idx photos not updating

[Aaron]

Nothing from them yet - I'll follow up with them Monday.
If you do get a hold of them before me. You can tell them that on Sept 29 - These images came in the .tar file.

NNRMLS70005281.jpg
NNRMLS70005281A.jpg
NNRMLS70005281B.jpg
NNRMLS70005281C.jpg
NNRMLS70005281D.jpg
NNRMLS70005281E.jpg
NNRMLS70005281F.jpg
NNRMLS70005281G.jpg
NNRMLS70005281H.jpg

NNRMLS70019795.jpg
NNRMLS70019795A.jpg

That's images for 2 listings . There must be more than that.

[Aaron]

Sept 30 - They didn't even generate a file with images. 0 images today.

[mitch.argon]

Aaron - I spoke to the MLS tech staff this morning. Below is what he replied with:
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Mitch,
In order to get all of the photos for listings, you will need to download the seven dated photo files for each property class. If someone enters a listing on October 1, and inputs the photos on October 3, the photos will go into the file for October 1. Basically the photo files are created based on the Input Date for the listing and not the day that the photos are entered. That should explain why you are getting so few photos.

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After some discussion and clarification, here is what he suggested we do:

1. Each day, they post multiple "PICS" files for each class. All of the PICS files contain new or updated photos (which we should be picking up) and end in a date format (i.e. PICSRESIDENTIAL10012007) . Each class will also have a 'archive' PICS file (which ends in 'OLD').

2. We need to read and update all PICS files (for each class: residential, land, etc.) EXCEPT the one ending in 'OLD'. If we do a bulk update we should load the OLD file only.

Let me know if this provides enough info to get this working or if you have any questions. Their export format seems a bit sloppy but this is what we have to work with.

Thanks,
Mitch

[Aaron]

Hi Mitch,

Thank you for the information. That does make sense - I noticed yesterday that even though the files are dated with the filename{DATE}.tar format - the server timestamp for all the files updated. Anyways... I'll make the adjustments to the download script and we should be all set for tomorrow.

Thank you,

[mitch.argon]

Aaron,
Thanks for the help with this. All looks good today. Will let you know if this needs any attention later on (should be stable now though!).

Mitch

[mitch.argon]

Aaron -

The photos were coming over fine for a few days and BAM - today I can not find any photos on any new listings. Can you take a look at the files and your script to see if anything went wacky?

Refresher:
NNRMLS
freenevadamove.com

Thanks - Mitch

[Aaron]

Hi Mitch,

If there are still issues - it's on the data providers end - I download every file from their FTP server each day - uncompress them - then fix up their mixed case image file extensions.

The script is still running right now - so this might be why you are seeing the issue. Check back in bit.

Thank you,