Sandaysoft

Ah - forgot that my WinRar had changed the icon from a "folder with a zip" to a "stack of books"

Paul C: a quick and dirty solution: when you rename the file to cumulusih.gadget, hit the Delete key several times before you hit Enter - to make sure you get rid of any .zip extension at the end.

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

lol, no worries mate

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Rob,
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Thanks everyone - now have it working. Took about 15 seconds once I had got to grip with my hidden file types ! I thought I was had lost the plot. How could so many people have it working yet I coulndt even see what was on page 1

Best wishes

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Paul C
Brampton, Cumbria, UK
117m ASL
http://www.bramptonweather.co.uk | http://www.bramptonweather.co.uk/cumulus |

Hi!

Sorry if this has been answered before, but I did search and did not find anything.

My Cumulus webpages are served via https and it seems that this is not supported by the gadget? I use this URL https://power.onowingerei.com/weather/realtime.txt and in the settings of the gadget it shows "realtime.txt not found"

Any tips other than turning of https appreciated

Marius

The gadget wasn't prepared for a https: url.
New version: 2.3IH supporting https: uploaded to first post of this thread.

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

Is the caution against using a local realtime.txt still in place? I'm using the local realtime and have updated the .ini file to reflect the location of the realtime.txt file (c:\cumulus\realtime.txt).

When I stop and then restart the gadget, it continues to prompt me for settings. When open the settings using the gadget "wrench" icon, the file name/location in the "url" field is corrupted. The above file becomes: c:cumulusealtime.txt. The ini file is perfectly correct.

Any hints? Thank you.

I don't think Ib was able to get it working reliably with a local file. But a tip for when backslashes get stripped out of file paths is to 'escape' them with another backslash, thus: C:\\cumulus\\realtime.txt

This may help or may just confuse things further...

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Steve
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Yes: the caution against using a local realtime.txt is still valid. The gadget will run for a while, then hang.

The filename in the .ini file will be corrupted if you use backslash.
Just use forward slash, e.g. c:/cumulus/realtime.txt. That should work.

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

Hi,

I have managed to install the gadget succesfully but when I try to point it to my website and the realtime file it just hangs!
My website address is http://www.trevorpaulwilson.co.uk/Weather/realtime.txt.
I can disply the realtime file if I put the full address in IE.
Any suggestions

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Trevor

Can't see anything wrong with your realtime.txt, nor with the gadget (as you can see below).
Try a re-install and a fresh .ini file.

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

Tried re-install and fresh ini file. No luck, still hangs.
Does it use a lot of bandwidth? I am in Malawi so have a fairly slow connection?

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Trevor

It uses very little bandwidth AFAIK: the realtime.txt file is very small - only 1 record.
Where/when does it "hang"? do you see the "settings" screen? does it open the settings menu when you hit the wrench? does it close the settings menu?

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

It depends what you class as a lot.

Looking at my realtime.txt file it uses 246 bytes, which is tiny. However if you decided to do realtime updates every 5 seconds that equates to 121 Mb of bandwidth per month. Updates every 30 seconds would be about 20Mb per month

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David
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It allows me to open the settings box but hangs once you click the OK button.
I have left it set to 30 seconds.
I have tried setting the URL using the settings box and also by editing the ini file but either way it hangs when you click OK.
When you start the gadget it always comes to the enter settings screen and doesn't show any data even if I set the url in the ini file.

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Trevor

No data in the settings screen? the default settings should be my realtime.txt file and an interval of 30 seconds.
If you don't see that, then your settings.ini is incorrect.

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