Reduce wu api calls

[renevk]

i'm playing with the wu forecast. I use the development api license. I know got some warnings from wu that the application has to many api call . 500 is aloud but the amount of call is eg 508. Is it possible to reduce the amount of calls a day?

[Michael McSharry]

I just saw this. Forecast data requests should be low rate of perhaps 50 per day. Current conditions are more frequent, especially if wind is used as an inhibit. When I get back next week I will evaluate myself.

[Michael McSharry]

I monitored each request to WeatherUnderground and WeatheUnderground Forecast with the following. Forecast every 30 minutes. Current conditions every minute.

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[renevk]

Thnx . I will try to find it in my log files to see if it is the same

[renevk]

I attached the debug file . What it looks like that the service GetWUForecast is called every minute. I'm not sure that it is this service. mcsSprinklers_GeneralDebug27-5-2017_00_00_00.zip

[Michael McSharry]

It tries every minute until a successful download occurs. If it is not then it will try again one minute later. Take a look at \data\mcsSprinklers\download1.txt for the following:

observation_time_rfc822":

In the debug I can see the first 100 characters of the download. I cannot determine if the segmentg is present. Here is a segment of one that I recently downloaded with the observation time text at the bottom

 "features": {
  "conditions": 1
  ,
  "forecast7day": 1
  }
	}
  ,	"current_observation": {
		"image": {
		"url":"http://icons.wxug.com/graphics/wu2/logo_130x80.png",
		"title":"Weather Underground",
		"link":"http://www.wunderground.com"
		},
		"display_location": {
		"full":"Ottawa International Airport, Ontario",
		"city":"Ottawa International Airport",
		"state":"ON",
		"state_name":"Ontario",
		"country":"CA",
		"country_iso3166":"CA",
		"zip":"00000",
		"magic":"75",
		"wmo":"71628",
		"latitude":"45.31999969",
		"longitude":"-75.66999817",
		"elevation":"114.0"
		},
		"observation_location": {
		"full":"Ottawa International, ",
		"city":"Ottawa International",
		"state":"",
		"country":"CA",
		"country_iso3166":"CA",
		"latitude":"45.31999969",
		"longitude":"-75.66999817",
		"elevation":"374 ft"
		},
		"estimated": {
		},
		"station_id":"CYOW",
		"observation_time":"Last Updated on May 27, 10:00 PM EDT",
		"observation_time_rfc822":"Sat, 27 May 2017 22:00:00 -0400",
		"observation_epoch":"1495936800"