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Met Office WOW error

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WOW Response: ERROR - Response code = 429, body = The custom error module does not recognize this error.

I get that on every interval.

Is that related to how often data is uploaded? ie going over a limit?
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No there is a specific error returned if you exceed their upload limits - you often see that during catch-up.

I have been getting a "service not available" error fairly regularly recently. Maybe they have some issues their end.

I'll check my logs tomorrow...
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I have also been noticing that error, and put it down to a Met Office internal error.

My log file last night at about 2AM shows the following entries

2021-06-11 02:15:00.250 DoLogFile: Written log entry for 11/06/2021 02:15:00
2021-06-11 02:15:00.253 Writing today.ini, LastUpdateTime = 11/06/2021 02:15:00 raindaystart = 261.4 rain counter = 261.4
2021-06-11 02:15:33.704 WOW Response: ERROR - Response code = ServiceUnavailable, body = <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1- ... dtd'><html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><head><meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='content-type'/><style type='text/css'>body {font-family:Arial; margin-left:40px; }img { border:0 none; }#content { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto }#message h2 { font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; margin: 34px 0px 0px 0px }#message p { font-size: 13px; color: #000000; margin: 7px 0px 0px0px}#errorref { font-size: 11px; color: #737373; margin-top: 41px }</style><title>Service unavailable</title></head><body><div id='content'><div id='message'><h2>Our services aren't available right now</h2><p>We're working to restore all services as soon as possible. Please check back soon.</p></div><div id='errorref'><span>0FLnCYAAAAACQ7hKuMQ81SK9cMYb0kJYBTFRTRURHRTEyMjAAMjBmMzM4ZjYtN2NjZS00YTUwLWExNmUtODc2MDAwOGZkMDIw</span></div></div></body></html>
2021-06-11 02:15:57.006 SendLoopCommand: Starting - LPS 2 1

2021-06-11 02:50:15.141 SendLoopCommand: Starting - LOOP 50
2021-06-11 02:50:31.093 WOW Response: ERROR - Response code = ServiceUnavailable, body = The service is unavailable.
2021-06-11 02:51:53.073 SendLoopCommand: Starting - LPS 2 1

The attached print from my site on the Met office is also attached and does not show any error admittedly my log file is every 1 minute and the Met Office is every 5 minutes. So I think it is nothing to do with CMX and just an external system issue.
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@mapantz - I checked my log, I am only getting the Service unavailable errors every so often.

If you are getting that 429 error constantly, then something else is wrong. I'd double check your site-id and PIN.
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Pin and ID correct - never been changed in 5 years.

https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/observatio ... _id=839814

Data is going there absolutely fine, but still getting these every one minute:

2021-06-11 11:53:00.242 WOW Response: ERROR - Response code = 429, body = The custom error module does not recognize this error.
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is your interval time 5 minutes or more?

it states it needs to be 5mins or more here: https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/support/dataformats
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Yep - Every one minute.

I know what someone is going to say.. :lol:

However, I spoke to someone at the Met Office about it years ago, they said 1 minute intervals are fine, 5 minutes is the minimum.
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Mapantz wrote: Fri 11 Jun 2021 10:57 am Yep - Every one minute.

I know what someone is going to say.. :lol:

However, I spoke to someone at the Met Office about it years ago, they said 1 minute intervals are fine, 5 minutes is the minimum.

so maybe someone now enforced the 5 minute interval.
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Changed it to 5 minutes and I still get that error.

I also just spotted this:

2021-06-11 12:26:00.449 AWEKAS: Too many requests, rate limited
2021-06-11 12:26:00.449 AWEKAS: Temporarily increasing AWEKAS upload interval to 300 seconds due to rate limit

Never seen that before.

That is set to 60 seconds. In CMX it says "Min value 15 seconds" which I now suspect is meant to be 15 minutes?

I haven't seen any of those errors before..
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Logs look better now!
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429 indicates reports being sent too often. The limit is once every 5 minutes maximum. It's not enforced all the time - it does depend on incoming traffic volume. You can get away with a 1-minute interval. Catch-up will always give you problems.
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Your maximum upload rate with AWEKAS depends on your subscription level, the top level allows 15 second updates. Have a look on the site for the maximum rate you are allowed.
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Re: Met Office WOW error

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Hi all,

Since 10:00 this morning, I am receiving Cumulus MX alarm Emails saying that the service Unavailable error messages every 15mins, This is the Email from Cumulus.

A Cumulus MX alarm has been triggered.
HTTP uploads are failing.
Last error: WOW: HTTP response - Response code = ServiceUnavailable, body = <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1- ... dtd'><html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><head><meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='content-type'/><style type='text/css'>body {font-family:Arial; margin-left:40px; }img { border:0 none; }#content { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto }#message h2 { font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; margin: 34px 0px 0px 0px }#message p { font-size: 13px; color: #000000; margin: 7px 0px 0px0px}#errorref { font-size: 11px; color: #737373; margin-top: 41px }</style><title>Service unavailable</title></head><body><div id='content'><div id='message'><h2>Our services aren't available right now</h2><p>We're working to restore all services as soon as possible. Please check back soon.</p></div><div id='errorref'><span>0aNMXYQAAAABCUqVaiknHSaCJfoAISEJHTE9OMjFFREdFMDIyMgAyMGYzMzhmNi03Y2NlLTRhNTAtYTE2ZS04NzYwMDA4ZmQwMjA=</span></div></div></body></html>

and

A Cumulus MX alarm has been triggered.
HTTP uploads are failing.
Last error: WOW: HTTP response - Response code = ServiceUnavailable, body = The service is unavailable.

I think there is a problem at their end.

Any one else getting the same? I went to the Wow Met Office website and the last upload was 9:45 this morning.

Many Thanks for any information
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My last update was at 09:50 this morning, so does look like a problem at the WOW end.
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Re: Met Office WOW error

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Hi,
I am also getting that error in MXdiags starting about 05:05:31 this morning (UTC -4)
Seems that CMX is trying the upload twice and first one has the error and the second one is ok.

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2021-08-14 05:25:00.214 WOW URL = http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/automaticreading?siteid=37595665&siteAuthenticationKey=******&dateutc=2021-08-14+09%3A25%3A00&winddir=0&windspeedmph=0.0&windgustmph=0.0&humidity=86&tempf=58.1&rainin=0.00&dailyrainin=0.00&baromin=30.105&dewptf=53.9&UV=0.0&solarradiation=0&softwaretype=Cumulus%20v3.12.1&action=updateraw

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2021-08-14 05:25:31.894 WOW Response: ERROR - Response code = ServiceUnavailable, body = <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'><html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><head><meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='content-type'/><style type='text/css'>body {font-family:Arial; margin-left:40px; }img  { border:0 none; }#content { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto }#message h2 { font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; margin: 34px 0px 0px 0px }#message p  { font-size: 13px; color: #000000; margin: 7px 0px 0px0px}#errorref { font-size: 11px; color: #737373; margin-top: 41px }</style><title>Service unavailable</title></head><body><div id='content'><div id='message'><h2>Our services aren't available right now</h2><p>We're working to restore all services as soon as possible. Please check back soon.</p></div><div id='errorref'><span>07YsXYQAAAABBKHwsn35nQLovxPW7CAqFQ0hHRURHRTE2MTEAMjBmMzM4ZjYtN2NjZS00YTUwLWExNmUtODc2MDAwOGZkMDIw</span></div></div></body></html>

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2021-08-14 05:30:00.266 WOW URL = http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/automaticreading?siteid=37595665&siteAuthenticationKey=******&dateutc=2021-08-14+09%3A30%3A00&winddir=0&windspeedmph=0.0&windgustmph=0.0&humidity=86&tempf=58.1&rainin=0.00&dailyrainin=0.00&baromin=30.108&dewptf=53.9&UV=0.0&solarradiation=0&softwaretype=Cumulus%20v3.12.1&action=updateraw

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2021-08-14 05:30:32.166 WOW Response: ERROR - Response code = ServiceUnavailable, body = <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'><html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><head><meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='content-type'/><style type='text/css'>body {font-family:Arial; margin-left:40px; }img  { border:0 none; }#content { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto }#message h2 { font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; margin: 34px 0px 0px 0px }#message p  { font-size: 13px; color: #000000; margin: 7px 0px 0px0px}#errorref { font-size: 11px; color: #737373; margin-top: 41px }</style><title>Service unavailable</title></head><body><div id='content'><div id='message'><h2>Our services aren't available right now</h2><p>We're working to restore all services as soon as possible. Please check back soon.</p></div><div id='errorref'><span>0GY0XYQAAAAAL84KorZ+FTJryI/OtrEILRVdSMzBFREdFMDUxMAAyMGYzMzhmNi03Y2NlLTRhNTAtYTE2ZS04NzYwMDA4ZmQwMjA=</span></div></div></body></html>
WOW interval is set at 5 minutes

Enjoy,
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