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sdmike · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Morro Bay, CA

Hi all ...

just installed wview on my Mac and am enjoying the heck out of it. I'm sorry I spent what I did to find out how bad WeatherLink was. This, however, is very cool.

Anyway, I'm having two issues. One issue I'm having is that I cannot for the life of me get the Wunderground reporting interval to be longer. Right now, it reports about every 1 to 2 minutes. See this link:

http://www.weatherunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KCAMORRO1

I'd like it to report every 5 minutes or so. I tried changing the Archive_Interval to 300000. The PUSH_Interval is also at 300000. I changed both through wviewconfig. After changing the settings, I reran the following commands:

sudo cp -R ./examples/MacOSX/wview /Library/StartupItems
sudo chmod -R 755 /Library/StartupItems/wview
sudo chmod -x /Library/StartupItems/wview/StartupParameters.plist
sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/StartupItems/wview

Did I miss something?

The second issue, is that when my data is posted on WunderGround, it shows that winds are gusting to 253 MPH. Consistently. (It can be windy here, but not that windy!) All data on the VP and index.html are normal and I'm not sure where the bugaboo is.

I'm running wview v.1.7.7 on a Mac Mini 1.42GHz with 1GB RAM and OS X v.10.4.2.

Any help would be much appreciated. And thanks for what was probably a lot of hard work on this app.

M
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mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

First, as the User Manual section on Wunderground states, the reporting interval to Wunderground is determined by the archive interval of the Vantage Pro Console. This is set with vpconfig or the on-screen VP Console setup utility. I hope you aren't running with a 1 or 2 minute archive interval.

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

What have you learned? I was hoping you would post your System.log file contents so we could diagnose what was going on...

You can also send it to me via PM or email if you don't want to post it, although posting it may help someone else in the future.

Mark

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Another guy just had a similar problem with wunderground - turned out he had built an older version with "--enable-wunderground" specified in the config step but forgot to do it when he upgraded to a newer version of wview. The message sent from wviewd to wvwunderd had changed and because he was running with the old wvwunderd daemon (because he didn't give --enable-wunderground to the config script), he was getting some goofy data submitted to wunderground.

You MUST use "--enable-wunderground" as an option to config every time you upgrade or configure wview if you are using the wunderground daemon.

Mark