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Overlay Weather Data with Cumulus and Yawcam..HELP!

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I found an old topic that discussed overlaying your weather data on your webcam using Cumulus and Yawcam to upload to WU. I tried using the method in the thread, but could not get it to work. How do I go about overlaying my data? I can't seem to get it to work..

I created the 'temperatureT.txt' template in C:\Cumulus and placed it under local filenames in Cumulus. I made the remote filename go to C:\Users\MyUser\.yawcam\extravars\{temperature}.txt but all I see in the {temperature}.txt is 15C+

Do I go to C:\Users\MyUser\.yawcam\extravars\{temperature}.txt and edit it and add <#temp>F like my temperatureT.txt file or does it update it on it's own? Because I can't make Cumulus make the temperature file with my updated data. Either way, I can't get anything to work and I'm quite confused.
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Yeah, that thread sorted me .
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Re: Overlay Weather Data with Cumulus and Yawcam..HELP!

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ironeagleuk wrote:Have you looked at this thread?

https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2914
Yes. Did everything in that thread, but Cumulus wouldn't create the temperature.txt file.
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Re: Overlay Weather Data with Cumulus and Yawcam..HELP!

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What does your input file (temperatureT.txt) contain?
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steve wrote:What does your input file (temperatureT.txt) contain?
<#temp>f Rain: <#rfall>in Wind: <#wspeed>mph Pressure: <#press>mb
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Looks OK to me, I can't see any reason Cumulus wouldn't be able to process that and create an output file from it. Could you show screen shots of both tabs of your internet settings screen, please?
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steve wrote:Looks OK to me, I can't see any reason Cumulus wouldn't be able to process that and create an output file from it. Could you show screen shots of both tabs of your internet settings screen, please?
Sure can.

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Do I need to add anything into the {temperature}.txt file that's already in the extravars folder? The only thing I see in it right now is 15C+. Should Cumulus automatically update that file that's there?

I suppose I could be doing the output wrong. I copied the location of C:\Users\MyUse\.yawcam\extravars\{temperature}.txt and pasted it in the remote area on Cumulus. Is that correct?
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You don't put anything into the {temperature}.txt file, Cumulus creates that using the 'local' file as a template. If C:\Users\MyUse\.yawcam\extravars\{temperature}.txt is the correct location for your output file, that's what you put in the 'remote' box. That's just the 'files' tab you've shown - what about the other one?
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steve wrote:You don't put anything into the {temperature}.txt file, Cumulus creates that using the 'local' file as a template. If C:\Users\MyUse\.yawcam\extravars\{temperature}.txt is the correct location for your output file, that's what you put in the 'remote' box. That's just the 'files' tab you've shown - what about the other one?
I don't have anything there because I don't have a site to upload to. Do I need a personal website to add overlays?
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You need to tick 'auto update' if you want it to do anything. The 'extra files' are intended as an additional option to updating a web site, but you can use it just to process your own files locally. But you have to actually enable the scheduling if you want it to do it automatically.
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Alright I ticked 'Auto Update' and changed the interval to 10 minutes.

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Still only getting 15C+ to show up in the {temperature}.txt file.
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I think you must have the wrong path to your remote file. There's no way that Cumulus could generate "15C+" from the template contents you quoted, so you presumably created that file and its contents yourself. If you look in the latest file in the diags folder, there may be an error message from when it tried to copy the file. It should also be creating a file called 'temperatureT.txttmp' in the same place as the temperatureT.txt. The 'tmp' file has the same contents that your eventual {temperature}.txt file will contain (Cumulus just copies one to the other).
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Is the {temperature}.txt file actually being updated - is the timestamp changing?
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steve wrote:I think you must have the wrong path to your remote file. There's no way that Cumulus could generate "15C+" from the template contents you quoted, so you presumably created that file and its contents yourself. If you look in the latest file in the diags folder, there may be an error message from when it tried to copy the file. It should also be creating a file called 'temperatureT.txttmp' in the same place as the temperatureT.txt. The 'tmp' file has the same contents that your eventual {temperature}.txt file will contain (Cumulus just copies one to the other).
The 15C+ was already in that file. I'm not sure how it got there, but I never added it in. I am seeing 'temperatureT.txttmp' now, but it's not updating the {temperature}.txt file.
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