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Weather Software => My AcuRite smartHUB Software => Topic started by: Jack Bowman on May 29, 2018, 06:10:24 PM

Title: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: Jack Bowman on May 29, 2018, 06:10:24 PM
WU (Weather Underground ) data posting error just started happening. Anyone else having issues with Kevin's App?
Title: Re: Posting Error on App
Post by: WonderWX on May 30, 2018, 06:13:17 AM
Same here. Issue seems to be the formatting of the date.  If I change it to dateutc=now   it will get success.
Title: Re: Posting Error on App
Post by: KB3ZWI on May 30, 2018, 08:33:12 AM
I too am noticing an issue.

"5/30/2018 08:31:30   ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request."

I was using my Meteobridge yesterday and I noticed it had issues updating Weather Underground all of a sudden when on Sunday, it worked fine (this is a Dlink DIR-505 that I flashed myself).  I just switched back over to using Kevin's application when I saw the issue.

I sent an email to Wunderground asking if there was any issues with PWS's uploading data but I haven't heard back yet.
Title: Re: Posting Error on App
Post by: Jack Bowman on May 30, 2018, 11:05:18 AM
I will get an email out to Kevin.

Same message here...

"ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request."
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: KB3ZWI on May 30, 2018, 05:47:13 PM
Hey ColoradoWeather, I think the issue may be with "rtupdate.wunderground.com". Seems a lot of folks have been experiencing issues with WU since yesterday / today.

I can't ping that site and when you go to it directly you get a "404 page not found" error. Thought, I don't know if these two observations are to be expected or not.
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: Jack Bowman on May 30, 2018, 10:58:22 PM
It looks like Acurite has changed the way gust are reported to Weather Underground. This happened on the 29th  the same day Kevin's Software started having issues. It is probably an issue with the way the data is parsed by the software. I sent an email to Kevin.
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: WonderWX on May 31, 2018, 05:58:09 AM
what smarthub reader is sending: &dateutc=5/30/2018%2012:04:48%20AM
per the docs
    IMPORTANT all fields must be url escaped
        reference http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
    example

  2001-01-01 10:32:35
   becomes
  2000-01-01+10%3A32%3A35



quick fix would be to just send 'now' instead
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: Jack Bowman on May 31, 2018, 04:16:34 PM
It does look like WU is actually having some problems.  Now I am not sure what is going on?
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: SmittythePirate on June 01, 2018, 09:16:27 PM
I'm receiving a similar error message as well on mine.  Bad request (400)
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: WonderWX on June 02, 2018, 08:11:21 AM
of the few dozen stations that run kevin's reader, the only ones back up reporting have switched using myacurite (probably the easiest temporary fix), weewx, acuparse, meteobridge, or other script.  WU has been working on a new PWS data ingestion platform and apparently have implemented some of it. the old system probably allowed for some leeway in the specifications in the protocol.  Hope Kevin will do an update for us who still use the software with the old bridge/smarthub
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: Jack Bowman on June 02, 2018, 11:25:27 AM
Kevin's reader software is working well for other sites. I am even having trouble getting the Acurite site to report to WU.
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: Jack Bowman on June 03, 2018, 11:04:15 PM
Here is the official response from Weather Underground...

http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=34507.0 (http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=34507.0)

Looks like they changed the update format causing the issues. No response from Kevin yet.
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: Jack Bowman on June 04, 2018, 01:36:56 PM
Looks like Kevin is now using weewx-3.8.0 on his Weather underground site. EOTL I guess...
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: kevink619 on June 05, 2018, 09:12:35 PM
Hi all,

Sorry for the delay. Yeah, I've switched to using WeeWX, but will working on fixing my Windows app real soon...
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: kevink619 on June 06, 2018, 12:40:33 AM
I've just made some fixes that (hopefully) resolve the ERROR 400 issue. Please download the latest version that I posted moments ago:

http://kevin-key.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-version-is-now-available-for.html

Kevin
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: suprasick on June 06, 2018, 01:37:40 AM
Hey Kevin the new update works great! Thank you for your hard work! Without your program I would have tossed this weather station a long time ago.
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: kevink619 on June 06, 2018, 02:00:12 AM
You're very welcome. Glad my app is back to working well for you.

Kevin
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: WonderWX on June 06, 2018, 05:52:02 AM
Thanks Kevin!   :grin:
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: Jack Bowman on June 09, 2018, 04:13:39 PM
Thank You, Kevin! This gave me the opportunity to utilize some of the other weather services that your app supports. The App is working wonderfully again! It really is a fantastic App. Hope all is well with you.

Sincerely,
Jack
Title: Re: "ERROR posting data to Weather Underground. The remote server returned an error
Post by: bvstation on June 10, 2018, 09:26:46 AM
Thanks a ton Kevin..
That fixed WU... is there a similar issue for weatherbug?

I started seeing error - ERROR posting data to Weatherbug. The remote name could not be resolved. 'data.backyard2.weatherbug.com' prob a few days or so prior to WU having issues.