Stopped working

[sidan5]

Nothing is being returned. I guess the URL have been changed.

[eladnava]

Hi @sidan5, The package still works like a champ.

Nothing is being returned because, thankfully, there are no active rocket alerts currently in Israel! No rockets were launched when you ran the package.

The package will only return active rocket alert zone names when the "Tzeva Adom" alert sounds in one or more zones in Israel.

[sidan5]

I have nothing in my logs for the last rocket alerts (service run for more than a year without any issues)

[eladnava]

Hi @sidan5, The official Pikud Haoref website lists the last alert on October 21st (two days ago): http://www.oref.org.il/11096-he/Pakar.aspx

This package did return alert zones on October 21st at 5AM (גולן 2, גולן 3, קצרין 6).

I know this for sure because my RedAlert app which is based on this package has alerted the users about these rocket alerts and stored them in the backend database:

+------+------------+--------------+
| id   | date       | area         |
+------+------------+--------------+
| 4242 | 1508551275 | גולן 3       |
| 4241 | 1508551275 | קצרין 6      |
| 4240 | 1508551275 | גולן 2       |
+------+------------+--------------+
3 rows in set (0.18 sec)

[eladnava]

Also, please make sure you are polling for rocket alerts every second or so, and not longer, because Pikud Haoref will return the alert zones only for a limited period of time (about 10 seconds) until they no longer return them, even if a Tzeva Adom alarm is still sounding in these zones.

[sidan5]

@eladnava Are you polling from Israel?

[eladnava]

@sidan5 Nope. Polling from AWS North Virginia (us-east-1).

[sidan5]

@eladnava Restarted the entity and now it works perfect. Probably my IP was banned or something...I'm polling every second, maybe that's too often?

[eladnava]

@sidan5 I poll every second as well, for the last 4 years or so, without any issue. 👍

[sidan5]

@eladnava Ok. Maybe some other issue that was cleared out (new instance solved). I'll wait for next time. Thank you!

[eladnava]

@sidan5 Awesome. My pleasure man!