Hello,
I am very new to the forum, but have been using wd for many years. Without issue I might add. Now I am at my wits-end, admittingly it’s not a long journey. I recently purchased my own router/modem to replace my Comcast rental and save a few bucks a month. The new router is working fine for everything, afaict, except for cwop. My wunderground data is still uploading. My cwop logfile from wd is indicating a “time out”. However, I can ping the cwop.aprs.net server as well as the secondary servers without issue. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The only thing I can think of is something in your new router rules set that is blocking the connection. I can still reach my cwop page (even though I do not share my data with them anymore) so I assume they are up and running. As a test you could change WD to access cwop by IP to rule out DNS. Maybe touch base with Philip and verify nothing weird on their end.
Does the new router have a firewall that could be blocking some of the CWOP update traffic?
Another thought…did the old router have UPNP enabled and the new one doesn’t? UPNP can open up ports automatically based on traffic from the inside of your network. So the old router might have been allowing traffic through by UPNP and the new one is blocking it if UPNP is turned off.
I’m not a fan of UPnP. I don’t like things opening up ports on their own. I prefer to open ports manually for anything needing inbound connections. There have been security exploits that are a result of having UPnP enabled. For CWOP I don’t see where anything would need a port opened for inbound data.
Post a screenshot of your WD configuration. Maybe you inadvertently messed with the configuration. Might help to enable and disable CWOP in WD. Also this may be obvious but have you restarted the WD computer?
When you say you can ping cwop.aprs.net, is that from the WD computer? Maybe there is a host file and you may be pinging some old address but it isn’t CWOP servers anymore. Meaning you need DNS to get the newest cwop.aprs.net addresses. When you ping cwop.aprs.net what IP address shows up? You can also try changing you DNS to Google on your new router instead of using the ISP DNS servers. Google’s DNS are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for primary and secondary.
Another thing to note is that CWOP has disabled your station for lack of uploading. Send an email to CWOP-support at noaa.gov and ask them to reactivate your CWOP account registration. You are showing up as inactive. Your FindU has no link to Quality Assurance (Gladstonefamily.net) http://wxqa.com/inactive_members.txt
I have searched the router UI for white-listing, blocking and anything else that would seem to account for the behavior. Unfortunately I have only a very limited understanding for IT and cant say with any certainty I would have detected the setting. I did enable verbose logging and have yet to see anything in the logs.
Sorry, I know nothing about UPNP, and I don’t recall seeing that in the router UI. I do however, very much appreciate your suggestions. Sooner or later, we’ll solve this.
The key maybe that you’re listed as inactive on the CWOP site. There must be a log within WD that would show the results of a CWOP interaction but I’m not sure where it is.
Actually, found it – called CWOPlogsend.txt in the root wdisplay folder.
Unfortunately the log only states “time out”, nothing more useful. I had sent a couple emails to the cwop-support list and in particular Leigh. I have yet to hear back from anyone.
CWOP data send start 12:10:02 PM 3/11/2021
APRS Connecting to: cwop.aprs.net
Aprs connected
sending pass command
user K9NRG pass -1 vers wx-display 10.37S124
Sending the aprs data now
APRS data send:
K9NRG>APRS,TCPIP*:@111910z3713.12N/10706.15W_050/
002g008t036r000p000P000b10149h41L454.WD 31
Disconnecting from the aprs server now
Finished
CWOP data send start 11:04:02 AM 3/11/2021
APRS Connecting to: cwop.aprs.net
Aprs connected
sending pass command
user EW6774 pass -1 vers wx-display 10.37R81
Time out
Well I feel kind of dumb, but looking at the log data it appears the time out isn’t on my end, we are “connected”! Either my password isn’t right or the cwop server is the problem, yes?
I think this got overlooked in the search for the log. It may be that you’re not allowed to log in to post data when you have an inactive account. What would be the purpose of posting data into an inactive account? If the data isn’t going to be used then it’s just consuming storage and bandwidth.
I’d suggest getting your account reactivated to see if that fixes the problem.
