APRS/CWOP

[water01]

I have got myself an APRS/CWOP registration number and I have put it into Cumulus MX and ticked the enabled button but nothing seems to be arriving at the servers.

What should the interval be set to as I took the default of 9, is this incorrect?

[steve]

If the default was incorrect, I wouldn't have made it the default

Have you restarted Cumulus? Some settings changes require a restart, as mentioned in the MX FAQ.

[water01]

Sorry to be so stupid Steve forgot all about restarting Cumulus MX!!!

[water01]

Steve that fixed but after the reload I noticed some realtime upload failures in the MX Diag file

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2015-03-23 13:49:52.174 Start Timers
2015-03-23 13:49:52.175 Starting 1-minute timer
2015-03-23 13:49:52.177 Attempting realtime FTP connect
2015-03-23 13:49:52.445 Starting Realtime timer, interval = 30000ms
2015-03-23 13:49:52.562 Uploading WU archive #1
2015-03-23 13:49:52.628 Uploading WOW archive #1
2015-03-23 13:49:53.125 WU Response: OK: OK
2015-03-23 13:49:53.125 End of WU archive upload
2015-03-23 13:49:54.700 WOW Response: OK: OK
2015-03-23 13:49:54.700 End of WOW archive upload
2015-03-23 13:50:00.297 Writing log entry for 23/03/2015 13:50:00
2015-03-23 13:50:00.301 Written log entry for 23/03/2015 13:50:00
2015-03-23 13:50:00.301 Writing today.ini, LastUpdateTime = 23/03/2015 13:50:00 raindaystart = 21.8503936785 rain counter = 21.8503936785
Latest reading: 
2015-03-23 13:50:00.704 WU Response: OK: OK
2015-03-23 13:52:23.088 Error connecting ftp - The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found
2015-03-23 13:52:23.101 Error uploading realtime.txt to /public_html/weather/realtime.txt : The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found
2015-03-23 13:52:23.103 Error uploading D:\out.jpg to /public_html/weather/webcam/webcam.jpg : The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found
2015-03-23 13:52:23.104 Error uploading D:\Program Files\CumulusMX\web\realtimegaugesT.txttmp to /public_html/weather/realtimegauges.txt : The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found
2015-03-23 13:52:23.105 Error uploading D:\Program Files\CumulusMX\realtime-extra.txttmp to /public_html/weather/realtime-extra.txt : The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found
2015-03-23 13:55:00.676 Writing log entry for 23/03/2015 13:55:00
2015-03-23 13:55:00.680 Written log entry for 23/03/2015 13:55:00
2015-03-23 13:55:00.681 Writing today.ini, LastUpdateTime = 23/03/2015 13:55:00 raindaystart = 21.8503936785 rain counter = 21.8503936785
Latest reading: 9C90: 00 21 BE 00 4D 5A 00 9C 26 03 14 00 0A 3A 07 00
2015-03-23 13:55:01.184 WU Response: OK: OK
2015-03-23 13:58:53.105 Updating CWOP
2015-03-23 14:00:00.070 Hour changed:14
2015-03-23 14:00:00.077 Writing log entry for 23/03/2015 14:00:00
2015-03-23 14:00:00.080 Written log entry for 23/03/2015 14:00:00
2015-03-23 14:00:00.081 Writing today.ini, LastUpdateTime = 23/03/2015 14:00:00 raindaystart = 21.8503936785 rain counter = 21.8503936785
Latest reading: 9CA0: 00 21 BE 00 4C 58 00 9C 26 03 0A 00 02 3A 07 00
2015-03-23 14:00:00.553 WU Response: OK: OK

The 4 errors match my 30 second realtime files and it would appear they failed on the very first upload, because since then they have worked as per normal.

Is this a fault or was I just unlucky that my server didn't respond on the very first time it tried it?

[steve]

That's a DNS failure. I think it means that the host name is in the DNS, but no address record was found.

[water01]

Interesting the host name was missing www on the front, it failed on the first attempt but worked subsequently. Thanks Steve.