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Offline superdudegta

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Wunderground webcam issues?
« on: September 19, 2013, 02:15:31 PM »
Hey guys, I just recently noticed that WU has deleted my archived webcam video clips except for Septembers. I have had my camera uploading to WU since February of this year and before I could see a video for each day since then, however I was looking for a recent video clip and saw that every thing was empty. Has anyone else had this problem, or did  they just decide to no longer save them?  I am aware that some other people on this forum have had some issues with their webcams as well, so I thought I would check with you guys before adjusting my settings.  
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2013, 02:39:51 PM »
They got rid of all of mine a couple of months back and now they only show the current month.

However, I don't think they have actually deleted them because invariably the current day from the previous year is available e.g. today, you can see my archive from 19th September 2012.

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2013, 03:19:39 PM »
I noticed the same thing for my 2 webcams.  I emailed William and he said that they had some server changes and lost the archive but they're working on rebuilding the archive now.
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2013, 03:40:02 PM »
I just checked out your webcam and it looks just like mine does with the current month archives only. Well that pretty much answers my question. Well now I know there is nothing wrong on my end!  I  appreciate you showing me your webcam!  Do you by chance know of any free webcam software that would make daily archives that I could save them to my external hard drive?  I have a Foscam F18905W.

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2013, 03:46:34 PM »
Do you by chance know of any free webcam software that would make daily archives that I could save them to my external hard drive?

I think there are some other members here who use free software, but unfortunately I do not know what it is.  You can see from my signature that I use Image Salsa and Movie Salsa.  I'm still trying to figure out a way to automate the archive page that I created (here: http://robuck.net/weather/images/webcam/Calendar2013.html).  I just put that page up as a placeholder and it is manually written.
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2013, 04:08:00 PM »
Those archives can get big... quickly.
My cams are here: http://frankfortweather.us, although #4 may go offline in a few minutes for a couple of hours (4pm EDT on Thursdays is Grass Mowing Time - and my 'yardman' doesn't like to "be on TV")
I use Webcam 7 XP, and if I decide to record real time, or save an archive of stills, I just tell it to, and it does so, wherever I point it. Otherwise, I stopped the archiving long ago, even with 15 Tb available.
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2013, 04:29:21 PM »
Those archives can get big... quickly.

Hi Mike...

I capture a 640x480 still every 15 seconds with each camera and then create a time lapse every other hour.  Movie Salsa builds an AVI movie that ends up being about 250 MBs by the end of the day.  I use a batch file to covert the AVI to an MP4 file that ends up being about 7 MBs which really isn't that much, space wise.  Since my web host as unlimited space and doesn't charge me for what I use, I just upload all the movies from the end of each day to my web host and they get archived there.  I still haven't got streaming setup yet but I sure do like your fine setup!  =D>
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2013, 05:29:28 PM »
Hi Mike...
I capture a 640x480 still every 15 seconds with each camera and then create a time lapse every other hour.  Movie Salsa builds an AVI movie that ends up being about 250 MBs by the end of the day.  I use a batch file to covert the AVI to an MP4 file that ends up being about 7 MBs which really isn't that much, space wise.  Since my web host as unlimited space and doesn't charge me for what I use, I just upload all the movies from the end of each day to my web host and they get archived there.  I still haven't got streaming setup yet but I sure do like your fine setup!  =D>
Thanks for the "like"... it took awhile to evolve. Your time lapse(s) are just beautiful, and the quality outstanding!
At the risk of hijacking Superdude's thread; here's some details he (and you) might find interesting, though it does discuss archiving.
http://ourspecial.net/twinhollies/hollycam2/aboutHollyCams.htm will tell you how I was getting my original time lapses up, especially under the heading "How to Qualify for Psychotherapy". :lol:
The FLV's were about 9MB ea and when I reached about 6 or 7 GB on the server, I received a perfectly nice note from my host suggesting that since they were growing so big I should drastically limit their size, as they equated to "little, or no-traffic archive storage" rather than an 'active' part of my sites - even though I had "unlimited" disc space. They were perfectly correct, and that may be part of your 'unlimited' disc space contract also, if you use a shared server.  :sad:
(With the further addition of some features on my domains, and weather site, I expect any time to receive a reminder that I'm exceeding my 'fair share' of server resources too often. (About 17% at times... they get nervous over about 16%, from what I was told.)

When I 'retired' the original cam, and went with Logitech C920s I went to 1024 x 576 to cover more sky with the 3 'sky' cams, streaming them from my weather pc, with the weather radio, VWS, etc. The 4th cam is on an old HP820 by it's lonesome, at 800x600. WC7 does all the still image uploading to server, the live streaming as well, and also inserts the weather data from VWS. It'll save or record any or all cams as I tell it to.
Some have complained about WC7 using too much CPU, but my CPU total on that machine normally runs about 17-50% depending... if you look at any of the streams from cam 1,2,or 3 you'll see the bandwidth being used, and the CPU% in green, right below the time, on the lower right. If you look at cam 4, upper right, you'll see a slightly higher CPU%, ( with less bandwidth) all by itself, on the older machine. Newer CPUs are better, in other words.
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2013, 03:54:23 PM »
Appears as if another issue is occuring..well, at least for me.  I haven't changed a thing in my setup.  Now, updates to WU's cam servers appear to go through just fine, but the images don't update.

http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/BigOkie/1/show.html - tough to tell on this one, as I don't have a very readable date stamp on that one.

http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/BigOkie/2/show.html - this one, however, does have a readable data stamp.  The note above the image says updated and usually no more than five minutes ago (I have a cron job on my linux box to upload the images every five minutes; logs show they are doing just that), but the image there is from this morning about 8:55am.  I'm wondering if this isn't another GMT issue...
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2013, 04:03:20 PM »
ditto....same thing here.   Mine still shows the 7:58 AM image.

http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/Piconut/4/show.html
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2013, 06:37:34 PM »
WU webcams have been really herky-jerky lately.  It's sad to see how the quality of the site has sunk.
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2013, 07:08:55 PM »
It looks like this is something on wundergrounds end, since all my settings for the camera are correct and passes all test. I did look at several stations a few miles away and they all seem to be screwed up as well. As far as I am concerned I will just leave everything alone and see what happens.

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2013, 06:01:22 AM »
Same problem for me for nearly one month.

http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/marcel44250/1/show.html

The video is more than 1 week old now and the calendar seems to be empty.

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2013, 09:14:48 AM »
Webcam image is still from last evening, about 20 hours ago.

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2013, 09:23:15 AM »
Yeah, I am about to fire Weather Underground when it comes to these webcam issues.  Been going on intermittently for too long...

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2013, 11:17:10 AM »
Webcam image is still from last evening, about 20 hours ago.

Same here
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2013, 12:29:24 PM »
You are all much more patient than I am, I have fired Wunderground. :!: I tried ftping my webcam and having them grab the webcam from my website. Both ways work once in a while, but not with any regularity. I am now using AWEKAS for a quick look at my weather and my webcam is always up to date there.

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2013, 12:43:11 PM »
Ya know, ...
I've got 4 cams streaming, and stills that WU grabs from my server. It's strange to see all these reports of 'failure' from so many... as I've had no issues, with the cam images... in three years... Perhaps two or times for a an hour or three... .
Perhaps there are some other factors at times? Not defending WU at all... I'm about fed up with them for other reasons, which I decline to go into....
just sayin'...

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2013, 01:08:06 PM »
I also thought that there might be other factors at work for a while until I looked at other webcams in my area. Noon images were sometimes (usually) missing in August and early September. Since September 17th noon images are totally gone and updates to images are rare. I gave them almost two months to get things working and now I can do something else with the CPU cycles.

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2013, 09:33:50 AM »
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I am now using AWEKAS ........ my webcam is always up to date there.

Well, they pick mine up from WU so that doesn't help much. How do you provide it to AWEKAS?

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2013, 10:15:27 AM »
Awekas grabs the jpg from my website.

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2013, 10:58:55 PM »
Same here.  And I intermittently get the message

Date/Time Error: Because we are consistently receiving data from this station that is either too old or too new, we think that the time and/or date is set incorrectly in either your weather station software or operating system. Please check these settings and adjust them if necessary.
Error Last Occured: 403 days ago


I've not changed any webcam, server or other settings and I've double-checked my settings.  Cumulus is updating fine Rapid Fire, but not the webcam image.

I checked out AWEKAS and I'm not thrilled with the appearance/interface/layout, although I may have no other option.

Are there other options out there other than WU and AWEKAS?


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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2013, 11:08:38 PM »
Same here.  And I intermittently get the message

Date/Time Error: Because we are consistently receiving data from this station that is either too old or too new, we think that the time and/or date is set incorrectly in either your weather station software or operating system. Please check these settings and adjust them if necessary.
Error Last Occured: 403 days ago


I've not changed any webcam, server or other settings and I've double-checked my settings.  Cumulus is updating fine Rapid Fire, but not the webcam image.

I checked out AWEKAS and I'm not thrilled with the appearance/interface/layout, although I may have no other option.

Are there other options out there other than WU and AWEKAS?

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But, 403 days ago??? That doesn't make sense to me...
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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #23 on: October 03, 2013, 12:22:00 AM »
A couple other sites you could try are Weatherbug, and weatherforyou.com (PWS).

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Re: Wunderground webcam issues?
« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2013, 10:23:48 AM »
Hey thanks, I'll check that out.  I have no idea about the "403 days" business....I've never received these error messages until a few days ago...  :???:

A couple other sites you could try are Weatherbug, and weatherforyou.com (PWS).

 

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