"Feed Disrupted" notifier

[nseidle]

Wunderground has a really neat system that notifies the owner of the weather station when it has not reported data after 2 hours, then 24 hrs. It would be a 'nice to have' : an email when your feed has not been pushed new data after 2 hours have elapsed. The wunderground feature has been crucial when developing my station and is a great notification to get.

The user should probably enable or opt-in this feature.

Here's the email I envision:

Title: "Data Channel Alert: [name of channel] Disruption Detected"

Hi owner of [name of feed],

We noticed your feed traffic has been disrupted. Click here to see the latest log.

We want to let you know so that you can check your hardware if necessary. Click here to change your notification settings or unsubscribe.

-SparkFun

Here's the wunderground error email for comparison:

Title: Wunderground Alert: PWS ID #KCOBOULD115 Reporting Error Detected

ATTENTION: Weather Station Owner

The Weather Underground PWS network has detected that your personal weather station (ID #KCOBOULD115) has not reported to www.wunderground.com for more than 2 hours.

Please check that your station is operational by visiting your station's settings here: http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/mypws

For more details and information about troubleshooting visit our PWS wiki page: http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Personal_Weather_Stations

We want to ensure that you are informed on the status of your weather station so you can continue to receive accurate data from Weather Underground.

Thank you,

• The Weather Underground Staff

[toddtreece]

Sounds good. This might be a good service for feeds attached to sparkfun.com acounts since we don't store user email accounts with stream metadata. What do you think?

[nseidle]

That's an acceptable approach. Is there another way to offer the service? Perhaps an optional email field during account creation? Not ideal but I'm not sure how else to offer the 'Notify me when' service.

[toddtreece]

That would work too. Would you like data.sparkfun.com to have an authenticated section with feed management, or would you like SparkFun users to manage their feeds from their sparkfun.com account page?

[nseidle]

No preference. Which is easier and more seamless to implement? I would lean towards using data.sparkfun as the wild west of anon and sparkfun.com as the friendly area where you can tweak things like feed descriptions and notification options.

[toddtreece]

That's the cleanest way to do it from my perspective, and it prevents us from collecting a bunch of duplicate info from users who want to keep track of their data streams.

[bboyho]

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