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PWSweather date and time upload format supports "now"
jwreynoldson:
Just a heads up for anyone else whose homebuilt station is real time clock challenged...
The pwsweather observation upload http GET format for "&dateutc=" now supports "now" as s ubstitute for the specific date/time (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) format, and will date stamp the observation for you. (compatible with the Weather Underground inplementation)
Thanks, pwsweather developers. I was able to port my station (now reporting to both) simply by changing the host web address and php link.
JR PWS: BALNARR2 WU:IBALNARR2, IFLINDER3
(PS: my previous workaround was to query pwsweather before uploading and ask it what it thought the time and date was)
bohemian:
Oddly enough, I seem to be having an issue with this. If I use dateutc=now, calls to PWSweather.com come back with the message:
ERROR: Missing required parameter dateutc
So maybe something has changed since the OP tried this.
jwreynoldson:
I've just checked, and my station which uses this option is currently reporting successfully.
bohemian:
--- Quote from: jwreynoldson on October 21, 2020, 03:55:44 PM ---I've just checked, and my station which uses this option is currently reporting successfully.
--- End quote ---
Thanks for checking.
It's still not working for me but I think it just gives that error message, even though that is quite possibly not the error. I sent a dummy call with completely bogus creds and got exactly the same message.
This is a swine to debug ...
galfert:
There are two choices of path to upload to PWSweather. Maybe one path accepts dateutc=now and the other doesn't?
Path choices:
/pwsupdate/pwsupdate.php?
/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?
Well if you include the different domains there are actually even more choices. You can see results of my testing in the following post:
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=39535.0
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