Met Office WOW program

[corrour24]

I have joined the Met Office WOW program and it gives Cumulus as one of the 2 programs to upload data to them automaticaly how do i set it up please

Thanks

John

[steve]

You need the 1.9.2 beta version, then you just put your WOW details into the internet settings, rather like setting up Weather Underground or PWS Weather:

Pomona - pomona_2011-07-21_15-50-50.png

[corrour24]

Thanks Steve
I will Upgrade the Software and give it a go.
It Looks like i will have to change my wind measurement from MPH to Knots or M/s
If I do this will it affect all my data from Feb 2011.

Thanks
John

[steve]

If you change your units in Cumulus, it will invalidate all of your existing data. But you don't need to change your units for WOW, the units that WOW displays are independent of the units in Cumulus.

[corrour24]

Hi Steve
Got it all set up and working exept it only seems to do the wow update on cumulus startup and not every 15 minutes as set
I have got the catch up box ticked in internet settings.

thanks
john

[steve]

It seems to have been working up until 13:45 today:

Met Office WOW Site 'NEWARK Notts UK (6307069)' Observations - Mozilla Firef_2011-07-24_20-10-09.png

Do you know what might have changed after that?

If you turn on the debug log, and then wait for a minute or so after an update should have taken place, the debug.log file will show the attempted update and any error message returned from WOW.

[corrour24]

Steve
that was the time i started cumulus up and it did the catchup it hasnt updated since
I will close and open again to see it it updates
and start the log

john

[corrour24]

Steve

Log attatched

[steve]

1816.422 : 21:20:18 WOW Response Code: 400 Response = {"errorMessage":"One or more fields have failed validation checking. Please check and try again.\nReport Date \/ Time : The date and time must not be in the future\n"}

Is your PC clock correct? They're quite strict about timestamps.

[steve]

Ah, hold on:

1811.641 : 21:20:13 Updating WOW
1811.641 : http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/automaticre ... s%20v1.9.2

You don't seem to have your PC set up correctly for GMT and BST, you seem to be running it on GMT+1 with no time offset.

[corrour24]

will check and report
it was 20 seconds fast

Back to the Future I Thinks

Thanks All Working
I will look at the abst thing
john

[steve]

it was 20 seconds fast

Yes, but that wasn't the problem; it was actually an hour fast as far as GMT/UTC was concerned. But it looks like in correcting the time you have also corrected the timezone/daylight savings issue

[corrour24]

Thanks for your help steve
Think i have got it sorted now not sure what will hapen when the clocks change though.

John

[philcdav]

Hi guys.

WOW. What to say ?

What a brilliant addition, well done.