[Weather] [personal] Re: Weather Underground RapidFire

[Jim Pace]

> 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??
>
They state at the bottom of the page that they are deciding whether to 
require continued regular updates if a user is also doing RapidFire and then 
say they're leaning towards one or the other but not both. I am continuing 
to do the regular updates at 5 minute intervals from my software while the 
RapidFire does 5 second updates. The history on my Wunderground page still 
only shows the 5 minute updates.
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: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Weather] [personal] Re: Weather Underground RapidFire


> 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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