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

Wed Nov 22 09:23:10 EST 2023

Yes, the update will be pushed out via the admin option #1.

My plan is to try to pull data from Accuweather, just like normal. If that
fails, fall back and try pulling from NOAA/NWS.  I've got this working
now, still testing.  The NOAA API is clunky and slow, so I'm working on
mitigating this.  The good thing is the NOAA API methodology does work
consistantly, so far.

I'm still hoping Accuweather will fix whatever is intermittant with their 
RSS delivery infrastructure.

73, David K4FXC

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, Tom Perry via ARM-allstar wrote:

> Good day,
The Updated Script, is this going to be an "Updated to the program",
throught the site, or  a file sent via email?

Thank you for your time in creating this new script for the community.
Tom
kd4ufd

On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 1:40â€¯PM David McGough via ARM-allstar <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

>
> 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
> >> 0ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯F, -18ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯C /
> >> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# weather.sh 28405
> >> 0ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯F, -18ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯C /
> >> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# weather.sh 28139
> >> 66ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯F, 19ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯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*
> >> 61ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯F, 16ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯C / Sunny
> >> [root at ssarcPi sbin]# weathersave.sh 64083  *this is the original script
> >> renamed*
> >> 0ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯F, -18ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â´Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¯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 11:01ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¯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
> >>> 52ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â°F, 11ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â°C / Cloudy
> >>>
> >>> [root at RPi-Z2W ~]# weather.sh 28139
> >>> 50ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â°F, 10ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â°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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