Fails to update Openweathermaps

Question

I've been pulling mt hair out trying to solve this issue. when my ESP8266 WeatherStation updates, it locks up. Either on "Updating Current Weather" or it will make it to "Updating forecasts", the progress bar just stops and it doesn't proceed back to the weather screen. I've gone through and read every issue and tried a few different suggestions for similiar issues, but it still does it.

I did notice that when it does update/work the last line in the Serial Monitor is "Free mem:", but when it fails/locks up the line isn't there.  

I've tried deleting everything and starting from scratch, but that hasn't worked either.

14:14:30.975 -> SDK:2.2.2-dev(38a443e)/Core:3.1.2=30102000/lwIP:STABLE-2_1_3_RELEASE/glue:1.2-65-g06164fb/BearSSL:b024386
14:14:31.022 -> Attempting to read application.properties file from SPIFFS.
14:14:31.076 -> Does not exist.
14:14:31.076 -> Effective properties now as follows:
14:14:31.076 ->     ssid:
14:14:31.076 ->     password:
14:14:31.076 ->     imezone: PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
14:14:31.076 ->     OWM API key:
14:14:31.076 ->     OWM location id: 5746545
14:14:31.076 ->     location name: Portland
14:14:31.076 ->     metric: false
14:14:31.076 ->     12h style: true
14:14:31.076 -> 15
14:14:31.277 -> Initializing touch screen...
14:14:31.277 -> Mounting file system...
14:14:34.397 -> SPIFFS opened: OK
14:14:34.397 -> Connecting to WiFi xxxxx/xxxxxxxxfpm close 3
14:14:34.397 -> mode : sta(50:02:91:e9:fd:35)
14:14:34.397 -> add if0
14:14:35.046 -> .....scandone
14:14:38.261 -> state: 0 -> 2 (b0)
14:14:38.261 -> state: 2 -> 3 (0)
14:14:38.314 -> .state: 3 -> 5 (10)
14:14:38.314 -> add 0
14:14:38.314 -> aid 18
14:14:38.314 -> cnt
14:14:38.862 -> .
14:14:39.317 -> connected with xxxxx, channel 8
14:14:39.317 -> dhcp client start...
14:14:39.464 -> ....ip:192.168.1.39,mask:255.255.255.0,gw:192.168.1.1
14:14:41.722 -> .connected.
14:14:41.806 -> Connected, IP address: 192.168.1.39/255.255.255.0
14:14:41.806 -> Connected, MAC address: 50:02:91:E9:FD:35
14:14:41.806 -> Configuring time for timezone PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
14:14:41.847 -> .
14:14:42.225 -> Local time: Sun Apr 28 14:15:33 2024
14:14:42.225 -> UTC time:   Sun Apr 28 21:15:33 2024
14:14:42.310 -> [HTTP] Requesting resource at http://api.openweathermap.org:80/data/2.5/weather?id=5746545&appid=b31a21ccd7d38e7c25fe130dea43477b&units=imperial&lang=en
14:14:42.356 -> [HTTP] connected, now GETting data
14:14:42.356 -> [String] 'GET /data/ ... hermap.org': Reallocating large String(133 -> 156 bytes)
14:14:42.356 -> start document
14:14:42.441 -> [HTTP] Requesting resource at http://api.openweathermap.org:80/data/2.5/forecast?id=5746545&appid=b31a21ccd7d38e7c25fe130dea43477b&units=imperial&lang=en
14:14:42.495 -> [HTTP] connected, now GETting data
14:14:42.495 -> [String] 'GET /data/ ... hermap.org': Reallocating large String(134 -> 157 bytes)
14:14:42.495 -> start document
14:14:42.842 -> Free mem: 12912
14:14:48.363 -> pm open,type:2 0
14:24:31.150 -> [HTTP] Requesting resource at http://api.openweathermap.org:80/data/2.5/weather?id=5746545&appid=b31a21ccd7d38e7c25fe130dea43477b&units=imperial&lang=en
14:24:31.197 -> [HTTP] connected, now GETting data
14:24:31.197 -> [String] 'GET /data/ ... hermap.org': Reallocating large String(133 -> 156 bytes)
14:24:31.197 -> start document
14:24:31.297 -> [HTTP] Requesting resource at http://api.openweathermap.org:80/data/2.5/forecast?id=5746545&appid=b31a21ccd7d38e7c25fe130dea43477b&units=imperial&lang=en
14:24:31.350 -> [HTTP] connected, now GETting data
14:24:31.350 -> [String] 'GET /data/ ... hermap.org': Reallocating large String(134 -> 157 bytes)
14:24:31.350 -> start document

Comments

stopped on "Updating conitions"



[HTTP] Requesting resource at http://api.openweathermap.org:80/data/2.5/weather?id=5746545&appid=b31a21ccd7d38e7c25fe130dea43477b&units=imperial&lang=en
[hostByName] request IP for: api.openweathermap.org
[hostByName] Host: api.openweathermap.org IP: 38.89.70.82
:ref 1
[HTTP] connected, now GETting data
[String] 'GET /data/ ... hermap.org': Reallocating large String(133 -> 156 bytes)
:wr 156 0
:wrc 156 156 0
:ack 156
:rn 536
start document
:c0 1, 536

Answer 1

Difficult to tell what might be causing this. Several ideas:

1. Out of memory: possible, but rather unlikely, as this should affect everyone
2. Connection issues: could be that networking issues are causing this, especially since the problems occur during update. Maybe connection loss during update is not handled properly. This can happen on several layers: WiFi layer, TCP/IP layer. Question: how often does this happen, have you tried other networking setup, eg. by tethering over your phone?
3. Power supply issues: the device consumes the most energy while WiFi is in use. If the power supply is barely providing enough energy the ESP8266 might crash during update. However, the brownout detector should restart the device in this case. Have you tried another power source?

Kind regards,

Daniel

Comments

I didn't think of Wifi/network issues. I connected it to my phone and it's been running great!The strange thing is, I had it connected to my network last night and it ran fine for 14 hours before locking up. I built another one and connected it to my network and it locked up within 30 minutes. I logged into my router and gave that one High priority to see what happens, so far so good.

As for power source, I've tried it on various power supplies since first building and having issues and did look at the VCC and it's running at 2.96v no matter what power source I use.

Thanks for your suggestions!!!
Dave

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I found that QoS was turned on, on my router. After turning it off my ThingPulse Weather station connects and runs flawlessly