Weather data in the MXDiags files

[surban21]

Hi, I'm fairly new to CumulusMX and all has run well until I started getting what looks like weather station data mixed in with my MXDiag texts that I've never seen before.

1) What could be causing this?
2) Would this cause any problems with midnight rollover?

Seems like when this started a couple days ago my NOAA reports stopped uploading to my local website server. I'm running the website from the same computer that CumulusMX is installed on. My website is not public. All the settings in the[ Interface_>NOAA Settings ] are accurate and hasn't been touch since installation. I've got it set up to copy the files to my local web server.

Below is a snippet of what is appearing in my MXDiags file; I'm running build 3196. Thank you for any help or advise.

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2022-08-23 00:30:04.682 Month.ini file read
2022-08-23 00:30:04.693 Year.ini file read
2022-08-23 00:30:04.693 LoadDayFile: Attempting to load the day file
2022-08-23 00:30:04.804 LoadDayFile: Loaded 1887 entries to recent daily data list
2022-08-23 00:30:04.804 Finding raintoday from logfile data\Aug22log.txt
2022-08-23 00:30:04.804 Expecting listsep=, decimal=.
2022-08-23 00:30:05.308 Midnight rain found in the following entry:
2022-08-23 00:30:05.308 22/08/22,00:00,70.5,88,66.8,0,1,225,0.00,0.00,29.98,25.66,76.5,57,0,70.5,70.5,0.0,0,0.000,0.000,76.6,0,0.0,360,0.00,0.00,75.2,28.3
2022-08-23 00:30:05.336 Midnight rain found, setting midnight rain count = 25.66
2022-08-23 00:30:05.336 Checking rain counter = 25.68
2022-08-23 00:30:05.336 Rain counter set to = 25.68
2022-08-23 00:30:05.338 Getting rain totals, rain season start = 1
2022-08-23 00:30:05.338 Today = 23/08/22
2022-08-23 00:30:05.338 Rainthismonth from dayfile: 2.67
2022-08-23 00:30:05.338 Rainthisyear from dayfile: 25.66
2022-08-23 00:30:05.338 Adding YTD rain: 0
2022-08-23 00:30:05.338 Rainthisyear: 25.66
2022-08-23 00:30:05.338 Station type = Davis

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[water01]

Nothing strange in that, it is standard start up data put into MXdiags by MX.

Mine for the same area

2022-08-21 15:43:57.221 Month.ini file read
2022-08-21 15:43:57.241 Year.ini file read
2022-08-21 15:43:57.246 LoadDayFile: Attempting to load the day file
2022-08-21 15:43:57.353 LoadDayFile: Loaded 926 entries to recent daily data list
2022-08-21 15:43:57.357 Finding raintoday from logfile data\Aug22log.txt
2022-08-21 15:43:57.357 Expecting listsep=, decimal=.
2022-08-21 15:43:57.466 This Cumulus MX instance is running the latest version
2022-08-21 15:43:57.466 Failed to get the latest build version from GitHub: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2022-08-21 15:43:57.493 Midnight rain found in the following entry:
2022-08-21 15:43:57.493 21/08/22,00:00,16.7,78,12.9,0,2,25,0.00,0.00,1016.1,13.50,22.8,61,1,16.7,16.7,0.0,0,0.000,16.441,17.6,0,0.0,25,0.00,0.00,17.3,19.4
2022-08-21 15:43:57.497 Midnight rain found, setting midnight rain count = 13.5
2022-08-21 15:43:57.497 Checking rain counter = 13.5
2022-08-21 15:43:57.498 Rain counter set to = 13.5
2022-08-21 15:43:57.501 Getting rain totals, rain season start = 1
2022-08-21 15:43:57.501 Today = 21/08/22
2022-08-21 15:43:57.502 Rainthismonth from dayfile: 1.29
2022-08-21 15:43:57.502 Rainthisyear from dayfile: 13.51
2022-08-21 15:43:57.506 Creating HTTP Station (Ecowitt)

[surban21]

Thanks Water01. I just never noticed it before and found it searching for reasons why my NOAA reports stopped updating on my local web server. Guess I'll keep trying to figure it out. Thanks again!

[PaulMy]

Hi,

why my NOAA reports stopped updating on my local web server

Are thy created in Dashboard - Reports > NOAA annual and monthly?
Do you have all your NOAA settings correct, including [tick] Auto FTP NOAA reports file? and/or [tick] Auto Copy NOAA reports files?

If the settings are correct to Enable Reports, check the MXdiags file for the midnight rollover time to see what is happening

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2022-08-23 00:00:00.111 Creating NOAA monthly report for August 22, 2022
2022-08-23 00:00:00.209 Saving monthly report as Reports\NOAAMO0822.txt
2022-08-23 00:00:00.210 Creating NOAA yearly report
2022-08-23 00:00:00.703 Saving yearly report as Reports\NOAAYR2022.txt
2022-08-23 00:00:00.704 NOAA reports will be uploaded at next web update

Enjoy,
Paul

[surban21]

Re-checked my NOAA Settings and AUTO FTP = unticked as I don't use FTP but I do have ticked AUTO COPY and confirmed the proper local folder to put them. I was working as expected up until a few days ago. Copying the files on the rollover from Aug 20 into Aug 21. Below is a snipped of this mornings MXDiags and everything appeared okay. BTW - I also confirmed the monthly and yearly NOAA files were being created in the Interface Reports folder. Kind of tells me that there is a problem with the path or similar but I've checked, re-check several times and they are correct. In fact I haven't touched them since creating it and was working just fine previously to this.

Thanks for all your assistance.

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2022-08-23 00:31:00.566 Writing yesterday.ini
2022-08-23 00:31:00.566 Written yesterday.ini
2022-08-23 00:31:00.566 Creating NOAA monthly report for Monday, August 22, 2022
2022-08-23 00:31:00.851 Saving monthly report as Reports\NOAAMO0822.txt
2022-08-23 00:31:00.851 Creating NOAA yearly report
2022-08-23 00:31:03.644 Saving yearly report as Reports\NOAAYR2022.txt
2022-08-23 00:31:03.646 NOAA reports will be uploaded at next web update
2022-08-23 00:31:03.715 If required the daily graph data files will be uploaded at next web update
2022-08-23 00:31:03.715 === Day reset complete
2022-08-23 00:31:03.715 Now recording data for day=23 month=8 year=2022

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Kind of tells me that there is a problem with the path or similar but I've checked, re-check several times and they are correct.

[mcrossley]

Is there anything in the log at the next logging interval - that is when the file should be copied.

[surban21]

Hi thanks mcrossley .... Not that I was able to determine. I've uploaded my MXdiags log from this morning if that will help. I did notice that if you scroll all the way to the last entry in the log and look up from there a few lines I see stuff in there mentioning 8/21/2022 but I don't know what it's telling me. Coincidentally this is the date the files stopped being uploaded.

20220823-003003.txt

[mcrossley]

That log file just shows CMX starting up and downloading historic data, it stops when that is complete.

I suggest you enable debug logging and post the next log file that covers a midnight rollover plus at least half an hour.

[surban21]

Thank you @mcrossley. I solved the issue last night and just haven't gotten around to posting it. I run CMX every four hours from a .bat file to download the information then close down until the next four hours and it repeats the process. I apparently wasn't giving it enough time to so that it could do an update to the web site. ie: shutting CMX down to soon. I increased the time for CMX to run and all is good now. Thanks for all your hard work to keep CMK going. The program is great!