API bug adding output with peak time before 10am?

API
#1

I seem to be having an API problem with submitting outputs with peak output times before 10am, Calling addoutput.jsp with a ‘pt’ time argument beginning with a 0 (e.g. 09:59) results in just a hyphen in the list of outputs. Times from 10:00 onwards are fine. According to https://pvoutput.org/help.html#api-addoutput the format is hh:mm, although I’ve also tried just e.g. 9:59 (in other words without the 0 at the beginning), but that doesn’t help.

If, however, I manally edit the output via the web page (which said the existing time was “N/A”) and select the correct time from the drop down, that does work, so things aren’t completely broken with such times.

Is there something I’m missing or is there a bug in addoutput.jsp?

Thanks

#2

Please provide the exact API query request, without your API key, that is being sent.

#3

Not sure if this is connected but using SBFSpot on a Pi from a SMA inverter I’ve noticed that if that day’s peak output is 10am or earlier, peak time is not recorded on the daily outputs screen.

Bob.

#4

Here’s an exact command line my script uses which failed to update the peak time:

curl -s -S -d d=20170715 -d g=9017 -d e=4508 -d pp=1824 -d pt=08:40 -d ‘cm=0mm rain, 0h38m out of 16h20m sun’ -d tm=11 -d tx=19 -d cd=Cloudy -H ‘X-Pvoutput-Apikey: XXXX’ -H ‘X-Pvoutput-SystemId: 2822’ http://pvoutput.org/service/r1/addoutput.jsp

The -d argument to curl is how to provide POST data. And of course it stll works for times from 10am onwards. Also, to be clear, I do get a server response of “OK 200: Added Output”

A bit more information I have is that I know it had stopped working by 23rd Feb 2017, and the last time I submitted a time before that (which worked) was 15th November 2016, so it stopped working some time between those two dates.

Thanks for looking at this.

J

#5

This has been fixed, please try again.

#6

I can confirm it does work now. Thanks! :smile:

J