Weather411 unable to write data to InfluxDB v1.8

[sumnerboy12]

Problem
After upgrading to v0.2.0 of weather411 I was not seeing any weather data in my Powerwall dashboard. Enabling debug logging and restarting showed the following;

powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | DEBUG:Weather411 [0.2.0]
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    |
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | Weather411 Server [0.2.0]
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | * Configuration Loaded [/var/lib/weather/weather.conf]
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    |  + Weather411 - Debug: True, Activate API: True, API Port: 8676
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    |  + OpenWeatherMap - Key: zzz, Wait: 10, Units: metric
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    |  + OpenWeatherMap - Lat: xxx, Lon: yyy, Timeout: 10
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    |  + InfluxDB - Enable: True, Host: db, Port: 8086, DB: powerwall, Field: weather
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | * Starting threads
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    |  + fetchWeather thread
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    |  + apiServer thread - Listening on http://localhost:8676
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | DEBUG:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.openweathermap.org:443
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | DEBUG:https://api.openweathermap.org:443 "GET /data/2.5/weather?lat=xxx&lon=yyy&units=metric&appid=zzz HTTP/1.1" 200 489
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | DEBUG:Weather data loaded
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | DEBUG:Writing to InfluxDB
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | DEBUG:Cannot parse error response to JSON: 404 page not found
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | , Extra data: line 1 column 5 (char 4)
powerwall_weather.1.dgnjryq9xnzr@nuc02    | DEBUG:Error writing to InfluxDB

To Reproduce
Surprised no one else is reporting this. Perhaps something to do with my setup.

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Host System

• Intel NUC
• Ubuntu
• Running in Docker Swarm

Additional context
The error "Cannot parse error response to JSON" doesn't show up in any good search, except here. I wonder if the weather script is incorrectly attempting to use InfluxDB v2 connection properties, when I am still on v1.8.

My weather.conf is unchanged from v0.1.2;

[Weather411]
DEBUG = yes

[API]
# Port to listen on for requests (default 8676)
ENABLE = yes
PORT = 8676

[OpenWeatherMap]
# Register and get APIKEY from OpenWeatherMap.org
APIKEY = openweathermap_apikey
# Enter your location in latitude and longitude
LAT = xxx
LON = yyy
WAIT = 10
TIMEOUT = 10
# standard, metric or imperial
UNITS = metric

[InfluxDB]
# Record data in InfluxDB server
ENABLE = yes
HOST = db
PORT = 8086
DB = powerwall
FIELD = weather
# Leave blank if not used
USERNAME = powerwall
PASSWORD = influxdb_password

I have reverted back to v0.1.2 and now my weather data is flowing thru to InfluxDB and my dashboard.

[jasonacox]

Thanks for opening this!

I cannot duplicate the error on my test systems (all work) including an intel+ubuntu system, but I'm not using docker swarm.

Would you be willing to test a debug version that should expose more data on the exception stack?

jasonacox/weather411:0.2.0beta

[jasonacox]

USERNAME = powerwall
PASSWORD = influxdb_password

This seems to be the issue. The default install for the Dashboard project and my tests use no username or password for InfluxDB. I just tested using user/pass and I am getting the same DEBUG error you are getting. While I research, I'm going to revert the latest to v0.1.2 in case there are others who have customized their install to use credentials.

Thanks again for reporting this!

[jasonacox]

I think I found the problem. The new influxdb-client requires the username and password to be sent via token for connections to InfluxDB 1.8. I was able to test by activating auth and a user/pass on a test DB. It is now working in my tests. I've pushed the changes in this commit: 831f88e

You can test it by downloading:

jasonacox/weather411:0.2.1

I would love to hear if this fixes your problem. Thanks again for your help.

[sumnerboy12]

I will test now, thank you for the very prompt action on this!! Love this dashboard, only just got my Powerwall installed a few months ago, but this setup is fantastic!!

[sumnerboy12]

Yep that seems to be working fine - great stuff - thanks very much!!

[jasonacox]

Awesome! Once again, thank you for opening this issue. Good find. 🙏

I just set v0.2.1 as 'latest'. Anyone running upgrade.sh or pulling it manually will get the fix. Please report any other issues.

./verify.sh output: