Senior moment with Raspberry Pi and FTP settings!

[philpugh]

I run CumulusMX 3031 (CMX) on a Raspberry Pi 2. It has been running apparently without any outward signs of issues for several weeks. However: recently I did a quick spring clean of the Vantage Vue ISS by turning off the DAVIS console (no AC or battery power) before dismantling bits of the ISS. When I restarted the Console I thought I would check the diagnostics on CMX.

Yes it had detected the loss of data but had carried on and picked up as soon as the console came back - well done Steve!

However I noticed there were many messages regarding failure to connect to the FTP server cropping up every 5 mins - the update time I have - throughout the log. I thought this was strange as I am not using FTP as my webserver is also on the same RasbPi.

Now when I set this up it wouldn't let me use a blank destination in the FTP/Web hostname etc so I had simply put 127.0.0.1 and set the user name and password to the one I use to access the RasbPi. CMX FTP was objecting to this as the RasbPi doesn't have FTP installed - and I would rather leave it off. So....

I double checked all my settings in Extra Web files and non had FTP set - so I unchecked the AutoUpdate box in Web/FTP settings - this cured the FTP message - but seemed to prevent the .json files being produced every 5 mins - so I had to recheck it. To get over the FTP error in the log I had to set the FTP destination to my ISP FTP server - which at least reduces the data in the log file, but is not the solution I need

I have obviously missed something simple! What should I be doing to stop it trying to FTP things please?

[steve]

Just leave the host blank. I did this myself for a test yesterday and it works, so I don't know why it wouldn't let you leave it blank. You might find that it still attempts to connect to localhost until you restart, I think the check I do on whether the host is blank doesn't catch it until it's been read from cumulus.ini - there are a number of ways that a blank field can manifest itself.

[philpugh]

Thanks for the quick reply Steve.

The restart did it - I had tried blanking the Host name - but it had complained about a blank name but I had not restarted it - silly mistake to make.

The not letting me blank it out was the fact that you can't have an empty port number in the FTP setting. I had tried taking the name out - CMX spotted this and complained so I had tried taking everything out - and lit up the options red on the console with complaints about not being able to have no port number. However I hadn't done any restart - that was the trick - I should have remembered that - thanks again

[steve]

I've changed the code so that it now caters for a blank host name when it's just been set, as well as when read from cumulus.ini.