Do we get live streaming updates back and in metric mode decimals for temperature? We we're promised service would get better but if this will not return this would not be the case.
Posted 5 months ago
It's got very much worse. A few issues:
(a) No real-time charts.
(b) New charts at the top of the page are too big and intrusive. It force the scrolling down to where the "interesting" information is. Particularly painful on a mobile device.
(c) Does not seem to remember celsius settings.
Please just put the old system back! This update has ruined it.
(a) No real-time charts.
(b) New charts at the top of the page are too big and intrusive. It force the scrolling down to where the "interesting" information is. Particularly painful on a mobile device.
(c) Does not seem to remember celsius settings.
Please just put the old system back! This update has ruined it.
Absolutely right - please if you do updates, then improve the site and do not worsen it.
I spent now 9 years on that site, it was really good till today, but now....
Also the historical Data of the last years, were is it?
I spent now 9 years on that site, it was really good till today, but now....
Also the historical Data of the last years, were is it?
Absolutely agree, where is the custom data setting so you can choose historical dates ? It was such a good resource, I recommended WU to a lot of end users with Weather Stations but this update is poor, really poor. Gutted.
go for the backups and put the old system back!
Totally agree with our comments... It seems that WU wants to use fewer resources for the PWS and center his works in the new pay API.
There are no real-time data in the PWS station, the oC are really terrible! No decimals in metric it makes no sense to the data, and the new interface, in general, is worse...
I think they have to change a lot of things or people like me will take out the PWS from this website... And I was a real fan of WU!
Thanks,
Marc
There are no real-time data in the PWS station, the oC are really terrible! No decimals in metric it makes no sense to the data, and the new interface, in general, is worse...
I think they have to change a lot of things or people like me will take out the PWS from this website... And I was a real fan of WU!
Thanks,
Marc
what other options are there, for a fairly non-tech savvy person like myself, to upload PWS data to a website and visualise it in real time and access historical data. My browsing around hasn't found any stand-out candidates.
In real time no alternative website service exists. Only other real time solution is your own website but some technical knowledge required but there is plenty of help if you search and ask in wxforum.
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looks like there is some progress with getting things back to the state they were in before. The web PWS auto updates now, and all units are in metric. Still missing the decimal data for temperature. And the "PWS Current Conditions" section of the display seems pointless - just bigger icons and a barometer with the needle in a random position when metric units are chosen. Hopefully they'll do the final fixes soon. Wish they'd inform us of the changes and the estimated time to make them.
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
Allowing for decimal rather than integer temperatures is coming. I ask for your patience while we work through the changes.
--Victoria
victoria.gardner@ibm.com
--Victoria
victoria.gardner@ibm.com
Hello Victoria,
That's great news! Thank you very much! I will be patient and look forward to it. I realy love to have a PWS on this website! Victoria you are very helpful! Great!
Tahar.
That's great news! Thank you very much! I will be patient and look forward to it. I realy love to have a PWS on this website! Victoria you are very helpful! Great!
Tahar.
It is good news though I do wonder why it was removed in the first place
That’s good news. Any chance we will get back the custom option on historical data recall as we had before. Currently it is only day, week and month so getting all of 2018’s data for example means downloading your data month by month. Before you could just enter a date range for all of 2018 ?
Good news - just to add my voice. Thanks! It would be really helpful if these changes and estimated dates of implementation were posted on the webpage itself so we weren't left in the dark about what was happening.
Hopefully with decimals, we'll also get the auto updating working properly on the map and graphs, and an option to hide the individual PWS data icons below the summary. Is there any rationale behind the raingauge icon? It just seems to fill to some random height with blue when it rains - quite meaningless.
Hopefully with decimals, we'll also get the auto updating working properly on the map and graphs, and an option to hide the individual PWS data icons below the summary. Is there any rationale behind the raingauge icon? It just seems to fill to some random height with blue when it rains - quite meaningless.
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
Keep in mind that web development/implementation and API development/ implementation are two different teams. I am on the API side, although of course I know the people on the web side, and I often help there.
I will keep adding your suggestions to the lists for each, but I'm not in the loop for web development the way I am for the API.
--Victoria
I will keep adding your suggestions to the lists for each, but I'm not in the loop for web development the way I am for the API.
--Victoria
Given the website makes use of the APIs I am not sure the two are completely separate. If you open the Chrome developer tools you can see the API calls the website is making and what used to be higher precision data is now truncated to ints. Perhaps PWS owners should start to look at doing the rounding before sending the data up. A few lines of Python is all will take to take the station data, round and summarise in 5 minute lots then send it up to WU. It could also then push the complete dataset to another API tool, such as AWS (if IBM's API tool isn't up to the task) where it can be made available again to those who sending it.
I still struggle with the fact that I am sending data up to WU that I can no longer access myself. I know the decimal data is coming but it should never have been hidden from those who are providing it in the first place. Trust was placed in WU to be the custodian of people's data, now it has been made unavailable to them.
I still struggle with the fact that I am sending data up to WU that I can no longer access myself. I know the decimal data is coming but it should never have been hidden from those who are providing it in the first place. Trust was placed in WU to be the custodian of people's data, now it has been made unavailable to them.
One thing I've noticed with the "whole number" issue is that it doesn't seem to even round the number correctly. My weather station is currently showing "9.8" but the website shows "9" and not "10".
Yes. I guess it's just truncating, not rounding. Delving into the APIs and stuff is beyond my abilities. And still we're waiting for the promised decimal place to be reinstated, along with a few other things. And we're left in an information vacuum. Frustrating
I long for the day the decimal point temperature is solved. It took one day to get rid of it, yet weeks to resolve. I'm almost giving up
......and a few other things too! we might be waiting a while
And, slightly bizarrely, it quotes rainfall in millimetres to 2 decimal places!
Be always very kind to programmers. They tend to be very sensitive. And they are underpaied. Like journalists.Teasing them results in punishment and ignoration.
the sound of the lack of follow up information is deafening. Its been nearly 6 weeks since the new changes.
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It would be very civilized to at least receive a reason for leaving the temperature value without decimals.
Yes, I agree. I've almost given up. Have put my PWS on Weathercloud as well, although that website has its limitations and issues too.
Come on, hurry up with the decimal point!!! These graphs are ugly
It has been three months since I wrote for the last time, asking for the decimal measurements to come back on the web readings. I get the impression that they are leaving us aside, and that our requests do not interest them and that they try to forget the matter, they have had more time than can be given for such a simple arrangement, please the graphics are very ugly and nothing useful. REPAIR IT NOW.
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
No one has forgotten this. Things are just much more complex than they appear.
--Victoria
--Victoria
I can believe it. Wish we could get a little insight into what's going on behind the scenes, with expected dates etc. On my "hope for" list is continuous updating of the graph display (without having to refresh the browser) and the option to not display the big icons "PWS current conditions". What about a two-weekly update or something like this. Thanks Victoria
Thank you very much for giving us our decimals back at the website!
Good morning Now it's something else, now we enjoy the web, now it gives joy. The change as you can see is huge, just by seeing a decimal in the readings, it becomes more serious, THANK YOU.