Counter do not update

[larronni]

Yesterday there was a lot of lightning in the area, they do show up on blitzortung.org but not in the Home Assistant integration.
No errors in the log.
I have tried to restart Home Assistant and the integration with no luck.
I did a test installation on a new installation, and it is not updated there either.

Home Assistant 2023.7.1

[kdill00]

I think something must be wrong with their API. Mine was working fine on 2023.7.1 and it stopped as well. Another location seems to have the same issues on another version of home assistant.

[larronni]

Is there some way to check/test the API for errors?

[Mostalk]

+1

Today integration not working.

[bradsjm]

My quick review indicates they have changed the key, from 418 to 111. I don't see any changes to the encoding so hopefully it should be a quick change on the server by @mrk-its to get it publishing again.

[canuckray]

+1

[bl0rp]

+1

[cjramseyer]

+1

[lillesmoelf]

+1

[kongjudas]

My quick review indicates they have changed the key, from 418 to 111. I don't see any changes to the encoding so hopefully it should be a quick change on the server by @mrk-its to get it publishing again.

Is this something we can change in the existing code until it's updated?

[lubos2mlx]

+1

[Mostalk]

My quick review indicates they have changed the key, from 418 to 111. I don't see any changes to the encoding so hopefully it should be a quick change on the server by @mrk-its to get it publishing again.

Is this something we can change in the existing code until it's updated?

I wrote a small Python code that receives data from blitzortung and decrypts them. Maybe someone can make a temporary MQTT server out of this

import websocket
import json
import geohash


def decode(data):
    e = {}
    d = list(data)
    c = d[0]
    f = c
    g = [c]
    h = 256
    o = h

    for b in range(1, len(d)):
        a = ord(d[b])
        a = d[b] if h > a else e[a] if e.get(a) else f + c
        g.append(a)
        c = a[0]
        e[o] = f + c
        o += 1
        f = a

    return ''.join(g)


def on_message(_, message):
    data = json.loads(decode(message))
    gh = geohash.encode(data['lat'], data['lon'])
    print(data, gh)


def on_open(ws):
    ws.send('{"a":111}')


def main():
    url = "wss://ws8.blitzortung.org"
    print(f'Connecting to {url}')
    ws = websocket.WebSocketApp(url, on_message=on_message)
    ws.on_open = on_open
    ws.run_forever()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

[infrat]

Hi guys! I've successfully launched my instance of intermediate MQTT server with the fix you described here (changed key in ws payload from 418 to 111) as a replacement to the original one hosted by @mrk-its under blitzortung.ha.sed.pl (which is temporarily broken).

Feel free to use my fixed instance under: 94.246.174.183:1885

Now it's live again:

Enjoy!

---

P.S.
To use my instance of MQTT service, you only need to change the MQTT host address and port in 206 and 207 line of your /config/custom_components/blitzortung/__init__.py

And don't forget to restart your instance of Home Assistant.

[peterservisbot]

Hi guys! I've successfully launched my instance of intermediate MQTT server with the fix you described here (changed key in ws payload from 418 to 111) as a replacement to the original one hosted by @mrk-its under blitzortung.ha.sed.pl (which is temporarily broken).

Feel free to use my fixed instance under: 94.246.174.183:1885

Now it's live again:

Enjoy!

P.S. To use my instance of MQTT service, you only need to change the MQTT host address and port in 206 and 207 line of your /config/custom_components/blitzortung/__init__.py

And don't forget to restart your instance of Home Assistant.

Is this server still running? I seem to be having difficulty!

[mohawk2]

A slightly tweaked to my preferences version of @Mostalk's excellent decode function:

def decode(data):
    e = {}
    d = list(data)
    c = d[0]
    f = c
    g = [c]
    o = 256
    for b in range(1, len(d)):
        ao = ord(d[b])
        a = d[b] if ao < 256 else e[ao] if e.get(ao) else f + c
        g.append(a)
        c = a[0]
        e[o] = f + c
        o += 1
        f = a
    return ''.join(g)

And in Perl:

sub blitz_decode {
  my ($data) = @_;
  my %e;
  my @d = split //, $data;
  my @g = my $f = my $c = $d[0];
  my $o = 256;
  for my $ind (1..$#d) {
    my $ord = ord($d[$ind]);
    my $str = $ord < 256 ? $d[$ind] : exists $e{$ord} ? $e{$ord} : $f . $c;
    push @g, $str;
    $c = substr $str, 0, 1;
    $e{$o++} = $f . $c;
    $f = $str;
  }
  join('', @g);
}