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Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Wed 11 Jun 2014 1:35 am
by Buford T. Justice
It is not impossible. Here is a non-METAR TEST version of my PHP Scripts. You have to have the Current box showing in Cumulus and use these EXACTLY:
Clear
Partly Cloudy
Mostly Cloudy
Overcast
Precipitation
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Sat 14 Jun 2014 10:59 pm
by GraemeT
Thanks BT.
I'll let you know of any success.
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Sun 06 Jul 2014 1:08 am
by Buford T. Justice
Any luck with the non-METAR version? You can also try the updated Zambretti Weathercard Forecaster linked in my signature below.
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Mon 14 Jul 2014 1:36 pm
by GraemeT
I had a play with your scripts last week but ran out of time, so nothing to report yet. Certainly no negatives either, so that's a good sign...
I'll report back in a couple of weeks, with any luck.
Cheers
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Fri 01 Aug 2014 4:12 pm
by ashreigney
Thank you for this, just installed it and all is well applied an offset to sort out the wind as it was a bit high in my opinion
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Sun 10 Aug 2014 8:13 am
by bobm
Excellent - got it working in 10 minutes and put in a 25 offset.
One terribly minor point - the link at the top of bt-sager.php to
http://www.freewebs.com/btjustice/bt-forecasters.html is dead.
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Tue 16 Jun 2015 1:32 pm
by uncle_bob
I've recently moved over to the Saratoga templates and now have just updated the website to use BT's Sager PHP scripts again.
They appear to be working too
Thanks again for these BT!
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2015 10:11 am
by water01
If you are using Cumulus MX you will need to change bt-sager-cu.php line 22 from
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$updated = "<#timeUTC format="yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn"> UTC";
to
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$updated = "<#timeUTC format="yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm"> UTC";
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2015 10:16 am
by steve
That should be
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$updated = "<#timeUTC format="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"> UTC";
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Mon 06 Jul 2015 10:25 am
by water01
Yep corrected the time but forgot about the month!! Brain not in gear!!
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Tue 07 Jul 2015 10:43 pm
by Buford T. Justice
I have been holding off on that until MX goes public. As for the website, I need to update it as freewebs killed what I had for some reason.
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Tue 16 Feb 2016 10:25 am
by nking
Just a quick note to say thank you to Buford T. Justice for his excellent work
. With very clear instructions I've added it to my site with no problems
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Fri 11 Mar 2016 8:54 am
by nking
Woke up this morning to fog (cloud at ground level) but wondered why the forecast was showing showers/rain and because of the temperature this was amended to snow. Taking a look at the php script I noticed that in line 154 ("VV" Clouds cannot be seen because of fog or heavy precipitation, so vertical visibility is given instead.) is considered "Precipitation". I amended mine to "Overcast" which, in my opinion, results in a more appropriate forecast. I will rely on my station to report if it is raining
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Thu 17 Mar 2016 7:29 pm
by jlp09550
I just implemented this on my weather station website. I'm curious to see how accurate it'll be.
So far, so good, though!
Re: BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus
Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2016 12:06 am
by kasper58
I am running CumulusMX and Apache2 on a Raspberry Pi.
I tried to implement the Sager script, but it fails, all I get is the title '12-24 Hour Forecast:' and no data.
I noticed that the bt-sager-cu.php creates a bt-sager-cu.phptmp in the web dir. Is this because it is owned by pi whereas root runs the script.
I have all 3 bt-sager .php's (bt-sager-cu.php with process selected) in the Extra Files to be copied to /var/web/html.
Any help appreciated.
UPDATE:
Got it sorted, needed to install php-curl
Restart apache2 and bingo.....
Will monitor now and see how well it works for me, I'm approx 70km from METAR station.