[Weather] Difference between wunderground updates and rapidfire updates

Sun May 13 00:31:45 EDT 2007

I just noticed on wunderground if you look at your station and tell it to
show it on your blog and then go there the weather box is updating in real
time.  I have it set to update every 5 seconds and that's what I'm  seeing
on the website.

While it's not some fancy flash page it is just like a rapid update.  So
they are doing something with the data as it's coming in.

On 5/11/07, unkajim at comcast.net <unkajim at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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
> > > -------------- 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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>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Corey Touchet" <coreytouchet+oww at gmail.com>
> To: "List for 1 Wire Weather Stations and devices" <weather at buoy.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:52:32 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Weather] Difference between wunderground updates and
> rapidfire updates
> 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
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Weather mailing list
> > > Weather at buoy.com
> > > http://www2.buoy.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/weather
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Weather mailing list
> > Weather at buoy.com
> > http://www2.buoy.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/weather
> >
>
>
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