Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more! 1.6.0

dshehane

BIT Beta Team
Joined
Nov 1, 2015
Messages
23
Reaction score
7
Location
Auburn, CA
Thanks for the data - that confirms what I said - WU is updating OK from my VWS. And BIT is polling the data without errors every 3 minutes. The problem is still that the data BIT is getting is not correct or it is not updating BI. The data lags considerably and is erratic as to how long it takes to update, if it does. So the mystery continues.

Good to know that VWS is still supported. In searching for clues on this issue I saw a notice that it was no longer supported. Possibly that was an official position, but Ambient still provides help when needed or I just plain misread it.
 
Last edited:

looney2ns

IPCT Contributor
Joined
Sep 25, 2016
Messages
15,521
Reaction score
22,657
Location
Evansville, In. USA
WU has gone downhill in recent times.

I've had this out my backyard for 5 years now without any issues. It's a Davis Instruments Vantage Vue 6250 and it's $615, kinda steep.
The people I bought it from, Ambient Weather, now have their own line and if I were to buy today I'd consider their $110 Ambient Weather WS-1401-IP setup.

My weather data and webcam are uploaded to WU now (started about a month ago) but I likely won't be doing it much longer. My station is KALHOUST3 .

I also upload to my own domain here.

All the data is accessible (simple HTML).
Stick with the Davis, my BIL has the Ambient station and has had nothing but trouble with it.
 

looney2ns

IPCT Contributor
Joined
Sep 25, 2016
Messages
15,521
Reaction score
22,657
Location
Evansville, In. USA
Thanks for the data - that confirms what I said - WU is updating OK from my VWS. And BIT is polling the data without errors every 3 minutes. The problem is still that the data BIT is getting is not correct or it is not updating BI. The data lags considerably and is erratic as to how long it takes to update, if it does. So the mystery continues.

Good to know that VWS is still supported. In searching for clues on this issue I saw a notice that it was no longer supported. Possibly that was an official position, but Ambient still provides help when needed or I just plain misread it.
So your banging the WU server every 3 minutes? You might try backing off, like to 15 or more.
I update at 15 minutes and not noticed any issue's.
 

bp2008

Staff member
Joined
Mar 10, 2014
Messages
12,666
Reaction score
14,006
Location
USA
I am having a problem with BI Tools telling me Invalid Station ID in red text at the bottom of the weather overlay tab. The problem is actually the response from the wunderground server, and it happens even if I make the same web request in Chrome. For whatever reason the page which BI Tools gets weather data from has become unstable and often returns this:

Code:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.wunderground.com
Content-Type: text/xml
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
X-CreationTime: 0.012
X-Varnish: 3878006160 3874568807
Content-Length: 2059
Expires: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:34:39 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:34:39 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    <current_observation>
        <credit>Weather Underground Personal Weather Station</credit>
        <credit_URL>http://wunderground.com/weatherstation/</credit_URL>
        <image>
        <url>http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/bh-wui_logo.gif</url>
        <title>Weather Underground</title>
        <link>http://wunderground.com/weatherstation/</link>
        </image>
        <location>
        <full>, , </full>
        <neighborhood></neighborhood>
        <city></city>
        <state></state>
        <zip></zip>
        <latitude></latitude>
        <longitude></longitude>
        <elevation> ft</elevation>
        </location>
        <station_id>#WXSTATION.CUR.StationID</station_id>
        <station_type></station_type>
        <observation_time>Last Updated on , </observation_time>
        <observation_time_rfc822>, ::0 GMT</observation_time_rfc822>
        <weather></weather>
        <temperature_string> F ( C)</temperature_string>
        <temp_f></temp_f>
        <temp_c></temp_c>
        <relative_humidity></relative_humidity>
        <wind_string>Calm</wind_string>
        <wind_dir></wind_dir>
        <wind_degrees></wind_degrees>
        <wind_mph></wind_mph>
        <wind_gust_mph></wind_gust_mph>
        <pressure_string>" ( mb)</pressure_string>
        <pressure_mb></pressure_mb>
        <pressure_in></pressure_in>
        <dewpoint_string> F ( C)</dewpoint_string>
        <dewpoint_f></dewpoint_f>
        <dewpoint_c></dewpoint_c>
       
        <heat_index_string></heat_index_string>
        <heat_index_f></heat_index_f>
        <heat_index_c></heat_index_c>
       
       
        <windchill_string></windchill_string>
        <windchill_f></windchill_f>
        <windchill_c></windchill_c>
       
        <solar_radiation></solar_radiation>
        <UV></UV>
        <precip_1hr_string> in ( mm)</precip_1hr_string>
        <precip_1hr_in></precip_1hr_in>
        <precip_1hr_metric></precip_1hr_metric>
        <precip_today_string> in ( )</precip_today_string>
        <precip_today_in></precip_today_in>
        <precip_today_metric> </precip_today_metric>
        <history_url>http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=#WXSTATION.CUR.StationID</history_url>
        <ob_url>http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=,</ob_url>
    </current_observation>
Also now whenever I restart BI Tools (v 1.2.2) and look on the Weather Overlay tab, the error message says "Error connecting to wunderground. Check your internet connection / station ID". This happens even when I know that BI Tools got a valid response from the wunderground server because Fiddler shows me the valid response. The error condition is solved in ~30 seconds when BI tools tries the connection again.
 

Mike

Staff member
Joined
Mar 9, 2014
Messages
2,982
Reaction score
2,725
Location
New York
What is the station ID? PM me it if you want. If there is no weather data, such in the code you pasted, then BIT will report that error.
 

jrich523

Young grasshopper
Joined
Apr 21, 2016
Messages
69
Reaction score
3
Im looking to do a temp/hum overlay but it will be from a indoor sensor that isnt pushed to WU. Im wondering if maybe it would be better to have it setup in the form of a script and a overlay template, packaged with a WU overlay script and template. That way if someone wanted a custom overlay they can do it, but also the weather one is there and ready to go for anyone who doesnt want to (or cant) screw with the scripts.
 

Jol

n3wb
Joined
Oct 30, 2018
Messages
2
Reaction score
0
Location
lyon
Bonjour, Bravo pour ce programme ! Mais il y a un problème avec la conversion Mph to Kmh; lorsque je sélectionne KM/H sur ma station ,j'ai toujours un message : "Error connecting to wunderground. Check your internet connection / station ID", alors qu'en mph cela fonctionne normalement. Quoi faire ?
Merci d'avance.
 

Fer Ini

n3wb
Joined
Nov 22, 2017
Messages
6
Reaction score
4
Good morning to everybody.
My small contribution: the translation to Spanish of the BIT program, although it would be necessary to translate, for example, the days of the week and the months that appear in the overlapping texts.
Greetings.
 

Attachments

Mike

Staff member
Joined
Mar 9, 2014
Messages
2,982
Reaction score
2,725
Location
New York
Good morning to everybody.
My small contribution: the translation to Spanish of the BIT program, although it would be necessary to translate, for example, the days of the week and the months that appear in the overlapping texts.
Greetings.
Thank you for that! Adding to 2nd post!
 

Fer Ini

n3wb
Joined
Nov 22, 2017
Messages
6
Reaction score
4
Bonjour, Bravo pour ce programme ! Mais il y a un problème avec la conversion Mph to Kmh; lorsque je sélectionne KM/H sur ma station ,j'ai toujours un message : "Error connecting to wunderground. Check your internet connection / station ID", alors qu'en mph cela fonctionne normalement. Quoi faire ?
Merci d'avance.
It is a small bug of the program: the wind speed appears in km / h but the gusts of wind appear with the figure of the decimals with error. What I have done at the moment is to place the wind figure on the right side so that only the wind speed appears and the speed of the gusts of wind are outside the image :p
Captura de pantalla 2018-10-31 a las 11.06.34.png
 

GiODi

n3wb
Joined
Aug 24, 2018
Messages
1
Reaction score
0
Location
93063
I personally manage several BIT installations in various locations so BIT Cloud has already come in handy for me.
Is there plans to add the ability to monitor multiple servers from one client?
 

Mike

Staff member
Joined
Mar 9, 2014
Messages
2,982
Reaction score
2,725
Location
New York
It is a small bug of the program: the wind speed appears in km / h but the gusts of wind appear with the figure of the decimals with error. What I have done at the moment is to place the wind figure on the right side so that only the wind speed appears and the speed of the gusts of wind are outside the image :pView attachment 34617
Thanks for reporting this.

Is there plans to add the ability to monitor multiple servers from one client?
You already can. In BIT Cloud Remote -> Client, click the address book icon next to the port. You can create a list of servers and easily access them by double clicking them in the address book.

Unless you're referring to the Watchdog feature, which yes, there are plans to do allow multiple server management.
 

Jol

n3wb
Joined
Oct 30, 2018
Messages
2
Reaction score
0
Location
lyon
Bonjour, ce n'est pas un problème d'affichage, c'est un problème de conversion empirique/métrique. Les données sont bien récupérées en empirique mais si je veux les afficher en métrique, j'ai le message "Error connecting to wunderground. Check your internet connection / station ID"
Merci d'avance pour votre aide
 

Mike

Staff member
Joined
Mar 9, 2014
Messages
2,982
Reaction score
2,725
Location
New York
Bonjour, ce n'est pas un problème d'affichage, c'est un problème de conversion empirique/métrique. Les données sont bien récupérées en empirique mais si je veux les afficher en métrique, j'ai le message "Error connecting to wunderground. Check your internet connection / station ID"
Merci d'avance pour votre aide
Merci, ce problème a été signalé et est en cours de traitement.

Translated from Google

@Jol said:
Hi, this is not a display problem, it is an empirical / metric conversion problem. The data is recovered empirically but if I want to display them in metric, I have the message "Error connecting to wunderground.Check your internet connection / station ID" Thank you in advance for your help

My answer:
Thank you, this issue has been reported and is being worked on.
 

Mike

Staff member
Joined
Mar 9, 2014
Messages
2,982
Reaction score
2,725
Location
New York
BIT Update

Please update via BIT.

Nov 26, 2018 - Version 1.2.3
  • Misc. bug features
  • Performance enhancements
I recommend everyone updates. There are no major changes, but performance enhancements and misc. bug fixes.
 

dshehane

BIT Beta Team
Joined
Nov 1, 2015
Messages
23
Reaction score
7
Location
Auburn, CA
I have lost my GUI altogether. BIT is running. When I click on the icon in the toolbar, it says BIT is running in the systems tray, but there is no icon in the systems tray for BIT. The GUI would open before the last update, but none of the windows would open - like log, or settings, just the main GUI. Now I have it running, but no way of looking or adjusting settings. I have been a BIT user for years, so the environment is not new (only continued irritating updates to Win 10). I tried removing and reinstalling for the prior issues with no change.
 

Mike

Staff member
Joined
Mar 9, 2014
Messages
2,982
Reaction score
2,725
Location
New York
I have lost my GUI altogether. BIT is running. When I click on the icon in the toolbar, it says BIT is running in the systems tray, but there is no icon in the systems tray for BIT. The GUI would open before the last update, but none of the windows would open - like log, or settings, just the main GUI. Now I have it running, but no way of looking or adjusting settings. I have been a BIT user for years, so the environment is not new (only continued irritating updates to Win 10). I tried removing and reinstalling for the prior issues with no change.
Thanks for reporting this, I will look into it. Did you try ctrl-alt-del, forcing stop of BIT then re-launching it? Not a solution, but should at least fix it in this case while I look into it.
 

dshehane

BIT Beta Team
Joined
Nov 1, 2015
Messages
23
Reaction score
7
Location
Auburn, CA
Well, I am a bit chagrined - it is now working fine. Last night I couldn't do a thing with it so I wrote first this this morning. Now it is working perfectly, even opening those windows like the log seems to be perfect. I guess writing you was the magic touch. I will keep an eye on it to see if it reoccurs.
 
Top