Error downloading wind data

[Ray Proudfoot 8,919]

Hi,

I'm running v2.4.4 on P3D v4.5 via WideFS. LNM has been fine for ages but today I keep getting "Error downloading wind data. Connection closed." messages. I can still access the folder containing current_wx_snapshot.txt from the WideFS PC so that doesn't appear to be the problem.

I suspect Windows 10 security but AS16 is running so difficult to know where to look.

[albar965 1,040]

Seems NOAA is gone. Can't reach any address at all there. Let's wait until they fix it. I hope they do not change the URL again.

Alex

[Ray Proudfoot 8,919]

Hi Alex,

That's odd because I don't have NOAA selected. Just Active Sky. And if I press Test against NOAA in Oprions-Weather it successfully returns the latest ATIS report.

Ah, the NOAA Wind Service Base URL Test returns a Connection Closed message. I'll just have to be patient. At least LNM is fine.

[albar965 1,040]

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I don't have NOAA selected.

Probably as airport weather but the wind is another setting in the weather menu.

For now it seems to be back (https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl).

Alex

[Ray Proudfoot 8,919]

Thanks Alex. Let’s hope it was a rare glitch.

[albar965 1,040]

Go to "Weather" -> "Wind Source" in LNM and set it to "Disabled" if this happens again. This will get rid of the warnings if NOAA blows up again.

Alex

[Ray Proudfoot 8,919]

Hi Alex,

Just to let you know the NOAA wind is not available again. I've cleared the path to their server as a work-around.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,919]

Hmmm. I've cleared the path but the message still pops up.

[albar965 1,040]

Yep. Download via webbrowser (https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t12z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20191113%2F12) also failing.

I have to change the error dialog so, that it shows up only once per session.

Disabling wind download in the menu should help. The dialog can still show up once if there is a stalled request in the background.

Edit: Just in case one deleted it without remembering the URL: The original NOAA wind URL is:

https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl

Alex

Edited November 13, 2019 by albar965
URL added.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,919]

Thanks Alex. I've just pasted your link and it reported success. Hopefully it stays that way.

[shermank 166]

This two year old problem raised by Ray Proudfoot has just popped up on my LNM in the last few days....anyone else have it again recently? When I do test both the NOAA server and weather, I get positive results...so, what gives? Thanks...

 

Sherm

[wlix261 79]

21 minutes ago, shermank said:

This two year old problem raised by Ray Proudfoot has just popped up on my LNM in the last few days....anyone else have it again recently? When I do test both the NOAA server and weather, I get positive results...so, what gives? Thanks...

 

Sherm

I am getting  this all the time.

It Is not clear for me what should I delete from where in LMN to fix this.

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[Gason71 127]

Here is Alex's answer about this problem: 

 

 

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Piotr