Web site Not automatically updating

[Conrad]

Hi All,

Have set up Cumulus MX to send data to the website but it doesn't update automatically.

If I refresh the page then it updates the page.

Any Ideas

Its a Davis Vue

ftplog.zip

[steve]

If I refresh the page then it updates the page.

Assuming that you are using the standard web pages supplied with MX, that's how they work. If you want pages which update their data automatically, then the best way to do that is using javascript (which requires web pages much more sophisticated than the simple ones supplied with Cumulus).

You can refresh entire pages periodically quite simply, with the addition of a single line, but that's really horrible and not recommended by the web standards experts.

[ConligWX]

would it not be possible to add to the index page (template) and small refresh code like so?

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<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="300">

every 5 minutes a refresh would take place? yes is a small overhead, but how many people are going to be viewing your site?

[steve]

Yes, that's the really horrible method that I hate personally, and web standards experts say that you shouldn't do.

[steve]

And in any case, I never really understand why people want weather web pages that update automatically. Do you really keep the web page open for any length of time? And there's always the gauges, which update automatically anyway...

[ConligWX]

Yep, though would be better with live gauges view anyhow.

[Conrad]

Ah Ok steve many thanks just that I remember when i used it with my old station the web page would count down and then refresh the pages with the latest data.

That was with cumulus 1 though.

[steve]

You must have been using some other web pages (assuming you don't mean the SteelSeries gauges page, which has a countdown) as the standard pages with MX are pretty much the same as the Cumulus 1 pages.

[Conrad]

Ah Okay,

Don't remember what I did then it was definately the standard page but it would say page refreshing in 30,29,28 and so on then cumulus would ftp to the website and the page would refresh.

I'll leave it for now as not to important as other issues