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steve wrote:You have some garbage on the front of your realtime.log:

$SITE['home'] = "./";
$SITE['datafile'] = "realtime.log";
$SITE['source'] = "realtime.txt";2011-05-28 00:34:12 10.4 87 8.3 7.0 4.0 189 0.00 0.01 1013.79 S 2 mph C hPa in 4.0 -0.56 2.23 10.97 0.00 20.9 53 8.9 -0.4 11.1 00:00 10.4 00:31 9.0 00:03 18.0 00:25 1014.06 00:10 1013.79 00:33 1.9.1 989 18.0 10.4 10.9 0 0.000 0 205 0.01 0 0 0 SSW 847 ft 7.8 0.0 0 0

But I don't think that's actually the problem; I think the problem is that you don't have any data in your realtime.log file with suitable timestamps. I think the code looks for particular minutes and only plots those.

6719jason wrote:

RayProudfoot wrote:Hi Jason,

Thanks for sight of your GraphSettings.php. Mine is exactly the same except for the Station Name...

$SITE['version'] = "3.1";
$SITE['hloc'] = "../";
$SITE['jpgraphloc'] = "../jpgraph/src/";
$SITE['datafile'] = "realtime.log";
$SITE['sitename'] = "Cheadle Hulme Weather";
$SITE['bgncolor'] = "#EFEFEF";
$SITE['txtcolor'] = "#22464F";
$SITE['tz'] = "Europe/London";
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
$SITE['infopass'] = "";
$SITE['debugpass'] = "";
$SITE['datapass'] = "sce";
$SITE['viewpass'] = "sce";
$SITE['debug'] = 0; # Adjustable via debug
$SITE['info'] = 1; # Adjustable via info

However, I was looking back through this thread and on Page 3 arthur posted a link to his realtime.log http://chh-p.dyndns.org/realtime.log

Now if you look at mine it's quite different and I suspect this is the reason JpGraph can't read it...

http://www.cheadlehulmeweather.co.uk/gr ... altime.log

Does that look like a kosha file to you?

I see what you mean - when you created the realtime.log file.... was it empty? Or did you insert the first 3 lines of code?

Mine starts like this....

2011-04-29 22:14:52 13.5 76 9.3 2.3 0.9 90 0.0 0.0 1009.5 E 1 mph C hPa mm 35.2 0.0 3.6 117.4 0.5 21.7 53 13.5

I created mine as an empty text file and uploaded it as realtime.log.....

It might be worth deleting everything from realtime.log in a text editor and then call 'realtimelog.php' and then checking your graphs...

Hope that makes sense?

RayProudfoot wrote:
Yes, I spotted that and mentioned it in my earlier message to Jason. I'm also concerned that I'm not getting regular data loaded to realtime.log. Is this something Cumulus takes care or do I need to upload a file? I see references to cron but haven't a clue what it does.

Footie getting close. Replies will be later this evening.

6719jason wrote:You could setup Cumulus Toolbox to Regularly 'Call' realtimelog.php so it stores data at regular intervals?

RayProudfoot wrote:

6719jason wrote:You could setup Cumulus Toolbox to Regularly 'Call' realtimelog.php so it stores data at regular intervals?

If I understand the process correctly each time you call realtimelog.php it writes a record to realtime.log. Is that right?

And once realtime.log has enough entries it can create a graph.

I must have missed all this in the instructions!

So Jason, could you step me through the process of setting up Toolbox to 'call' realtimelog.php please?

RayProudfoot wrote:I'm back. I already have Toolbox running. I upload dayfile.txt each day for the ICCP service on my main page.

But I'm still confused because my realtime.txt only contains one entry timed at 21:50 tonight and that appears twice in realtime.log.

What is going on? Jason, I hope you can sort me out because despite being reasonably proficient at programming this lot has got me pretty confused.

6719jason wrote:I have found the problem, that is occurring because although there is a copy of realtime.txt in the /graphs folder, it hasn't been updated since 21:50 - Ideally you want it reading from your ./realtime.txt file which is updated at your realtime interval.

Unless of course.... you schedule Cumulus to manually ftp a realtime.txt to /graphs and tick the 'Realtime' box which should upload realtime.txt to your /graphs folder....

Hope that makes sense?

RayProudfoot wrote:

6719jason wrote: Hope that makes sense?

Perfect sense, thanks. The realtime.txt on the Cumulus PC contains a single entry and each time it's updated the new entry replaces the old one. When that is FTP'd to the server I'm guessing a call to realtimelog.php is needed to update realtime.log.

And it's that log file that the graphs read. Yes?

So can you talk me through setting up a 'call' to realtimelog.php please?

This is fun isn't it? Just like pulling teeth!

RayProudfoot wrote:Okay Jason. That's all installed and running. textfile.log is being updated every minute. There were a couple of blank rows but I managed to copy the file to my desktop, edit out the blanks and drop it back on the server before the next update.

My only concern now is the frequency of these updates. The bandwidth could increase quite a bit. How often would you say realtime.txt needs FTPing? Does JpGraph have an optimum period?

And how soon do you think I'll be able to get a working graph? 1 hour? 6 hours?

Thanks for all your help. I hope it helps others to try these excellent graphs too.

RayProudfoot wrote:I'm still lost. Obtained 25. Wanted to obtain 24.?

Huh? It's not exactly user-friendly is it? I've edited out some duplicated records and uploaded a modified file.

I've also changed the program to run every 5 minutes.

I've left RealTime period at 30 secs as I want to keep the wind data as up-to-date as possible. It used to be 5 secs but my bandwidth was excessive.