[arm-allstar] AutoSky broke?

[David McGough]

I'll take a look at the AutoSKY API, I'm guessing very little (if 
anything?) needs to change for the newer NWS API.

My suspicion is that some internal systems at the NWS were/are temporarily
broken!

I've seen a *LOT* of intermittent NWS issues with their older APIs! In
fact, I was/am suprised exactly how bad this problem is!  I had never
personally experienced NWS issues until about a couple months ago, when
the weather.sh script started failing due to bad weather data from the
legacy accuweather RSS API.  At that point I started experimenting with
pulling data from NWS, rather than Accuweather, as a back-up source.

BTW, so far I've found that (as expected, I guess!) the NWS METAR data 
available from their aviation weather system works flawlessly.  All the 
other systems and API's (version 1.2 included) are a little hit-or-miss.

To help resolve the weather.sh script issues from a 2 months ago, I 
started caching various NWS data for ALL US forecast zones.  Now, if the 
accuweather API calls fail, the script falls back to data from the NWS, 
using a new utility I wrote, hvwx. For example:

[root at RPi-Z2W ~]# hvwx


Retrieve NOAA/NWS weather observation data from HamVoIP. Ver 2023-11-28, (c) 2023, K4FXC

USAGE: hvwx [options]

	-j         --json		Output format is JSON.
	-c <col>   --csv <col>		Output format is CSV, where <col> is the column delimiter.
	-r         --raw		Output raw data for zip code (only usable for zip code).
	--dump				Output debugging info.

	You must supply only one of the following options:

	-z <code>  --zip <code>		Where <code> is a 5-digit US Zip code.
	-o <zone>  --zone <zone>	Where <zone> is a NOAA/NWS Forecast Zone ID.



73, David K4FXC




On Sat, 3 Feb 2024, Larry Mollica via ARM-allstar wrote:

> On Feb 3, 2024, at 7:39 AM, Michael Webb via ARM-allstar arm-allstar-at-hamvoip.org wrote:
> > 
> > ... Skywarn Plus.  It supports the latest API from NWS...
> > 
> 
> Okay thanks, was wondering about that.
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