wviewweather.com

mhweather · Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 54

Gary at weatherformum told me about some new WU service called Rapid Fire. Looks like a near-real-time display update from personal weather stations. A sample site is:

http://weatherstation.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IFRANKLI1

Don't know anything more about it, but evidently Weather Display and VWS support this "protocol". Maybe worth a look for Wview ?

Mark
Mullica Hill Weather

mhweather · Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 54

Here are the specs

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/howto.html

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

Looks like the same posting method other than a few changes for the base URL and a few new fields...

I don't think it makes much sense to update WU at such a high rate - further, I don't think they have fully considered the ramifications of 1000+ stations hitting their server(s) every 2.5 seconds (apparently VP instructions since this is the ISS packet interval).

That's a bunch of web traffic so the data is "up-to-the-second" but only viewed for a fraction of all those updates. I think that will rain bad Internet karma down on them Wink

I don't think it is well conceived by WU and I don't see implementing it in wview. It would not be hard to implement really, just don't want to contribute to a glut of Internet traffic for no good reason. Every five minutes (or whatever your archive interval is) seems to be a good update interval for an Internet archive such as WU.

Just my opinion,
Mark

mhweather · Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 54

I'm not a big WU guy/user myself, just passing it along. Would much rather see a dedicated Java client for Wview that does the same thing.

bmcclinton · Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 12

I'll second the Java client. Better to run it the extra bandwidth on demand, rather than continuously.

Bruce