WxNotify Website & Service News
The combination of some DigitalOcean planned maintenance & a recent database configuration change by me triggered a brief outage of WxNotify this morning. The maintenance caused the database server to reboot, and because of the recent database configuration change on the server, the database failed to start back up. That, of course caused the rest […]
In order to keep up with current news around the NOAA Weather Wire Service, EMWIN, NOAAPort, and NOAA/NWS in general, I started following the Weather Message (a.k.a WxMessage) mailing list several years ago. It’s been a wealth of information and the members are always friendly and kind to newcomers. Due to the frustration by many […]
I’ve now added the option to send text-only e-mails. This will apply to all e-mails coming from WxNotify. (weather alerts, daily forecasts, monthly tests, etc.) You can turn this on by signing into your account at https://www.wxnotify.com/login/, clicking on profile menu in upper right and selecting “Settings”. The first option is now “Send emails in […]
A subscriber requested that I bring back the option to send text-only e-mail alerts. I had mistakenly removed the option (only providing HTML emails) without realizing that subscribers actually wanted that feature! I will be working on adding that feature back in over the weekend.
I was notified by my monitoring that the Chicago NWS office issued a Winter Storm Watch for its CWA around 2:47pm today, but it was not dispatched by WxNotify. It turns out the product got stuck in Laravel’s queue for some reason. I re-ran the product through the system and it was dispatched with no […]
I have now fixed an issue where some subscribers were not receiving daily forecasts. WxNotify obtains daily forecast data from the National Weather Service API, and for some users, the API was returning empty current condition data for the user’s closest reporting station. The code now looks at the 10 closest weather stations and loops […]
I received reports of users receiving duplicate alerts. The reason was WxNotify showed EMWIN being the primary product source, however the NWWS-OI process was also running. Will add additional monitoring so I’ll know if something like this happens again. Apologies for the inconvenience!
Found an issue today that had the URL https://www.wxnotify.com/grlevelx/sels throwing a 500 error. Found that my product filtering regular expression wasn’t quite right, so I wasn’t downloading the SAW products. This resulted in the code that determines SEL coordinates to return an empty string, which made the above URL error out. I’m deploying a fix […]
I was alerted to the fact that subscribers using AT&T who have SMS contacts set up are not receiving SMS text messages. I dug deeper into this issue and found that the messages to <number>@txt.att.net are bouncing when sent from my server. Some research on the Internet resulting in several posts on AT&T forums with […]
After going live, I noticed that some pre-existing accounts are having some issues with products that don’t exist anymore. When attempting to edit the affected product list, a HTTP 500 error is being thrown. I’m working on a fix now, will update when it’s resolved. EDIT: The product list issue is fixed now. While fixing, […]