Sandaysoft

It only appears if you have selected the 'realtime' setting in the internet settings. Also, if you're running Vista it may not be in the obvious place (see lots of discussion about this elsewhere on the forum).

Steve

I've been having fun modifying the web pages, including massaging Pinto's Ajax stuff, combining some of TNETWeather's PHP stuff and some of my older stuff into a single page. I have a couple of questions related to the realtime.txt format (I'm using Pinto's reference as a guide):

1) #bearing and #wdir: is that the bearing/direction of the latest wind reading (#wlatest) or the current average (#wspeed)?
2) For the average (#wspeed), WeatherLink specifically says "10-minute average". What mechanism is being used by Cumulus (hopefully not average since last reset, since that's kinda useless)?

Probably more later...

Brad.

The latest.



From the help file:

Use 10 min average wind speed
Tick this to make Cumulus calculate and display a 10-minute average wind speed instead of using the value supplied by the station. Normally only useful for Oregon Scientific stations, as these stations supply an average wind speed based on the last few seconds only. Davis stations supply a 10-minute average.

Steve

Thanks, I'm cooking now.

Low priority request, only if you find yourself messing with realtime.txt for some other reason, I'd love to have the equivalents of <#rrateTM> and <#TrrateTM> and maybe <#Tbeaufort> added (though I think I can calculate/lookup the latter via javascript (once I figure out a string-to-number conversion).

And if you were *really* feeling generous, I wouldn't mind having a new <#wchillTM> and <#TwchillTM> (low windchill & time) *and* equivalents in realtime.txt. Oh, and maybe <#humidexTM> and <#ThumidexTM> (high humidex).

I'll stop now.

Brad.

The problem is that 'realtime' is becoming/has become something other than real time data. Not that it's necessarily a problem, it's just not what I envisaged! I'd have called it something different if I'd known. And no, I would haven't called it that...

I don't propose to add anything that can be derived in PHP (or whatever) but the other two I'll do (at some point). For now I'll only be adding anything that I already have easily available.

I feel a bit mean turning down small requests when I'm in the middle of adding a completely new facility...

Steve

Hi,
some tips

you can create your own realtime-bpsmicro.txt
you know the format, and the tags you need ~>

create a xxxx.txt file and put the tags in it, use cumulus internet extrafiles facility to process and upload the file in realtime

done

sample:

i.e.<value you need><space><value you need><space>, and so on

all in one line, and it should work (not tested)

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Jozef

Yes - of course. I never think of these things

You can create a custom realtime.txt file using any data for which a tag already exists.

Steve

Sweet. I'll play with that. Thanks for the tip.