[Weather] [personal] Re: Weather Underground RapidFire

[Jim Pace]

Tim,
I found this on the Wunderground site which explains the upload format and 
URL:
http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Personal_Weather_Stations#Rapid_Fire_Updates
Essentially, it is the same format as for regular uploads but to a different 
URL and will have a couple of tags added at the end, one of which is the 
upload frequency.
It works by sending the formatted string "as often as every 2.5 seconds" 
according to wunderground. The Flash thingy then updates itself at the 
upload frequency specified in the upload string. It is most noticeable in 
the wind direction dial since that would change most often.
It seems to me that this is being done backwards by having us constantly 
push the data out when no one might be even looking at it. I would prefer 
having the Flash widget connect back to me to stream the data only when 
someone has pulled up the page it is embedded in just like the webcam thing.
Going to the RapidFire server webpage sans data as here:
http://rtupdate.wunderground.com/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?ID=KCASANFR5&PASSWORD=XXXXXX&
will get a usage list of parameters that could be printed out.
Hope that answers your questions.
BTW, I have had your page in my bookmarks for a long time for the good info 
there, but now the link seems to be dead. Is there a new page?
Jim
http://ecapmiill.home.comcast.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Bitson" <tbitson at mac.com>
To: "List for 1 Wire Weather Stations and devices" <weather at buoy.com>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:34 AM
Subject: [personal] Re: [Weather] Weather Underground RapidFire


> Jim,
>
> Interested in sharing what you have learned about Rapidfire? How does it 
> work? What is the format?
>
> I'm also interested in the Java source for your uploader...
>
> tim
>
>
> On Sunday, November 26, 2006, at 10:44PM, "Jim Pace" <unkajim at comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>>Seeing that Wunderground has been beta testing the new Rapidfire feature,
>>and finally after enough poking around on their website, I found the
>>required posting URL and format. I created a stand-alone Java executable 
>>to
>>pull the required data from my software and format and upload to the
>>RapidFire URL at 5 second intervals. The result can be seen here:
>>http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KORSWEET1
>>
>>Before moving to Java to run my 1-Wire station, I ran Arne's WServer and
>>knowing that WServer can output the required data stream on a TCP socket, 
>>I
>>decided to modify the code so that anyone who runs WServer and wishes to,
>>can experiment with RapidFire updates from their station.
>>
>>So...anyone wanting to try it can get the jar file, setup.txt and
>>instructions here:
>>http://71.193.143.248:28898/RapidFire4WServerJarfile.zip
>>
>>I only fired up WServer for a short time to test that the jar file works 
>>and
>>it did, but the testing was minimal.
>>Please let me know  if it works...or not.
>>Jim
>>http://ecapmiill.home.comcast.net
>>
>>
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