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Weather Related Organizations => WeatherUnderground => Topic started by: tochs on January 16, 2020, 02:37:20 PM
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I installed a Reolink RLC-511 camera and am trying to get it to work with my Weatherundergound account. I added the device on my WU account and received the device ID and upload key (password). I configured the FTP settings in my camera and when I test it, it says FTP test successful. When I check my WU devices it shows my PWS online, but the camera is offline and no images appear. If I log onto the FTP server I can see my tests are uploading, but there are no images on WU. I have tried finding a solution online, but with no success. Can someone offer me any help? I am attaching a jpg of my FTP camera settings.
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Check your image file size. Max is 150kb.
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I'm assuming you're referring to the maximum file length in my FTP settings? it won't accept any value below 10. Not sure how to make it any smaller?
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Are you able to actually see the .jpg file you're sending up to WU? Check it's file size. This most likely is the hurdle you need to jump. Reolink (according to their PR fluff) boasts high res and my guess is it results in a file too large for their process.
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I'm afraid you may be correct. I don't know how I would check to see the file it's trying to send? I specifically bought this camera to use with my PWS, but I may be screwed unless I can figure out some work around. Thanks.
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Here's a local URL which might work:
The URL should be:
http://(ip address)/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=(any combination of numbers and letters)&user=(user name)&password=(user password)
For example, if your camera's IP address is 192.168.2.119, the username is "admin" and the password is "123456", then the URL should be:
http://192.168.2.119/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Snap&channel=0&rs=wuuPhkmUCeI9WG7C&user=admin&password=123456
You may refresh the website to get a new snapshot of your live image. Try this. If you're successful, an image will appear in your web browser. Save it locally and then check it's statistics.
Credit: (https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007011233-How-to-Capture-Live-JPEG-Image-of-Reolink-Cameras-via-Web-Browsers)
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Thank you for your help. That worked. it shows the file size is 581kb so you're correct in that it is too big for WU. Now I have to see if that can be made smaller or some other work around. Thanks again for helping me figure this out. I just read on Reolink's web site if your camera FTP test is successful, but no images appear on WU, you may need to set up a local FTP server then send it from there. Guess I'll have to Google how to do that. As usual, this is turning into more work than I anticipated!
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If you're on a Win10 box, you can set up an FTP server on the box itself. That gets you half way there. The next step is to smoosh the file down to under 150k. This can be accomplished with the "convert.exe" piece of ImageMagick (ImageMagick.org). It's a command line tool that with a little scripting you can "read" the awaiting image from the camera, then "convert" it to a smaller version (re-naming it in the process), then it's ready do FTP to WU.
The command looks something like: "path-to-exe-file\convert.exe" "path-to-camera-image\imagename.jpg" -define jpeg:extent=145kb "path-to-ftp-imagefolder\image.jpg"
For the FTP piece I use WinSCP (WinSCP.net), another command line tool. Using scripts, driven by a Windows Scheduled Task, you can get your process rolling smoothly. Be sure to slow down the image delivery from the camera (like no more frequently than 5 minutes) to allow time for all the scripts to run.
YMMV
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Thank you. I just set up the FTP server on my PC. Next will work on the remainder of your recommendations. Wish me luck!
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I set up an FTP server on my computer, changed some of the camera settings to make the image files smaller and had the camera send the images to my server. The camera would send the images to my server at the designated intervals without a problem and the file size was well under 150kb Weatherunderground limit. So I changed the cameras FTP settings back to WU’s FTP server. The FTP tests were successful as before. When I log onto WU’s FTP server I can see where it’s creating directories with the current date, but no image files appear in the folders and under my devices it still shows the camera offline. Any ideas why no image files appear on WU’s FTP server and why it’s still showing my camera offline when it’s obviously communicating with WU? Any more help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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...When I log onto WU’s FTP server I can see where it’s creating directories with the current date, but no image files appear in the folders and under my devices it still shows the camera offline.
In your camera FTP Settings dialog, enter the forward slash (/) in the Upload Directory text box and try that. I had a similar problem when using WPUT, the command would duplicate the same path on the FTP site as on my computer, and the WU process couldn't find the file because it is expected in the root path. Using the forward-slash should ensure the file shows up in the root of the destination FTP site.
You should also be able to use FileZilla to FTP into the WU site and delete these unnecessary directories.
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Thank you for your reply and suggestion. Unfortunately I have tried it both with and without the "/" without any success. The test goes into the root directory but the automated FTP's go into empty daily sub directories without any image files. Do you know how critical the image file name is? I know WU"s instructions give the example of a file name as image.jpg. When my camera FTP's an image it gives it the camera name and a date and time stamp jpg and I can't find anywhere to configure the camera's FTP image name setting.
As far as using FileZilla are there instructions somewhere on setting it up to send files to WU? One thing I have learned by reading multiple posts, many people have problems getting web cams to work with Weather Underground. Thanks for your help.
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IIIRC the file name needs to be image.jpg it's not an example, it's what it needs to be.
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Thank you. I will need to see if you can configure the camera to FTP the image with that name.
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Been checking mine and althought one of my cams is set to upload image. jpg I can't find a setting for image name on the other, but it uploads to WU ok. So I may well be wrong on this.. sorry :oops:
After more checking the above was wrong, file name needs to be image.jpg and a filesize of under 100 seems to work ok.
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I think the only thing you have left is to try renaming your output file to image.jpg
Curious, does your camera have a red or green dot in your WU device list?
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Before I finally gave up entirely on having a web cam associated with my site, using the URL pull method, I ‘tricked’ WU by placing 3 images one for each of “3” cameras all taken from the same spot. Basically there was a image_l.jpg, image_c.jpg, and image_r.jpg (left, center, right). The left and right images matched the dashboard display size justified left or right. The center image was the full width (1920x1080) image that would appear correctly on the wundermap but was trimmed on the left and right by WU. It was slick until WU flat out stopped pulling ANY of my images.
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I had a similar issue and my cam only shows up on WU when I keep the infrared led's on. It shows as Black and white image. When I switch it to auto day/night, I lose upload because it goes to color. I set a schedule 7 days a week from 00:01 to 00:00 to keep it in night mode.
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@railrode1 When your camera goes into color mode the size of the image increases to to all the additional information needed to construct a color image. A better solution, than keeping it in B&W mode, would be to reduce the image "size' either by resolution of just sending a percentage of the image if your software allows it.
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Looks like WU has broken the webcam feature yet again. Mine is the spinning wheel of death and there are multiple reports of the same from other stations as well.
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Looks like WU has broken the webcam feature yet again. Mine is the spinning wheel of death and there are multiple reports of the same from other stations as well.
I had the same issue for the last day or so, but it looks like it just started working again a few minutes ago. Not holding my breath that it doesn't break again, though...
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Does anyone have any further suggestions to get images uploaded to weather underground? I didn't want to start another post since this one is here, but I cannot think of anything else I can try to get it working. I purchased a cheap POE camera and got it working in Blue Iris. Then, I added the webcam to Weather Underground, got the username and password, the device is all set up there. It is also set up in Blue Iris. When I do a test in BI, it is successful.
So I took the camera I am using and set it to post to the FTP server. I set the setting to post an image to the WU server every 61 seconds. The image size is less than 100k, the name is image.jpg. It is using passive FTP. I can log in to the server using File Zilla and can do a test upload using the credentials WU gave me, and yet WU still says the camera is offline.
I should also toss out that the uploads, using the same settings, works for Ambient Weather's website.
But I see other Webcams that are up and running when I look at WU map, so I know some part of it is working. I just can't figure out what I am missing, if anything.
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What's your Wunderground ID ?
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What's your Wunderground ID ?
The Weather Station is KNMLOVIN14
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Your station says there is no webcam associated, on Wunderground try going to My Profile/My Devices,
On the Manage Devices page select edit your PWS and use the Associate Webcam dropdown menu to select your webcam
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Your station says there is no webcam associated, on Wunderground try going to My Profile/My Devices,
On the Manage Devices page select edit your PWS and use the Associate Webcam dropdown menu to select your webcam
OK. I thought I had done that, but I just did it again and selected the webcam to associate with the station. Do you see any difference?
Thanks!
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I can see your camera is now listed with your station but no images yet. On your devices page is your camera shown as online or offline green dot or red ?
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It is likely a WU issue.
I am seeing the same that my camera is currently not shown, nor has been for the several days, with my ID [size=78%]Personal Weather Station Dashboard | Weather Underground (wunderground.com) (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IONTARIO226)[/size]
I've had similar periods of no images a number of times over the past 12 years that the camera has been on WU.
In settings my CAM1 is green buttion active status and associated with my IONTARIO226.
Going direct to the device URL it does show [/size][size=78%]Webcam Dashboard | Weather Underground (wunderground.com) (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/webcam/PaulMy/1)[/size]
Enjoy,
Paul
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I can see your camera is now listed with your station but no images yet. On your devices page is your camera shown as online or offline green dot or red ?
It still says Offline :(
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It is likely a WU issue.
I am seeing the same that my camera is currently not shown, nor has been for the several days, with my ID [size=78%]Personal Weather Station Dashboard | Weather Underground (wunderground.com) (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IONTARIO226)[/size]
I've had similar periods of no images a number of times over the past 12 years that the camera has been on WU.
In settings my CAM1 is green buttion active status and associated with my IONTARIO226.
Going direct to the device URL it does show [/size][size=78%]Webcam Dashboard | Weather Underground (wunderground.com) (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/webcam/PaulMy/1)[/size]
Enjoy,
Paul
It seems weird. Everything looks like it should work, the settings in BI are correct, as far as I can tell. When I do a test, it shows the upload of the file and says successful. I do see a file on the WU server-side that says .ftpquota, which I assume is their enforcement of a file size quota. So I have reduced the quality of the image I am uploading to be under the size I found on the forums here (180k). I have to assume BI is FTP'ing the data correctly as the same settings are used for Ambient Weather's FTP and it is working.
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Could be WU but my camera and many others are still working fine, I haven't had any problems with the WU upload for over a year and even then the problems were of my making.
If it's showing offline then it's likely a problem with the upload. In your ftp upload settings are you using the device ID (from your Wunderground devices page) for the username and the device key as password ( make sure you copy them exactly) ? also as a trial try reducing the upload frequency to once every 5 mins.
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Even with an upload success if the image name is wrong or the file size to big WU will still show your cam as offline. Try reducing your image size to under 100k as a test
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IFIFEGLE4
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Could be WU but my camera and many others are still working fine, I haven't had any problems with the WU upload for over a year and even then the problems were of my making.
If it's showing offline then it's likely a problem with the upload. In your ftp upload settings are you using the device ID (from your Wunderground devices page) for the username and the device key as password ( make sure you copy them exactly) ? also as a trial try reducing the upload frequency to once every 5 mins.
I will change the upload frequency to every five minutes and see if that changes the results.
Yes, the credentials are the same as in WU and the test says it works.
Connecting to webcam.wunderground.com
Connected
Uploading to /ftptest.txt
Sending
Successful
I also have BI create a local image to make sure is it creating an image and those images run anywhere from 80KB to 83KB, so it should be under 100KB.
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File size should be fine, mine are around 90.
One other thing you could try is to use another ftp client (a free one like Filezilla) and try using that to uploadi one of your images to WU, see if that works. I've done that myself and it works.
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It is either BI not sending to WU, or it is WU. I can't tell. BI isn't providing a detailed enough log, though it is not saying it is failing, so the absence of something might mean it is working and since Ambient Weather is working. I sent an email to them, but who knows if I will see a reply.
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I've been following along. I've got the same issues using the same setup. Blue Iris is sending the image file but the wu site is not receiving. I can log into wu ftp with fz and see that are no files under the / dir.
When I setup BI to ftp the same image file to my own hosted ftp site it works fine. The thing I don't get is how can you keep sending the same image.jpg file when I do that with FZ it asks if i want to overwrite the one thats there. Soo maybe thats why its failing. Any one that has this working please chime in. OK I found something interesting when I upload the image.jpg file with fz it uploads fine u can see it in the \dir...but it doesn't stay maybe they move it to another dir and thats how you can keep uploading the same file every 5 min. Soo you really can't view your files its always empty.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KOHNEWMI2
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BlueIris overwrites the file without prompting.
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I've been following along. I've got the same issues using the same setup. Blue Iris is sending the image file but the wu site is not receiving. I can log into wu ftp with fz and see that are no files under the / dir.
When I setup BI to ftp the same image file to my own hosted ftp site it works fine. The thing I don't get is how can you keep sending the same image.jpg file when I do that with FZ it asks if i want to overwrite the one thats there. Soo maybe thats why its failing. Any one that has this working please chime in. OK I found something interesting when I upload the image.jpg file with fz it uploads fine u can see it in the \dir...but it doesn't stay maybe they move it to another dir and thats how you can keep uploading the same file every 5 min. Soo you really can't view your files its always empty.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KOHNEWMI2
Yeah, I am getting the same thing. They do move the image as soon as it is uploaded, and the FTPQUOTA file gets modified to add it to the quota it has. But there is something wrong with the creation of the FTP account and their webpage that displays the images or something. I don't know their process, but I use BI to FTP to Ambient Weather, WOW, and a few others and they all work, except WU.
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Holy macaroni! My webcam finally started working!
It isn't showing up on the dashboard for me, but it is on the map and shows green, so not sure about that.
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The inept coders giveth, the inept coders taketh away...
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The inept coders giveth, the inept coders taketh away...
Yeah, it's weird. Something is jacked.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/webcam/wu-4118204/5 (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/webcam/wu-4118204/5)
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Wow! It looks like it started working. Mine still shows offline. What settings are you using in BI? I think you changed a few. I just want to see if our settings are the same. Thanks.
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Other than deleting and creating a bunch of other cameras? Lol, not much. It still says I don't have a camera on my dashboard, but in devices, it does show green and it does show up on the wundermap, so not sure what is up. I did change it from webcam.wunderground.com to the IP directly. I thought maybe they were having a problem with their clustering of the three servers it sounds like they have associated with the webcam.wunderground.com domain. Just a guess, but I had seen others mention the IP worked, directly. It didn't work at first, I was getting authentication errors. Eventually, I just gave up but left it attempting. Then I guess it started to upload.
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Ok I will give these a try. What is your image size at 50% and default?
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Ok I will give these a try. What is your image size at 50% and default?
Around 150KB
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Not sure if this will help or not but I managed to get my ftp webcam up and running and then it looks like now there's a drop of water on the lens hahahah
I'm using:
webcam.wunderground.com
ftp.InitFile("Type A"); <--- I'm still looking into what the means exactly, so far it looks like it means 8bit which explains why only images of a certain file size will make it to the server.
Directory is "/"
There's no mention of any port in the code, I'm guessing it has a default of 21
Here's the guide to build a camera:
https://starairvision.com/esp32-cam-ftp-webcam-for-weather-underground-with-solar-power/
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This may possibly help -
I landed on this page after searching about issues with WU not displaying my uploaded webcam images (as reported elsewhere, I was just seeing a spinning circle when trying to view my webcam images).
I could tell that my FTP uploads were working OK, the image was correctly named and within size limits, it just wasn't showing on WU.
I went into 'Manage devices' on WU, and added a 'Device Name' for the camera (this is separate from the 'ID' which the camera has of course had - I don't think it ever had a name previously, just the ID.)
As soon as I'd saved that, I was able to view the uploaded images (as composited videos), not only the latest, but all the others that had been uploaded for prior times / dates.
It used to be possible to see 'noon photos' in a calendar layout, but I can no longer spot that page (I may just be missing a trick of course)
One 'gotcha' - I noticed that after making this change, my new images weren't being uploaded, and were failing with an FTP authentication error.
The 'Manage devices' page for the camera does show a key, and by using that key as the new FTP password, the uploads started again.
So if you're having issues either with the FTP uploads, or being able to retrieve camera data that you think has been uploaded, it might be worth checking that your camera has a device name as well as an ID, and that you're using the key shown in its config as the FTP password.
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Interesting about the name.
I never used anything besides the KEY as password, per the instructions.
But I would almost swear I changed the name when it started working again.
Might have to try a test.
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This may possibly help -
I landed on this page after searching about issues with WU not displaying my uploaded webcam images (as reported elsewhere, I was just seeing a spinning circle when trying to view my webcam images).
I could tell that my FTP uploads were working OK, the image was correctly named and within size limits, it just wasn't showing on WU.
I went into 'Manage devices' on WU, and added a 'Device Name' for the camera (this is separate from the 'ID' which the camera has of course had - I don't think it ever had a name previously, just the ID.)
As soon as I'd saved that, I was able to view the uploaded images (as composited videos), not only the latest, but all the others that had been uploaded for prior times / dates.
It used to be possible to see 'noon photos' in a calendar layout, but I can no longer spot that page (I may just be missing a trick of course)
One 'gotcha' - I noticed that after making this change, my new images weren't being uploaded, and were failing with an FTP authentication error.
The 'Manage devices' page for the camera does show a key, and by using that key as the new FTP password, the uploads started again.
So if you're having issues either with the FTP uploads, or being able to retrieve camera data that you think has been uploaded, it might be worth checking that your camera has a device name as well as an ID, and that you're using the key shown in its config as the FTP password.
The Device Name is required, I am surprised yours would work if it didn't have one.
My issue is that my images are uploaded, and it makes a video and shows up on the underground map, but it says no device associated with my station when I view just the weather station. It just says Associated Webcam, there is no associated webcam with this station.
I do have a device name and have it associated with my station. The only thing I was thinking of was maybe I have a space in the device name, but I can't imagine that would make a difference.
Of course, I just checked it and now it is offline, so who knows with them. I am surprised they have so many issues that haven't been fixed.
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Funny you should say that. I show offline too. Time lapse for yesterday but not today.
Thinking back the name "change" was when I deleted and set up new. I put that new name on the cam. It has a space so I don't know what the magic combo is.
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So Mine had been working, other than the no apparent association when I look at the station. The only thing I changed was on Saturday I changed the IP to the DNS name to see if that would trigger the association, which apparently broke it. So I just changed it back to the IP and now it shows the camera as green and online. The IP I am using is 52.36.136.128. I will know tomorrow if it shows the video from today.
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Using the IP instead of weathercam.xxx.xxx works, my images are back to showing up on the wundermap.
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I tried the IP and no dice.
I just logged in to my camera directory and FileZilla showed 54.148.11.142:21.
I put that in there for now.......see what happens.
It was fine on regular address up until two days ago.
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The IP was working for a few days, then dropped and didn't come back up. So I figured I would try the DNS name, that seems to be working now, at least for a few days. It still shows no association on my station, but the webcam does show up on the map. I can even see the stars go across the 'film' at night, which is kind of cool.
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/webcam/wu-4118204/5 (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/webcam/wu-4118204/5)
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Yeah, I got nothin' ..... has been for several days. No IP, no name, nothing.
No rhyme or reason. Work fine for years then BAM!
Worked last summer wonderful when 99% were having issues......now nothing. My nerves.
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What's your Wunderground ID ?
The Weather Station is KNMLOVIN14
I see you got your camera working in the end. What was the trick that did it?
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I have the same problem - but on the page where "Asso this cam with a PWS:" - the pulldown offers grayed out and None.
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Just noticed both my Cams also show as off-line.
Don't know for how long they've been that way as I see them daily on my own site.
My setup at Wunderground is to pull the image from my sites URL,
https://weather.inverellit.com/images/Wcam1.jpg & 2
Seems like the fetching process is broken too.
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What's your Wunderground ID ?
The Weather Station is KNMLOVIN14
I see you got your camera working in the end. What was the trick that did it?
Nothing. It just sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I assume it is some issue with their system that seems random.
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Does anyone have a link to a Foscam camera that is showing up? Mine stopped showing up some time ago and if this is supposed to be working I'd be interested in knowing what settings that they are using.
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My Foscam just up and quit too. I'm sure no issue with ur cam. Just on their end.
I used Low Quality capture and image.jpg file name.
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After several emails to support @ wu I received this response
Hi!
Unfortunately, we have only very limited support for webcams.
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Which says to me "We're IBM and you little people ...".