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Cumulus Realtime Gadget
- mcrossley
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- Weather Station: Davis VP2/WLL
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
Unlikely but maybe the work proxy server doesn't allow .txt files?
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- Weather Station: Davis Vantage Pro2
- Operating System: XP SP3
- Location: Minnesota
Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
I must be missing something in the comments ... but I haven't seen an answer for it.
Does anyone know what went awry if I'm not seeing the image? It's updating fine, installed fine, etc. Tried on a couple computers .. just seeing a blank spot on the top of the widget instead of the image.
Using a Davis Pro2.
Does anyone know what went awry if I'm not seeing the image? It's updating fine, installed fine, etc. Tried on a couple computers .. just seeing a blank spot on the top of the widget instead of the image.
Using a Davis Pro2.
- dane
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- Operating System: Win10 Ult., 64-bit, RaspberryPi
- Location: Gilleleje, Denmark
Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
Your user profile says: XP. No gadget support in Win XP. Is that the cause ?wxsharp wrote:I must be missing something in the comments ... but I haven't seen an answer for it.
Does anyone know what went awry if I'm not seeing the image? It's updating fine, installed fine, etc. Tried on a couple computers .. just seeing a blank spot on the top of the widget instead of the image.
Using a Davis Pro2.
Ib
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
Nah, Cumulus is running on my XP box. Widgets are all running on Win7. As I mentioned, the Widget loads fine, pulls all the data from realtime.txt fine, refreshes, etc. It just doesn't have the graphic on top - the widget is just blank on top.dane wrote:Your user profile says: XP. No gadget support in Win XP. Is that the cause ?wxsharp wrote:I must be missing something in the comments ... but I haven't seen an answer for it.
Does anyone know what went awry if I'm not seeing the image? It's updating fine, installed fine, etc. Tried on a couple computers .. just seeing a blank spot on the top of the widget instead of the image.
Using a Davis Pro2.
- dane
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
You probably did not specify "Cumulus forecast" on the station settings panel.
The gadget uses the zambretti forecast from Cumulus, not the one from the Davis station.
The gadget uses the zambretti forecast from Cumulus, not the one from the Davis station.
Ib
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
Thanks, that was it - knew it was something silly. So is there an advantage to one over the other? And this graphic - it's today's forecast, right? Not current conditions? It's a tad ambiguous at first glance..dane wrote:You probably did not specify "Cumulus forecast" on the station settings panel.
The gadget uses the zambretti forecast from Cumulus, not the one from the Davis station.
- steve
- Cumulus Author
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
The Davis forecast is better, in my opinion. I don't know exactly what formula they use, but it appears to use more variables and has many more possible forecasts. It seems to give a better forecast for me, at least.wxsharp wrote:So is there an advantage to one over the other?
Steve
- dane
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
The Davis forecast may be better, but it's not in the realtime.txtsteve wrote:The Davis forecast is better, in my opinion. I don't know exactly what formula they use, but it appears to use more variables and has many more possible forecasts. It seems to give a better forecast for me, at least.wxsharp wrote:So is there an advantage to one over the other?
Ib
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
Bummer - would be nice if it was in realtime, or if you could have Cuumulus's in realtime, but leave Davis's for other stuff..dane wrote:The Davis forecast may be better, but it's not in the realtime.txtsteve wrote:The Davis forecast is better, in my opinion. I don't know exactly what formula they use, but it appears to use more variables and has many more possible forecasts. It seems to give a better forecast for me, at least.wxsharp wrote:So is there an advantage to one over the other?
- steve
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
The problem is that there's no identifier for the Davis forecast (that Cumulus has access to) so it would have to include the text of the forecast, and that would typically double the size of the realtime.txt file. And how would you use that anyway, in your gadget?dane wrote:The Davis forecast may be better, but it's not in the realtime.txt
What I could do is to always do the Cumulus forecast calculation, and include the identifier in realtime.txt, even if the Davis forecast was being used.
Edit: I've just realised that what I've just proposed is what wxsharp had already proposed in the previous message
Steve
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
steve wrote:The problem is that there's no identifier for the Davis forecast (that Cumulus has access to) so it would have to include the text of the forecast, and that would typically double the size of the realtime.txt file. And how would you use that anyway, in your gadget?dane wrote:The Davis forecast may be better, but it's not in the realtime.txt
What I could do is to always do the Cumulus forecast calculation, and include the identifier in realtime.txt, even if the Davis forecast was being used.
Edit: I've just realised that what I've just proposed is what wxsharp had already proposed in the previous message
I suppose the alternative would be realtime.txt and realtime-verbose.txt, and the developer can pick their poison (if they want more details at a bandwidth hit or not).
I was contemplating writing an Android app. I was kind of interested in using the realtime.txt for the sake of ease of use, if others are interested in using it. So in that case, full data would be nice..
- steve
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
There's been some discussion about a 'realtime extras' file, and it's something I'll look at when I get more time.wxsharp wrote:I suppose the alternative would be realtime.txt and realtime-verbose.txt, and the developer can pick their poison (if they want more details at a bandwidth hit or not).
I've changed the code for the next build so it always sets up the forecast number, so it's always valid in realtime.txt and the <#forecastnumber> web tag.
Steve
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
Very cool - when do you expect the next build to go release?steve wrote:There's been some discussion about a 'realtime extras' file, and it's something I'll look at when I get more time.wxsharp wrote:I suppose the alternative would be realtime.txt and realtime-verbose.txt, and the developer can pick their poison (if they want more details at a bandwidth hit or not).
I've changed the code for the next build so it always sets up the forecast number, so it's always valid in realtime.txt and the <#forecastnumber> web tag.
- steve
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
Hard to say; I'm in the middle of some large changes at the moment.wxsharp wrote:Very cool - when do you expect the next build to go release?
Steve
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Re: Cumulus Realtime Gadget
This is very cool, excuse the pun (bet ya never heard that one before on here )
Lags up my Mac at work though lol.
Lags up my Mac at work though lol.
Interested in building your own Weather Station? Maybe check out the WeatherDuino Pro Project Here
Conder, Canberra Weather
Conder, Canberra Weather