Cummlus not uploading inside Temp and Humidity graphs

[jlfutari]

Hi All,
I've been a user of Cumulus for 3 months and I love the software.
There is one problem that i have experienced for the last week. The Inside Temperature and Humidity graphs are not being uploaded by Cummulus - See http://www.users.on.net/~freespirit/weather/trends.htm.
As you see, these 2 graphs are old(in fact several days old). Cumulus is producing the graphs correctly locally(on my PC), but as I said above, for some reason Cumulus is not uploading them.
Can anyone share some light on why this is occurring?

Thanks for any help

James
http://www.users.on.net/~freespirit/weather/index.htm

[steve]

The indoor temp and humidity graphs are the last ones to be uploaded - after the moon bitmap, and your moon image also seems to be out of date, so I think Cumulus is hitting an error creating (or uploading) the moon bitmap, or perhaps one of the images before that. You don't seem to have a wind rose image. It should carry on and do the others, though, if it hits an error, so it's a bit strange.

If you're sure the images are all being created but not uploaded, then the best thing to do would be to turn on the ftp log and the debug log, and hopefully those two logs plus the diags files will between them throw some light on the problem.

[jlfutari]

Thanks Steve for the quick reply,
I have enabled the log's, what should i be looking for in the log's that may help me track down my problem?

James

[steve]

I have enabled the log's, what should i be looking for in the log's that may help me track down my problem?

It should be fairly obvious if there's an error message, but just attach them here and I'll have a look.

[jlfutari]

Hi Steve,
Here are the 2 Logs attached.


Thanks

[steve]

It looks like your uploads are timing out:

21:47:40:259 010410E0 TriggerDataSent 1076
21:47:55:196 ! Aborting
21:47:55:196 ! HighLevelAsync 0
21:47:55:196 ! Abort detected
21:47:55:196 ! HighLevelAsync done

The connection to your ftp server seems quite slow - what ftp interval are you using? It looks like it hasn't finished the previous upload when it's time for the next one to take place - but this in itself shouldn't cause the problem.

[jlfutari]

Hi Steve,
I upload data every minute (every 60 seconds) to my web site.

James

[steve]

Hi Steve,
I upload data every minute (every 60 seconds) to my web site.

Hmmm... I guess if it weren't for the timeout it might just get the uploads finished within a minute before it's time for next one - i.e. it would be uploading constantly. But it always gets to to the same point, about 45 seconds into the uploads, when the file transfer takes more than 15 seconds and times out:

21:41:37:790 010417F0 TriggerDataSent 992
21:41:37:790 010410E0 TriggerDataSent 1104
21:41:53:696 ! Aborting

[steve]

It seems to be windgauge.png which times out (it's a bit hard to work out because the messages from your ftp server aren't as useful as they might be). Could you have a look at that file on your PC and see if it looks OK and is getting created OK each time?

[jlfutari]

It appears the windgauge.png on my web site is not uploading despite it being created every time data is downloaded from the web station. Also compass.png seems to be in the same boat.
?
James
p.s. I have just shutdown and re-started Cumulus and nothing seems to have changed

[steve]

It appears the windgauge.png on my web site is not uploading despite it being created every time data is downloaded from the web station. Also compass.png seems to be in the same boat.

Yes, it's because it's the upload of windgauge.png which is timing out - I don't know why. So no files which would normally be uploaded after that get uploaded.

[gemini06720]

...I upload data every minute (every 60 seconds) to my web site...

James, if I may, why do you update everything (HTM pages and graphic images) every minutes? That is really not needed! And it would make no difference to your users as most people do not continuously click on the refresh button of their browser. May I suggest that you change the uploading setting to 5 minutes - this will reduce the upload traffic and possibly prevent your host server from deactivating your account because of the too large number of consecutive uploads (as many host seem to be doing recently)...

There is one small file that is (should be) uploaded every 5-10 seconds, and that is the 'realtime.txt' file.

If you want you main (current) weather page to be continuously displaying updated weather information, then you have to modify the main (current) weather page to use PHP and JavaScript. But the realtime modifications should be done only if you have a good knowledge of PHP and a basic understanding of JavaScript and, most importantly, if PHP is available on your Internet host server.

By the way, none of the other weather pages (other than the main page) need to be continuously (every minute) updated as the information they contain does not change that often, even with 5-minute update those pages would not display many changes.

[jlfutari]

Hi Ray,
You are right... there is no real need for me to update every minute.... I will extended it out to 5 mins and see if that fix's my problem.
Thanks


James

[jlfutari]

Well, changing the upload time to every 5 mins seems to have not fixed anything. I have recently upgraded to the latest version of Cumulus, but I don't believe that the problems mentioned above started occurring straight after the install.
???

James

[steve]

You could ask your ISP if they know why your uploads are timing out?