[Weather] Difference between wunderground updates and rapidfire updates

[Dr. Simon J. Melhuish]

David Dean wrote:
> Hi again
> On Thursday 10 May 2007 16:47, Corey Touchet wrote:
>> Okay I found it.  Did not scroll down far enough.
>>
>> So in reality it should be possible to modify the code to add the stuff
>> needed for real time updates.  It could be hardcoded until a more elegant
>> solution is put forth.
>>
>> On 5/10/07, Corey Touchet <coreytouchet+oww at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've been watching oww and it appears to upload pretty consistently every
>>> 10 seconds.  So is there a difference between the formats of a normal
>>> update and a rapidfire one.  Does wunderground have a page describing
>>> this?  I only see one that describes normal weather posting.
> See http://deanostoybox.com/Oww
> 
> later
> deano

Just to let you guys know, I am working on some changes to my
wunderground uploads in Oww (slowly) - despite lack of response from
wunderground. I agree that we do seem to need dailyrain values. However,
this means introducing another statistic, as dailyrain is always reset
at local midnight, whereas you may have your normal rain reset at some
other time.

What I'm doing for rapid updates is running it off individual weather
station updates rather than the longer integrations. This is so that we
can fire off to wunderground 30 times a minute, for example, without
annoying CWOP!

Keep an eye on my CVS, and you will see some of this feeding through soon.

Simon