Saratoga AND Vantage Vue 'Live' Console - Beta
Posted: Thu 16 May 2013 5:37 am
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UPDATE 25/6/2013 (NZ time)
Have recently received a few requests for this script.
It is being reviewed by the person who sent me the original script I worked from and who uses a Vue & WD.
The script now supports Vue and VPx consoles as well as both Cumulus and WD.
I have received acceptance of these changes from two of the early developers of the original script and am waiting for further responses.
Once this phase is complete, I will then advise if and when it will be released. If released, it will be made available here first.
Thanks for your interest.
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Over on the WD forum, there is a long thread with many variations of scripts that display an image of either a VP or Vue console with 'live data' http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index. ... 563.0.html.
Most of those I have seen are only partly functional (e.g. no graph and/or no backlight and/or no live pointers).
As an exercise in improving my limited programming skills, I decided to have a go at converting this for Cumulus. For those sensitive about accreditation see two posts down!
You can see the result here;
http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather/vueconsoleCW.php
EDIT:- script name change - WD added!
This turned out to be a fairly major task but I feel the result is reasonable.
There are some variations in behaviour with different browsers but this version of the scripts does validate HTML and CSS.
This script is "fully functional".
There were issues matching up the forecast icon to the tickertape Davis console forecast. This was resolved by interrogating the $vpforecasttext strings to select the right icon.
Also a new data file from tags in Cumulus was configured to populate the graph
Known issues from testing on XP/ie8/Chrome, win7/ie9, Win8/ie10/Chrome on XAMPP, QNAP and public website hoster (all based on Apache).
ie8, 9 and 10:-
In the legend table below the image, the buttons don't work under the text (made the active area wider to compensate).
Notebook LCD Displays win7/ie9 & win8/ie10:-
These seem not to display the page in quite the same way as regular PC & monitor setups. Why this should be I have no idea. It is only this page that is affected - the rest of the website is OK.
All constructive feedback appreciated.
Edit - added link to WD forum 31 page thread, added reference to credits two posts down.
UPDATE 25/6/2013 (NZ time)
Have recently received a few requests for this script.
It is being reviewed by the person who sent me the original script I worked from and who uses a Vue & WD.
The script now supports Vue and VPx consoles as well as both Cumulus and WD.
I have received acceptance of these changes from two of the early developers of the original script and am waiting for further responses.
Once this phase is complete, I will then advise if and when it will be released. If released, it will be made available here first.
Thanks for your interest.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Over on the WD forum, there is a long thread with many variations of scripts that display an image of either a VP or Vue console with 'live data' http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index. ... 563.0.html.
Most of those I have seen are only partly functional (e.g. no graph and/or no backlight and/or no live pointers).
As an exercise in improving my limited programming skills, I decided to have a go at converting this for Cumulus. For those sensitive about accreditation see two posts down!
You can see the result here;
http://silveracorn.co.nz/weather/vueconsoleCW.php
EDIT:- script name change - WD added!
This turned out to be a fairly major task but I feel the result is reasonable.
There are some variations in behaviour with different browsers but this version of the scripts does validate HTML and CSS.
This script is "fully functional".
There were issues matching up the forecast icon to the tickertape Davis console forecast. This was resolved by interrogating the $vpforecasttext strings to select the right icon.
Also a new data file from tags in Cumulus was configured to populate the graph
Known issues from testing on XP/ie8/Chrome, win7/ie9, Win8/ie10/Chrome on XAMPP, QNAP and public website hoster (all based on Apache).
ie8, 9 and 10:-
In the legend table below the image, the buttons don't work under the text (made the active area wider to compensate).
Notebook LCD Displays win7/ie9 & win8/ie10:-
These seem not to display the page in quite the same way as regular PC & monitor setups. Why this should be I have no idea. It is only this page that is affected - the rest of the website is OK.
All constructive feedback appreciated.
Edit - added link to WD forum 31 page thread, added reference to credits two posts down.