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Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« on: August 24, 2018, 01:46:26 AM »
I'm trying to get Meteobridge to use a url for the weather camera, but I keep getting this error:
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Error: Camera URL not providing data: https://lightmaster.pw/pws/cam.jpg
You can navigate to https://lightmaster.pw/pws/cam.jpg and see that there is a valid jpg file there, and its updated every minute. (yes, I know its not pointed at the sky yet, lol. I Just through it up outside to try to get this working first).

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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2018, 11:23:09 AM »
What are your settings on the Services tab?
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2018, 01:00:02 PM »



Not sure how that helps though....
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2018, 02:08:16 PM »
Why is it pointing to Wunderground?  And not your website location?
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2018, 02:16:37 PM »
Because I'm trying to upload the jpgs from the camera that's setup on the Weather Station page to Weather Underground. My understanding is set up the url on the Weather Station page for where to get the image from the camera, and set up the ftp on the services page if you want to upload to a ftp server.

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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2018, 03:09:13 PM »
I could never get Wunderground webcams to work.  They discontinued the service last year, then restarted it, then restricted it, then who knows?  I get my cameras (DLink and StarDot) to upload to my personal webspace and grab the image URL from there.  I really can't help you with Wunderground.  (BTW, if you go to your Wunderground site do you actually see the updated image?)
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2018, 05:45:18 PM »
You're confused on what I'm trying to do.  I've got a script on my server that pulls the jpg for a camera and saves it to a publicly accessible file (https://lightmaster.pw/pws/cam.jpg). I'm trying to get the Meteobridge to use that link to get its camera image, the setting that's on the bottom of the "Weather Station" tab. Where Meteobridge is trying to put the image at this point is irrelevant, since I haven't been able to get it to download the image first.

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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2018, 05:48:52 PM »
You're confused as to my answers to date.  My cameras put an image on a server that Meteobridge reads.  But the paths look NOTHING like what you have on your MB.  You have to tell MB where to find the image and it does not appear to me that you are doing that.  To be fair, I was confused when I first set mine up as well.
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2018, 06:00:30 PM »
I might be completely wrong, but I thought you put the url to the image here:

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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2018, 12:02:31 AM »
Just checked one of my systems.  Yes, you URL goes there but on my system I get a green checkmark indicating OK.  You have a red X indicating not OK.  Are you using URL masking/redirect or something?
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2018, 12:10:38 AM »
No masking or anything. That url literally points to /var/www/html/pws/cam.jpg on my server. Curious, do you use https or http? It couldn't be an issue with using https, could it?

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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2018, 12:14:54 AM »
Nope.  Good old HTTP.
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2018, 12:18:28 AM »
Have you tried to use the fully qualified path?  Incl. /var/...  ?
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2018, 12:25:44 AM »
Using the full Linux path wouldn't (and doesn't) work since lightmaster.pw already points to the html folder. If you try to add /var/html/ etc etc, then it's really trying to access /var/www/html/var/www/html/pws/cam.jpg, which doesn't exist.

All I can figure is the https part is causing an issue, so guess I'll dig through the configs to disable to test.

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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2018, 12:42:44 AM »
That worked, apparently https breaks it.

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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2018, 01:11:34 AM »
Well that is interesting!  I just tried https on Windows and it works.  Are you up to date on your MB version?  Regardless, report it to Docbee (Smartbedded)
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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2018, 01:25:23 AM »
 Yeah, MB up to date was the very first thing I checked.

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Re: Meteobridge Weather Camera URL, error
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2018, 01:26:25 AM »
Also, apache2 is running default configs besides the forced https that the Let's Encrypt script adds.