My guess on Rapid Fire is that if your neighbors are doing it then the WU app "downgrades" your station. Back 10-15 years ago, I uploaded at 5 min intervals & had no neighbors uploading to WU. As more neighbors started uploading and switching to Rapid Fire I was sort of left behind. My data showed up on the web but the app viewed my station as a 3rd class citizen. Much has changed at WU over the years with the web and app so just my observations. YMMV :)
Play with the config until you get the desired results. LOL Doug B. On Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 12:54:31 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > Curious that enabling rapid-fire improved reliability for you. I was > having reliability issues posting to WU and was told that having it enabled > led to problems. So I disabled, and things have been consistently good for > me over the past month (i.e. since that change). > > On Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 1:53:44 PM UTC-4 Doug Bo wrote: > >> Another data point, my station is missing some location info and >> barometric pressure on the Android app. I have verified my upload data on >> the WU station web page and everything looks good. One thing WU "lost" is >> my hardware type. I have reset the station hardware info so we'll see what >> happens. I have also opened a ticket with them on this issue. >> FWIW, a few years back WU moved some PWS stations to a new server and >> messed up my station. I wonder if they have performed some data house >> cleaning and mucked up a few things? >> >> I'll update the thread when I have additional info. >> >> Thanks all for the input. >> Doug B. >> >> >> On Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 9:02:10 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I might have a hint about this. For quite some time, my VP2 (KAKWASIL2) >>> was one of very few PWS in my area. I had the same issues you described, >>> where it would disappear from the map but when viewed directly it would be >>> uploading. I went through all the troubleshooting steps with WU, and we >>> essentially came down to the sanity checks - if your weather is too far off >>> the "normal" reports then it's considered "bad" and not displayed until >>> "corrected". Thing is, my station is close to town, while the "official" >>> airport weather is several miles away and across a small set of hills, so >>> can be quite different. With no other reports to compare to, mine was >>> considered "off". >>> >>> As more stations came online, and more data was available, mine became >>> "more reliable" since more stations showed similar data. RapidFire adds >>> more data into the mix, so if your data is consistent and within certain >>> limits, then it's considered "more reliable". Also, if there's other PWS in >>> the area and all show similar data it helps. Mine would drop for a day or >>> two, then suddenly you'd query for zip 99654 and it would show as the >>> official town weather again :-) >>> >>> WU algorithms are known to be a bit flaky with sanity checks, but have >>> gotten much better over the years as more data has come online. Still, if >>> you're in an area with somewhat different temp/wind patterns, it can cause >>> WU's AI some headaches. >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, August 6, 2022 at 11:21:38 AM UTC-8 Alastair L wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> Many thanks for all your responses and suggestions. As a result I >>>> believe I can report success, my station now appears reliably in the WU >>>> maps. >>>> >>>> I checked out the time on both my Pi and the Vantage console against my >>>> PC time and all were within seconds of each other. So I tried I editing >>>> the rapidfire setting in the config file as suggested and changed it from >>>> false to true. For the first time in ages my station (ILAIRG10) appeared >>>> on WU maps and continues to appear - great! I've waited some hours >>>> to confirm this is not just a fluke, and so far the station appears every >>>> time I have I've checked. This hasn't been possible in months. I have >>>> wasted a lot of time fretting over this problem and it's great to have a >>>> solution. >>>> >>>> I can see from the weewx log that weewx now sends data to WU every 2 >>>> seconds now instead of every 5 minutes previously and that the WU data >>>> table still updates every 5 minutes. Curiously the time stamp on my WU >>>> data table changed as soon as the rapid fire option was made, from e.g. >>>> 2:00PM, 2:05 PM, 2:10 PM etc to e.g 2:34 PM, 2:39 PM, 2:44 PM etc. These >>>> post rapidfire change time stamps now precisely align with the other two >>>> local stations (that I believe not running on Weewx), but what the >>>> significance is escapes me. The comment made regarding WU dropping >>>> sites from the map if they aren't uploading reliably looks to have been >>>> true for me, but why, to my likely simplistic understanding, firing data >>>> at >>>> WU 150 times in 5 minutes, instead of a nice sedate once, improves >>>> reliability surprises me. I'm not really clear what the logic behind >>>> this is but it works for me. Perhaps someone can suggest an explanation? >>>> >>>> Anyway, I'm happy now and thanks once again to you all for your input. >>>> >>>> Alastair >>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- 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/7a5881b6-11af-4758-8116-2754cac46fe2n%40googlegroups.com.
