[Weather] Difference between wunderground updates and rapidfire updates

[Corey Touchet]

When you say Java Rapidfire updater are you talking about the software
talked about in WeatherToys?  Can it run with OWW?  It'd be cool to play
with both.

On 5/11/07, unkajim at comcast.net <unkajim at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Wunderground has had the statement at the bottom of their page in regards
> to Rapidfire Updates  that they are deciding whether to require normal
> updates along with the Rapidfire updates or not. Further, they state that
> they're leaning toward one or the other but not both.
> I've been running a standalone Java Rapidfire updater for several months
> now and have been wondering what would happen if I disabled the normal,
> non-Rapidfire updates that the main program sends. As it stands, I have seen
> no negative affects in the data due to doing it this way.
> It's still unclear to me whether Wunderground intends Rapidfire updates to
> be a permanent feature.
> Jim
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Dr. Simon J. Melhuish" <simon at melhuish.info>
> > 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
> >
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