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Hi all, I have a question...

Using the forecast data from Cumulus (that updates to the realtime.txt on my host) I have made it so show images on my site and not words. But the question is....

How or what code do I use to the images to show day time eg 'sun' in the day time and night time eg 'moon' at night, I have tried a 'if' statement for time, but when I do the images to not show.

Any help on this would be grate

I have the jquery.js file as my starting point.

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I'm no expert, far from it, but you might find this thread answers your question https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... it=+webtag
Using this approach I was able to do it on my site.
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Look towards the end of that thread, see also:
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1657
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Thanks for all your help on this...

Just one thing for the <#isdaylight> to work so you need to have a solar sensor? or dose Cumulus work that out from other data eg the current time at the station

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<#isdaylight> tells you that it's between dawn and dusk so requires no sensor input.
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Cheers,

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Hmm my <#isdaylight> in the 'realtime.txt' on my host dose not seem to be updating, as the number is staying at '0'. the rest of the 'realtime.txt' is.... any ideas?
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Is the problem just in realtime.txt, or does the web tag also give zero? Can you give a link to your realtime.txt file? Are the dawn and dusk times on your Cumulus main screen correct?
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He's not wrong ....

His realtime:
19-01-12 11:51:27 24.0 55 14.4 4.5 8.6 315 0.0 0.0 1017.1 NW 1 km/h C hPa mm 11.1 -0.4 83.4 83.4 0.0 24.3 53 24.0 -0.5 27.1 09:41 14.3 02:44 5.3 11:19 17.3 11:45 1021.2 00:00 1016.8 11:36 1.9.2 1027 17.3 24.0 27.5 0.0 0.0 0 270 0.0 18 1 0 W 1194 m 24.5 0.0 984 0
http://www.tepukeweather.co.nz/weather/realtime.txt


His <#webtags> for almanac report:

Code: Select all

Dawn: 	05:44 	Sunrise: 	06:14 	Moonrise: 	01:50 	Moon
Dusk: 	21:07 	Sunset:  	20:37 	Moonset: 	16:41
Daylight: 	15:23 	Day length: 	14:23 	Moon Phase: 	Waning Crescent
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Hi all

the Sun Rise and Sun Set on the Cumulus display is right, so I have no idea why its not changing from '0' to '1' in the day time. Could there be something that I have not set in the Cumulus setup? I am running Version 1.9.2 build 1027

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Does the web tag show the same issue or is it just realtime.txt?
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Hold on a minute:
His realtime:
19-01-12 11:51:27 24.0 55 14.4 4.5 8.6 315 0.0 0.0 1017.1 NW 1 km/h C hPa mm 11.1 -0.4 83.4 83.4 0.0 24.3 53 24.0 -0.5 27.1 09:41 14.3 02:44 5.3 11:19 17.3 11:45 1021.2 00:00 1016.8 11:36 1.9.2 1027 17.3 24.0 27.5 0.0 0.0 0 270 0.0 18 1 0 W 1194 m 24.5 0.0 984 0
The Isdaylight flag in there is set to 1.
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Yep, confusion between #isdaylight and #IsSunny I think.
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So the tag should be #IsSunny and not #isdaylight?
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I'm completely lost now. Are you using a web tag or realtime.txt?

<#IsSunny> Returns 1 if the sun is shining, otherwise 0. Requires your station to have a solar sensor.
<#isdaylight> Returns 1 if currently within daylight hours (i.e. between dawn and dusk), 0 if not
<#IsSunUp> Returns 1 if the sun is up (i.e. it is currently between sunrise and sunset), 0 if not

The equivalent of <#isdaylight> is at position 50 in realtime.txt. The equivalent of <#IsSunny> is at position 58 in realtime.txt. There is no equivalent of <#IsSunUp> in realtime.txt.
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