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mhweather



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:28 pm    Post subject: Weather Underground Rapid Fire ? Reply with quote

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
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mhweather



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are the specs


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



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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mhweather



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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bmcclinton



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

Bruce
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