hi.
i have problems getting blitzortung to work. it always gives me “unavailable”, even when there’s a thunderstorm in the area. i can’t find out what is wrong.
and yes, i’ve searched the forum, but i couldn’t find what i need.
i set the range to 1000 km, and yes, there were thunderstorms well within that range.
i went into the log files, and there i found some error message about MQTT. does this mean that blitzortung requires MQTT? i installed and configured MQTT and a broker, and i configured them. but blitzortung still gives me “unavailable”.
as expected, 1.1.1.1 did not solve the problem, and neither did 8.8.8.8. it still says unavailable.
i just checked the pi-hole log. there are lots of entries for blitzortung, all allowed. so it obviously keeps trying. but the question is, why does it still use the pi-hole when the DNS is set to 8.8.8.8?
maybe we can compare configs? do you have a client.py on your system? if so, where is it? i ask because that file is mentioned in some threads about this…
Another think that I’m thinking about is that as far as I understand the service only detects and reports cloud-ground lightning. Sure it wasn’t a cloud-cloud thunderstorm?
are you sure about that? i thought they detected both types of lightning. AFAICT the antennas on their website can receive both horizontal and vertical polarisation.