Hmm, I notice that WXDailyHistory is working as usual now (well for me anyway) but wunderfixer still gives a 403 error.
Gary On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:02:24 UTC+10, gjr80 wrote: > > 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/fac9e205-aca1-4376-92d6-b1ddcb889d19%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
