The RF frequency is set by the frequency of your LOOP (aka raw) packets. On
the Vantage stations, this is every 2 seconds. I can think of two ways of
working around your problem of super long latency.
1. There is a timeout of the uploader which can be set. The default is 10
seconds. You could set it to something longer. Of course, that will cause
the packets to back up, but there is an option to limit how big the backup
queue can get.
Putting these two things together, you would want:
[[Wunderground]]
...
rapidfire = True
timeout = 15 # 15 second timeout
max_backlog = 5 # Trim the queue if it exceeds 5 packets
2. Another option would be to limit the uploads to every 15 or 20 seconds.
You can do that with option post_interval:
[[Wunderground]]
...
rapidfire = True
post_interval = 20 # Only post once every 20 seconds
NB: I have not tested either of these options.
Frankly, the WU servers are very unreliable and you can drive yourself
crazy trying to get this stuff to work consistently.
-tk
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:19 AM, ON9CB <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just updated to 3.8.0 and have run into an issue with randomly failing
> WU rapid fire uploads. Something like 80 to 90% of the rapid fire uploads
> fail. There are 8 attempts in the syslog fragment below. Of those 8
> attempts, 7 failed. Some attempts show timed out and others show ' '.
> These were around 1219 UTC. No uploads to other sites fail. I've attached
> a debug report just in case.
>
> Per a tip from another thread, I'm able to get a 'success' response 100%
> of the time using a browser but - it consistently takes between 15 and 20
> seconds for each response. The RTU server (at 54.187.172.130) is somewhere
> beyond 170 ms and 26 hops from my location, but that alone doesn't explain
> 15+ second response times. For what it's worth, I've been experiencing
> consistently slow response times and generally poor performance on the
> Wunderground site which seems to have started about 3 or 4 months back.
>
> My questions are, where can I change the the rapid fire upload frequency
> (or period) which seems to be around 5 seconds, and do I want to change the
> response failure timeout value?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Craig
>
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Jan 8 13:19:22 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Ambient: url:
> http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
> action=updateraw&ID=ILIMBURG74&PASSWORD=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-3.8.0&
> realtime=1&baromin=30.159&dewptf=33.5&humidity=087&
> dateutc=2018-01-08%2012%3A19%3A23&rtfreq=2.5&dailyrainin=0.
> 00&winddir=069&tempf=37.0&windspeedmph=4.0&windgustmph=7.0&rainin=0.00
>
> Jan 8 13:19:23 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed upload
> attempt 1: ''
>
> Jan 8 13:19:28 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Ambient: url:
> http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
> action=updateraw&ID=ILIMBURG74&PASSWORD=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-3.8.0&
> realtime=1&baromin=30.159&dewptf=33.5&humidity=087&
> dateutc=2018-01-08%2012%3A19%3A27&rtfreq=2.5&dailyrainin=0.
> 00&winddir=063&tempf=37.0&windspeedmph=7.0&windgustmph=7.0&rainin=0.00
>
> Jan 8 13:19:38 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed upload
> attempt 1: timed out
>
> Jan 8 13:19:43 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Ambient: url:
> http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
> action=updateraw&ID=ILIMBURG74&PASSWORD=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-3.8.0&
> realtime=1&baromin=30.159&dewptf=33.5&humidity=087&
> dateutc=2018-01-08%2012%3A19%3A43&rtfreq=2.5&dailyrainin=0.
> 00&winddir=061&tempf=37.0&windspeedmph=7.0&windgustmph=8.0&rainin=0.00
>
> Jan 8 13:19:43 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed upload
> attempt 1: ''
>
> Jan 8 13:19:48 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Ambient: url:
> http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
> action=updateraw&ID=ILIMBURG74&PASSWORD=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-3.8.0&
> realtime=1&baromin=30.159&dewptf=33.5&humidity=087&
> dateutc=2018-01-08%2012%3A19%3A49&rtfreq=2.5&dailyrainin=0.
> 00&winddir=078&tempf=37.0&windspeedmph=9.0&windgustmph=10.0&rainin=0.00
>
> Jan 8 13:19:49 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed upload
> attempt 1: ''
>
> Jan 8 13:19:54 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Ambient: url:
> http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
> action=updateraw&ID=ILIMBURG74&PASSWORD=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-3.8.0&
> realtime=1&baromin=30.159&dewptf=33.5&humidity=087&
> dateutc=2018-01-08%2012%3A19%3A53&rtfreq=2.5&dailyrainin=0.
> 00&winddir=135&tempf=37.0&windspeedmph=6.0&windgustmph=10.0&rainin=0.00
>
> Jan 8 13:20:03 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Ambient: url:
> http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
> action=updateraw&ID=ILIMBURG74&PASSWORD=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-3.8.0&
> realtime=1&baromin=30.159&dewptf=33.5&humidity=087&
> dateutc=2018-01-08%2012%3A20%3A03&rtfreq=2.5&dailyrainin=0.
> 00&winddir=057&tempf=37.0&windspeedmph=7.0&windgustmph=7.0&rainin=0.00
>
> Jan 8 13:20:10 Weewx weewx[1684]: vantage: Getting archive packets since
> 2018-01-08 13:19:00 CET (1515413940)
>
> Jan 8 13:20:10 Weewx weewx[1684]: vantage: Gentle wake up of console
> successful
>
> Jan 8 13:20:10 Weewx weewx[1684]: vantage: Retrieving 1 page(s); starting
> index= 3
>
> Jan 8 13:20:11 Weewx weewx[1684]: manager: Added record 2018-01-08
> 13:20:11 CET (1515414011) to database 'cmon.sdb'
>
> Jan 8 13:20:11 Weewx weewx[1684]: manager: Added record 2018-01-08
> 13:20:11 CET (1515414011) to daily summary in 'cmon.sdb'
>
> Jan 8 13:20:13 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed upload
> attempt 1: timed out
>
> Jan 8 13:20:18 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Ambient: url:
> http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
> action=updateraw&ID=ILIMBURG74&PASSWORD=XXX&softwaretype=weewx-3.8.0&
> realtime=1&baromin=30.159&dewptf=33.5&humidity=087&
> dateutc=2018-01-08%2012%3A20%3A11&rtfreq=2.5&dailyrainin=0.
> 00&winddir=076&tempf=37.0&windspeedmph=7.0&windgustmph=7.0&rainin=0.00
>
> Jan 8 13:20:19 Weewx weewx[1684]: restx: Wunderground-RF: Failed upload
> attempt 1: ''
>
> Jan 8 13:20:21 Weewx weewx[1684]: manager: Added record 2018-01-08
> 13:20:00 CET (1515414000) to database 'weewx.sdb'
>
> Jan 8 13:20:21 Weewx weewx[1684]: manager: Added record 2018-01-08
> 13:20:00 CET (1515414000) to daily summary in 'weewx.sdb'
>
> Jan 8 13:20:24 Weewx weewx[1684]: forecast: MainThread: Zambretti:
> starting thread
>
> Jan 8 13:20:24 Weewx weewx[1684]: forecast: ZambrettiThread: Zambretti:
> forecast was already calculated for 2018-01-08 09:00:00 CET (1515398400)
>
> Jan 8 13:20:24 Weewx weewx[1684]: forecast: MainThread: WU: not yet time
> to do the forecast
>
> Jan 8 13:20:24 Weewx weewx[1684]: forecast: ZambrettiThread: Zambretti:
> terminating thread
>
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