Socket.io connection reconnects every 2-3 minutes

[mhilbush]

I'm implementing a service to integrate Ambient Weather into the openHAB home automation platform.

I've got it working pretty well, and I'm currently getting data events for my WS-1400-IP and the WS-8482.

However, every 3 minutes or so, I see a disconnect followed by a reconnect. I'm not sure what's causing this. To deal with it, I'm sending a subscribe command every time the reconnect happens. While not a major problem to do this, it does seem pretty inefficient.

I'm using the Java socket.io client software from here. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-java

[ambientweather]

I will forward this to our programmer. Thanks ED

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I'm implementing a service to integrate Ambient Weather into the openHAB home automation platform.I've got it working pretty well, and I'm currently getting data events for my WS-1400-IP and the WS-8482.However, every 3 minutes or so, I see a disconnect followed by a reconnect. I'm not sure what's causing this. To deal with it, I'm sending a subscribe command every time the reconnect happens. While not a major problem to do this, it does seem pretty inefficient.I'm using the Java socket.io client software from here. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-java— You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[mhilbush]

Adding a little more info on what I'm seeing.

2018-12-06 17:46:23.706 [DEBUG] [.handler.AmbientWeatherEventListener] - EVENT_PING received
2018-12-06 17:46:23.790 [DEBUG] [.handler.AmbientWeatherEventListener] - EVENT_PONG received
2018-12-06 17:46:48.791 [DEBUG] [.handler.AmbientWeatherEventListener] - EVENT_PING received
2018-12-06 17:46:53.793 [DEBUG] [.handler.AmbientWeatherEventListener] - EVENT_DISCONNECT received
2018-12-06 17:47:05.295 [DEBUG] [.handler.AmbientWeatherEventListener] - EVENT_CONNECT_ERROR received
2018-12-06 17:47:08.365 [DEBUG] [.handler.AmbientWeatherEventListener] - EVENT_RECONNECT received
2018-12-06 17:47:08.372 [DEBUG] [.handler.AmbientWeatherEventListener] - EVENT_CONNECT received

If you need to see my code, it's here. https://github.com/mhilbush/openhab2-addons/blob/ambient-weather-binding/addons/binding/org.openhab.binding.ambientweather/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/ambientweather/internal/handler/AmbientWeatherEventListener.java

[owise1]

Thanks for letting us know. We're aware of this issue and working on it.

[mhilbush]

Thanks. I'm new to socket.io, and thought it might be something I was doing (or not doing).

[owise1]

Hi @mhilbush , I'm not sure if you're still working on this project, but if you are, would you mind trying your socket connection using the domain "dash2.ambientweather.net" instead of "api.ambientweather.net" and let me know if the disconnects keep happening. We've been having load balancer issues and I'm experimenting with a workaround. If it's too much trouble no problem. thx.

[mhilbush]

Sure, I'll try it in a couple minutes and report back what I'm seeing.

[mhilbush]

@owise1 Been running for almost 25 minutes without a disconnect. I don't think I've ever gone more than 3 or 4 minutes, so your change is looking good from my end. I'll report back if I see any disconnects.

BTW, what time do you cycle your servers, so that I know what to expect if I see a disconnect at that time?

[owise1]

Wonderful. Thanks for your help. Feel free to keep using that domain if you like. We're going to start transitioning things to it, so it'll stay up.

We actually don't cycle the servers any more unless it's necessary.

[mhilbush]

Ok, sounds good! Much appreciated.

[mhilbush]

Just wanted to close this out... No disconnects since 8 pm EST last night. I'll close this issue now.