Gauges not being displayed correctly on website

[Safety]

Hi
Could some kind person take a look at http://www.dfweather.co.uk/CumulusMX/gauges.htm and point me to why I am not displaying the gauges correctly.

[steve]

There are two problems. The first is that there are missing instructions; I had assumed that people would be familiar with setting up the SteelSeries gauges, clearly this isn't true for everyone. There is a file called realtimegaugesT.txt in the supplied web folder. You need to add it to the 'extra files' configuration to get Cumulus to process it and upload it.
Local = <path to the CumulusMX web folder>\realtimegaugesT.txt
Remote = <path on your ftp server to where your web pages are/realtimegauges.txt
and select Process, Realtime and FTP.

The second problem is that you are missing a CSS file on your site: css/gauges-ss.css - you should find this in the Cumulus MX distribution in the webfiles folder.

You are also missing the CSS file for the graphs.

[Safety]

Thank you for the feedback . I have attached a screen dump regarding missing file on my site as you can see it was uploaded unless i am missing something. Also your comment regarding missing the css file for the graphs could you elaborate what file?

I will work through the realtime...upload issue now.

Thank you , and thank you for all the work you have undertaken for all of us.

[duke]

The 'css directory you have created needs to be 'css' and not 'CSS' - case sensitive.

[Safety]

Thank you for the replay. From your advice one step nearer , as you can see now need to work out what else needs to be corrected.

[Safety]

As you can see I still have not been able to get this working, If a file called realtimeguages.txt should be in the same file area of my website as gauges.htm it is not anywhere to be seen. I have attached some screen dumps of my setting configurations. Note I cannot see a save button on the "extra files" tab

[steve]

You appear to be using free hosting. It is likely that they don't support .txt files. To get around this, you could use a different (supported) extension for the file in the remote box, and modify the gauges.js file on the web site to look for the new file name. Change this line:

realTimeURL_Cumulus: 'realtimegauges.txt', //*** Cumulus Users: Change to your location of the realtime file ***

[Safety]

Just for the record I use http://www.freevirtualservers.com/lite-web-hosting

Could you confirm this was your intention?
By using the xx.jpg extension I can now see the file in the same website area as the gauges.htm file.
I have attached a screen dump of the file path of my updated remote file path.
You also required me to modify
// The realtime files should be absolute paths, "/xxx.txt" refers to the public root of your web server
realTimeURL_Cumulus: "/public_html/CumulusMX/realtimegauges.jpg", //*** Cumulus Users: Change to your location of the realtime file ***

in the Scripts/gauges.js file
Have I understood you correctly?

[steve]

Yes, that's right. You might need to experiment with the file extension, .jpg might cause the server to send it in a way that the javascript doesn't like. Mark might be able to offer advice.

[mcrossley]

The first thing I would try is actually the correct file extension to use, ".json" That should have a mime type of "application/json" on your server.

[Safety]

Thank you Mark for your feedback.
I have updated the remote file path thus /public_html/CumulusMX/realtimegauges.json and can be seen within the website.

Updated the gauge file to reflect the path as a string "/public_html/CumulusMX/realtimegauges.json"

However as you can still see I have a problems still ** Text file download corrupted retrying ** looking at the file that has been exported it states 1.4kb and you can see the modified time-stamp altering.
What am I over looking?

[steve]

Your gauges.js is still looking for the original filename.

http://www.dfweather.co.uk/CumulusMX/scripts/gauges.js

realTimeURL_Cumulus: 'realtimegauges.txt', //*** Cumulus Users: Change to your location of the realtime file ***

[Safety]

Thank you for getting back.

Obviously got confused as I updated the gauges.js in the /media/usb/CumulusMXDist/webfiles/scrips/

I have now updated the gauges.js file as per **realTimeURL_Cumulus: "/public_html/CumulusMX/realtimegauges.json", ** in the public_html/CumulusMX/scripts.

However as you can see now get HTTP request Failed error not found

[steve]

realTimeURL_Cumulus: "/public_html/CumulusMX/realtimegauges.json", //*** Cumulus Users: Change to your location of the realtime file ***

Instead of just changing the extension from txt to json, i.e,

realTimeURL_Cumulus: 'realtimegauges.json', //*** Cumulus Users: Change to your location of the realtime file ***

you have replaced the whole thing with a path in the filesystem on the server. JavaScript runs in the browser, not on the server, and any references you put in a script have to be to something that a browser can retrieve using http. The browser doesn't know anything about the setup of your filestore, e.g. the public_html directory. The change you have made means that a browser will now try to load http://www.dfweather.co.uk/public_html/ ... auges.json, which (correctly) gives a 'not found'.

[Safety]

Thank you , thank you for all the help.
I had tried different centext but just could not get it to work, so just copied and pasted the whole line that you sent and it all worked.