In line with the recent changes to the SOTA Database, we will also be retiring SOTAWatch2 as of March 25, 2020. We have specifically chosen a Wednesday as this will be during the week with lower activities. Coupled with this will be shutting down of the adjoining API1. Most people who have used the API are now on API2 quite happily, as is all the remaining existing infrastructure for SOTA (like SW3, summits.sota, RBNHole, etc)
Unfortunately, SW2 and API1 cost a lot of money and time to run for increasingly declining usage, and this will help keep costs to a minimum while allowing the IT Group to gain a bit more breathing space and capacity. SW3 and API2 have been running now for over a year with few if any complaints, and the time is ripe to transition.
If anyone is still using API1 for any particular situation (ie, calling api.sota.org.uk direct in any query) that we are not aware of, please let me know ASAP so that we can talk you through migration to API2. Likewise if there is some killer feature on SW2 that you need that isnāt present on SW3, now is the time to raise it.
VK port-a-log moved to API2 last month.
There are a few users using earlier versions that rely on Spotlite and RSS but the updated version is available so there shouldnāt be any panic
I was using it with āFeed Notifierā but as I got nil response when I asked in a older thread as to if it was to be impacted I am now using own method of getting an equivalent feed (via API calls and a PHP page on my own web site).
Hi Andrew,
Can I ask that you remove the āBetaā text from the heading on the SOTAWatch 3 webpage - I think itās earned an upgrade to being the full product by now H.I.
āI wont be able to use SOTAWatch 2 any more and SW3 says itās only in BETA - so what will I do ?? - without spotting and alerting SOTA is Soooo hard - sob, sob.ā
OK, so when the āBetaā disappears from SW3, we can take this as an indication of a successful change over to the new interface. Perhaps you should add some baloons, flags party whistles etc. to celebrate.
My radio friend Marc (DO2UDX), who makes the logging program āUDXlogā for Android, uses, like me with my Windows program āQWā for Windows, some SOTA APIs or the RSS Feed.
For future reference Mario, this reflector system has a Private-Mail (PM) system built into it - just left-mouse-click on the V Icon for VK3ARR in the entry above and over to the right of the pop-up there is a āmessageā button. That will put you (privately) in contact with Andrew.
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