Weather Underground Plugin

Just an FYI i've been getting this popping up intermittently the last few days:

16 Nov 2016, 00:23:57
WUnderground Your plugin version, v1.0.03, is current.
WUnderground Error Unable to reach Weather Underground. Line 851 Reason: local variable 'parsed_simplejson' referenced before assignment
WUnderground Error Sleeping until next scheduled poll.

Not sure if it's a i7 change or another API issue.. or of course incompetence.. whatever it is.. fix it.

I'm having the same message on mine as well.

Just an FYI i've been getting this popping up intermittently the last few days:

16 Nov 2016, 00:23:57
WUnderground Your plugin version, v1.0.03, is current.
WUnderground Error Unable to reach Weather Underground. Line 851 Reason: local variable 'parsed_simplejson' referenced before assignment
WUnderground Error Sleeping until next scheduled poll.

Not sure if it's a i7 change or another API issue.. or of course incompetence.. whatever it is.. fix it.

I'm having the same message on mine as well.

Thanks for reporting in. You'll notice that I ignored Durosity's flippant report.

What's happening here is that WUnderground is responding, but the JSON engine is unable to correctly decipher the response (it's broken in some way). What you're seeing as a result of this situation is my fault because the error trap isn't representative enough of the problem. I've added an additional trap that attempts to be more descriptive of the situation and it will be in the next available version. It has nothing at all to do with I7.

Durosity, on the other hand, can sod off.

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a witty retort. But I can't. It's been a terrible last few days and I'm just drained. So I thought I'd post this to make you feel sorry for me instead.

Donations to the usual address.


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I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a witty retort. But I can't. It's been a terrible last few days and I'm just drained. So I thought I'd post this to make you feel sorry for me instead.

Donations to the usual address.


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I've felt sorry for you for a long time.

Unless it's been a really terrible few days in which case you have my sympathy.

Unless it's been a really terrible few days

The whole world has had a really terrible week.

Hi Dave

Don't know what the WUG idiots have done, but those spurious readings are now being sent even when the estimated flag is not set, so your recent fix is being bypassed.

I've just prodded them again, having had no reply since I forwarded the API details you provided.

In an attempt to give them more information I tried writing the data to a file per your menu option, but it just produced a text file containing only the date; no data.

Hi Dave

Don't know what the WUG idiots have done, but those spurious readings are now being sent even when the estimated flag is not set, so your recent fix is being bypassed.

I've just prodded them again, having had no reply since I forwarded the API details you provided.

In an attempt to give them more information I tried writing the data to a file per your menu option, but it just produced a text file containing only the date; no data.

I hope to take a deep dive on the WUnderground Plugin to see what I can do to (at least) minimize the damage. When I originally designed the plugin, I planned for obvious things (like the service being offline) but didn't really foresee this kind of trouble.

One odd thing here on my install is that it seems to be happening with only one site--this chart shows my local sensor, 2 PWS', and a US ZIP location (the red line is one of the PWS'.) So you may be able to find another site nearby that's more stable.

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Just doing a simple 'conditions' API call in a browser I've noticed that the display_location changes when the fault occurs, but the observation_location remains correct. Also, the observation_time changes to June 30!

Just doing a simple 'conditions' API call in a browser I've noticed that the display_location changes when the fault occurs, but the observation_location remains correct. Also, the observation_time changes to June 30!

Thanks for letting me know this. If you can catch the JSON showing the difference please let me know and we can share offline.

I've already got it Dave. Sent to WUG last night (but no response, naturally). Copied you offline.

Thanks! Hopefully, that will be enough for me to figure out a good way to recognize hinky data.


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I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still on the case. I have feelers out to WUnderground through several channels (maybe they'll listen if enough complain!) There's nothing that I can do about missing data (other than to ignore it) and have a good plan for instances where WUnderground sends data that's 5 months old(!) where the plugin will just retain the last good value.

Hopefully I'll have an updated version of the plugin available soon. Thanks all for your patience. With 12 hour days at the job that pays the rent and the ramp up to the Thanksgiving holiday, there's little time left where I have the capacity left in the cranium to do much quality coding. (Cue Durosity!)

Dave

Got a word back from WU. They're acknowledging that things aren't as they should be.

Hello,

There currently is an issue with state historical data through the API. We don't have an immediate fix for it, but we are investigating the problem and will fix it.

Thank you,
Wunderground Support

Oh well - at least they've acknowledged the problem!

Oh well - at least they've acknowledged the problem!

Indeed!