Wunderfixer (as it stands now) relies on WUs WXDailyHistory.asp page. If WXDailyHistory doesn't work then wunderfixer will not work. Period.
I guess depending on where you sit on the conspiracy theory scale will determine whether you believe the current issues with WXDailyHistory are short term glitches or a silent closure of the service. There are a few threads on wxforum.net that touch on this issue, and of course many others that touch on the WU issues over the last not so long period. There seems to have been a few posts from WU staff indicating that 'all the old stuff is very fragile', so that could mean short term glitch, but on the other hand WU has been pushing folks towards their 'new' API which could mean the end for WXDailyHistory. The 'new' WU API that is available to PWS owners/uploaders does have a '1 day rapid history request' that provides what seems like the same sort of info as WXDailyHistory, albeit in JSON format and with a whole pile more cruft, well at least as far as wunderfixer is concerned. So in theory there is no reason wunderfixer could not be reworked to utilise the '1 day rapid history request' data. Of note to use the new API you need to have a (new) API key, whereas WXDailyHistory/wunderfixer does not require an API key. One shortcoming I did notice with the '1 day rapid history request' is there appears to be no way to obtain a given days data; you get the current day only, whereas with WXDailyHistory you can choose the date required, so that would mean no more historical wunderfixing. In any case, those who may consider WU as a de facto backup may want to start brushing up on their bash/MySQL skills and implement a robust local backup arrangement (though on WUs form you should have done that ages ago). Gary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/eedc53a5-c2e8-4e96-8574-9f0cf152a480%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
