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Web Weather => Weather Web Site Help => Topic started by: n9mfk9 on October 04, 2010, 05:13:55 PM
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hi all,
is any one here using at&t dsl to upload weather data?
thanks beau
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hi all,
is any one here using at&t dsl to upload weather data?
thanks beau
I dream of moving up to DSL some day...............
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I do. No problems.
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I have been using it for 5 years with no problems.
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Got rid of it here (when it was Bellsouth), can't speak for them now. They kept resetting the DSL modem almost once a day. Got fed up and went with Comcast. No issues at all now
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I have used them for about a year, with no problems other than the uploads speed on the lower priced plans is a bit low (720K) per DSL speed reports.
When I had a NAS torrent box, Weatherlink and Weather display, and VPlive & WebCam uploads going I was able to overload it's upload capacity, otherwise no problems with just weather station uploads alone.
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I was told by a friend at&t does not like a lot of ftp up loads
how often do you upload?
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Yes. No problems with them. I use about 2% of my entire upload bandwidth of 768 doing FTP and other uploads to my website.
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I was told by a friend at&t does not like a lot of ftp up loads
how often do you upload?
Using Weather Display, I upload every 10 minutes. Never had any complaints.
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hi all,
is any one here using at&t dsl to upload weather data?
thanks beau
Yes, been using the AT&T HSI Pro package for 4 years now. I stream NOAA radio to Weather Underground along with rapidfire data to them. Also upload via .php to my website every 5 seconds, plus numerous other images including a webcam and other files every 5-15 minutes. They have been pretty stable with few modem resets over the years. When they upgraded the neighborhood to be U-Verse capable I noted some instability but now that the work is done all is back to normal.
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I don't know why they kept resetting mine. I knew they were resetting me because I kept getting a different IP address all the time. I finally got fed up and gave up. I've never regretted my move to Comcast. Super speeds and super stable for me.
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I guess I jinxed myself! I spoke so glowingly about Comcast always working... and now it's been up and down since yesterday. They finally got it fixed yesterday after I got home but about 11 today it went down again. I called them up and yes, they're having technical difficulties and are working on the problem. On top of that, I'm getting pingdom messages that my site is up and down but I think that's more of an internet connection issue than the site itself, made a ticket on that one too.
Geez, it's ALWAYS something.
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That'll play heck with your "VWS stops sending the WeatherFlash data stream" issue. ;-)
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Yes it will. :grin: What kept messing with me was the fact that it would work for a while, then quit, make an update and then quit again. It was very erratic. Couple that with the fact that VWS would quit updating the files when the transmissions would stop made me think it was VWS. Live and learn I guess. Comcast has apparently been working and making some network changes during the day which has really been screwing me up.
But I did switch over to Fling to do those uploads now and everything seems to be more stable. Finally! Got rid of a few more ftp file uploads from VWS and that has to help make it even more stable.
All is good! :grin:
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But I did switch over to Fling to do those uploads now and everything seems to be more stable. Finally! Got rid of a few more ftp file uploads from VWS and that has to help make it even more stable.
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That is always my advice, when encountering any issue in VWS. VWS Ftp functions just plain make the program and it's output unstable for the majority of folks.
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Yep, I think I'm going to move everything over to Fling. I think I asked this somewhere else (my old mind forgets) but can I specify that WD places the testtags file in a different location? I don't want to upload the entire folder that it's currently in.
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Forgot to check this last night. Pretty sure the answer is yes, but cant verify as I am at work. I know you can plunk clientraw somewhere else, pretty sure the custom templates can do the same.
Andrew
Yep, I think I'm going to move everything over to Fling. I think I asked this somewhere else (my old mind forgets) but can I specify that WD places the testtags file in a different location? I don't want to upload the entire folder that it's currently in.
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I had to change all my ftp passwords last night and I took a quick glance while I was in there. I saw the clientraw file but didn't see the testtags settings.
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Hmmm, maybe it can, I was thinking it was just at the folder level but if someone that uses it knows, please let me know!
I moved the wflash files to a different folder just for them and it simply scans the folder for changes and when it see it, uploads the files. Love it!
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I wondered that too... I cant see a way. I tried at one point...... But its hard to knock a free piece of software for that. Strangely you can tell it to ignore a bunch of wildcarded file names and types. So it has ignore, but not include logic.
Steve
Here is what I did to get around the issue. You can try this if its determine you cant pick a special path in WD just for testtags. I did this for my brultech data file before the tenware author modified his software at my request. Originally his software dumped the one record csv into a window temp folder, so I could not fling it due to the hundreds/thousands of windows files that might be updated at any time. So I created a batch file (eventually a vbs file) and put it on my scheduler. I have this file copy the one I wanted from the temp directory to one I created, then setup the fling on that folder.
Andrew
Why can't fling do anything at the file, rather than folder, level?
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Man, have I got the thing for you! Years ago I had a developer that was working for us to create a little app that would do just that. Just unzip this, it's a small exe file. You put the folder to look in and the file (wildcards should work) and the destination folder. You specifiy how often it should check. That's it! You can have it load from the startup folder or however you want to load it. It remembers the settings.
I totally forgot about that until you mentioned it. Thanks for reminding me! Let me know how it goes if any of you decide to use it.
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The one thing that I REALLY like about Fling so far is that after my site was down for 4 hours or so today, once it came back up, Fling continued on. VWS would have blown up and never would have re-connected.
I like Fling today!
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Steve, did you just "tell" VWS to use Fling instead of its built in FTP engine??
George
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No, there are two check boxes in the WeatherFlash (I hope this doesn't get this started again :roll:) setup in VWS. One check box activates the process of creating the files, the other one activates sending it to the server. I just unchecked the server box. It still creates the files and Fling takes over from there.
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Steve, reason I asked was that WD allows you to use an external FTP engine to replace the built in one, but looking over the docs now, the only place I would use it is already done via NSLog (Nexstorm screen cap, WASP2 screen cap). :-k
I'll probably find a use for it some time soon. ;)
George
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I did not mean to say you were knocking Fling. I totally agree with you. Maybe no one has asked.... if it was a person/company like WD or my brultech guy I would probably have asked, and it would be on the site the next day with that feature.
My guess would be the response from NCH would be something like, "if you would like fully featured ftp...blah...blah.... try out Fling Plus, or Classic FTP Plus...for only A$??.99"
Andrew
I wondered that too... I cant see a way. I tried at one point...... But its hard to knock a free piece of software for that. Strangely you can tell it to ignore a bunch of wildcarded file names and types. So it has ignore, but not include logic.
Steve
It wasn't my intention to knock fling, obviously a lot of people find it very useful, it just seems such a totally logical thing to want to do :?
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Andrew, see if that file I posted will do what your script is doing if you don't mind. I'd like to hear what you think!
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Steve
I will let you know tonight. No can see zip's through firewall
Andrew
Andrew, see if that file I posted will do what your script is doing if you don't mind. I'd like to hear what you think!
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I hear that. Got some rather questionable links while trying to research my fling np memory issue. And clear your google history. "honey, why are searching for flings" although if she thought it was the fling.com version she would not use the word "honey"
Andrew
Well, do NOT go to fling dot com unless you are looking for a non-FTP connection :lol:
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Steve,
Seems to work pretty good. If you used something like Trayit to hide it while running would probably meet your needs for testtags copy and fling.
Andrew
Man, have I got the thing for you! Years ago I had a developer that was working for us to create a little app that would do just that. Just unzip this, it's a small exe file. You put the folder to look in and the file (wildcards should work) and the destination folder. You specifiy how often it should check. That's it! You can have it load from the startup folder or however you want to load it. It remembers the settings.
I totally forgot about that until you mentioned it. Thanks for reminding me! Let me know how it goes if any of you decide to use it.
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You can see how old it is! I had another one he made me that moved instead of copied. I tried it when I got home, at first it didn't like the location it was started from, but once I copied it into the webfiles folder, it started working. I have Fling doing all of the WD uploads to two sites now and it works flawlessly so far. It's also sending the VWS wflash files to daculaweather. I basically turned off the ftp in WD.