I've noticed "Failed upload after 3 tries" errors every once in a while with my WOW uploader. I've set debug=1 on my own station to find out why.
-tk On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:04 AM WindnFog <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Tom, > > The reason is: > > Sep 20 14:25:26 rhubarb weewx[6635]: restx: WOW: Failed upload attempt 1: > timed out > Sep 20 14:25:31 rhubarb weewx[6635]: restx: WOW: Failed upload attempt 2: > HTTP Error 429: *Too frequent observations.* > Sep 20 14:25:37 rhubarb weewx[6635]: restx: WOW: Failed upload attempt 3: > HTTP Error 429: Too frequent observations. > Sep 20 14:25:42 rhubarb weewx[6635]: restx: WOW: Failed to publish record > 2019-09-20 14:25:00 ADT (1569000300): Failed upload after 3 tries > > Their site: https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/support/dataformats says: > > Frequency of submitting observations > > It is recommended that the interval between automatic observations from > your AWS is at least 5 minutes. > > My log shows that weewx uploads every 15 minutes, which is 3 times less > frequent than 5 minutes and should be OK. There's no "setting" in the > weewx.conf file to make it even less frequent, and I don't think that's the > way to go. I'm inclined to leave it alone or contact them as it appears > they can't (or don't want to) handle even 15-minute updates. I don't know > when this changed. It's only complaining once every few hours, and it > might have been doing so for quite a while. Unless you feel otherwise, > I'll wait a week or so and then contact them. There doesn't seem to be > anything we can do on the weewx end. I wonder if anyone else is getting > this. > > - Paul VE1DX > > On Friday, September 20, 2019 at 1:48:04 PM UTC-3, Thomas Keffer wrote: >> >> If you run debug=1, the log should show you the reason for the failed >> uploads. >> >> -tk >> >> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:42 AM WindnFog <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've been getting the occasional fail on uploads to the Met Office for >>> the past week or so. Any idea if there is some tweaking I could do with >>> weewx, or does this appear to be Internet latency or their site >>> occasionally being unresponsive? It mostly works, so I don't think this is >>> very important. >>> >>> - Paul VE1DX >>> >>> >>> root@rhubarb:~# journalctl -f -n 1600 | grep WOW >>> Sep 20 08:35:16 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 08:35:00 ADT (1568979300) >>> Sep 20 08:50:18 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 08:50:00 ADT (1568980200) >>> Sep 20 09:05:25 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 09:05:00 ADT (1568981100) >>> Sep 20 09:20:16 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 09:20:00 ADT (1568982000) >>> Sep 20 09:35:16 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 09:35:00 ADT (1568982900) >>> Sep 20 09:50:42 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Failed to publish record >>> 2019-09-20 09:50:00 ADT (1568983800): Failed upload after 3 tries >>> Sep 20 10:05:22 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 10:05:00 ADT (1568984700) >>> Sep 20 10:20:16 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 10:20:00 ADT (1568985600) >>> Sep 20 10:35:16 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 10:35:00 ADT (1568986500) >>> Sep 20 10:50:16 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 10:50:00 ADT (1568987400) >>> Sep 20 11:05:31 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 11:05:00 ADT (1568988300) >>> Sep 20 11:20:34 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 11:20:00 ADT (1568989200) >>> Sep 20 11:35:23 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 11:35:00 ADT (1568990100) >>> Sep 20 11:50:23 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 11:50:00 ADT (1568991000) >>> Sep 20 12:05:17 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 12:05:00 ADT (1568991900) >>> Sep 20 12:20:18 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 12:20:00 ADT (1568992800) >>> Sep 20 12:35:16 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 12:35:00 ADT (1568993700) >>> Sep 20 12:50:17 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 12:50:00 ADT (1568994600) >>> Sep 20 13:05:17 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 13:05:00 ADT (1568995500) >>> Sep 20 13:20:51 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Failed to publish record >>> 2019-09-20 13:20:00 ADT (1568996400): Failed upload after 3 tries >>> Sep 20 13:35:16 rhubarb weewx[587]: restx: WOW: Published record >>> 2019-09-20 13:35:00 ADT (1568997300) >>> >>> -- >>> 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]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/4ed8afbb-de7d-49bb-b494-10cbf40660ae%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/4ed8afbb-de7d-49bb-b494-10cbf40660ae%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b5c934b1-11cf-45cc-951e-45246e4036d7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b5c934b1-11cf-45cc-951e-45246e4036d7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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