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I've been a frequent participant on "the other" weather forum. Been running VWS since 2004. Short story, since problems with Weather Underground have cropped up, I've decided to give Cumulus a try, along with Saratoga scripts.

I had issues with getting MX to work with VVP. Not sure why exactly. Decided to try the latest Windows version. After a reboot, that version fired right up. So for now, I'll just stick with that. Something in MX ticked off VVP.

Started implementing a new sub-site, http://beta.bismarckweather.net . Don't have everything configured yet. But here are three issues I'm seeing right now.

1. CUTags.php file isn't updating. Pretty sure I followed the manual. CUTags.txt file wasn't being created on PC. I created a blank one to see if that helped. No go. Not sure what all on the site not getting a working CUTags file is preventing from working.

2. What's up with "Updates paused - reload page..." Anyway to alter that so it doesn't time out so soon?

3. Added a menu item to my Bloomsky cam php pages from other site. Why are those loading in new window?

I'm sure I'll have more questions the deeper I get. But I'll just start with that for now. Thanks in advance.

If you see anything else that is an easy fix, I'm all ears!
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you Bloomsky link is just calling

http://beta.bismarckweather.net/ws_bloomsky.php

that page is not part of saratoga templates.

take a look at wxnewpage.php

if you want a page to be created inside saratoga template, clone that page call it wxbloomsky.php

inside that page add the php command to "include" your original ws_bloomsky.php and save.

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<?php
include("ws_bloomsky.php");
?>
Then edit the link to call wxbloomsky.php and not http://beta.bismarckweather.net/ws_bloomsky.php

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As to your CUtags.php in the "extrafiles" menu of you webgui on CumulusMX server you have it set to "Process" and FTP?
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I think I got the CUTags issue worked out. I think part of the problem was I was using a FTP program to access my site to upload files, and Cumulus was attempting to upload files. I made another account for my work and let Cumulus do its work. I also mistakenly had the "rename" option on in the program.

After sleeping last night, I remembered I had to use the wxnewpage.php file as a template. So I got the cam stuff worked out.

On the http://beta.bismarckweather.net/wxmetar.php page, I can't find where those stock METARS are configured. I'd like to swap them out with my own.
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Also, on http://beta.bismarckweather.net/wxstatus.php my "Cumulus weather data" shows "not current". What am I missing for that?
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Configure which metars to use in wxmetar.php page itself in

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// Customize this list with your nearby METARs by
// using http://saratoga-weather.org/wxtemplates/find-metar.php to create the list below

$MetarList = array( // set this list to your local METARs 
 // Metar(ICAO) | Name of station | dist-mi | dist-km | direction |
  'KSJC|San Jose, California, USA|9|14|NE|', // lat=37.3667,long=-121.9167, elev=24, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KNUQ|Moffett Nas/Mtn, California, USA|9|14|N|', // lat=37.4000,long=-122.0500, elev=12, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KPAO|Palo Alto, California, USA|14|23|NNW|', // lat=37.4667,long=-122.1167, elev=2, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KRHV|San Jose/Reid, California, USA|12|19|ENE|', // lat=37.3167,long=-121.8167, elev=41, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KOAK|Oakland, California, USA|31|50|NNW|', // lat=37.7000,long=-122.2167, elev=26, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KSQL|San Carlos Airpo, California, USA|21|34|NW|', // lat=37.5167,long=-122.2500, elev=1, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KSFO|San Francisco, California, USA|30|49|NW|', // lat=37.6167,long=-122.3667, elev=3, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KE16|San Martin, California, USA|27|43|ESE|', // lat=37.0833,long=-121.6000, elev=86, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KWVI|Watsonville, California, USA|27|44|SSE|', // lat=36.9333,long=-121.7833, elev=43, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KHAF|Half Moon Bay, California, USA|31|50|WNW|', // lat=37.5167,long=-122.5000, elev=21, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KHWD|Hayward, California, USA|28|44|N|', // lat=37.6667,long=-122.1167, elev=21, dated=30-SEP-11
  'KLVK|Livermore, California, USA|31|51|NNE|', // lat=37.7000,long=-121.8167, elev=117, dated=30-SEP-11
// list generated Sun, 27-Nov-2011 9:01pm PST at http://saratoga-weather.org/wxtemplates/find-metar.php
);

There's a handy generator for that code at http://saratoga-weather.org/wxtemplates/find-metar.php -- just set your lat/long and the distance and it will pop out the metars meeting the selection criteria.

The 'not current' for your CUtags.php is due to the CUtags.php not having current data. Doing a CUtags.php?sce=dump shows
$WX['date'] = '1/27/2011'; // The current date
$WX['time'] = '09:15 on 27 January 2011'; // The current time and date. Example result: 18:30 on 30 December 2009. If you simply wish the time, use a combination of the day, month, year tags (below)
which is my sample CUtags.php from the CU-plugin.zip. It just shows your Cumulus configuration is NOT doing the process and FTP upload of the CUtags template.
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What's odd is I'm getting a CUtags.txttmp file created in the Web folder. And looking on my site, it looks like the CUtags.php is created. It was last done an hour ago.

Here are my settings.
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try enabling the ftp rename feature

the other issue is you are running a very old version of Cumulus. Cumulus (1.9.0-b958)
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I think that remote filenames looks incorrect. Most websites require htdocs/xxxxxxxx or public_html/xxxxxxxxx otherwise it will end up in the root of your site and not be accessible.
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I'm actually running 1.9.4 build 1099.
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water01 wrote:I think that remote filenames looks incorrect. Most websites require htdocs/xxxxxxxx or public_html/xxxxxxxxx otherwise it will end up in the root of your site and not be accessible.
The PNG and realtime are uploading to the root. I setup my FTP login to default to the root folder of the subsite. So it is automatically picking the public_html/xxxx folder.
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Here is my CUtags.txt file. I took it straight out of the Saratoga template. Only edited out those two wind lines of extra data that wasn't necessary.
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Also, how about this page. Where is that configured?

http://beta.bismarckweather.net/wxadvisory.php
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92merc wrote:I'm actually running 1.9.4 build 1099.
Really ;)

look at your beta site, at the bottom
cumulus.JPG
your cutags.txt is showing a date of 2011 so this cannot be the right one that has been processed and uploaded to the correct folder.

in the ftp setting you have not listed any folder. so it goes to root. I dont think root is where your website is.
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92merc wrote:Here is my CUtags.txt file.
That file has no webtags in it, it has already been processed by Cumulus(at 09:15 on 27 January 2011), so it can not be used as an input file to produce up to date data. I suspect that the file you want is called CUtagsT.txt
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The site will show the build as 958 because that's what the already-processed file has in it.
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