Almost sounds like that despite the first upload appearing to time out it actually takes and the second and subsequent uploads are deemed too frequent based upon the first attempted upload.
Perhaps a few laid off WU employees have moved across the Atlantic? :) Gary On Saturday, 21 September 2019 05:16:59 UTC+10, Thomas Keffer wrote: > > 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 <foc...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > 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 <foc...@gmail.com> 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 weewx...@googlegroups.com. >>>> 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 weewx...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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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