[Weather] [personal] Re: Weather Underground RapidFire

[Tim Bitson]

 Jim,

Thanks for the info. I find it interesting that Wunderground offers this service. Does anyone really need 2 second updates? I though 1 minute updates were overkill and I only update once every 10 minutes.

I agree with you, having the flash widget request the data from the source would be more practical. Do you know if WU is saving all the data pushed every 2.5 seconds??

The link for my weather page is www.timbitson.com/weather/, but I just tried it and you're right, its broke. I'll get it fixed later today....
tim

  
On Monday, November 27, 2006, at 07:58PM, "Jim Pace" <unkajim at comcast.net> wrote:
>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
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