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Previously I had my Davis Vantage Pro2 feeding data via Serial > ethernet > Win 7 PC. On that PC (It's Jim, dead) was Cumulus MX and IP Timelapse.
I have an Amcrest IP bullet camera ready to feed weather images to Weather Underground and ?

Using the Meteobridge Nano SD, how do I do this?

I was using
rtsp://192.168.x.x:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0
in IP Timelapse with Cumulus MX to overlay text but I have no idea how to that in the Nano SD or if it's even possible.

I have a NAS but I've yet to see how Amcrest handles FTP of images (naming format, frequency, etc).

If anyone could give me some ideas/links/pointers, I'd be grateful.

BTW,
You should be able to find me on CWOP (AT994), APRS (AC2EV-wx), WU (KNYROCHE362)
Should I feed the data to anywhere else?

FWIW,
I'll be setting up a Raspberry Pi with Direwolf for my APRS digipeater so that's my backup camera upload method (have no idea how yet).

I am using an Amcrest camera in the Nano SD with this trigger:

http://192.168.x.x/onvifsnapshot/media_service/snapshot?channel=1&subtype=0

Where 192.168.x.x is the IP address of the camera.

Might work for you.

Chuck

Almost there:

http://user:password@192.168.x.xonvifsn ... &subtype=0
I have the camera setup to require user/password

I can plug that url into my browser and see the image.

This give me a green check on the weather cam page but in Wunderground Camera I get:

Error: Weather Underground Camera FTP upload failed: ncftpput _wucam: server said: Can't open that file: Permission denied

no Weather Underground Cam: 2020-10-15 17:04:05 Error: 2020-10-15 17:03:59 Image larger than 150k (294k), might be dropped by WU (no more tries

Checking settings on camera was at 5 quality, down to 3 now.

Turned off ONVIF authentication. Still not seeing images. add meteobridge weather camera. Not seeing an image there, yet.

Will check again tomorrow.

Is there a "manual"? I didn't find much on the wiki page. I did find this though

http://downloads.windfinder.com/weather ... ual_v3.pdf

Not seeing an image on http://admin.meteobridge.com/cam/<NotSu ... d>/cam.jpg

Ok. Once you have the trigger working you will also need to setup FTP under the Services Tab to send the image to your site. Then give WU the path/address to the image file for fetching.

Best wishes,

Chuck

Forgive me for being rather dense but something just isn't 'clicking' for me. WeatherUnderground is expecting a file named image.jpg
URL is http://192.168.x.x/onvifsnapshot/media_ ... &subtype=0
If I put that address in my browser I get an image
When I click on the camera icon I'm directed to http://admin.meteobridge.com/cam/<is this a secret>/cam.jpg
When I click on the camer icon +text ahttp://admin.meteobridge.com/cam/<is this a secret>/camplus.jpg
Both show a message "The connection was reset"

You mentioned FTP service do I have to fill this out too? Or perhaps here? If I have to do this too what's the point of the Wunderground Camera service?

Still trying to find that manual. For a $300+ device there should be a bit more explanation. This is supposed to be the 'easy' stuff.

It looks like you have your meteobridge weathercam working, since you see the image in your web browser. I may have misunderstood which method you were trying to use. I think WU allows direct FTP to their server, but I have never had that work consistently. WU always seems to have issues with the FTP. So, I use their fetch method. I just have Meteobridge send the triggered image to my server, via FTP (the last section you show above). Then I go into my WU account and provide the url address to the image on the server and WU will periodically fetch the image.

The Meteobridge Weather Underground Camera method should work, as well. It just FTP’s the image directly. But, you will need to get a camera Id and password from WU via logging into your WU account.

Hope this helps,

Chuck

Sorry let me clarify a bit. I can connect to the camera and see the image directly. That seems to be the only part working.
Weather Underground Camera isn't working
Meteobridge Weather Camera is not providing an image either



The meteobridge overlay doesn't appear to be working as the link doesn't show me an image I get a disconnect error, admin.meteobridge.com...

Weather underground camera gives me this error
Error: Weather Underground Camera FTP upload failed: Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out. ncftpput _wucam: could not send file to remote host.

At this point I have thoughts
1. The WUCam upload is expecting a reply that Wunderground is not providing, I've emailed Wundeground for the FTP logs to see if that provides any useful info
2. I'm concerned that even the overlay text service isn't working
3. When I look at the source for the ONIVF connection to my camera there is no image name specified so I wonder if that's causing an issue
4. I verified my webcam do work for FTP, I can login and traverse directories on the Wunderground server.

Next step is hop on ssh and see if I can figure out where the images are supposed to be saved so I can see if it's getting the camera image to begin with.

I did some poking around via ssh

http://192.168.x.x/aircam.jpg displays the current camera image. So meteobridge is able to connect to the camera. I'll do some more poking around.

There's a file named cam in .tmp that appears to be part of the meteobridge weather camera functionality

Meteobridge sends the cam picture together with imagemagick picture manipulating commands to the Meteobridge server. Then temp file you look at is used to build up that package. The commands in there is what you define on the event command line in Meteobridge. So nothing magical here.

Which is what I figured but it doesn't help me to understand why I can't upload to wunderground camera and meteobridge camera.

After going through the forum and searching for every post with camera I found that the URL the meteobridge Weather camera provides doesn't work.
It's not http://admin.meteobridge.com/cam/<ID>/<cam.jpg or camplus.jpg>

It's
http://configure.meteobridge.com/cam/<ID>/<cam.jpg or camplus.jpg>

Can someone explain this or fix it, that would be great, thanks.