[arm-allstar] replacement script ---was: Weather.sh not working

[David McGough]

Hi Everyone,

Yes, something is currently flaky with the Accuweather RSS API.  The 
problem is with bad data coming from them, not the weather.sh script, per 
se.  Doing to goog'ling, (actually duck-duck-go), some comments are that 
this Accuweather is no longer supporting this API and that it's 
deprecated????  I'm not sure about this??

Anyhow,  I've put together a new script that accesses the new NOAA weather 
API directly.  This seems to work well, for all the destinations I've 
tested.  The drawback is this will only work for US/NOAA destination. But, 
it's a place to start.  I'll release this code for testing later today.


73, David K4FXC




On Sun, 19 Nov 2023, Don Heide via ARM-allstar wrote:

> Here is a screenshot of various zip codes entered using the weather.sh 
script. I have been intermittently loosing my hourly weather report with 
a temperature of 0 degrees. If I change the zip code to another within a 
few miles of the original it might work for one or two announcements and 
then go to 0 degrees again.

As can be seen in the list there are some that work and some that don't. 
If I wait a short time (10 to 20 min) and try again the results will be 
different!

I am assuming it is a problem with the weather server as I get the same 
random results by using various zip codes around the country.

Don W7MRI


On 11/18/23 22:26, David McGough via ARM-allstar wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> I did some experimenting earlier today.  I agree that the returned results
> seem to be unreliable.  I just read a comment in the Accuweather RSS
> documentation that setting metric=1 is for Celsius and metric=2 is
> Fahrenheit.  I tried both and leaving the metric parameter out entirely.
> Sometimes the query works, sometimes it reports 0 degrees.
>
> Also, I tried running the query with and without TLS (HTTP/80 and then
> HTTPS/443)....The HTTP/80 results seemed more consistent, but still not
> perfect.
>
> Looking further at their API documentation, I'm suspecting that they're
> now requiring a key/subscription for "premium" access.  Also, while
> accessing their on-line docs, I had several pages time-out, getting
> errors.  So, they might have some kind of infrastructure issue going on??
>
> I know this API had worked very reliably....Not sure when this changed?
>
> 73, David K4FXC
>
>
>
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2023, R Harkins wrote:
>
>> Same problem here. User reported that the node was saying 'temperature
>> zero'.  Here is the information you requested (using the stock weather.sh):
>>
>> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# host myip.hamvoip.org
>> myip.hamvoip.org is an alias for hamvoip.org.
>> hamvoip.org has address 74.91.126.182
>> hamvoip.org mail is handled by 10 mail.hamvoip.org.
>>
>> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# wget -qO-http://myip.hamvoip.org
>> 209.153.81.36
>>
>> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# weather.sh 64083
>> 0ô¯F, -18ô¯C /
>> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# weather.sh 28405
>> 0ô¯F, -18ô¯C /
>> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# weather.sh 28139
>> 66ô¯F, 19ô¯C / Sunny
>>
>> I did some experimenting with the curl command as found in weather.sh. I
>> found that if I removed the metric\=${FAHRENHEIT}\& from the curl command,
>> everything worked. Put it back in and temp=0.
>>
>> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# weather.sh 64083  *modified script*
>> 61ô¯F, 16ô¯C / Sunny
>> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# weathersave.sh 64083  *this is the original script
>> renamed*
>> 0ô¯F, -18ô¯C /
>>
>> I got mixed results when visiting the same urls in a browser on my desktop.
>> Sometimes it worked, sometimes I got zero temps. Very puzzling...
>>
>> Rick W0FH
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 11:01 PM David McGough via ARM-allstar <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> This seems like some kind of network issue.  From the bash shell prompt,
>>> please try these commands and report the results:
>>>
>>> [root at RPi-Z2W ~]# host myip.hamvoip.org
>>> myip.hamvoip.org is an alias for hamvoip.org.
>>> hamvoip.org has address 74.91.126.182
>>> hamvoip.org mail is handled by 10 mail.hamvoip.org.
>>>
>>> [root at RPi-Z2W ~]# wget -qO-http://myip.hamvoip.org
>>> 12.17.28.216
>>>
>>> [root at RPi-Z2W ~]# weather.sh 28405
>>> 52°F, 11°C / Cloudy
>>>
>>> [root at RPi-Z2W ~]# weather.sh 28139
>>> 50°F, 10°C / Cloudy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 73, David K4FXC
>>>
>>> On Sat, 11 Nov 2023, Steve Polley via ARM-allstar wrote:
>>>
>>>> I recently had to rebuild my node from a lightning hit. I have set up
>>>> the node like my others and they work fine but this no always gives me a
>>>> No Report when using in a bash shell with either weather.sh or
>>>> saytime.pl. It says this on my superman page as well. I have tried
>>>> multiple zip codes and airport codes with the same results. I have also
>>>> copied over weather.sh from a working node and it will not work either.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Steve N0SWP
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