Hi Tom, Many thanks, the second option works perfectly!
Craig On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 3:55:52 PM UTC+1, Tom Keffer wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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 >> >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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