Re: [weewx-user] Can Weewx send alerts if it stops reporting?

2019-03-11 Thread John Park
Hi Thomas, I'm using a WS 1400-IP and the interceptor driver. My issue has come about previously because of LAN issues or issues with the weatherstation receiver (connected to the LAN) unrelated to WeeWX. I've since enabled uploads to AWEKAS and enabled alerts there so hopefully the alerts

Re: [weewx-user] Can Weewx send alerts if it stops reporting?

2019-03-11 Thread Jarmo Seppänen
Use the twitter extension perhaps? If the tweets end there must be a glitch somewhere... -- 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

Re: [weewx-user] Can Weewx send alerts if it stops reporting?

2019-03-11 Thread Andrew Milner
tx vince - u are, of course, 100% correct - in that example the email would more than likely be useless!! doh!! On Monday, 11 March 2019 16:21:58 UTC+2, vince wrote: > > On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7:04:10 AM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote >> >> There is a potential need for having an inbuilt

Re: [weewx-user] Can Weewx send alerts if it stops reporting?

2019-03-11 Thread vince
On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7:04:10 AM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote > > There is a potential need for having an inbuilt failure alert system > within weewx for sending an advisory email in the event of upload failures > for two or more hours instead of just logging the error as currently >

Re: [weewx-user] Can Weewx send alerts if it stops reporting?

2019-03-11 Thread Andrew Milner
Tom Whilst I agree with what you are saying there are also occasions where the problem may be, for example, with a router which requires rebooting. Whilst weewx will keep merrily reporting the upload failure(s) in the log WU also* used* to helpfully send an email when the station had not

Re: [weewx-user] Can Weewx send alerts if it stops reporting?

2019-03-11 Thread Thomas Keffer
John, What kind of weather station? Most of the drivers either use a timeout, or a separate thread to detect an unresponsive station. It would help if we knew what kind of station you have. On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:46 AM Liz wrote: > I've set up a cron job looking for failure, and it is to

Re: [weewx-user] Can Weewx send alerts if it stops reporting?

2019-03-11 Thread Liz
John Park wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I absolutely love weewx - thank you so much to the community for providing > this fantastic piece of software. Is there any way to have weewx to send > reports if it stops reporting for some reason? There's been a few times > where my weather station has stopped