Behavior for mobile stations seems to have changed

[saillogger]

Subject: Issue with Station Position Updates on Windy.com

Hi everyone,

We are the developers of Saillogger.com, a comprehensive boating solution. Our platform includes a feature that allows our members to transform their boats into weather stations on Windy.com using the API.

Here are two examples of such stations:

• Station 1 (ID: 2f0e106da)
• Station 2 (ID: 15bf0e106da)

This functionality has been working flawlessly until recently. However, we have noticed a change on Windy.com where the positions of these stations are not being updated as frequently as they should, despite being submitted correctly through the API.

For instance, the positions of the two stations linked above have changed a couple of days ago. Despite numerous submissions with updated coordinates, they continue to display their old locations.

Given that these are boats, their positions are inherently dynamic and continuously changing.

Could someone please look into this issue?

Thanks,

Ilker
on behalf of the Saillogger Team

[tozz]

We are one of the stations that Ilker is describing. We moved from Bainbridge Island WA to Seattle back on Thursday morning and Windy is still showing us out on Bainbridge here on Sunday afternoon.

-tozz

[David Ryzec 3]

Hi, thanks for reporting. This is bug on our side and will be fixed this week

[tozz]

@David-Ryzec-3 Thank you so much! Appreciate the rapid response!

-tozz

[saillogger]

@David-Ryzec-3 said in Behavior for mobile stations seems to have changed:

Hi, thanks for reporting. This is bug on our side and will be fixed this week

Perfect, thank you!

[Suty]

@saillogger @tozz This issue should be already fixed on our end.

[saillogger]

@Suty Yes, can confirm it is fixed, thank you.

On a related note, we observe one more changed behavior. It used to be possible to submit data for a series of stations and if the ID of a station didn't exist, it was automatically created. This behavior seems to have changed, now if the ID of the station does not already exist we get an error like this:

    "260": {
      "stations": [
        {
          "success": false,
          "value": {
            "si": 260,
            "stationType": "Saillogger.com",
            "shareOption": "Open",
            "name": "",
            "lat": -16.072127166666668,
            "lon": -142.36759016666667,
            "elev_m": 1,
            "agl_temp": 1,
            "agl_wind": 1
          },
          "error": "Could not update station, station not found"
        }
      ],

Unfortunately this is a problem since we create stations dynamically. Sailogger has hundreds of boats and If a user enables Windy, we need a mechanism to automatically create a Windy station for that user. Doing it manually is not an option.

This used to work but stopped working, presumably after a change.

Thoughts?

[Suty]

@saillogger Hi, colleagues decided to implement this feature as well and it should be in a few weeks.

[saillogger]

@Suty Awesome, thanks!

[ilkertemir]

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[ilkertemir]

@Suty , Team, any follow-up on this? There are practically 5+ stations that are submitting data but are getting rejected because their station IDs are coming back as not-existent. There are a few more interested in becoming stations so this is all blocking them right now.

[Suty]

@ilkertemir Hi, I have info from colleagues that it should be fixed this week. We are sorry about the delay.

[ilkertemir]

@Suty This is great to hear, thank you!

[ilkertemir]

@Suty , Team, this is all resolved and all stations are showing up. Thank you so much!