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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:04 pm 
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[quote="Solorize"]

This does the job I get teh graph for temperature as it supposed to be :clap:
[b]Test version "string":
http://www.wokinghamweather.co.uk/downloads/Test%20version-%20string.zip

The windrose diplays only for the W to N section because the letters are the same in English and Dutch, anyway welldone :!:

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:34 pm 
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My realtime.txt
http://www.janter.co.nz/weather/realtime.txt

If the gadget is working OK then I wouldn't think that the realtime access was the problem.

I'll run a bit longer and see if I can tie it down a bit.

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:02 am 
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nitrx wrote:
This does the job I get the graph for temperature as it supposed to be :clap:
[b]Test version "string": http://www.wokinghamweather.co.uk/downl ... string.zip

That's great news :D I am glad it was just a simple mistake that I had made by choosing the wrong data type ;)

I have a few ideas on how to sort out the Compass points so I will get onto doing that over the next couple
of days.

Terry,

I have run the program with your realtime.txt url and selected the 1minute update interval and as you can
see in the graph below, the times displayed are at ~60 second intervals.

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Which is how I would expect it to look.

Can I confirm that when you select the 1minute option that you are saying it only updates
every 5 minutes? instead of the 1 minute? If so could you run it again and then post up a
screen capture of the graph screen, just so I can see for myself please.

Just a thought, I wonder if the Widget and Grabber running at the same time are interfering
with each other? as both are trying to grab the realtime.txt file at the same time and only
one manages to retrieve it so the other keeps trying until it eventually manages to get it
before the other one?

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:26 pm 
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nitrx

I have some more good news for you, I have now managed to sort out the Wind Compass co-ordinates
to work with your Dutch abbreviations :D It has taken me a good couple of hours work since I got home
from work to get it sorted but it should all work correctly.

I have also added support for UK, NL, FR-ES & DE

Options available are:

UK = ( N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, ESE, SE, SSE, S, SSW, SW, WSW, W, WNW, NW, NNW )
NL = ( N, NNO, NO, ONO, O, OZO, ZO, ZZO, Z, ZZW, ZW, WZW, W, WNW, NW, NNW )
FR/ES = ( N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, ESE, SE, SSE, S, SSO, SO, OSO, O, ONO, NO, NNO )
DE = ( N, NNO, NO, ONO, O, OSO, SO, SSO, S, SSW, SW, WSW, W, WNW, NW, NNW )

The co-ordinates on the Compass screen will also change to show the correct names
next to the compass points too. I have also put a label in the bottom left hand corner
of the screen which will indicate the language chosen for the compass points.

To change these settings you will need to click on the [CONFIG] button and then click the
RadioButton, next to the language you would like to use, then click the [SAVE] button, which
will save the language code to a local file called "CompassLang.txt" which has to reside
in the same folder as the .exe program.

Note:
On 1st startup of the .exe file the value is set to default of: UK

Settings will be saved to new values once the [SAVE] button is pressed
and then the program will use these new values on subsequent runs. So you
should not need to change them again :D

If you have changed the language and pressed the [SAVE] button before you
initially pressed the [START] button on the main page, then you will need to
press the [START] button to run the program.

If you already pressed the [START] button and have the program running, then changed
the language and pressed the [SAVE] button, you may want to press the [FORCE UPDATE]
button afterwards just to get it to update the Compass display straight away, without
having to wait for the timer interval to elapse and update automatically.
Hopefully the above makes sence.

Anyway hopefully everything should all work correctly, if you find any problems please can you
let me know. *fingerscrossed* it will all be ok now ;)


Download version 1.1.3 : http://www.wokinghamweather.co.uk/downloads/CRTDGv113.zip

New in this version:

1.1.3 - (07-03-12)

1. Corrected incorrect temperature value on "Temperature Graph" for Dutch users.
2. Added [Config] button to allow users to select Compass Point language & display,
on [Wind Compass] screen.


Time for bed now, before my eyes turn a brighter shade of red LOL

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:14 am 
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Anyway hopefully everything should all work correctly, if you find any problems please can you
let me know. *fingerscrossed* it will all be ok now


Solorize I can let you know it works fine for me well done :clap:

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:08 pm 
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Hi,

Is it possible to use Cumulus Realtime Data Grabber via a proxy ?

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:16 pm 
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nitrx

Thanks for letting me know it all works *phew* :)

laulau

At the moment I do not have any plans to implement via proxy
support, this is due to the fact that I am still very new to programming in
VB.NET and have never implemented this feature in anything I've
written before.

I may look into how to do it at "somepoint" in the future, if I do I will
let you know :)

If not, once I am happy with a full and final release version of
this program I will release to Source Code, and if anyone else wants
to take up the challenge to support via proxy they can :)

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:30 pm 
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It's not a big problem, I just wanted to have an eye on it at my office! ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:47 pm 
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It looks like the Realtime.txt Data is not being refreshed as the wind graph is every minute.
It looks like the the refresh of the realtime.txt data is about every 5 minutes.


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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:23 am 
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Hi Terry,

Thanks for the additonal info.

I know I was having problems sometimes that the program would sometimes struggle to download the
RealTime.txt file on its 1st attempt, so I had to write an error handler so it would re-try to grab it,
otherwise it would just try once and then stop.

I am not sure why it would take 5minutes to grab it unless there is a problem somewhere between
the program and the location of the realtime.txt file.

Does it still take 5 minutes even on a interval of 15 seconds? or does it then take less, or is the 5minutes
constant through all intervals less than 5 minutes?

What is also weird is that if I run the program here using your realtime.txt URL it works fine :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:35 am 
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Your latest version is working fine with me Mark, no problem with the timers, I am set to grab the data every 15 secs :D :D

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:53 am 
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I'll check out the 15sec tomorrow and watch to see when the realtime info updates. Could be local problem but I can't see where at present.
The joys of programming huh? :-)

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:23 pm 
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Geoffp,

Thanks for letting me know it works.


Terry,

If the problem happened when other people ran the program too, then
I would expect there to be a problem with my code, but as it runs ok
for me and the other people who have tried running it, there must be
some other factor that is causing the problem.

But I have no idea what LOL.

One thing I was thinging of was, could it be that the place where your
realtime.txt file is located may have a time limit set that kicks in if you try and access
the same data over and over again at short intervals, and it thinks the server is getting
attacked so, stops access to it for 5 minutes?

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:31 pm 
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Solorize wrote:
there must be some other factor that is causing the problem.

Something being cached somewhere with a TTL of 5 minutes?

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 Post subject: Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:41 pm 
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Hi Steve,

Thanks for you input, that seems like that is what could be what is happening.

But... one thing that is confusing is that Terry's is also running a widget that
does not seem to suffer with the same problem and with my limited knowledge
I would have thought would also be affected?

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