** ![th18045](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@th18045](https://community.tempest.earth/u/th18045)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/134 "2020-05-25T18:28:12Z")
Thank you… I actually did find some of those resources, @GaryFunk helped me find them! I have weewx up and running on 4.0, and Python 3 without issues, but then again, I’m only dipping my toes into using weewx… So far so good! Thanks! 🙂 Tony ---
**Author:** ![kfite13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@kfite13](https://community.tempest.earth/u/kfite13)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/135 "2020-05-26T19:16:23Z")
Took a while, but I finally got this up and running on my pi and my Tempest is reporting to PWS weather!! ---
**Author:** ![kfite13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@kfite13](https://community.tempest.earth/u/kfite13)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/136 "2020-05-29T14:50:28Z")
Anyone with thoughts on why weewx and PWS are reporting different Barometer readings than my Tempest? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sws/original/2X/e/e93407937da9674d05ee8592bdb395bebcc2d7f5.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sws/original/2X/f/f459a4d0b3d38b43d63b932c8ec828bcc05c8101.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sws/original/2X/9/92d1f17e787a71286f7dc3327427ffb7152fc991.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sws/original/2X/2/2aee524afd5c50c3cbdb2706bb8073b8b5c4dfba.png) ---
**Author:** ![KJ.Davis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/kj.davis/32/9978_2.png) [@KJ.Davis](https://community.tempest.earth/u/KJ.Davis)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/137 "2020-05-29T16:22:17Z")
@kfite13 PWS Weather is a great weather site to upload your data, but the current conditions are normally at least five minutes behind. ---
**Author:** ![vreihen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vreihen/32/13217_2.png) [@vreihen](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vreihen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/138 "2020-05-29T16:23:30Z")
Does this apply??? [https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Barometer,-pressure,-and-altimeter](https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Barometer,-pressure,-and-altimeter) ---
**Author:** ![vinceskahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/vinceskahan/32/2785_2.png) [@vinceskahan](https://community.tempest.earth/u/vinceskahan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/139 "2020-05-30T03:34:21Z")
You’d have to do the math, but see if the difference is the altitude correction. Mine is always off 12 mbar which lines up with my altitude here. ---
**Author:** ![kfite13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@kfite13](https://community.tempest.earth/u/kfite13)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/140 "2020-05-30T10:35:03Z")
> [@KJ.Davis](#): > > PWS Weather is a great weather site to upload your data, but the current conditions are normally at least five minutes behind. Yeah, I was taking that into account. > [@vreihen](#): > > Does this apply??? > > [https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Barometer,-pressure,-and-altimeter](https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Barometer,-pressure,-and-altimeter) pretty sure that is exactly what is going on. Thanks to both of you. ---
**Author:** ![jamesbellanca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7cd45c/32.png) [@jamesbellanca](https://community.tempest.earth/u/jamesbellanca)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283/141 "2020-06-10T15:24:44Z")
Hi everyone - I’ve got a problem, and I think it might be with my conf file but not sure and would like some advice. I got WeeWx to work perfect with the Simulator (I see the results in the terminal when I run it manually, and it creates the html files fine). I then installed the WeatherFlowUDP driver, which seemed to be successful, and edited my conf file based on the sample. Basically I copied/pasted and changed the Station ID in the sample to my Station ID, and set the conf file to use it. (I tried manually updating it, and also rebuilt it with the reconfigurations function in case I messed something up, but get the same config file both ways.) When I run WeeWx with the WF driver, I don’t get any results, and when I look at the log file, I see this error: “OSError: [Errno 49] Can’t assign requested address” ``` weewx[40916] INFO __main__ : Initializing weewx version 4.1.1 weewx[40916] INFO __main__ : Using Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr 24 2020, 18:51:23) [Clang 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.62)] weewx[40916] INFO __main__ : Platform Darwin-19.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit weewx[40916] INFO __main__ : Locale is 'en_US.UTF-8' weewx[40916] INFO __main__ : Using configuration file weewx.conf weewx[40916] INFO __main__ : Debug is 0 weewx[40916] INFO weewx.engine: Loading station type WeatherFlowUDP (user.weatherflowudp) weewx[40916] INFO weewx.engine: StdConvert target unit is 0x1 weewx[40916] INFO weewx.wxservices: The following values will be calculated: pressure=prefer_hardware, altimeter=prefer_hardware, appTemp=prefer_hardware, barometer=prefer_hardware, beaufort=prefer_hardware, cloudbase=prefer_hardware, dewpoint=prefer_hardware, ET=prefer_hardware, heatindex=prefer_hardware, humidex=prefer_hardware, inDewpoint=prefer_hardware, maxSolarRad=prefer_hardware, rainRate=prefer_hardware, windchill=prefer_hardware, windrun=prefer_hardware weewx[40916] INFO weewx.wxservices: The following algorithms will be used for calculations: altimeter=aaASOS, maxSolarRad=RS weewx[40916] INFO weewx.engine: Archive will use data binding wx_binding weewx[40916] INFO weewx.engine: Record generation will be attempted in 'hardware' weewx[40916] INFO weewx.engine: Using archive interval of 300 seconds (specified in weewx configuration) weewx[40916] INFO weewx.restx: StationRegistry: Station will be registered. weewx[40916] INFO weewx.restx: Wunderground: Posting not enabled. weewx[40916] INFO weewx.restx: PWSweather: Posting not enabled. weewx[40916] INFO weewx.restx: CWOP: Posting not enabled. weewx[40916] INFO weewx.restx: WOW: Posting not enabled. weewx[40916] INFO weewx.restx: AWEKAS: Posting not enabled. weewx[40916] INFO __main__ : Starting up weewx version 4.1.1 weewx[40916] INFO weewx.engine: Using binding 'wx_binding' to database 'weewx.sdb' weewx[40916] INFO weewx.manager: Starting backfill of daily summaries weewx[40916] INFO weewx.engine: Starting main packet loop. weewx[40916] INFO weewx.engine: Main loop exiting. Shutting engine down. weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : Caught OSError: [Errno 49] Can't assign requested address weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** Traceback (most recent call last): weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** File "./bin/weewxd", line 154, in main weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** engine.run() weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** File "/Users/Mini/weewx/current/bin/weewx/engine.py", line 188, in run weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** for packet in self.console.genLoopPackets(): weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** File "/Users/Mini/weewx/current/bin/user/weatherflowudp.py", line 298, in genLoopPackets weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** s.bind((self._udp_address,self._udp_port)) weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** OSError: [Errno 49] Can't assign requested address weewx[40916] CRITICAL __main__ : **** Waiting 10 seconds then retrying... ``` My config file is [weewx.conf.txt](https://community.tempest.earth/uploads/short-url/9syyhA3P7mCrQ9ReXjum29uHvSM.txt) (22.9 KB) (.txt added to get the file to upload here) [Previous page](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283.md?page=6) [Next page](https://community.tempest.earth/t/weewx-udp-driver-for-weatherflow-station/283.md?page=8)