Wunderground uploads using wunderfixer

[Ernest Jillson]

Good afternoon group.

 

I emailed Weather Underground support yesterday about backfilling observations after having no internet for two days. Here was the response:

 

"Thank you for being so kind as to want to backfill your station's data.  But because of the quality control process we have in place, data that is more than an hour old is discarded.  So the upload is a success, but it will never appear on the site.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.  Thank you for being part of the Weather Underground community!

--Victoria"

 

While I did reply back and ask if that feature would be restored at any time in the future, I think we can call this process dead. It sounds like wunderfixer will still work, though, for data less than 1 hour old.

 

Ernie

[Tom Keffer]

Thanks for verifying what we've always suspected. I'm actually surprised they responded at all!

For just this reason we've dropped wunderfixer from V5.

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[Andy Peterman]

Strange, I'm still running 4.10.2 and just used wunderfixer successfully.  Our Internet was down for about 3 hours, I ran wunderfixer, and it filled in the entire period.  Also, last weekend weewx hung right after the time change (not sure why, but that's another problem) and when I got it going again, I had about a 4 hour gap.  Once again, I ran wunderfixer and it filled in the 20+ entries that were missing.  It was a while before the data showed up, but I checked and it's definitely there.

Are you sure that Weather Underground has removed this feature?

[Tom Keffer]

Good to know! So, it appears the WU will allow postdating of up to 4 hours.

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[Tom Keffer]

If someone wants to take it on as a project, we could put it in its own repository.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 10:47 AM 'Andy Peterman' via weewx-user <weewx...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Actually, I've had this work for entries even older.  I just had it update entries from the previous day and it seems to have worked.  

Let's keep wunderfixer around!

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