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steve
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:02 am 
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(Steve: I am uncertain about the separation char. in realtime.txt: Cumulus Help says: always dd/mm/yy.
Your realtime.txt has a slash, but in mine it is a dash :?: )
Yes, I'm afraid this is another one of those things that 'just happened' when people started using Cumulus that I didn't realise was going to happen. Although Cumulus asks for a date in the format "dd/mm/yy" what actually happens is that the slash gets replaced by the PC's date separator symbol. So the correct specification of the format is really: dd<separator>mm<separator>yy.

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dane
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:10 am 
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Yes, I'm afraid this is another one of those things that 'just happened' when people started using Cumulus that I didn't realise was going to happen. Although Cumulus asks for a date in the format "dd/mm/yy" what actually happens is that the slash gets replaced by the PC's date separator symbol. So the correct specification of the format is really: dd<separator>mm<separator>yy.

Thanks. I'll code to handle any separation character.

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dane
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:33 am 
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Gadget code and documentation updated to version 2.1IH.
New: optional settings.ini parameter: usdate = "/" for US date format (mm/dd/yy) in output, using specified separation character.

Download from 1st post of this thread.

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mikeflight
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:49 pm 
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dane wrote:
Gadget code and documentation updated to version 2.1IH.
New: optional settings.ini parameter: usdate = "/" for US date format (mm/dd/yy) in output, using specified separation character.

Download from 1st post of this thread.

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Super-T
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:05 am 
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I have just noticed that the Gadget had stopped updating. Data was 9 hours out of date.
It updates locally and both computers have been running all that time.
Clicked on options and then "OK" and it now updates again.
Seems to just go to sleep.

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dane
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:30 am 
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I have just noticed that the Gadget had stopped updating. Data was 9 hours out of date.
It updates locally and both computers have been running all that time.
Clicked on options and then "OK" and it now updates again.
Seems to just go to sleep.

I am aware of the problem, but have no fix for it. :(
The code does an Open of the local file - but the system never returns.
This is a local-file problem - does not occur for website files accessed via http.

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dane
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
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Update 2010-07-16: (version not changed: still called version 2.1IH):
- modified code to handle local realtime.txt. New code uploaded to the first post of this thread.
Maybe - just maybe - the local realtime.txt problem has been fixed now :)

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Super-T
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:29 am 
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I'll give it a bash and see how it goes :-)

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Super-T
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:15 am 
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The Cumulus Realtime Gadget is giving problems regularly when run from the realtime.txt on my local network. It stops updating and I have to go to Options and click ok, without changing anything, and it then updates and carries on. Settings are r:\realtime.txt - a mapped drive.
I should add that the computer that is running the gadget is put into "sleep" mode overnight but this does not always give a problem. Drive is still mapped but the gadget doesn't update.
Any ideas?

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dane
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:47 am 
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Super-T wrote:
The Cumulus Realtime Gadget is giving problems regularly when run from the realtime.txt on my local network. It stops updating and I have to go to Options and click ok, without changing anything, and it then updates and carries on. Settings are r:\realtime.txt - a mapped drive.
I should add that the computer that is running the gadget is put into "sleep" mode overnight but this does not always give a problem. Drive is still mapped but the gadget doesn't update.
Any ideas?

I am aware of the fact that the gadget will tend to stop working if the realtime.txt is on your local system.
And I have given up trying to fix the problem: the gadget simply hangs with no error indication.
After all: the gadget works fine as intended: against a realtime.txt on a website.
My attempt to recode it to run against a local realtime.txt was only an experiment - and it failed.

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:53 pm 
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Just giving feedback for you :-)

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:16 pm 
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installed, and workin perfick!!

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dane
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:34 pm 
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installed, and workin perfick!!

Pleased to hear that.

I have 2 updates to the gadget:
- 2nd temp field: accept new additional fields in realtime.txt, e.g. field[54]: apparent temperature
- display "not updating" in red if date/time field read from realtime.txt does not change over 10 intervals

Will build new version and upload soon :)

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dane
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:09 pm 
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Cumulus Realtime Gadget updated to Version 2.2IH (21. October 2010)
- accept new additional fields (up to 58) in realtime.txt
(allows you to specify e.g. realtime.txt[54]: "apparent temperature" as 2nd temp)
- display "not updating" in red if date/time in realtime.txt does not change over 10 intervals
(indicates that Cumulus is not updating realtime.txt for some reason)

New version may be downloaded from 1st post of this thread.

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Winjama
 Post subject: Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:48 pm 
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Hi,
I've installed v2.2TH of your gadget. I'm running W7 Home Premium. I have Cumulus installed locally. The gadget installed fine, however, it only updates if I click on options and then click on ok. It never updates automatically. I have Cumulus installed locally.

Any ideas on what I should do?

Thanks,
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