Cumulus Support

Hi,
I would like to show the current conditions on my web site and display an icon accordingly. Now, I've seen that you can enter the current conditions in a text box manually in Cumulus, but is there a way to change the value of the current conditions automatically when the weather is changing, like on wunderground.com web site. Where should I pick up this information from?
Thanks for your help.

Does this help....

http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Currentconditions.txt

Basically if you change the contents of the text file, it will update Cumulus and the webtag

OR are you asking if there is software that can change the contents automatically?

Yes that's what I would like to know. Is there any software to change the content dynamically? Can Cumulus do it?
Or is there anyway to pick up the current conditions from wunderground.com and put it on my web page?

laurent07 wrote:Yes that's what I would like to know. Is there any software to change the content dynamically? Can Cumulus do it?

That's circular. The point of the field/web tag is for you (or an external process) to supply information to Cumulus so that it can appear on the display and/or on a web site. What would Cumulus put in there that it doesn't already make available via other web tags?

Or is there anyway to pick up the current conditions from wunderground.com and put it on my web page?

Like this? http://www.wunderground.com/stickers/

Hi daj, just saw your site. You've got exactly what I'm looking for an icon showing the current conditions! (fog and cloudy at the moment). How did you do that?

Thanks Steve for your help, but then how can I supply this information automatically?

If you are familiar with Javascript you could do as I do on my sites:

Current conditions: Feels cool, becoming a bit warmer, Gentle Breeze, dry

It changes to say it's raining of course. It also shows an appropriate icon.

yes I saw your sites and that's exactly what I would like to achieve on mine. I'm not really familiar with javascript but i'm ready to work on this. Could you help? Thanks

I have a script that I just need to make a few modifications to. I'll send it to you as a PM, and if all goes well, I'll release it here. Be back later!

ok thanks!

laurent07 wrote:ok thanks!

PM sent

laurent07 wrote:Hi daj, just saw your site. You've got exactly what I'm looking for an icon showing the current conditions! (fog and cloudy at the moment). How did you do that?

I use some PHP to examine the forecast text sent my Cumulus. If for example it contains the word 'rain' I set the image to an appropriate image. If the current time is between sunset & sunrise I have an 'evening' set of icons too.

I also do a few basic calculations based on temperature and humity to suggest it may be foggy and insert an approriate image.

daj wrote: I also do a few basic calculations based on temperature and humity to suggest it may be foggy and insert an approriate image.

If wind =zero and humiduty => 98% ??

I also do current conditions pictures.......but I don't do any PHP or Java. Very basic, very easy, but also very different . Please be aware that the pictures can be a bit.....risque?.....mostly at night time though (they change for night time).
I could of gone the traditional route of having weather icons, and I have a heap of them, but decided to be different. My mates thinks it's cool. I know that there will be some fuddy duddies that might complain, but my mates love it.
I am looking at increasing the complexity of the current conditions pictures.....but it increased the number of photo's you need ten fold! An example of the way it works: If I have high wind and dropping temps it will show that rain is coming (it could be as simple as this, but mine are more complex), so sometimes the current conditions can also be predictive, which is what I wanted. And that is just for 1 set of pictures. I have 5 area's that have their own set of pictures that change depending on the weather. I don't have to type anything in. It just does it.
In the future I would like to have it calculate conditions sooner (like 48sec?), rather than only when it uploads every 10min, also to include temp, pressure AND humidy trends over a (say 5 minute?) time period. Unfortunately, my dumb host doesn't allow .txt uploads, and thus can't do realtime! Silly hey!

I would like to add a current weather condition icon to my weather website but as usual i'm finding it difficult to get my head around various php scripts and how to modify them.

Currently im pulling in the information from an external weather website which I believe is using the information from a main airport 30 miles away. The script this website is giving me is also putting the temperature next to the current weather icon, im not happy with this as the temperature is usually wrong compared to the data on my website as its the temp from 30 miles away.

I would be happy to use the Metag from this airport though as most prevailing weather conditions come from that direction but im looking for a way to decode and display the current weather icon only.

Can anyone help and advise on how to do this or if there are any other places I can grab and display the weather condition icon from.

thanks

Scott