Cumulus Support

Since upgrading to build 3044, my Twitter uploads look like this:
Is it some sort of URL encoding issue?

Ah, yes. I added URL encoding to b3044 because MX itself sends the text as a URL and some people had issues with extended characters causing messages to not be sent. Sorry I couldn't test this as I fall into the large group of people who cannot use the MX twitter feature anymore
If you need the Twitter feed please revert to b3043 for now.

I'll back the change out for the next build. I'm not sure what to do about twitter, as the current implementation is broken for all new users, and anyone who loses their auth keys cannot renew them either. Switching to the new API is an option I guess, but I know Steve got fed up trying to keep up with their constant API changes.

No worries Mark, I was just highlighting it. I fall into that large group too - I get one or two tweets going through on one day and then go a week without any going through.

I'll wait for the next build - and read up on the new API in the meantime.

Maybe percentage symbol? I ran into this using Meteobridge.

The standard % didnt work

but these two do: dont know if they will help in Cumulus, but might..

mcrossley wrote: ↑Tue 11 Dec 2018 12:10 am I'm not sure what to do about twitter,

Whatever you do, don't remove the production of the tweetable text. Once we have the text string, there are fairly easy workarounds such as viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16099#p131775 .

Basically, it was unfortunately a mistake for Steve to have tried to have all users using his personal Twitter App, as that is overloading the now-reduced number of tweets/day Twitter allows. Each user should set up their own Twitter App (it's easy) then they'll never overload it.

You can always create your own Twitter file. Just have Cumulus process a text file with some tags in it. Of course you wouldn't have the custom interval, but that can be solved via an external task or by having Cumulus call a script at each update interval that only tweets at set intervals.

Guess I'm saying that even if Twitter was removed from Cumulus completely it wouldn't mean the end of tweets.

if you send data to weathercloud, then weathercloud can upload content for you to twitter too.