Topic: Wunderground Offline?

[WeatherGoose]

I can't access their website or pull any data from them.  Uploads are all failing too.  Could it be that the bugs have all come together and taken them down completely? 

[tomcj2]

It is working for me.

[WeatherGoose]

It is working for me.

Hmmm..I can access anything else on the web but them at the moment, plus the station is timing out with all Wunderground related data.  Might be a regional thing.

[TorH]

No problems with WU here at the moment, fwiw 

[sam2004gp]

Working here. 

[WeatherGoose]

Its back up here now, but I had several friends check it in various areas of Ca. and none of us could connect for a good 45 minutes.

[Chris H.]

Ho-hum.

There's two camera feeds in NM that aren't updating: mine and someone elses in Tatum. That's as far as my assumptions go.

I'm tired of bitching about this crap going on with my webcam uploads, and WU hasn't said anything in over a week.
 

  what to do, what to do

[WeatherGoose]

Ho-hum.

There's two camera feeds in NM that aren't updating: mine and someone elses in Tatum. That's as far as my assumptions go.

I'm tired of bitching about this crap going on with my webcam uploads, and WU hasn't said anything in over a week.
 

  what to do, what to do

All normal for them these days I'm afraid. 

[Chris H.]

Ho-hum.

There's two camera feeds in NM that aren't updating: mine and someone elses in Tatum. That's as far as my assumptions go.

I'm tired of bitching about this crap going on with my webcam uploads, and WU hasn't said anything in over a week.
 

  what to do, what to do

All normal for them these days I'm afraid. 

I could try different software and see if EVOcam is the culprit. Sometimes things just don't work.

Either that or my Mac's autolocking screensaver is causing EC to stop uploading...

There's so much I've yet to learn and experiment with here.

[sam2004gp]

...Well as seems to be the norm for wunderground these days.  My wunderground webcam time lapse video has not worked for the last 3 or 4 days.   

At least my webcam image is a direct upload to my site.

[DanS]

...Well as seems to be the norm for wunderground these days.  My wunderground webcam time lapse video has not worked for the last 3 or 4 days.    

At least my webcam image is a direct upload to my site.

It's the same here for many months but I really don't care about it. At least I get the still images (most of the time) to load there. No monthly history for 'em for a long time now. Just the current shot then it's gone forever.  I figure that they're hurting for space or something and turn off people with less than ideal "weather scene" shots. If/when I can ever mange to get a cam position that shows weather conditions better then I might be a little upset about it, like in your situation.

[sam2004gp]

My pics/location are not that good. 

[WeatherGoose]

Ho-hum.

There's two camera feeds in NM that aren't updating: mine and someone elses in Tatum. That's as far as my assumptions go.

I'm tired of bitching about this crap going on with my webcam uploads, and WU hasn't said anything in over a week.
 

 what to do, what to do

All normal for them these days I'm afraid.  

I could try different software and see if EVOcam is the culprit. Sometimes things just don't work.

Either that or my Mac's autolocking screensaver is causing EC to stop uploading...

There's so much I've yet to learn and experiment with here.

I would look at ANY other potential source of the problem before I would ever consider EVOcam as being a problem.  I have been uploading webcam images to Wunderground and my own web site using EVOcam for going on 13 months now 24/7 and it has never crashed or caused me any grief that entire time.  Wunderground has had tons of problems during that same time however.  

When ever something on your Wunderground page stops working, the most likely explanation would be another in a long series of "issues" with Wunderground's servers.   MY webcam image updates to my own web server have never had any problems.  These are sent at the same time as the Wunderground uploads.

[sam2004gp]

I would look at ANY other potential source of the problem before I would ever consider EVOcam as being a problem.  I have been uploading webcam images to Wunderground and my own web site using EVOcam for going on 13 months now 24/7 and it has never crashed or caused me any grief that entire time.  Wunderground has had tons of problems during that same time however.  

When ever something on your Wunderground page stops working, the most likely explanation would be another in a long series of "issues" with Wunderground's servers.   MY webcam image updates to my own web server have never had any problems.  These are sent at the same time as the Wunderground uploads.

I would have to save ditto on that as well.

[Chris H.]

This is the reply I got yesterday:

Chris,

We've noticed a couple of common problems. Please check your camera software for the following issues.

    * The most common problem is uploading images that are over our file size limitation which is 150K. Please check to see that your images are not over this limitation, and adjust your camera or software settings accordingly.

I checked. They're nowhere NEAR this size. And besides, if the last check time indicates it worked up until 7 am, and then stopped, I know that the image sizes are not exceeding 150k. Even if there is more color, more light, they don't exceed 150K.

    * Some software packages upload a tmp file and then try to rename that file as the image name. This is not working with our current ingest daemon. Please check the settings of your software to see if this feature can be disabled, allowing a direct FTP of the image. Some software packages also try to upload HTML content with an image. This will stop your image from being successfully ingested. Please upload a single image only.

I disabled this in EvoCam.

    * If you are able to upload, and the upload process reports success, but none of your images are showing on the site, make sure that your uploads are set to binary as our image conversion process will fail for images not transfered in binary format.

As for this, I have NO idea what they're talking about. WeatherGoose, help! 


Thank you for your support!


You guys are quite welcome. 

[WeatherGoose]

This is the reply I got yesterday:

Chris,

We've noticed a couple of common problems. Please check your camera software for the following issues.

    * The most common problem is uploading images that are over our file size limitation which is 150K. Please check to see that your images are not over this limitation, and adjust your camera or software settings accordingly.

I checked. They're nowhere NEAR this size. And besides, if the last check time indicates it worked up until 7 am, and then stopped, I know that the image sizes are not exceeding 150k. Even if there is more color, more light, they don't exceed 150K.

    * Some software packages upload a tmp file and then try to rename that file as the image name. This is not working with our current ingest daemon. Please check the settings of your software to see if this feature can be disabled, allowing a direct FTP of the image. Some software packages also try to upload HTML content with an image. This will stop your image from being successfully ingested. Please upload a single image only.

I disabled this in EvoCam.

    * If you are able to upload, and the upload process reports success, but none of your images are showing on the site, make sure that your uploads are set to binary as our image conversion process will fail for images not transfered in binary format.

As for this, I have NO idea what they're talking about. WeatherGoose, help!  


Thank you for your support!


You guys are quite welcome.  

OK Chris,

Lets take these one at a time:

1) If your image size is indeed staying under the 150k size limit at all times, than this is a non issue. (Check the status window in EVOcam to see the image size it is uploading)

2) I believe I provided you with a screenshot of my FTP upload path to Wunderground using EVOcam.   The path ends with "image.jpg" which is exactly the file name Wunderground wants to see.  EVOcam does not do anything other than what you tell it to do, meaning, (it does not send a TEMP image first and then change it to something else)  so if you followed my instructions, you should be sending your cam image with the file name "image.jpg"

So again... That is a non issue.

3) EVOCam sends images using Binary, so again, a non issue.

Provided that all the above is indeed set as I instructed you a few weeks ago, the issue you are experiencing is not an EVOcam issue.

I wanted to mention... My EVOcam uploads are once again working normally after problems with delays and missing images for most of this last weekend.

[Chris H.]

This is the reply I got yesterday:

Chris,

We've noticed a couple of common problems. Please check your camera software for the following issues.

    * The most common problem is uploading images that are over our file size limitation which is 150K. Please check to see that your images are not over this limitation, and adjust your camera or software settings accordingly.

I checked. They're nowhere NEAR this size. And besides, if the last check time indicates it worked up until 7 am, and then stopped, I know that the image sizes are not exceeding 150k. Even if there is more color, more light, they don't exceed 150K.

    * Some software packages upload a tmp file and then try to rename that file as the image name. This is not working with our current ingest daemon. Please check the settings of your software to see if this feature can be disabled, allowing a direct FTP of the image. Some software packages also try to upload HTML content with an image. This will stop your image from being successfully ingested. Please upload a single image only.

I disabled this in EvoCam.

    * If you are able to upload, and the upload process reports success, but none of your images are showing on the site, make sure that your uploads are set to binary as our image conversion process will fail for images not transfered in binary format.

As for this, I have NO idea what they're talking about. WeatherGoose, help!  


Thank you for your support!


You guys are quite welcome.  

OK Chris,

Lets take these one at a time:

1) If your image size is indeed staying under the 150k size limit at all times, than this is a non issue. (Check the status window in EVOcam to see the image size it is uploading)

2) I believe I provided you with a screenshot of my FTP upload path to Wunderground using EVOcam.   The path ends with "image.jpg" which is exactly the file name Wunderground wants to see.  EVOcam does not do anything other than what you tell it to do, meaning, (it does not send a TEMP image first and then change it to something else)  so if you followed my instructions, you should be sending your cam image with the file name "image.jpg"

So again... That is a non issue.

3) EVOCam sends images using Binary, so again, a non issue.

Provided that all the above is indeed set as I instructed you a few weeks ago, the issue you are experiencing is not an EVOcam issue.

I wanted to mention... My EVOcam uploads are once again working normally after problems with delays and missing images for most of this last weekend.

1) They've stayed under 100KB. Last I checked, the uploads were around 50 KB.

2) That's what I've been using for the last 14 days (under my own account of course). My trial ends tomorrow..from there I don't know if Dad will purchase it. This morning it did say that the server could not be found with a -38xx error. I haven't checked since.

3) And that's a relief.

So, in essence, what WU sent me in reply (finally, you jerks!) relates to nothing on my end? It's all on their end (as I originally suspected)?

[DanS]

I can't access their website or pull any data from them.  Uploads are all failing too.  Could it be that the bugs have all come together and taken them down completely? 

Noticed members with WU banners in their sig's don't have any right now (inc. me). Is WU actually down or is this some international block causing me not to see anything WU related for the past couple of hours?

[xykotik]

The post above yours has a classic banner with "no data."  I can't get anything from WU at the moment, so not an electronic blockade of Thailand.

[Whitbyweather]

Nothing from Wunderground here in the UK. 

[Whitbyweather]

And 30 seconds after I pressed the send button its back up!

[DanS]

O.K. appreciate the replies. It's just that my wx data upload alarms were going off around 3 hours ago and didn't want to be waiting it out if was me having the problem.

Maybe someone at WU heard me whining.

[SlowModem]

I donno.  

It seems my WU banner is working.

[DanS]

Did you happen to notice it about 15 minutes ago? I do believe it all just came back up several minutes ago.

[SlowModem]

Did you happen to notice it about 15 minutes ago? I do believe it all just came back up several minutes ago.

I borrowed it.  But I brought it back.