Cumulus Support

I have been trying to learn as much as I can about my Weather station and getting a page running on-line but have failed miserably. Its as if my Webspace provider is preventing it from working.

I have a Davis VP 2 and have loaded up the Cumulas App and its running well on my local machine.

I have uploaded to my webspace the files as specified in the help section and created the required sub directories with the files as named. However when I actually go to my site and the weather directory the files are contained in using my browser I get Error 403 Forbidden.

What I dont undertsand is that when I have created simple webpages before I have always had to nominate the initial page if it was any diferent from "index.htm" which was the default if no page was specified.

Other websites I have looked at running Cumulus do not nominate the initial page or have an "index.htm" file.

My site is at www.rochester-airport.co.uk/weather

Any tips or advice would be appreciated.

I would like to be able to display the example pages before moving on to anything more complicated .

Incidentally I get Error 502 occuring in the DIAG files so I dont think I am actually uploading any of my weather data to the website either

John

It looks like you've sorted it out - seems to be working now?

Yep - thankyou. It was a silly backslash inthe wrong place !!.

Now to mess around with all the features.

JOhn

John,

Your site is showing a temperature of 22.3C at 11pm! Is that right? Have you positioned the ISS in accordance with Davis' recommendations? Other stations near Rochester are showing 12C.

Or is it still in your lounge?

Hi Ray - yes still in the spare bedroom

Soon to be transported to its new place and given a pole of its own. So hopefully will be getting real data soon.

Interestingly with the console and the ISS in the same room it reports different humidity and temperatures sometimes.

John

That makes sense John but you might want to check the roof with that recorded rainfall.

I had my console and ISS in the lounge for a couple of days and the different temperatures baffled me. But it's nothing to worry about I'm told. Both sensors are quite accurate.

Ah yes the rain gauge is counting the drips of my brow

One thing that puzzles me is that the main Cumulus page that monitors your weather station when its pluged into your PC is a very nice page, but there is not a web uploadable version of it that we can put on a website (unless I missed it).

I just wondered why, as I guess most of the immediate information that someone would want see is there and yet we have a completely different style set of web uploadable templates.

Do you know if anyone has made a lookalike screen that is a copy of the main cumulus screen ?.

John

There's nothing to stop anyone creating a web page that mirrors most of the main Cumulus screen but there's a danger of information overload. For a classic example of that check Weather Display

I have modified my own pages as have many other Cumulus users. I have also modified my banner.php which gives me a snapshot of today's weather. Each to their own I suppose. I'm definitely in the 'less is more' camp when it comes to presenting weather data. The casual user could take one look at a web page and go "ugh"! and all that work is lost.

John, the image you see on your computer monitor (screen) (once the weather station has been connected to the computer) is, obviously, produced by Cumulus but for local display only (ie: on the computer monitor).

Cumulus has the built-in facility to upload (ie: send to a hosting server) HTM and graphic files with updated weather information ... the hosting server is the location where users outside your home can connect to and display the weather data collected by your weather station.

It is certainly possible to take a snapshot of Cumulus main screen (the one displayed on the computer monitor) and upload that image to a hosting server, but, even with my 6+ years of Web page design, I certainly would not go that way...

As pointed out by 'the other' Ray , Weather Display (shareware at $70US) does produce a snapshot of its main screen, as well as about 70 additional graphic images, every five minutes which are then uploaded to the hosting server - but that snapshot facility is built directly into the software...

The easiest approach would be for you to learn some HTML (Web page coding) so you can modify the basic files required to create the weather Web pages...

I think someone did once produce a web page that looked like the Cumulus main screen. Not as simply a 'screen grab', but using HTML (or whatever).