191 967 Last Error Webtags

[Synewave]

Hi Steve,

I've just been helping another member (robynfali) to add the new Error information to his System Status page.

The webtags have been placed into a new file called realtimeextras.txt and added to the 'extra files' section of the Cumulus internet settings with Process, Realtime and FTP all ticked.

The file on his PC is like this:

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<#LatestError>~
<#ErrorLight>~
<#LatestErrorTime>~
<#LatestErrorDate>~

The tildas are the seperators.

The file is being processed as follows:

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An error has occurred during the Wunderground update~
0~
14:03~
05/12/2010~

and can been seen at http://www.h-i-r.org.uk/weather/realtimeextras.txt
The file is being updated every 48 seconds.

His error light is not flashing in Cumulus (as he has clicked on the error light) and is reflected in this file.

In my realtimeextras.txt http://www.synewave.co.uk/gcsweather/realtimeextras.txt file I have:

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~
0~
----~
------~

indicating the last error has been cleared and the date and timestamps have also. My last error was an FTP Connect Timeout which I have also cleared .

Does the new error webtag work differently for errors other than FTP errors?

[steve]

Some errors get logged to the error log form but don't flash the light; I think currently the only ones like that are FTP connect retries (but if the connect fails after the 3 retries, the final error does flash the light), and Wunderground and PWS failures. But all of the errors logged to the error log form affect the new web tags, irrespective of whether they flash the light. I'm open to suggestions that this behaviour should change.

[robynfali]

Paul,

Don't know what happened, but it's cleared itself now, I haven't done anything, but now its showing --- rather than date/time

[robynfali]

@ Steve

I think you should leave it as ALL errors are logged, its handy to know if any error has occoured, rather than just the FTP error. My reason for this is cumulus is running on the wife's pc, I cant always get at it, and at least this way I know if an error has occoured without incurring her wrath for disturbing her!

[Synewave]

Paul,

Don't know what happened, but it's cleared itself now, I haven't done anything, but now its showing --- rather than date/time

Rob,

The ----, yes that's how it should be if there is no error.

Did you get another FTP since the WU error? And if so, did you click on the error light to clear it?

[robynfali]

Well, its uploading every 15, so i imagine it's been uploaded since, but no, no error light mate

[Synewave]

@ Steve

I think you should leave it as ALL errors are logged, its handy to know if any error has occoured, rather than just the FTP error. My reason for this is cumulus is running on the wife's pc, I cant always get at it, and at least this way I know if an error has occoured without incurring her wrath for disturbing her!

Steve,

I too would also say leave it as it is.

Rob,

What I'll do is modify the javascript so that the error light will flash orange and show the last error if the error is anything other than FTP related. If the last error is FTP related, the red flashing light will display as it does now. How does that sound?

[robynfali]

That sounds pretty damn good to me buddy

[daj]

Just to throw into the thought process -- FTP errors being shown on the site are of course redundant and superflous. The only way to see an error is after a successful FTP, by which time and FTP error has cleared.

[Synewave]

Just to throw into the thought process -- FTP errors being shown on the site are of course redundant and superflous. The only way to see an error is after a successful FTP, by which time and FTP error has cleared.

David, good thinking, but the FTP error stays in the tag whilst the error light is flashing in Cumulus. So when Cumulus does recover from FTP failures, and uploads the tag to the website, it will show the last error. It seems to have worked for me (so far) when I force an FTP failure.

I may be mis-understanding what you are saying though.

[robynfali]

Well, these have just worked PERFECTLY for me, I got an FTP error and it showed it on the site, two different ways, the first being the error indicators that Paul did for me, and then looking down at the new error indicator telling me an ftp error had happened

Well done gents, well done indeed,

[robynfali]

Just to throw into the thought process -- FTP errors being shown on the site are of course redundant and superflous. The only way to see an error is after a successful FTP, by which time and FTP error has cleared.

David, good thinking, but the FTP error stays in the tag whilst the error light is flashing in Cumulus. So when Cumulus does recover from FTP failures, and uploads the tag to the website, it will show the last error. It seems to have worked for me (so far) when I force an FTP failure.

I may be mis-understanding what you are saying though.

The other thing with this (see my above post) is that the faults come through realtime, so if the ftp does fail, then the realtime (in my case) made it through