5-day forecast FTP setup?

[2-Wheeler]

I'm having some trouble setting up the 5day forecast FTP download. I get the following error messages in my FTP log:

Logging onto  FTP server....weather.noaa.gov
Connecting to FTP server.
Failed to connect: [10060] Connection timed out
Ftp down error
10060: [10060] Connection timed out
changing directory to data/forecasts/state/co/
Next file ftp down
Local directory for Noaa download is c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Weather
Retrieving the NOAA file coz039.txt now
Saving the  NOAA file to c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Weather\coz039.txt now
Connecting to FTP server.
Failed to connect: [10060] Connection timed out
Ftp down error
10060:
Finished ftp download, loggin off from server
Doing abort procedure/program close...

The setup screen is attached. 

Help?

[JaxWeather]

Try changing "weather.noaa.gov" to "tgftp.nws.noaa.gov"

-Bob

[2-Wheeler]

Try changing "weather.noaa.gov" to "tgftp.nws.noaa.gov"

Bob,
Thanks, that resolved the FTP errors. Now it seems to be downloading the forecast file just fine. But it won't show up from the WD-Live page.  http://www.leyner.org/WDL.htm

-David

[JaxWeather]

Do you have this tag in your WDL Config?

<showDavisForecast>100</showDavisForecast>

-Bob

[2-Wheeler]

Do you have this tag in your WDL Config?

<showDavisForecast>100</showDavisForecast>

-Bob

No, I'm pretty sure I copied just as Bob posted it in the other thread, which was this:

<switchForecastIcon>1</switchForecastIcon>
<ignoreIconKeywords>1</ignoreIconKeywords>
<showDavisForecast>10</showDavisForecast>

Maybe it was a typo and it should be 100 instead of 10?

[andro700]

What that means is:

Live Forecast

If you are using a Davis Vantage Pro then you can display the forecast text provided
via Weather Display. To do so set this tag to a number between 1 and 99
corresponding to the number of seconds between the alternating of the current
conditions and the forecast text.

<showDavisForecast>10</showDavisForecast>

In this example the current conditions and forecast text will alternate at 10 second
intervals. Set to 0 to only show current conditions, set to 100 to only show forecast.
To make the icon follow the current conditions of forecast text set this tag to 1 –

<switchForecastIcon>1</switchForecastIcon>

Chuck

[JaxWeather]

In your Forecast download setup screen do you have "Use the forecast for the VP Forecast system" ticked?

-Bob

[andro700]

I keep on forgetting the little things like that Bob that would probably help 2-Wheeler out.

Chuck

[JaxWeather]

It takes a number of us sometimes to get someone on the right path

-Bob

[2-Wheeler]

In your Forecast download setup screen do you have "Use the forecast for the VP Forecast system" ticked?

-Bob

Thanks again Bob & Chuck for your help and patience.
It is not ticked. The settings are exactly as shown in the photo above in the OP, except that now i have changed "weather.noaa.gov" to "tgftp.nws.noaa.gov"
-David

[JaxWeather]

David,

It would have to be ticked for WDL to get the forecast as far as I know.

-Bob

[andro700]

Mine is ticked and it works for me.

Chuck

[2-Wheeler]

Okay, I've got it ticked now, but I'm still missing something. I can't see that it is loading anything to the website in response to this. Where do you setup the FTP settings to move this file to the website?  Does it need to go into the same directory as the clientraw files and the wdlconfig.xml files?

Also it looks like I may not be actually getting the zone forecast text, but seem to be getting a statewide forecast.  See the raw text file here:
http://www.brobergfamily.com/Weather/coz039.txt

[andro700]

David,

Check this and see if this is the right one.  ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/co/coz039.txt

Chuck

[edhall]

Question for all.

Do have to have a Davis VP system for this to work?

I'm sure its obvious you do, but I'm asking for curiosities sake.

Ed