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Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 1:00 am
by scotweather
I've entered in the snow depth for yesterday and today via the Weather Diary and when I check Cumuluswebtags.php its showing as 0 (zero)
$snowdepth = '0'; // Today's Snow Depth as entered manually in the Weather Diary
Cumulus version 1.9.0
Any ideas anyone ?
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 9:19 am
by daj
I've never used the diary before, but have just tried it and have the same issue. I'm on 1.9.1 beta
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 10:27 am
by steve
I've just tried it in 1.9.1 and it works fine for me, so I'm afraid I'm stumped. I can't think of any reason it could have worked for me but no-one else. Did the diary actually save the snow depth OK - i.e. can you now see it in there? Is it registering on the 'Snow index' on the View menu?
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 11:05 am
by daj
here's my screen shots. On the diary, I can move away from the date and back to it so I know it has saved it
diary.png
snowindex.png
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 11:21 am
by mcrossley
Works OK for me too - still on build 962.
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 11:36 am
by steve
I think there must be a problem with the diary files for those having problems. It's a bit strange that it doesn't work for you, David, if you haven't used it before. Could you send me your file, please; it's log.xml.
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 2:26 pm
by daj
attached.
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 3:30 pm
by steve
That works fine for me:
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$snowdepth = "10"; // today's snow depth as entered manually in the Weather Diary
So now I really am stumped. Is it a 'case' problem in the webtags file you're using? The tag is all lower case: <#snowdepth>
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 3:38 pm
by daj
steve wrote:That works fine for me:
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$snowdepth = "10"; // today's snow depth as entered manually in the Weather Diary
So now I really am stumped. Is it a 'case' problem in the webtags file you're using? The tag is all lower case: <#snowdepth>
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$snowdepth = "<#snowdepth>"; // today's snow depth as entered manually in the Weather Diary
Is there anything else needs ticked in the settings of Cumulus for snow?
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010 4:45 pm
by steve
daj wrote:Is there anything else needs ticked in the settings of Cumulus for snow?
No, it should just work. The webtag code is identical to the snow index code, except that the snow index code scans a set of dates, and the webtag code just looks for today. It returns zero if either it doesn't find an entry for today, or has an error opening the diary file. It doesn't currently log the error - I didn't want to create huge logs - but I guess that's going to be the only way to find out what the problem is.
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sun 28 Nov 2010 11:01 am
by scotweather
Thank you for your replies.
I'm running Windows XP using Cumulus build 1.9.0
The record of the snow is recorded in the diary and shows up on View this month with 3 snow falling and 2 snow days.
The Snow index has recorded my 15cm
The entry in Cumuluswebtags.php before processing is:
$snowdepth = '<#snowdepth>'; // Today's Snow Depth as entered manually in the Weather Diary
The entry in Cumuluswebtags.php after processing is:
$snowdepth = '0'; // Today's Snow Depth as entered manually in the Weather Diary
Attached is my log.xml file
The last time I had a problem with the diary was when it would error when an update happened.. I used the Diary a lot last winter so the only difference is the build of Cumulus has changed from last winter. I usually update regularly so is it worth checking any differences between the build that was available last January to build 1.9.0. Just a thought.
Sorry Steve giving you another problem.
Thanks
Kate
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Sun 28 Nov 2010 11:11 am
by steve
scotweather wrote:Attached is my log.xml file
Your log also works fine for me.
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Wed 01 Dec 2010 1:44 am
by WyoRusty
Hi all, my first post.
I have been playing with snow depth here in Wyoming and have noticed that, while it does post ok using 1.9.0 build 958, I can not enter decimal numbers, fraction of whole numbers etc. I also cannot enter any leading zero number. I use inches here of course. So, if I get 18.25 inches I actually see 1825 inches, 0.5 or 005 gives me 5 inches.
Since I am pretty profieient with html, I went into the webpage template and added a leading 0 and decimal for fractions as needed. I just need to remember to do that when snow fall requires.
Courious. If this has been asked and answered I appoligize. I'm still doing a lot of reading. Also trying to find out the procedure for installing a newwer version without loosing data. I don't want to hijack this thread so I'll keep searching on these points.
Thanks
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Wed 01 Dec 2010 8:40 am
by steve
WyoRusty wrote:I have been playing with snow depth here in Wyoming and have noticed that, while it does post ok using 1.9.0 build 958, I can not enter decimal numbers, fraction of whole numbers etc.
The snow depth facility is just one of things I threw in for my own use before anyone else was using Cumulus. I measure in cm, to the nearest cm, so the field in the diary 'database' is an integer. I can't change this now, sorry.
Also trying to find out the procedure for installing a newwer version without loosing data.
Upgrade instructions are in the readme.txt file. Basically, take a backup of your data just in case, and install the new version.
Re: Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0
Posted: Thu 02 Dec 2010 1:38 am
by WyoRusty
steve wrote:WyoRusty wrote:I have been playing with snow depth here in Wyoming and have noticed that, while it does post ok using 1.9.0 build 958, I can not enter decimal numbers, fraction of whole numbers etc.
The snow depth facility is just one of things I threw in for my own use before anyone else was using Cumulus. I measure in cm, to the nearest cm, so the field in the diary 'database' is an integer. I can't change this now, sorry.
Thanks. We sure get more snow than rain here. I could switch to cm of course but then no one here would know what I was talking about - LOL
Also trying to find out the procedure for installing a newwer version without loosing data.
Upgrade instructions are in the readme.txt file. Basically, take a backup of your data just in case, and install the new version.
I did recall seeing something and I actually found it again this morning - Thanks