The setup procedure you mention is exactly like an ecowitt gateway’s. You put an ecowitt gateway/console into a setup mode and you can connect to it from any wifi device to do the setup steps. So that is why it works that way. It permits setting it up from a laptop or other wifi device wirelessly without requiring bluetooth (which a weatherflow hub requires, for example).
Using a pi zero certainly makes your diagnostics more difficult, I still recommend starting tcpdump and capturing to a file, power cycling the garni, and seeing if you can capture its communication. It almost certainly does a ntp lookup and probably dns queries as well. You might set the garni dns to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to use google dns (if I recall their addresses correctly) but that might be on the advanced tab in your setup gui. I didn’t notice it on the jpeg you linked to. On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 10:26:59 PM UTC-7 Tomasz Lewicki wrote: I don't know how or why it works that way. Unfortunately, as I wrote earlier, the station does not belong to me and I have no physical access to it. When I entered AP mode (that's exactly what the manual calls it), a new one called PWS-nnnnnn (nnnnnn are the last six digits of the MAC address) appeared in the list of wireless networks. I would then connect - without a password - to that AP. But when the Garni is in AP mode, it does not transmit data to the Internet, i.e. to the home router - I see it because WU isn't refreshed. I have to leave AP mode for it to start sending data again. But at the same time, when leaving AP mode, my laptop stops receiving packets from Garni's panel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/02b24961-a451-4c44-be65-c6d9b67cb9e4n%40googlegroups.com.
