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You're never too old to code !!

Thanks for the fix beteljuice.

Took me quite a while to work out the problem ... I'm getting too old for this.

Never, not an option

Thought I would add my final outcome for anyone who reads through this topic in the future.

Steel gauges now added with help from Laurent and Mark.

http://wairoa.net/weather/airport.htm

Thought I might tackle Melbourne Airport next

Cheers

I assume you are messing scripting, as there are some 'holes' in the data at the moment !

I think its ok beteljuice.
Currently we have zero wind and bearing, so hopefully this is what you are seeing.
If not please let me know. I have only messed a little

Cheers

ATM with wind all OK, but earlier with no wind lots of holes in advisories and blurb which shouldn't happen (as far as I can remember !)

Here is my very minimalistic - smartphone friendly - KISS based - airfield weather site

nzfi.inspire.net.nz (I fly out of there)

Fine Offset station (OK ugh ugh ugh and how long will it last). Camera is a NZD50 1080P consumer USB webcam - weatherproofed with a bit of white paint and a smear of RTV. The weatherproofing has worked for some months now ....

Image is captured using (free) RobotEyez software and auto-cropped using TotalImageConverter. The site uses the standard Cumulus "just-upload-the-html" and "ftp the image" approach - there is ZERO code at the Web end. Multiple cameras would not be a problem.

It refreshes every 10 minutes (no pix at night) using a USB cellular stick. About 300MB of data per month which doesn't cost enough to matter.

I sat on your page today waiting for the Airbus A380.
It appears your traffic is somewhat like ours over here

I see tonight I have Good Night Kiwi, I can almost hear the tune..... lol
Neat cam

Cheers

Had a bit of a think about how I deal with the need to change the two AAs up the pole every year or so. One needs a $100 cherry picker hire ... so I put a couple of D cells in a box down the bottom and ran a wire down. Opened up the box and located the two big solder globs where the battery power is connected. Ran a wire (actually a JST plug) off that - melted a hole in the side of the case with a soldering iron and voila! I think if I got serious I could actually do it off the USB ... later maybe.

Have replumbed it all a bit - ran 5v up the pole to power the USB hub used for (4 cameras, FO base station, T-stick cellular modem). All seems to go. The PC is 20m away using two 10m powered USB extenders to get there plus of course the 5v. I use ammyy to give me remote access so I can fiddle the parameters from home.

At present the new 4-camera setup is prototyped in my back yard at wstest.inspire.net.nz.

Cheers IB