Intermittent Twitter error - "closing paren expected"

[sjmeff]

Hi - I've used the same Twitter script for a while but it recently started intermittently failing (perhaps with the recent upgrade of Meteobridge?).

I'm on Meteobridge 3.1

The script is:

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#SandySpring #MD #MoCo [th0temp-act=F.1:--]°F (feels like [th0heatindex-act=F.1:--]°F) · Humidity: [th0hum-act=.0]٪ · Rain: #if#{*[rain0total-daysum]=0.0*}#then#0 in#else#[rain0total-daysum=in.2:---]in#fi# · Wind: [wind0dir-act=endir:---] [wind0wind-act=mph.1:--] to [wind0wind-max10=mph.1:--] mph

It runs fine for a while and then occasionally will throw this error:
"Error: sh: closing paren expected sh: closing paren expected can not post tweet (duplicate) (no more tries)"

Any ideas?

[admin]

I guess it cannot handle the degree symbols.

[weeramateur]

I guess it cannot handle the degree symbols.

that's possible

[sjmeff]

Thanks for the replies.

I tested removing various characters -- ° · ٪ -- but still saw the error. Finally I tried removing the parenthesis around the "feels like" part and I haven't seen the error again. It's always been an intermittent issue, but this has been running for ~12 hrs so far, so I will just use the updated script.

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#SandySpring #MD #MoCo [th0temp-act=F.1:--]°F · Feels like [th0heatindex-act=F.1:--]°F · Humidity: [th0hum-act=.0]٪ · Rain: #if#{*[rain0total-daysum]=0.0*}#then#0 in#else#[rain0total-daysum=in.2:---]in#fi# · Wind: #if#{*[wind0wind-max10]>0.0*}#then#[wind0dir-act=endir:---] [wind0wind-act=mph.1:--] to [wind0wind-max10=mph.1:--] mph#else#0 mph#fi#

Thanks again!

[admin]

I see in your template that you don't have defined default values for all variables (th0hum-act, rain0total-daysum in if clause).
This might also cause trouble with the square brackets when no sensor data for this sensor available.

[sjmeff]

I see in your template that you don't have defined default values for all variables (th0hum-act, rain0total-daysum in if clause).
This might also cause trouble with the square brackets when no sensor data for this sensor available.

How do I set defaults? I didn't see that in the docs. Thanks!

[admin]

It is done with the colon ":", please see section about templates in the wiki.

[WA4OPQ]

I'm having the same problem, but with a very simple template:
Today's high temperature for Hickman County (8.5 miles NE of Centerville) was [th0temp-dmax=F.1:--] ºF. The low temperature was [th0temp-dmin=F.1:--] ºF

I can make it work by replacing the parentheses with commas. But I would like to be able to use parentheses in tweets.