Cumulus Realtime Gadget

[ivestfold]

hehe..you're probably right.
When I double click the folder it shows 3 folders and 5 files.
folders:css, images, js
files: changes, gadget,index,settings, settings

Ingve

[daj]

After dowmloading i simply took the folder, right cklicked and selected "rename", and changed the .zip extention to .gadget.

It's actually not easy renaming a file by right-clicking on it as it does not by default show the .zip extension, so you possibly ended up renaming it to .gadget.zip

[ivestfold]

You're right. The properties says "Zip" folder.
How can I fix this?

Ingve

[daj]

Launch Windows Explorer -- Windows Key & E is quicket

Click Tools, Folder Options. Change to the View tab

Remove the tick "Hide extensions for known file types"

Apply

This will now show the .zip extension which you can remove and leave as .gadget

[dane]

You're right. The properties says "Zip" folder.
How can I fix this?

Ingve

Open Windows Explorer (Stifinder).
Hit "Organiser" in upper left corner, hit "Mappe og Søgeindstillinger", hit "Vis", remove checkmark against "Skjul filtypenavne"

[ivestfold]

Of course..How could I forget... Anyway, thanks a lot lads, now I'm up running:-)

BR Ingve

[pgils]

Hi
I love the gadget here - better than the one built into Vista.
I am new to Cumulus and have just downloaded the Gadget, and can see it takes data from: http://ibtest.dk/cumulus/realtime.txt

As i haven't come so far as to have any website - how do i define my own realtime.txt to have the values i need ??

The one i am using now shows wind as m/s and i'd like to change to km/h

Thanks for a good gadget

[dane]

The gadget takes its data from a realtime.txt file - any realtime.txt file (the default being mine).
You need a website for that, and you need Cumulus to upload the realtime.txt file to it.
So the gadget won't be of much use to you until you get a website and set up Cumulus to upload to it.
Once you have your own website with your own realtime.txt the gadget will display data in the format you have chosen in Cumulus: km/h, mm, Celsius, hPa etc.

[beteljuice]

For website read web space - most ISPs give you some kind of allowance, welcome to the surreal world of "Hey, look what I can do !"

[PeterP]

Hi all,
can anyone help?
My gadget is reporting perfectly, but I have no weather icons, only the data.
Peter

[dane]

Hi all,
can anyone help?
My gadget is reporting perfectly, but I have no weather icons, only the data.
Peter

Reason is: your weather station is a Davis with its own forecast, so you probably did not select the Cumulus forecast.
And this gadget uses the Cumulus forecast numbers to differentiate between weather backgrounds.

[PeterP]

Brilliant, thanks Dane, all fixed...Welldone.

[tjaliwalpa]

Hi all Gadgeteers,

I'm new to Cumulus and putting up a web presence for my WH-1081 data, but it sure is fun.

Just over a day ago I started playing with the Gadget and thought, wow, this is fantastic. Thanks to all those who have come before me and developed this little app and ironed out all the bugs.

Only issue that bothered me was forecast. Most images are used for multiple forecasts making it hard to tell what Cumulus is really indicating through the Gadget. Last night I went through and duplicated the images as numbers (00-28) for both day and night, adding forecast descriptions at the top (as listed in gadget.js) for each image. I also changed gadget.js file names to match the new png files (00.png, 01.png, 02.png ... 28.png).

The changes are working fine for me. I've attached a ZIP of the changed images and have included the changed gadget.js file as well.

Bob

PS Has anyone added a Location to their Gadget?

[dane]

Version 2.0IH available from first post of this thread.
New in this version: will allow reading from a local realtime.txt file.
(I know : if you want a realtime.txt file, Cumulus1 requires you to have a website and will always upload realtime.txt - in addition to storing it locally. But I had the request, and I thought it would be fun to see if I could do the mod )

[zumosol]

Version 2.0IH available from first post of this thread.
New in this version: will allow reading from a local realtime.txt file.
(I know : if you want a realtime.txt file, Cumulus1 requires you to have a website and will always upload realtime.txt - in addition to storing it locally. But I had the request, and I thought it would be fun to see if I could do the mod )

It works ...only he forecast graphics are missing.. does that work on your PC?