Firstly a big hi to Steve and everyone else on here, I stumbled on Cumulus through google searching for an alternative to that rubbish Heavy Weather software shipped with the La Crosse WS-2307, I installed Cumulus and within a couple of hours had it communicating with a developing weather station database called weathercast which in turn communicates with our #weather IRC bot (I'm part of a national organisation of Aussie stormchasers so we are majorly into running our own stations and weather info for everyone to make use of).
Anyhow I also have my own local weather site to run things on, I choose to not run the realtime as the people who look at my site don't need the data quite that fast so 10 minute updates are more than fine and I have my data saved and displayed here at home in real time for my own purposes anyways.
Now every single data feed works fine but is there a tag or script to have it process and generate a wind direction in compass heading words e.g ENE or NE etc that can be used for this site or does anyone know of a script I can load to convert the bearing values to words?
Personally I can translate direction bearings no worries because I'm a stormchaser and used to working with numbers but a lot of my site recipients are just general public so am just finding out if I can make something that is friendlier for them to read.
Well hope everyone has a great day/evening
Stephen
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Latest Cumulus MX V3 release 3.28.6 (build 3283) - 21 March 2024
Legacy Cumulus 1 release 1.9.4 (build 1099) - 28 November 2014
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Custome Website Wind tags
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Re: Custome Website Wind tags
The <#wdir> tag produces the averaged wind bearing as a compass point, as on the default index page.
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Re: Custome Website Wind tags
Thanks for that Steve top support on here, that tag wasn't in the custom tags list thats all
Stephen
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Re: Custome Website Wind tags
Try the following JavaScript to convert bearings:
Then your html you would have something like:
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function windDir ($winddir) // used for direction graphics
// Take wind direction value, return the
// text label based upon 16 point compass -- function by beeker425
// see http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,20097.0.html
{
$windlabel = new Array("N", "NNE", "NE", "ENE", "E", "ESE", "SE", "SSE", "S", "SSW", "SW", "WSW", "W", "WNW", "NW", "NNW");
return $windlabel[Math.floor(((parseInt($winddir) + 11) / 22.5) % 16 )];
} // END function windDir
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Wind from <script> windir(<#avgbearing>);</script>
......................Imagine, what you will KNOW tomorrow !
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Re: Custome Website Wind tags
Oops - slapped wrist. I'll fix that...Stephen-wx wrote: that tag wasn't in the custom tags list thats all
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Re: Custome Website Wind tags
ahh thanks for the conversion script too...
ahh well I figure you made such an awesome proggie that tiny things missing are easy to come across its rock solid, I've been involved with testing a program called Australian Weather Monitor that even though its my friend who makes it the old version had some shocking issues including no stabliity after being run for a couple of days.
theres the prelim site which is a hybrid of the old obs layout as I'm currently working on a new one to accomodate the many more parameters I now have on the new AWS.
http://stephen.bsch.au.com/ofaws
Stephen
ahh well I figure you made such an awesome proggie that tiny things missing are easy to come across its rock solid, I've been involved with testing a program called Australian Weather Monitor that even though its my friend who makes it the old version had some shocking issues including no stabliity after being run for a couple of days.
theres the prelim site which is a hybrid of the old obs layout as I'm currently working on a new one to accomodate the many more parameters I now have on the new AWS.
http://stephen.bsch.au.com/ofaws
Stephen