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[nm3cxrdc]

G'day all,

I've searched the forum and the documentation to no avail (either it's not there or I can't search properly!)

I'm getting #intemp reported and displayed correctly and was wondering if it were possible to get today's indoor Low/High.

Is it possible to have tags (or custom tags), along the same lines as outside temp, which i can retrieve via: api/tags/process.json?intempTL&TintempTL&intempTH&TintempTH

Or is there some other way to get this information?

Thanks

[freddie]

Tags are listed in the Wiki. I don't think there are high/low tags for indoor readings.

[water01]

Freddie is quite correct there are no webtags for the indoor high/low only #inhum "inside humidity" and #intemp "indoor temperature".

[nm3cxrdc]

Thanks for above replies.

I take it there is no other way to derive/display that info?

[water01]

If you have the coding skills you could write some PHP to read the log file and calculate the high/low for inside temp for each day from the log file after the rollover.

Only other way is to ask it to be considered as an addition to Mark's coding list!!

[HansR]

Thanks for above replies.

I take it there is no other way to derive/display that info?

The only way I see - I may be missing something though - is through the monthly logs (where the data of intemp and inhum are stored).
You would need to read those values and determine the min/max per day.
An alternative would be to create a CustomLog for intemp and inhum which would maybe make it maybe easier to read and manipulate.

Doing all this would require manipulation on the CMX machine and not on the website, then create a datafile with those min/max values and send that to the website where you need to fetch the values to get those in the webpage. In short, you would need to write a kind of webtag mechanism voor those min/max values.

It can be done

You could also ask Mark to incorporate those values in the CMX webtag system (which would require probably adding them to the inifiles).

EDIT: well water01 is ahead af me but I am not sure about the PHP he suggests.

[water01]

I forgot to add that I would use the MySQL table for the Monthly Log and run a SQL Query using PHP to produce the values you require for all the days or a specific day or for the day just past.

The Top Ten Records script that Mark produced is an example of what could be done but in that case it uses the dayfile.

[nm3cxrdc]

Thanks HansR and water01. I'll look into the MySQL route and see what I come up with. It'll take me a while to get my head around it but If it turns out to be worthwhile I'll report back here in due course.

[OBSERWACJEMETEO]

I don't know if I'm writing in the right thread but also don't want to start a new one. How about adding a tag in CMX to describe the rainfall intensity? I am currently implementing this on my site using jv code

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<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).on('load', function() {
  function updateRainfallDescription() {
    // Getting the rainfall intensity value from the data-cmxdata="rrate" attribute and replacing commas with dots
    var rrateText = $("span[data-cmxdata='rrate']").text().replace(',', '.');

    // Logging the rrateText value to the console
    console.log("rrateText value:", rrateText);

    // Check if the rrateText value is empty or invalid
    if (!rrateText || rrateText.trim() === "") {
      $("#rainfallDescription").text("Error!");
      return;
    }

    // Parsing the rainfall intensity value
    var rrate = parseFloat(rrateText);

    // Defining the precipitation description variable
    var description = "";

    // Check if the rainfall rate is 0.0
    if (rate === 0.0) {
      description = "no precipitation";
    } else if (isNaN(rrate)) {
      description = "Precipitation data is unavailable";
    } else if (rrate > 0.1 && rrate <= 2.0) {
      description = "light rain";
    } else if (rrate > 2.1 && rrate <= 5.0) {
      description = "moderate rain";
    } else if (rrate > 5.1 && rrate <= 10.0) {
        description = “ strong rain”;
    } else if (rrate > 10.1 && rrate <= 20.0) {
      description = “ torrential rain”;
    } else if (rate > 20.1) {
      description = “ heavy rain”
    }

    // Inserting the description into the appropriate place on the page
    $("#rainfallDescription").text(description);
  }

  // Calling the function that updates the description after the page is loaded
  updateRainfallDescription();

});

[freddie]

The problem with this is that definitions of rainfall intensity vary between locations - rules in the UK may be different to those in Spain, for example. The definition is also different between rain derived from fronts and that derived from convective clouds - but that's a whole different story!

I think that, unless the definitions are user-configurable, then what you are already doing is probably the better solution.

[OBSERWACJEMETEO]

Of course you are right, however, this is more about a kind of generalization. . This can be set several ranges, and the names of the intensity can be set by anyone at his own discretion. The same with thresholds. That is, it would be a user-configurable option.

[Mapantz]

I would have thought that torrential rain > heavy rain?

[freddie]

I would have thought that torrential rain > heavy rain?

This is what I mean - definitions vary. So if this webtag is going to exist then it will need to be very configurable!

[OBSERWACJEMETEO]

Heavy rain if the intensity of precipitation is more than 20.1 mm/hr. In cumulus you can set pressure trends and abbreviations of world directions, just add such an option plus to it add ranges and as a result give webtag. Below are the precipitation intensity ranges that are used in my country. Of course, the English translation can be confusing.

if (rate === 0.0) {
description = "no precipitation";
} else if (isNaN(rrate)) {
description = "Precipitation data is unavailable";
} else if (rrate > 0.1 && rrate <= 2.0) {
description = "light rain";
} else if (rrate > 2.1 && rrate <= 5.0) {
description = "moderate rain";
} else if (rrate > 5.1 && rrate <= 10.0) {
description = “ strong rain”;
} else if (rrate > 10.1 && rrate <= 20.0) {
description = “ torrential rain”;
} else if (rate > 20.1) {
description = “ heavy rain”

[Mapantz]

Surely, the word torrential, even if translated to another language, would describe rainfall intensity far greater than heavy?