Topic: Need assistance setting AWN to my Saratoga Template

[swgaweather]

My website is www.swgaweather.com and need assistance in getting my Ambient Weather data to show up on sight. I have inserted the API key and my Device ID. I know I'm leaving something out but dont know where. Also, having the files in /wx/ folder can someone show me how to get a index.html file that will redirect my files to show up when someone types in my web address vs mysite/wx/index.php

I appreciate in advance.

[ea1hmy]

Copy the attached index to your root in the ftp before / wx

remove .txt

have configured Settings-weather.php?

[PaulMy]

Not sure if it is a date format issue or something else http://www.swgaweather.com/wx/wxstatus.php  I don't use the Ambient so hopefully Ken or someone else will chyme in. 


Running http://www.swgaweather.com/wx/check-fetch-times.php?show=versions and www.swgaweather.com/wx/check-fetch-times.php shows everything is current

Enjoy,
Paul

[saratogaWX]

The issue seems to be with his webserver's DNS lookup for api.ambientweather.net.  Running a view-source on AWNtags.php?sce=dump shows

<!-- AWNtags.php - Version 1.05 - 06-Aug-2018 -->
<!-- AWNtags.php - fetching current data JSON -->
<!-- curl fetching 'https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices/?applicationKey=*****&apiKey=27dc75b7faaf4351b47f817b6d682ebbdedcd667efbb4135bcd36e65d2f9e717' -->
<!-- HTTP stats:  RC=0 dest= port=0 (from sce=)
      Times: dns=0.077 conn=0.000 pxfer=0.000 get=0.044 total=0.044 secs -->
<!-- headers returned:

 -->
<!-- AWN_getJSON - RC=0 on try 1 - sleep(1) -->
<!-- curl fetching 'https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices/?applicationKey=*****&apiKey=27dc75b7faaf4351b47f817b6d682ebbdedcd667efbb4135bcd36e65d2f9e717' -->
<!-- HTTP stats:  RC=0 dest= port=0 (from sce=)
      Times: dns=0.000 conn=0.000 pxfer=0.000 total=0.000 secs -->
<!-- headers returned:

 -->
<!-- AWN_getJSON - RC=0 on try 2 - sleep(1) -->
<!-- curl fetching 'https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices/?applicationKey=*****&apiKey=27dc75b7faaf4351b47f817b6d682ebbdedcd667efbb4135bcd36e65d2f9e717' -->
<!-- HTTP stats:  RC=0 dest= port=0 (from sce=)
      Times: dns=0.000 conn=0.000 pxfer=0.000 total=0.000 secs -->
<!-- headers returned:

 -->
<!-- AWN_getJSON - RC=0 on try 3 - sleep(1) -->
<!-- AWN_getJSON - 3 tries - no joy -->
<!-- devices content len=0 bytes not saved. -->
<!-- pause 1 second to avoid 429 return on this fetch of detail data -->
<!-- curl fetching 'https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices/C0:21:0D:1E:EE:55?applicationKey=*****&apiKey=27dc75b7faaf4351b47f817b6d682ebbdedcd667efbb4135bcd36e65d2f9e717' -->
<!-- HTTP stats:  RC=0 dest= port=0 (from sce=)
      Times: dns=0.000 conn=0.000 pxfer=0.000 total=0.000 secs -->
<!-- headers returned:

 -->
<!-- AWN_getJSON - RC=0 on try 1 - sleep(1) -->
<!-- curl fetching 'https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices/C0:21:0D:1E:EE:55?applicationKey=*****&apiKey=27dc75b7faaf4351b47f817b6d682ebbdedcd667efbb4135bcd36e65d2f9e717' -->
<!-- HTTP stats:  RC=0 dest= port=0 (from sce=)
      Times: dns=0.000 conn=0.000 pxfer=0.000 total=0.000 secs -->
<!-- headers returned:

 -->
<!-- AWN_getJSON - RC=0 on try 2 - sleep(1) -->
<!-- curl fetching 'https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices/C0:21:0D:1E:EE:55?applicationKey=*****&apiKey=27dc75b7faaf4351b47f817b6d682ebbdedcd667efbb4135bcd36e65d2f9e717' -->
<!-- HTTP stats:  RC=0 dest= port=0 (from sce=)
      Times: dns=0.000 conn=0.000 pxfer=0.000 total=0.000 secs -->
<!-- headers returned:

 -->
<!-- AWN_getJSON - RC=0 on try 3 - sleep(1) -->
<!-- AWN_getJSON - 3 tries - no joy -->
<p>Warning: ambientweather.net data fetch unsuccessful.</p>

The dest= is blank (indicating that the DNS lookup was unsuccessful by curl)..  It's a webhoster tech support issue to fix.
His other settings for AWN are ok (and work fine on my test site).

[saratogaWX]

You can try this script (I called it dns-test.php) on your site.  It will show additional info about the DNS lookup for api.ambientweather.net

Code: [Select]

<?php
header("Content-type: text/html,charset=ISO-8859-1");

print "<pre>\n";
$lookup = 'api.ambientweather.net';
print "PHP ".phpversion()."\n";

$dnsFile = '/etc/resolv.conf';

if(is_readable($dnsFile)) {
print "$dnsFile server file found.  Contents:\n";
print "------------------\n";
readfile($dnsFile);
print "------------------\n";
} else {
print "Note: $dnsFile file not found or is not readible.\n";
}

print "..doing gethostbyname('$lookup'); \n";
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$ipAddr = gethostbyname($lookup);
print "Returned IP='$ipAddr' for '$lookup'\n";
print "</pre>\n";

if(isset($_REQUEST['info']) and $_REQUEST['info']='yes') {
print phpinfo();
}
Let me know when it's installed and what the URL is and I'll give the results a look.  It should show:

PHP  5.6.38
Note: /etc/resolv.conf file not found.
..doing gethostbyname('api.ambientweather.net');
Returned IP='107.170.198.71' for 'api.ambientweather.net'

on your site.

[swgaweather]

What page do I put this on? The home page? Do I put it in between which brackets? I just tried putting it in and crashed my site and took it out and now it works.

[saratogaWX]

It would be on a new page named dns-test.php -- just the stuff in the code box above is all that is required for that new page.

Inserting it in an existing page is not recommended.

[saratogaWX]

looks like you've located the issue .. an outbound connection firewall needed permissions to access api.ambientweather.net.

Now your data is being retrieved successfully

<!-- AWNtags.php - Version 1.05 - 06-Aug-2018 -->
<!-- AWNtags.php - fetching current data JSON -->
<!-- curl fetching 'https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices/?applicationKey=*****&apiKey=27dc75b7faaf4351b47f817b6d682ebbdedcd667efbb4135bcd36e65d2f9e717' -->
<!-- HTTP stats:  RC=200 dest=107.170.198.71 port=443 (from sce=208.117.46.143)
      Times: dns=0.067 conn=0.129 pxfer=0.427 get=0.079 total=0.506 secs -->
<!-- devices file ./cache/ambientweather.net.9ff61677266af9ee8e8b793307c44e5b.devices.json saved. 543 bytes. -->
<!-- AWN device C0:21:0D:1E:EE:55 info='South Georgia Skywarn Spottersg   SWGA Office' -->
<!-- AWNtags.php (./cache/ambientweather.net.C0210D1EEE55.json)
  cache time   = 2018-10-24T15:22:00-04:00 from unix time 1540408920
  current time = 2018-10-24T15:23:22-04:00 from unix time 1540409002
  difference   = 82 (seconds)
  diff allowed = 60 (seconds) -->
<!-- AWNtags.php: data to old, will be loaded from url  -->
<!-- pause 1 second to avoid 429 return on this fetch of detail data -->
<!-- curl fetching 'https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/devices/C0:21:0D:1E:EE:55?applicationKey=*****&apiKey=27dc75b7faaf4351b47f817b6d682ebbdedcd667efbb4135bcd36e65d2f9e717' -->
<!-- HTTP stats:  RC=200 dest=107.170.198.71 port=443 (from sce=208.117.46.143)
      Times: dns=0.000 conn=0.062 pxfer=0.196 get=0.613 total=0.810 secs -->
<!-- saved ./cache/ambientweather.net.C0210D1EEE55.json 119695 bytes -->
<!-- AWNtags.php processing most current lastData for C0:21:0D:1E:EE:55 -->
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