Dear Jenna and WeatherCat troubleshooters,
I have used the same jjmweather.ddns.net for a LONG TIME....and as of today? Server status is hung at verifying and then fails with the "unable to verify server" message.
i also get a gateway address listed.
Checked the port forwarding settings and they are correct. Rebooted machine and restarted both WC and WC Client.
On wireless and local? Instant connect.
I had a strange set of experiences that strongly suggest to me that the problem is at
ddns.net. Since I was on my Mac, I tried first trying to connect to
jjmweather.ddns.net using the Mac client (WeatherCatClient.) I was able to successfully connect to your weather station. The temperature was about 10 degrees cooler than here in California and you had restarted WeatherCat later than I had this morning so the comms count was lower.
I switched to my iPhone running WeatherCatRCP - ran into exactly the same problem you describe.
I tried my iPad using WeatherCatPad -
diito.
So I went back to WeatherCatClient on my Mac and - this time could not connect either. I attempted to run a trace route and could not resolve the host.
ddns.net has a server that is supposed to supply the IP address so that you can reach your Mac. That server is having some sort of problem. Without an IP address, none of the WeatherCat clients can work. I was lucky enough to catch the server working for a brief moment before something failed once more.
So this is a case were either you can grumble and wait for the problem to be fixed or you could try to contact
ddns.net and see what they have to say. I would put it in the 98% likelihood that no adjustments to your WeatherCat software are necessary.
Sorry, but such are
da' conditions that prevail . . . . . .
Cheers, Edouard