DataBoy wrote:I'm getting this error when I run the script. OSX 10.5.8 on a mini duo.

Sep 18, 2009 4:49:59 PM
Trigger Action NOAA Weather trigger
Weather NOAA SendToIndigo:IndigoServer got an error: A descriptor type mismatch occurred.(-10001)

See this thread for details.

After getting a timeout error on the NOAA script

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GetXMLfile:URL Access Scripting got an error: AppleEvent timed out.(-1712)

and giving up on troubleshooting (I can go to the page manually via Safari, but the file's not being written; have no idea why URL Access Scripting is misbehaving) I found Berkinet's post about using cURL instead of URL Access Scripting, which works well (Thanks, Richard!).

In addition to his change, I found it necessary to modify one other line in the NOAA script:

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tell application "Finder"
         set myFile to ((path to temporary items) as string) & "noaa_sync_temp.xml"
      end tell


Needs to be:

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tell application "Finder"
         set myFile to POSIX path of ((path to temporary items) as string) & "noaa_sync_temp.xml"
      end tell

Without the "POSIX path of" operator, the file is written to the root directory of the hard drive with a file name consisting of the classic Macintosh path (using colons instead of backslashes). (The script still works without this change, but the root directory is not the best place for temp file storage). Evidently the "path to" function still uses colons internally.

Within the last day or so this script stopped updating variables. It will update variables if i stop then restart the server, but no longer after that...anyone else having this problem?

Still running for me. Is the script itself still running in the background?

jay wrote:Still running for me. Is the script itself still running in the background?

It is. I can see it load when I start the server. If I hids Indigo it keeps updating. If I quit Indigo but not stop the server it doesn't update like it used to.

That's really odd since the client (UI) has nothing to do with scripts running against the server. Are you sure you have the server configured to run separately from the client?

As far as I know. How do I check?

Make sure in the "Start Local Server..." dialog (Indigo 4 menu) that you have "Start and connect to Indigo Server on this computer" selected (second radio button).

If you have that set, then quit the Indigo client app, open the Terminal application, and paste in the following command:

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ps -axwww | grep Indigo

and then paste the results in to a reply post.

Study-iMac-2:~ Karen$ ps -axwww | grep Indigo
35661 ?? 1:03.86 /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 4/IndigoServer.app/Contents/MacOS/IndigoServer
35662 ?? 0:42.54 python /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 4/IndigoWebServer/IndigoWebServer.py -i1176 -w8176 -cfn
35663 ?? 0:24.48 python /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 4/IndigoSqlClient/IndigoSqlClient.py -i1176
35664 ?? 3:25.51 /usr/bin/osascript /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 4/Scripts/Background Tasks/iTunes sync.scpt
35665 ?? 3:11.39 /usr/bin/osascript /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 4/Scripts/Background Tasks/Weather NOAA sync.scpt
38023 ttys000 0:00.00 grep Indigo

I've been running the NOAA Weather script for some time now. Recently, I noticed the event log showing the following:

Weather NOAA Weather NOAA Script Started
Weather NOAA Variable "Weather_Pressure" is not present in the NOAA data file.
Weather NOAA Variable "Weather_Pressure_mb" is not present in the NOAA data file.
Weather NOAA Weather NOAA Script Finished

Not sure how long this has been going on, but I haven't changed anything in the script in a long time. Something change at the NOAA site?

Interesting - because NOAA periodically removes data from it's XML file, I added those log lines so that users who have fields configured to populate that NOAA no longer provides will know why the values aren't getting updated.

However, they're populating for me. I wonder if maybe it's a problem with the specific station you're getting data from...

Anyway, to stop those messages, change the following lines at the top of the script to false:

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property GetPressureString : true
property GetPressureMB : true


I'm having a problem with this NOAA Sync Script. It I have the trigger set up to run at indigo start up. The script runs fine at start up but doesn't seem to update after that but no errors in the log. The only way I can get it to run again is to restart the server.

Ideas?

I found the issue. I am also running a start up action for TED per this script: viewtopic.php?p=20257#p20257

Looks like indigo can run one or the other.

Odd - one shouldn't have anything to do with the other...

I can repeat it. The NOAA sync script will run fine and repeat until I start the TED script. I don't get any more updates from the NOAA script after.