Hello and some Cumulus questions

[Steve Willington]

First post so I guess I should hello. I've been running a Davis VP2 since 2006 and have recently swapped to 24/7 FARS and it is this that has spurred me to do something about my very boring WeatherLink driven website.

Back in 2006 I initially used weatherdisplay/WDLive to maintain the website. However I think my way of running it (shutting my PC down overnight etc) resulted in occasional lost/corrupted data so I swapped to WeatherLink to drive the website which, although a considerably more basic, at least provided data integrity (I am a forecaster by trade, working for the UK MetO so data integrity and accuracy is important to me. .). I'd now like to improve the website so am trying out Cumulus. I've got Cumulus to temporarily upload to my website here while I get it to look right.

I'm running Cumulus and WeatherLink on a PC connected to the VP2 console however this isn't a particularly fast PC and I have Dreamweaver installed on my main PC in another room. Which files within the Cumulus folders do I need to edit to change back ground colours etc for my webpages? I guess that editing on the DW PC and then copying back to the Cumulus folder will work? Also the gauges etc aren't working?

Finally (for the minute!) are there any plugins for Cumulus that will generate a similar live data display as WeatherDisplay Live?

Steve.
rockbeareweather.co.uk

[steve]

Which files within the Cumulus folders do I need to edit to change back ground colours etc for my webpages? I guess that editing on the DW PC and then copying back to the Cumulus folder will work? Also the gauges etc aren't working?

You need to edit the style sheet - weatherstyle.css - but it looks like you haven't uploaded that. You seem to have some other directories and files missing too, which is why the gauges aren't working. You need to follow the instructions in the help file under "Creating a web site". There's also information in the wiki here: http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Website_setup

Finally (for the minute!) are there any plugins for Cumulus that will generate a similar live data display as WeatherDisplay Live?

I've done a Silverlight application ("Cumulus Realtime") along those lines (still work in progress). See the downloads page.

[Steve Willington]

Thanks for the help to what was a question I should have been able to find the answer to. Appreciated. For some reason I failed to find the page you linked to. Anyway I'm nearly there now, also have Cumulus Realtime working. Very nice. The only issue is the link that I inserted into the main index page. I created this in DreamWeaver on another PC, uploaded it to the website and all was well, until Cumulus (running on another machine) uploaded its files and overwrote it. I have since tried copying the new index page to the cumulus web folder on the Cumulus machine - over writing the index.html there but Cumulus then over wrote that when it uploaded next time around (at least that is what I think happened). So the question is where do I save my modified index page, with link to Cumulus Realtime, so that it sticks and is not overwritten?

[steve]

The index.htm file is generated by Cumulus from the indexT.htm file, so that's the one you need to edit. See the 'customised templates' link on the page I linked to earlier.

[beteljuice]

.... and of course when you've read the help, the forum, and the Wiki - that's when you discover that you shouldn't use Deamweaver to edit Template files

[philcdav]

Hi Steve and welcome.

I guess you 'might' regret exposing your day job. Get ready for the deluge (of questions)

My advice to you would be to dump Dreamweaver asap.

Replace it with HTMLToolkit http://www.htmlkit.com/ or similar,
learn to code in html and adopt CSS sooner rather than later.

The other 'good advice' would be to tie up all your loose end jobs BEFORE you retire cos you'll have no time after !

Good luck and seasons greetings.

[William Grimsley]

Hi there, Steve how do you get the live console bit on your website?

Cheers

Will

http://www.newtonpopplefordweatherlive.co.uk

[Shawn]

Hi there, Steve how do you get the live console bit on your website?

Cheers

Will

http://www.newtonpopplefordweatherlive.co.uk

Hi
I think you will find that on the downloads page (at the top of this forum) under 'User contributions'