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Meteotemplate

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jachym
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Re: Meteotemplate

Post by jachym »

MT can be updated as often as the user wants, some use 3s, it is only a problem if your server supports cron jobs in minutely intervals.
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Re: Meteotemplate

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I figured out the Cron job part, have it running several cron jobs with a SLEEP function. It updates every 12-15 seconds depending on server load. Have to give the Update.php file time to run.
I still can not figure out where the data for the wind speed is coming from. It appears to be using AVERAGE wind speed, and not the CURRENT wind speed. You can see the wind direction changing and some of the other gauges with every time update (cron job ran) but wind speed appears very static. Still hunting to see where it gets the data from. I have been in contact with Jachym on this, and he is not sure either.
see also this post by me. https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=16640

I really like the Meteotemplate, it looks nice and can be pretty customized with a few tweaks, but this one is throwing me.
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Re: Meteotemplate

Post by K8POS »

Just to close this out. I had my cron job running every 15 seconds, (used a sleep function).
While this worked just fine, Meteotemplate uses a Average wind speed to display on the gauges, so the wind speed would only change every 1-5 minutes. Not being able to figure out where the gauge was getting the data from, I went back to Mr. Crossley's original SS-Gauge set, reinstalled the newest version. Have it working perfectly within Meteotemplate, and giving me 10 second updates. Turned off all the extra cron jobs that were running, (server guys were happy).
Just have to tweak the credits at the bottom of the page, they are not showing up, (sorry Mark I will fix it)

Thanks everyone for the help.
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Re: Meteotemplate

Post by courtil »

Hello everyone,

a new version of METEOTEMPLATE is online.

Meteotemplate 17.0 Nectarine

Extracts from the METEOTEMPLATE Blog:

new responsive Bootstrap homepage - you can choose if you want to use this fixed, 100% responsive one,
gold the original customizable mobile homepage.


offline notifications - you can now enable email notifications when your station goes online
(Control panel -> offline notifications). Bear in mind you will need a CRON job for this.

deleting block cache - block cache can now be deleted from the Block page setup, no need to use your FTP client

new date / time formats in the main setup

possibility to add custom links to Admin menu tab

error checker - check for ZIP file support

The designer now uses a token and a license that can be obtained for a contribution ....

cordially

Michel says Courtil

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Re: Meteotemplate

Post by courtil »

Hello everyone,

In updating the data on METEOTEMPLATE, I abandoned the update of the data by WUNDERGROUND.

Structural problems of this site have caused multiple halts of the updates.

On the other hand locally if the local pc stops or reboote, Wunderground stops its recordings, I have to restart the CUMULUSMX to get the update but with losses of the previous data.

Therefore I use Realtime.txt now, of course it is necessary that the remote site accepts the download, to ask you to your access provider.

cordially

Michel says Courtil
OS : Windows 11 Familial
Station Météo : Vantage PRO2
Cumulus MX 3.14.2 b3169
CumulusUtils
http://meteo621.free.fr/
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