Cumulus Support

I now have a system running on a windmill (Oldlands Mill near Keymer in Sussex) with thanks to a number of people here for ideas and advice.

The sensors are mounted on the mill, which means that as the mill is turned towards the wind a varying deviation is introduced. I have an Arduino and a magnetometer reading the current mill heading, to allow correction to the 'wind direction' as read on line. Again, thanks to folks here for suggestions to make this work with Cumulus. You can see the gauges athttp://www.oldlandwindmill.co.uk/newsit ... 221-MH.htm. It isn't perfect but it is quite serviceable for us!

An outstanding issue is that we are uploading data using 3G. This works fine, except we aren't on a fixed IP address, so have to alter the website server which uses IP address as part of its security system.

Is anyone else using 3G to FTP? We have a problem with misleading IP addresses on Orange, possibly due to it roaming to tmobile. I have a solution extracting the IP using php, but I don't know if this is the real answer. Any suggestions?

Stuart

The vast majority of internet access is on dynamic IP. Fixed IP service costs more if it is even available. Because of this, having your address as part of security is very unusual. Given you are in a fixed location, how often is your address changing?

(Site looks great, by the way!)

You could set up a Dynamic DNS http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Set_Up_Dynamic_DNS which should solve your problem.

Charlie wrote:The vast majority of internet access is on dynamic IP. Fixed IP service costs more if it is even available. Because of this, having your address as part of security is very unusual. Given you are in a fixed location, how often is your address changing?

(Site looks great, by the way!)

Address changing varies. At the extremes, it can run for a week, or change 3 times in a night. Apparently our web service provider implemented the IP address checking after a spate of server attacks using passwords mined from ftp software...We can disable it for a timed period, but they advise against doing so for extended periods (more than a matter of hours).

Stuart

Stuart2007 wrote:

Charlie wrote:The vast majority of internet access is on dynamic IP. Fixed IP service costs more if it is even available. Because of this, having your address as part of security is very unusual. Given you are in a fixed location, how often is your address changing?

(Site looks great, by the way!)

Address changing varies. At the extremes, it can run for a week, or change 3 times in a night. Apparently our web service provider implemented the IP address checking after a spate of server attacks using passwords mined from ftp software...We can disable it for a timed period, but they advise against doing so for extended periods (more than a matter of hours).

Stuart

Well, that rules out using something like dynamic DNS, since those services typically can't deal with changes more often than about once a day. Frankly, it's a silly kludge - they just needed to implement some enforced strong password rules, like every other business doing hosting. I'd be writing software to keep it disabled, or simply moving to a different provider. There are lots of cheap/free places to keep a weather station website online.

Charlie wrote:

Stuart2007 wrote:

Charlie wrote:The vast majority of internet access is on dynamic IP. Fixed IP service costs more if it is even available. Because of this, having your address as part of security is very unusual. Given you are in a fixed location, how often is your address changing?

(Site looks great, by the way!)

Address changing varies. At the extremes, it can run for a week, or change 3 times in a night. Apparently our web service provider implemented the IP address checking after a spate of server attacks using passwords mined from ftp software...We can disable it for a timed period, but they advise against doing so for extended periods (more than a matter of hours).

Stuart

Well, that rules out using something like dynamic DNS, since those services typically can't deal with changes more often than about once a day. Frankly, it's a silly kludge - they just needed to implement some enforced strong password rules, like every other business doing hosting. I'd be writing software to keep it disabled, or simply moving to a different provider. There are lots of cheap/free places to keep a weather station website online.

Oh, we have the option of disabling it, just they advise against it. Perhaps we should ignore the advice - we have been tempted to!

Our AWS hangs on the back of the main website, so we are in effect tied to this free, friendly and highly reliable supplier.

Stuart