[Weather] Difference between wunderground updates and rapidfire updates

[unkajim at comcast.net]

Nah...it's just something I threw together to try out rapidfire. My main program, if I have the socket server enabled, spits out each sensor's ID and its readout as they are read in the polling loop and outputs them on a socket. The Java program I wrote connects to that socket, captures the sensors of interest and processes and uploads them to Wunderground.
My weather program is in Java and based largely on Rich Mulvey's OpenWeather.
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From: "Corey Touchet" <coreytouchet+oww at gmail.com>
> 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
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> > 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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