Looking for testers for the new Mac version :)

Hi Brian, if it is turned on (default is yes) then it is likely that those processes could go to sleep.

Do you spawn off a thread from the main program or startup another program to do FTP (which is what I think you do in Windoze)? If the latter, what is it because it is easy to then disable that Apple “feature”.

Regds,
Dave

Hi Brian,

  1. Could you please advise the name of whatever you fire up to do the FTP upload?

  2. Rev 249 is now behaving very oddly- as follows. This seems to relate to the 1 or 2 missed uploads per day I have been seeing except that now the condition is permanent:

a. I noticed this morning that the last 35 half-hourly uploads had not happened.

b. Log contained:
FTP vers 1.7 Upload 11:00:27 5-10-15
Port to use 21
Passive mode on
logging on to
Log in failed

Note that “logging on to…” is blank!

I tried the manual upload of all files. Result nothing. No errors, no uploads, no messages.

Then I found that the Exit button had again stopped working (it had been okay apart from one previous time).

So, restarted Weatherdisplay and tried Upload all again. Same result (in that nothing FTP happened and no messages).

I awaited the next half-hour interval. No messages in the logs, no uploads occurred.

The Exit button started working again.

I have touched no setting before/during/after this bad behavior and I cannot see anything wrong or changed in the settings.

The data acquisition etc from WD continues to work.

Any clues or places to look? It is presumably something to do with the process which is supposed to do the FTP upload. Another reason to know its name…

Regds,
Dave

Okay, in desperation, I re-installed 249.

No change!

In other words, upload to the web is just not working at all any more.

Again getting these messages in the FTP Log:

FTP vers 1.7 Upload 12:30:28 5-10-15
Port to use 21
Passive mode on
logging on to
Log in failed

Presumably the problem is that it is trying to logon to nothing, even though the settings look okay.

I would really like a suggestion as to how to fix this. Presumably WD has somehow subtly changed a setting.

Regds,
Dave

Extra info:

Naturally I have checked that FTP IS working (outside of WD) with the identical credentials. Works fine.

I also checked and found all the web files are being updated properly (on the half hour).

I looked in al the *.txt files associated with WD FTP and found nothing which looks strange.

I found tat manual download (via FTP) of NOAA info works fine in WD.

It is just the FTP upload which has totally stopped.

Dave

Here is the “other” FTP log. All looks normal, except that nothing happens. There have now been no uploads for 28 hours!

FTPUPD.EXE started at 9:30 pm 05/10/15
agenda items to do…
doupload
Files to upload*
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/Avalon.html
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/Avalondial.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/cloudheight.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/sunmoonimage.jpg
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/moonicon.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/Avalon.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/dailyhighlowbaroetc.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/summary.jpg
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/trends.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/dirplot.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/dirplotspd.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/dirplot2.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/energy.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/forecasticon.gif
Local files: /Users/Home/Documents/wdisplay/webfiles/forecasticonstation.gif
Remote files: Avalon.html
Remote files: Avalondial.gif
Remote files: cloudheight.gif
Remote files: sunmoonimage.jpg
Remote files: moonicon.gif
Remote files: Avalon.gif
Remote files: dailyhighlowbaroetc.gif
Remote files: summary.jpg
Remote files: trends.gif
Remote files: dirplot.gif
Remote files: dirplotspd.gif
Remote files: dirplot2.gif
Remote files: energy.gif
Remote files: forecasticon.gif
Remote files: forecasticonstation.gif

Doggy,

Have you tried looking in the ftpwdisplay.ini (think that’s what it’s called) to check that everything is ok in their? I had similar problems a while back with FTP uploads and there was an issue with some of the FTP upload details in that file…

Just a thought.

Paul

Deputydewarg had this problem
the wdisplayftp.ini file was getting corrupted on WD start up
copying a back up of that after WD has started up I think was the solution…try that

@vk2him
I have done a test of a history data download at start up with my IP data logger
and it did work

what shows under view, debug info?

No luck with replacing the wdisplayftp.ini as suggested. Tried it several times with a backup copy form 24hrs before the problem started.

Still no uploads! Now almost 48hrs off the air.

I have had a look at the file wth an editor but cannot see anything wrong. However, spotting it would probably be very, very difficult.

Dave

Oh this is SO, SO frustrating.

Definitely exactly the same symptoms as DeputyDawg had.

Also, FYI, the Exit button DOES NOT work at all from time to time. So that clearly is not permanently fixed in 249.

I also tested with the same files and the original Mac version. It also does not work.

If someone could suggest WHAT is getting corrupted in these files or how cronrealftp is getting the wrong info, I would appreciate it.

Regds,
dave

It shows this:
Loaded all time records
Loaded units
Asking for archived data download
TCP/IP connected to 192.168.1.61
re starting download, timer
sending DMPAFT
Asking for archived data download
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 6 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 19 minute 44
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 6 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 19 minute 44
ask for time/date of record…
Sending OK…
Aborted
All data downloaded or did not sync correct!
formating the VP data
vp data read in 1
Weather station type number 31
VP reception #1 27615 #2 177 = 99
VP reception #1 27636 #2 177 = 99
VP reception #1 27659 #2 177 = 99

Thanks

Hi Brian WD MacB250 Version on 4 October 2015 - 23:42:35 shut down @ noon today. Had to restart WD all seems fine.
There was nothing in program error log.

BTrip

@vk2him

ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
sending DMPAFT

that is the clue there…the response back is not what was expected
I have tested a number of times and it works here
but I will add some debug code to see what data is being returned on your setup
@bdtripps
it would be interesting to know if the problem is the FWI (i.e try turning the updates that off as a test)

@doggy
did you find a backup of the wdisplayftp.ini file?
does the ftp settings show up OK in WD itself?
one thing I could do is to get the cronftp to use a different ftp ini file (i.e a copy…creatd before WD uses it)

Hi Brian I shut off FWI updates and restarted WD.

Thanks
BTrip

@vk2him
a new update has some debug info re that error

Thanks Brian - this is what now shows:

Loaded all time records
Loaded units
Asking for archived data download
TCP/IP connected to 192.168.1.61
re starting download, timer
sending DMPAFT
Asking for archived data download
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 89 119 233 2 47 106 2
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 9 14 2 12 7 10 13
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 89 119 233 2 47 106 2
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 9 14 2 12 7 10 13
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 89 119 233 2 47 106 2
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 9 14 2 12 7 10 13
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 89 119 233 2 47 106 2
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 9 14 2 12 7 10 13
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 89 119 233 2 47 106 2
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 9 14 2 12 7 10 13
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
#2Command not understood, restarting
0 1 0 0 0 118 180 10
sending DMPAFT
Davis VP Retrieving data from: day 7 month 10 year 2015
Retrieving data from: hour 15 minute 15
ask for time/date of record…
Sending OK…
Aborted
All data downloaded or did not sync correct!
formating the VP data
vp data read in 1
Weather station type number 31
VP reception #1 12948 #2 65 = 100

do you have the IP data logger set to send to weatherlink.com by any chance?

also how long did you have WD not running for?

No, I’m not sending to weatherlink.com - the IP Datalogger is only accessed locally by WD on th3 same network. WD was off for approx 5 mins - thanks

any other software accessing the data logger?

No Brian - only one copy of WD is accessing it … the old version works fine and can download data - the new one has this problem