2021-10-08, 05:18
Just a heads up to all - am seeing some weirdness from the BOM in the last few days - specifically that they are suddenly keeping way more radar images on their FTP site, than they previously have been.
Normally they have ~2 hours worth of images, but with some radars I am currently seeing 4 or 5 days worth of images. So I think whatever system they use to clean up old images is broken! Or there is some change of policy. With the BOM - who knows....
I am in the process of adding some limits to OzWeather to deal with this - not done previously as I haven't seen this, ever, in the previous 10 yeas (IIRC). But at the moment this means that weather updates can currently be quite slow as it will download a few days worth of images (a couple mb) instead of just the recent ones (~50kb), and even just retrieving the list of files (all of which are in one folder!) - takes several seconds.
I hope to submit this fix sometime today, and after that it depends how quickly the Kodi folks approve things.
Normally they have ~2 hours worth of images, but with some radars I am currently seeing 4 or 5 days worth of images. So I think whatever system they use to clean up old images is broken! Or there is some change of policy. With the BOM - who knows....
I am in the process of adding some limits to OzWeather to deal with this - not done previously as I haven't seen this, ever, in the previous 10 yeas (IIRC). But at the moment this means that weather updates can currently be quite slow as it will download a few days worth of images (a couple mb) instead of just the recent ones (~50kb), and even just retrieving the list of files (all of which are in one folder!) - takes several seconds.
I hope to submit this fix sometime today, and after that it depends how quickly the Kodi folks approve things.