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Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute interval?
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 7:21 am
by William Grimsley
Hi there,
My PC turned off during the night and I found that when Cumulus went to catch up the data to Weather Underground, WOW and PWS (though PWS Weather doesn't seem to catch up). It catches up in 1 minute intervals not 5 minute intervals like Cumulus does when it catches up. Can this interval be changed?
Thanks,
William
Re: Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute inter
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 7:27 am
by steve
It uploads one 'catch up' entry for each entry it downloads from the logger at start up; it doesn't make sense to do it any other way as in the general case that would mean trying to interpolate or extrapolate entries at one interval into entries at a different interval.
So my guess would be that you have your station's logger interval set to one minute?
I think you're right about PWS Weather; it seems that only WU actually does anything with retrospectively uploaded data.
Re: Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute inter
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 7:39 am
by William Grimsley
steve wrote:It uploads one 'catch up' entry for each entry it downloads from the logger at start up; it doesn't make sense to do it any other way as in the general case that would mean trying to interpolate or extrapolate entries at one interval into entries at a different interval.
So my guess would be that you have your station's logger interval set to one minute?
I think you're right about PWS Weather; it seems that only WU actually does anything with retrospectively uploaded data.
Ok, thanks.
No, my station's logger interval is set to 5 minutes like my website.
Re: Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute inter
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 7:44 am
by steve
If you zip up the diags folder and attach it, I'll take a look.
Re: Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute inter
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 7:51 am
by William Grimsley
The "Diags.zip" folder has been attached.
Re: Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute inter
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 8:03 am
by steve
Your station's logger is set to 1 minute:
15/08/2013 07:43:21.055 : VP2: Downloading history from 15/08/2013 03:25:00
15/08/2013 07:43:21.055 : y=2013 m=8 d=15 h=3 m=25
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: DownloadData_V = 257
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: GetNumberOfArchiveRecords_V = 257
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Number of history records = 257
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : Logger entry zero: Y = 2013, M = 8, D = 15, H = 3, M = 26
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Earliest timestamp 15/08/2013 03:26:00
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Actual number of valid history records = 257
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Setting raindaystart from todayfile = 414.799987792969
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Finding raintoday from logfile C:\Cumulus\data\Aug13log.txt
15/08/2013 07:43:33.705 : VP2: Setting raintoday from logfile = 0
15/08/2013 07:43:33.705 : VP2: Setting raintotal = 414.799987792969
15/08/2013 07:43:33.768 : VP2: processing logger data entry 0 for 15/08/2013 03:26:00
257 entries for the period 03:26 to 07:43 is 1 per minute.
15/08/2013 07:43:34.192 : VP2: processing logger data entry 1 for 15/08/2013 03:27:00
15/08/2013 07:43:34.338 : VP2: processing logger data entry 2 for 15/08/2013 03:28:00
15/08/2013 07:43:34.852 : VP2: processing logger data entry 3 for 15/08/2013 03:29:00
Re: Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute inter
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 8:06 am
by William Grimsley
steve wrote:Your station's logger is set to 1 minute:
15/08/2013 07:43:21.055 : VP2: Downloading history from 15/08/2013 03:25:00
15/08/2013 07:43:21.055 : y=2013 m=8 d=15 h=3 m=25
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: DownloadData_V = 257
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: GetNumberOfArchiveRecords_V = 257
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Number of history records = 257
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : Logger entry zero: Y = 2013, M = 8, D = 15, H = 3, M = 26
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Earliest timestamp 15/08/2013 03:26:00
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Actual number of valid history records = 257
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Setting raindaystart from todayfile = 414.799987792969
15/08/2013 07:43:33.632 : VP2: Finding raintoday from logfile C:\Cumulus\data\Aug13log.txt
15/08/2013 07:43:33.705 : VP2: Setting raintoday from logfile = 0
15/08/2013 07:43:33.705 : VP2: Setting raintotal = 414.799987792969
15/08/2013 07:43:33.768 : VP2: processing logger data entry 0 for 15/08/2013 03:26:00
257 entries for the period 03:26 to 07:43 is 1 per minute.
15/08/2013 07:43:34.192 : VP2: processing logger data entry 1 for 15/08/2013 03:27:00
15/08/2013 07:43:34.338 : VP2: processing logger data entry 2 for 15/08/2013 03:28:00
15/08/2013 07:43:34.852 : VP2: processing logger data entry 3 for 15/08/2013 03:29:00
Really? Not on my data log interval... It shows 5 minutes.

Re: Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute inter
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 8:13 am
by steve
William Grimsley wrote:Really? Not on my data log interval... It shows 5 minutes.

If you mean the logging interval in Cumulus, that's nothing to do with the logging interval in your station. That's why the Cumulus documentation says you should set them to the same value, because they are two different settings. If you want to change your station's interval, the easiest way is to use Weatherlink, although I seem to remember that with a Vue you can do it directly on the console?
Re: Weather Underground Catch Up 1 minute not 5 minute inter
Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013 8:14 am
by William Grimsley
steve wrote:William Grimsley wrote:Really? Not on my data log interval... It shows 5 minutes.

If you mean the logging interval in Cumulus, that's nothing to do with the logging interval in your station. That's why the Cumulus documentation says you should set them to the same value, because they are two different settings. If you want to change your station's interval, the easiest way is to use Weatherlink, although I seem to remember that with a Vue you can do it directly on the console?
Hi Steve,
Oh, I see...
After I sent that message I did go into Weatherlink and changed the archive interval from 1 minute to 5 minutes. Hopefully, that changes the catch up intervals.
Thanks for your help Steve,
William