Cumulus Support

Further to my migration post. I was so close to a perfect migration. The PI is chatting to the station, its updating the web page, a bit of fiddling to fix the steel series drives but got there in the end, WOW is running, but Weather underground is not. I find this in the MXDiags.

2016-10-22 18:39:02.232 http://weatherstation.wunderground.com/ ... =updateraw
2016-10-22 18:39:02.238 Creating WOW URL #1
2016-10-22 18:39:02.239 http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/automaticre ... =updateraw
2016-10-22 18:39:02.240 1 archive entries processed
2016-10-22 18:39:02.240 Get Archive Data
2016-10-22 18:39:02.241 Rollover hour = 0
2016-10-22 18:39:02.241 Last Archive Date: 22/10/2016 18:35:00
2016-10-22 18:39:02.241 Date: 8534
2016-10-22 18:39:02.241 Time: 1835
2016-10-22 18:39:02.842 Sending DMPAFT
2016-10-22 18:39:02.849 Received response to DMPAFT, sending date and time
2016-10-22 18:39:02.849 56-21-2B-07-49-AF
2016-10-22 18:39:02.849 Wait for ACK...
2016-10-22 18:39:02.872 ACK received
2016-10-22 18:39:02.872 Waiting for response
2016-10-22 18:39:02.872 Response: 00 00 00 00 00 00
2016-10-22 18:39:02.872 Reading data: 0 pages , offset = 0
2016-10-22 18:39:02.877 Updating highs and lows
2016-10-22 18:39:02.882 Start normal reading loop
2016-10-22 18:39:02.888 Start Timers
2016-10-22 18:39:02.895 Starting 1-minute timer
2016-10-22 18:39:02.923 Attempting realtime FTP connect
2016-10-22 18:39:03.606 Starting Realtime timer, interval = 30 seconds
2016-10-22 18:39:03.614 Uploading WU archive #1
2016-10-22 18:39:03.946 Uploading WOW archive #1
2016-10-22 18:39:04.560 WU Response: OK: OK
2016-10-22 18:39:04.560 End of WU archive upload
2016-10-22 18:39:04.584 WOW Response: OK: {}
2016-10-22 18:39:04.585 End of WOW archive upload
2016-10-22 18:39:04.987 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:40:00.950 Writing log entry for 22/10/2016 18:40:00
2016-10-22 18:40:00.952 Written log entry for 22/10/2016 18:40:00
2016-10-22 18:40:00.957 Writing today.ini, LastUpdateTime = 22/10/2016 18:40:00 raindaystart = 840.400024414063 rain counter = 840.4
2016-10-22 18:40:06.139 Updating internet settings
2016-10-22 18:40:06.173 Writing Cumulus.ini file
2016-10-22 18:40:42.795 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:41:17.161 Updating internet settings
2016-10-22 18:41:17.162 Writing Cumulus.ini file
2016-10-22 18:42:20.766 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:43:58.913 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:45:01.310 WU Response: OK: <b>RapidFire Server</b><br><br>
<b>usage</b><br>
action [action = updateraw]<br>
ID [ID as registered by wunderground.com]<br>
PASSWORD [PASSWORD registered with this ID]<br>
dateutc - [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (mysql format)]<br>
winddir - [0-360]<br>
windspeedmph - [mph]<br>
windgustmph - [windgustmph ]<br>
humidity - [%]<br>
tempf - [temperature F]<br>
rainin - [rain in]<br>
dailyrainin - [daily rain in accumulated]<br>
baromin - [barom in]<br>
dewptf- [dewpoint F]<br>
weather - [text] -- metar style (+RA) <br>
clouds - [text] -- SKC, FEW, SCT, BKN, OVC<br>
softwaretype - [text] ie: vws or weatherdisplay<br>

2016-10-22 18:45:36.686 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:47:14.839 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:48:52.818 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:50:00.026 Writing log entry for 22/10/2016 18:50:00
2016-10-22 18:50:00.028 Written log entry for 22/10/2016 18:50:00
2016-10-22 18:50:00.035 Writing today.ini, LastUpdateTime = 22/10/2016 18:50:00 raindaystart = 840.400024414063 rain counter = 840.4
2016-10-22 18:50:30.769 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:52:08.738 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:53:46.702 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:55:24.882 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:57:02.851 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1
2016-10-22 18:58:40.839 !!! No ack received in response to LPS 2 1

Something is not happy here. Any ideas?

Many thanks,
Dave

I hope this is readable, as it wasn't above.

It seems to be complaining about the format of the update, given that it's returning 'usage' information. There's nothing wrong with the format of the update string as displayed, so I suspect it's something to do with your password. It possibly contains an ampersand or some other 'funny' character. It's possible that MX should be doing some encoding. If your password does contain non-alphanumerics, you could consider changing it to see if that solves the problem.

As an unrelated issue, whatever it is that you have MX talking to appears not to support the LOOP2 packet; if so, you should disable them as in the instructions.

Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reply. I did have non-alphanumeric characters in the password, which I have now changed. Just waiting to see if the connection restores.
Meanwhile I am operating a Davis VP2, utilising a silicon labs serial to USB chipset. I don't know the firmware revision but I do know the device is about 10 years old so it is reasonable that its not up to date. I have followed your instructions and the log now reports that LOOP2 is disabled. Thanks for that.
And I can final report that WU is now up and running.

Just dawned on me that the graphics are no longer supported to the website. However, as the website is unchanged from the PC based service the last set of graphics remain. Bit of tweeking of the master HTML files required. I will have to figure out how to remove the mouse-over on the steel series display as well.

Many thanks for you help.
Dave