Sandaysoft

Hi,
The laptop I previously had died on me a few weeks ago so have now replaced it with a new one which uses windows 7 rather than vista which the other one used. I've added all my gadgets that I had on my previous one but I'm having problems trying to alter the settings so that it shows dewpoint on the gadget instead of the default windchill. I've altered the line to temperature2 = 4; in the settings.ini file but it still continues to show windchill, altering the other lines does change the settings on the gadget, I'm stumped on why that part won't change to read the dewpoint temperature.

Sean

Hi,

Mine works fine just copy and paste cumulusih.gadget into your gadgets folder. The path should be this. C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\ then paste the file cumulusih.gadget into that folder (Gadgets)

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Davis Vantage Vue - Cumulus v1.9.4-b1076

Hello everyone!
My name is Krzysiek and I come from Poland.
My PWS (Personal Weather Station) has been operating for three years.
I really liked your weather gadget and I would like to share it with others on my website . To do so, I have allowed myself to modify it a little bit.
My goal was to simplify the look of the gadget and the way the information is being shown.
Therefore, I have:
- added the name of PWS. I would also like to add a link on the gadget straight to the weather website,
- used the icons instead of the descriptions. Thanks to that, the gadget will be available and understandable for everybody,
- rounded the values that are being displayed,
- removed „feels like” temperature,
- removed the date of the update. There's only the time now.
All the changes I've implemented in the files: gadget.js and settings.js are properly marked


Be careful until Dane says it is OK.
What is sure is that one cannot use both versions in the same time. It results with the updating problems.

Hello Dane,
Thank you, your gadget is really cool:)
Please have a look if everything is correct and if I haven't broke anything.
I have remarked that one cannot use both versions in the same time because it results with the updating problems. Something jams when you try to do so. Perhaps both gadgets try to read the same file (local copy of realtime.txt)?
If you agree, I would like to add your gadget on my website to share it.

download:
my version cumulusih gadget

Thats all

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Nice work, Smarmen

Your modifications to cumulusih gadget look OK to me. So I have no problem with that.
Your XP gadget has the disadvantage that it updates less frequently than the realtime gadget.

To avoid confusion I suggest that you create a separate thread for your gadgets, so users can find the version(s) they prefer, and you can present updates outside this thread.

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Ib http://www.ibtest.dk/vejr/

You're right - I did it already

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i love your gadget but it seem to be stuck on the stormy when it is not stormy and it should be sunny or any thing else. How can if fix this? I have the realtime.txt as this going to the cumulus folder where the cumulus realtime is located at >> C:\Cumulus\realtime.txt

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Thanks, John C.
Links for all Websites >> http://bit.ly/yh0W2T
PWS Weather Station link >> http://bit.ly/kb0mgh-pws
Weather Underground link >> http://bit.ly/kb0mgh-wu
WeatherBug Backyard link >> http://bit.ly/kb0mgh-wb

As stated in the 1st post of this thread: You seem to be running the gadget off a local realtime.txt.
The weather icons displayed by the gadget represent the forecast, not the current weather, and should match the forecast text displayed by Cumulus on its main screen.
If you believe the forecast is wrong, try adjusting the forecast pressure extremes on Cumulus's Configuration--->Station screen (lower right hand corner)

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Ib http://www.ibtest.dk/vejr/

Thank you

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Thanks, John C.
Links for all Websites >> http://bit.ly/yh0W2T
PWS Weather Station link >> http://bit.ly/kb0mgh-pws
Weather Underground link >> http://bit.ly/kb0mgh-wu
WeatherBug Backyard link >> http://bit.ly/kb0mgh-wb

Hi, I've downloaded the gadget and I like it. Unfortunately I'm not much of a programer for this. Can anyone tell me exactly what the line for the date should look like to get a US format?

Thanks in advance
Kevin

try:
usdate = "/";

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Ib http://www.ibtest.dk/vejr/

Thanks Dane!

I'm a Moron, I forgot to remove the // before the variable. Works great!

I meant to post this as a reply to this thread rather than a new thread. So, here goes:

On my gadget installation, both temps. are always the same but on some of the gadget pictures shown in this thread, the temps. have different values. What are these temps. supposed to represent? Is there a setting I can change in Cumulus to get them to be what they are supposed to be?
I do not have a web page (of my own) bu my data is uploaded to Wunderground (IONTHORN3).
On my computer screen, my gadget settings are:c:/cumulus/realtime.txt, interval 30s
The gadget only started working when I checked all three settings for realtime in the Cumulus internet configuration.

Thx,

daqddyo1

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Does, the following, from the gadget PDF document, help?

"The temperature line has 2 fields. The figure following the slash is under user control via the gadget’s settings.ini file (see below). Default is: heat index (as shown in the daylight example) if higher than first field, or wind chill (as shown in the night example) if lower than first field – numbers as provided by Cumulus in the realtime.txt file."

And in the settings.ini file:

// 3rd parameter: field after the slash in the temperature line of gadget output:
// if not specified or blank: defaults to show 'feels like' temperature: wind chill / heat index.
// temperature2 = 54; // apparent temp // between 0 and 57, or negative for no 2nd value.

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Steve
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Thnanks Steve,

John

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Steve,
Just checked my Cumulus readings and both heat index and temp are the same as I have currently no sunlight and had no wind to speak of for the past week.

John

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