uploading from evocam to wunderground

[idunn]

Greetings All,

Suddenly I am having trouble using FTP to upload an image from Evocam to Wunderground.  WG does not seem to be able to help, although I was uploading for months and changed nothing. I think Evocam has other upload possibilities than FTP. Can anyone give me tips?  Maybe I should cancel the webcam with WG but how?  Then maybe start over with FTP. It seems something should be possible with the Mac sharing.
Thanks for any help.

Irving

[elagache]

Dear Irving and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

Suddenly I am having trouble using FTP to upload an image from Evocam to Wunderground. 

How long have you had the problem?  I use WeatherCat to handle my webcam and because of that I get errors generated by WC Status Growler.  From time to time, Weather Underground stops accepting webcam images and there is nothing you can do but turn off the webcam uploading for a while.  Eventually though, Weather Underground gets their act together and you can just resume what you were doing.

Since it seems that you had everything "dialed-up" and working fine, it sounds like a temporary problem on the WU end of things.

Cheers, Edouard

[Blicj11]

I agree. Since WU was purchased by TWC they have worked pretty hard on changing how the graphics look on the website and how the iOS apps work. They haven't done anything to improve the backend, where we are uploading our data. I have experienced some periodic issues like you are describing, with webcam uploads. I just waited for a few days and it started working again without me changing anything. Their tech support is next to nonexistent, rivaled perhaps only by trying to find anyone at Davis Instruments who has ever seen an iMac.

[wurzelmac]

Their tech support is next to nonexistent, rivaled perhaps only by trying to find anyone at Davis Instruments who has ever seen an iMac.

Made my day, John!

Cheers,
Reinhard

[elagache]

Dear Blick, Reinhard, and WeatherCat victims of poor tech support . . . .

Their tech support is next to nonexistent, rivaled perhaps only by trying to find anyone at Davis Instruments who has ever seen an iMac.

In those immortal words of Blacque Jacque Shellacque:

THIS!?!?!  . . . is being saved!?!!??!??!??

Cheers, Edouard 

[idunn]

Greetings all,
Having given up on WG for image upload via FTP, I am now attaching my Evocam image to my webpage, Magpie-Hill.com, with Weathercat. That works fine. Can anybody tell me how I can get it also to WG?  Does Weathercat do that too? It seems I need a URL of the image. How do I get that? Maybe the built-in server of Evocam will do it. But how?

Thanks for any help.  Irving

[wurzelmac]

It seems I need a URL of the image. How do I get that?

Hello Irving,
if you are looking for an URL of your webcam-image, here you are:

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http://www.magpie-hill.com/webcam.jpgJust point WU to this URL and they will find and display it within the next *more or less few* days.
 

Cheers,
Reinhard

[idunn]

Thanks Reinhard, I had a feeling it must be easy and logical to know what the URL is. Had a look at your wonderful weather website and see you use Powershot cameras for the webcams. I have a couple of unused little Powershots, an A40 and A1110. Can you give me tips for using them as webcams. My Logitechpro is ok but a real camera would be better. I saw some Canon software for Windows but nothing for Macs. I am at 900m and can see 2000m peaks nearby and one distant peak over 3000m. Thanks for any help.  Irving

[wurzelmac]

Hello Irving,

go to this site and take a look over there if one of your Powershots are supported by gphoto. Webcam looking west is controlled by my WeatherCat Mac mini via Terminal and AppleScript and shell script, webcam looking east is controlled via shell script by a RaspberryPi (that is controlled via WiFi network via Terminal). To add text and logo on my webcam pictures I use ImageMagick. If you want I can send you the shell scripts that I am using, but you have to prepare them for your use.

Cheers,
Reinhard

[idunn]

Hi Reinhard,

I do have a compatible Powershot A40 and am very interested in the possibilities for using it. How do you use your cameras? Are they on all the time? Do they get USB power? How do you set the zoom? The webcam I am using, a Logitech Pro,  gets power over an extended USB cable, about 10m I think, two lengths. Do you think I can use my Evocam software and avoid some of the shells?  I am sure many of us are interested in getting the quality of images that you are.

Thanks for your help,

Irving

[wurzelmac]

Hello Irving,

ok.
Sorry, I have forgotten to link the adressed programs in my earlier post (corrected now).

I will think about publishing a procedure how to put the DigiCams online. Step by step. I am german mother tongue, so give me time.

 

Cheers,
Reinhard

[idunn]

Reinhard,

Yes I think that would really be useful publish a step by step procedure.
You don't have much trouble with English. I am pretty good with German to English and would be glad to polish up anything you need. I see we are at about the same latitude but you are at the foot of that huge mountain and 400m higher.  Are you able to measure snowfall with your system?  I would like to be able to do sunshine and snowfall measurements.

Irving

[Blicj11]

Irving:

I measure snowfall manually and enter the snowfall amount into WeatherCat using the Daily Snow Editor tool. It works great. I have installed a heater in my rain collector and turn it on during snowstorms. It melts the snow and gives me the water content of the storm on the same day as the snow fall.

To measure sunshine you need a solar radiation sensor. Does La Crosse sell that sensor as an add-on to your station?

[wurzelmac]

I measure snowfall manually and enter the snowfall amount into WeatherCat using the Daily Snow Editor tool. It works great. I have installed a heater in my rain collector and turn it on during snowstorms. It melts the snow and gives me the water content of the storm on the same day as the snow fall.

Me, too! Snowfall manually plus rain collector heater. 

Cheers,
Reinhard

[wurzelmac]

Irving:

I fire four Webcams with all of them different access-points, so I am unable to tell you a step-by-step procedure.
Sorry.
Just crawl through gPhoto and ImageMagick . . .

Reinhard