Changelog

This long weekend consisted of extensive work to ready eLMS on the System40 server.  A working version of eLMS is now residing on that server.  

We temporarily stopped eLMS services on Legacy in order to do a complete copy of the frozen database to Sys40.  eLMS services have been restored on Legacy (see information about dual operation below).

Copied census and application JSON files generated by eLMS to Sys40.

Converted from perl to PHP, the program that is in the eLMS suite that parses the authorization PHP files from the FCC and saves information to the database upon application grant.

Commenced manual testing of the eLMS suite in the test environment. 

Released advisories related to the upcoming commencement of dual operation for both the database copy exercise and for the period of time REC will be in dual operations. 

Precoded 17 applications that are part of the morning run.  Most of these programs interface with eLMS.

From Monday October 14, 2024 until further notice, the frequency of updates provided by REC through eLMS will be reduced from every 10 minutes to every 15 minutes on weekdays.

On October 12~14, 2024, eLMS application handling services will be temporarily stopped. This will not impact the ability to view data on systems.

Recoded and deployed toybox application public_notice.

Updated and transitioned programs that support REC system operational status (status page and front page operational status summary) and internal program that allows for the updates of status. Message of the Day for FCCdata is still on Legacy for now but can be controlled by the interface on Sys40.

This transition is completed.  All three domains are now on System40.

Updated to include information about LPFM.APP.

The FCC Contours API (application programming interface) has been having difficulties for the past 24 hours.  We are observing that the API will sporadically respond but in most cases, it fails.

This will impact your ability to:

Recoded toybox application N01A.  This application is dependent on population JSON files originally generated by eLMS.  Deployment of internal application N01 will at the time when the eLMS codebase is migrated to N01.  

Recoded toybox application N01B.  

Recoded Drupal pages in N01 in order to accept toybox applications.  

N01 still needs a theme.  N01 contingent on full eLMS conversion.

Recoded toybox source code for LPFM.APP. 

Did a full migration of the Drupal site FMtranslator.com to Sys40.

Did a full migration of lpfm.wiki to Sys40.

Drupal preparation for lpfm.app.

Drupal preparation for wide-fm.com.

Drupal preparation for internal application N01.

Recoded the API for CountyWAR as well as ran some initial testing on the game.  Despite yesterday's update, we plan to commence CountyWAR Game #11 on its normal schedule.  

Recoded and staged in a test environment, the System40 version of LPFM.US.   The DNS cut over will be delayed until the weekend of 10/5~10/6, 2024.   The data source will remain in Legacy for now.

Transitioned dingers to work completely off of Sys40 data.  Dingers will remain in a freeze on new data until after the full transition is completed as FCCdata still depends on dingers data that resides on Legacy.

Moved over several database tables that are needed for the morning run applications.

Reduced operations today due to family priority.

Repaired a post-transition issue with the interface that receives reports of payments from PayPal.

Developed a new function and process that will permit programs to write updates to both the Legacy and Sys40 databases simultaneously.  This opens some potential new flexibility including possibly allowing us to cut over databases with very minimal outage time and address some of the issues we were concerned about for eLMS dual operation. 

Transitioned 21 more tables.

Updated CDBS database on System40 with the data from the last FCC CDBS data release on January 10, 2024.

Recoded a program that checks the latest LMS raw data for new application versions that were not processed by eLMS in order to assign an RECid to that application. This program will not be transitioned until later in the project.

At this time, we are reconsidering our transition strategy for the database including when to cut databases over to Sys40 and the eventual cut over of eLMS and the web applications.  

Installed LMS into the System40 data environment. 

Modified programs that are used to read LMS raw data to write changes to the REC database.

Set up morning update scripts for weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays.  Added the LMS updater into that script.  Other items will be added later.

Complete rewrite of the process and programs used to update Mexico broadcast data (AM, FM and TV). The new programs automate many of the steps in the process we use to retrieve this data from the IFT, parse it and present it.  While recent system changes at the IFT still make this a manual process in one way, we have automated the rest and reduced the need to run 6 programs down to 2.  The new programs also substantially reduce the number of calls made to FCC resources for FM and TV during these updates.