External program

[PaulMy]

I currently run Cumulusutils in the External program Daily program with the parameter as pwsFWI and this works great www.komokaweather.com/komokaweather-ca/wxFWI.php
In the settings this appears to be for a single run/parameter. How can I run this with additional parameters - i.e. maps so that this can also be updated once a day www.komokaweather.com/komokaweather-ca/wxMap.php

Thanks,
Paul

[meteosangonera]

I currently run Cumulusutils in the External program Daily program with the parameter as pwsFWI and this works great www.komokaweather.com/komokaweather-ca/wxFWI.php
In the settings this appears to be for a single run/parameter. How can I run this with additional parameters - i.e. maps so that this can also be updated once a day www.komokaweather.com/komokaweather-ca/wxMap.php

Thanks,
Paul

You can use multiple parameter at the same time. You have to let a space between each parameter.

[PaulMy]

Thank you, I will add the other parameters.

Enjoy,
Paul

[Phil23]

I only have one external program run at end of day.

C:\CumulusMX\Scripts\DayEnd.bat

Then do all the stuff I want in that batch file.

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@echo off
echo Waiting a few seconds for End of Day to complete.

ping localhost -n 5 > nul

copy "\\WEATHER-PC\Cumulus\data\dayfile.txt" + "\\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\data\dayfile.txt" "\\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\Scripts\dayfile-merged.txt" /b /y

cd \cumulusmx
cumulusutils Top10 pwsFWI SysInfo Graphs MapsOn

ftp -s:"\\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\Scripts\ftp.txt"

Ping localhost -n 5 > nul
CD\

The FTP in Windows is fed by the command file ftp.txt

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open weather.inverellit.com
Username
Password
cd /public_html/weather/historic
put \\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\Scripts\dayfile-merged.txt dayfile.txt
cd /public_html/weather
put \\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\utils\pwsFWI.txt pwsFWI.txt
put \\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\utils\top10Table.txt top10Table.txt
put \\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\utils\graphs.txt graphs.txt
put \\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\utils\maps.txt maps.txt
put \\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\utils\pwsFWIanalyse.csv pwsFWIanalyse.csv
quit

Lets me run more than one command & a bit easier to manage.

Phil.

[PaulMy]

I've tried the multi parameters and that works as each of pwsFWI, graphs, MapOn, SysInfo and Top10 were executed and the results files placed in the \utils folder, thanks for that suggestion.
However the timing of the external program execution and the End of Day FTP of the files are not in sync so the FTP was done before the cumulusutils.exe were executed causing the previous days files to be FTP.

I've looked at Phil's batch file which he indicates has a delay to wait a few seconds, but so far beyond my understanding how to put that together and use it.
I could have the files FTP at the Cumulus 5 min interval (all except maps) instead at end of day but that would be overkill.


Edit: just thought of a way, instead of CumulusMX Extra web files to FTP at End of day, use Cumulus Toolbox to FTP at a time after 12:00 am.

Enjoy,
Paul

[Phil23]

I've looked at Phil's batch file which he indicates has a delay to wait a few seconds, but so far beyond my understanding how to put that together and use it.

It's pretty simple really.

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@echo off

That just stops the commands showing in the dos box.

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echo Waiting a few seconds for End of Day to complete.

Puts that message in the dos box. Like print...

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ping localhost -n 5 > nul

Just makes the PC ping it's self to create the delay

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cd \cumulusmx
cumulusutils Top10 pwsFWI SysInfo Graphs MapsOn

Changes to the MX folder & runs the cumulusutils

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ftp -s:"\\WEATHER-PC\CumulusMX\Scripts\ftp.txt"

Runs the windows FTP command with the commands in the FTP.txt file shown above.

You don't need a lot of the rest & you can see in my FTP.txt file above the list of files I am transferring.

[HansR]

What happened to the sleep command? eg:

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Sleep 10

for a 10 second delay?
Gives more control and precision.

[Phil23]

What happened to the sleep command?

Hmmm
The simple things we forget.....

That one must have long slipped out of my DOS command memory bank.

I do recall though that I had left the > NUL off initially for feedback during debugging.

[Phil23]

Just tried to refresh my brain a bit on a few dos commands.

Appears Sleep does not exist as an internal or default installed external command.

Apparently it was distributed in some Win Resource kits.

Win 7 & above include Timeout.

Timeout /t 10 [/nobreak]

It can be aborted with CTRL-C & in that case it will return an Errorlevel=1

Useful for jumping over bits.

Phil.

[HansR]

Mmm... Must have been win10 too long

[PaulMy]

Using CumulusMX External programs Daily program works great with the 5 parameters. Cumulus Toolbox with FTP at shortly after midnight then updates on webserver for all 8 files. The only obstacle is the processing of the systeminfoTable.txt file before the FTP. Hoping my sequence order allows for processing before FTP. I will know after midnight.

As you can detect, I am hesitate to implement a Windows scheduler and DOS batch file.

Enjoy,
Paul

[Phil23]

As you can detect, I am hesitate to implement a Windows scheduler and DOS batch file.

In that case why not experiment a bit with some simple stuff to try.

Stuff that won't impact your data.

Start out with a batch file like this....
(Call it Test.bat)

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pause
Echo Hello
Dir C:\
pause

Then work out how to schedule it & set it to run a minute of two from the time when you are testing.

As you get the hang try adding other things that will not use your data until you get confident.

Phil