Cumulus Support

Hi all,

I've installed the vista/W7 gadget, and it found the data 1st time etc,

However, it's displays the wrong set of images...

I get night images in the day, and vice versa...

any clues please ?
????

MarkA

Hi MarkA, and welcome to the forum!
Please say a little more:
- which version of the gagdet? claydon_dan's or dane's modified ?
- which version of Cumulus ?
Claydon_dan's version uses its own cumulus.xml file and does its own calculation of day or night.
Dane's version uses the realtime.txt file which has a day/night flag - but requires a fairly recent beta version of Cumulus to work correctly.

GodDag,

I've now had a closer look at what's happening and not happening.

It would seem that the day/night switch isn't working, and hence it insists that it's daytime all hours of the day ...contrary to my previous post. (ahem...)

I renamed the image folders etc, as some basic tests, and it always points at the day folder.

Info.
I'm using Cumulus 1.8.8-881
The Gadget is dane's modified looking at realtime.txt on my www
Current desktop O/S is Vista Business with SP2
www is Apache2 on Centos5.2/64

Regards
Mark

Do you get any forecast images, or is it just default (day) blue sky ?

A url for your site would be handy so we can check your realtime.txt

The forecast and isdaylight info were added in build 872, so you should be OK

Hi,

Yes I get the forecast Images, it's just i see daytime images all the time.

My station is new, so still testing/finding it's quirks, plus the windvane/anometer is not in it's final location (on the roof) yet.

Today I wired the console to the sensor so that I get better readings of wind (well, that's what I hope...)

attached is a realtime.txt - and it's currently showing day at 21.27z

Mark

Please tell us your website URL - and put it in your profile - so we can help you.
Your realtime.txt indicates níght-time, so gives no clue to the error.

... My station is new, so still testing/finding it's quirks..

Have you correctly entered your Lat / Long in Cumulus ?
Are your Sunrise / set times correct toward the top of the main Cumulus screen ?

Hi All,

I've checked my co-ordinates are correctly entered, and show on the main console day/nigh correctly.

After some investigation, the real-time.txt shows the day/night bit doing what it should do as dane has already noted.

I'm now using 1.8.9-896, which appears to be a lot more stable. I was getting crashes when trying to parse the default html files, I've since stopped that.

I have an internal apache server on centos for stuff, but it's not public,
The Wx data is published on Wx-Underground for friends/fam etc.


Many thanks for everyone's help

Mark.

Silly question -

You did change the gadgets settings.ini to your realtime.txt location ?

... else you are going to get ibs Danish data

Hi All,


yes, It displays my data ok.

watch this space.. we're just testing something.
and we'll know tomorrow day time for sure!

Mark

Hi all,

With a bit of head scratching, we where curious about one line of code in the Javascript.

I'm no software engineer (I do comms/hardware) and was having trouble getting my head around a statement, however friend of mine whose a bit more savi with coding, he eventually sussed it.

Many thanks to Steve at whereinsussex.org.uk

I now note there's a new build which also has the problem resolved.


Mark
Foggy Sussex.l