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Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Wed 23 Apr 2014 11:31 pm
by tjaliwalpa
Have upgraded and all is working fine. I have one querie:
What is the trigger to change the forecast icon from daytime to nighttime? I've noticed that the icon stays as daytime way after sunset or dusk. Is this set to northern hemisphere times?
PS Haven't been up early enough to test the icon changes in the am.
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Thu 24 Apr 2014 7:20 am
by Solorize
Hi Bob,
Currently I have grabber check if the time is between 06:00 and 20:00, if this condition is met
then the program will use the Day Time icon set, if the time falls outside of the condition then the
Night Time icon set is used.
I chose these times as the program does not work out the users location and had to set a time frame
to switch between the two icon sets. I know its not perfect as Day and Night time depends upon
where you are located within the world and also the month / season etc.. and is always changing.
As Grabber uses the cumulus realtime.txt file which does not hold a location value I wont be able to
implement it further, unless I get chance to create some code to hold the location, input by the user
and write an funcion to work out the day / night time switch depended upon location. But recently
I have been getting less and less time to code. Due to other comitments.
If I get some free time I will try and look into adding this feature in the future.
Kind Regards
Mark
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Thu 24 Apr 2014 7:25 am
by steve
Mark, realtime.txt has a field which indicates whether it is currently daylight or not (i.e. between dawn and dusk). Could you not use that? It's field number 50 (numbering from 1) and has a value of 1 if it's daylight and 0 if not.
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Thu 24 Apr 2014 12:16 pm
by Solorize
Hi Steve,
Thanks for pointing that out !
I will have a look at revising my code to work with the current daylight flag.
Could you confirm if this trigger will be present for all users? or is it driven
by the user having to have certain settings set in Cumulus?
The reason I ask, is that could the value ever be reported at just a value of (say '0')
if the user has not set the setting that triggers the switch between 1 and 0, so
that it would always show the Night Time icon in my Grabber program. As it will never change to
a value of '1'.
I hope the above makes sence.
Mark
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Thu 24 Apr 2014 12:59 pm
by steve
For it to report correctly, it requires the user to have set their latitude and longitude correctly in Cumulus (so that the dawn and dusk calculations are correct).
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Fri 25 Apr 2014 3:54 am
by tjaliwalpa
I'm using the icons and images produced by Realtime Data Grabber on my Homepage. Also I use some JavaScript to pop-up graphs and images. I posted reference to this on my site earlier in this thread.
Have now added Mark's forecasticon.png to the homepage with a pop-up of the forecasttext.png. Just click the forecast icon.
http://www.karoondaweather.com
Thanks Mark for this great program that uses realtime.txt.
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Fri 25 Apr 2014 7:19 am
by Solorize
Steve
Thanks for the info. I will have a look at implementing my code to work with the dawn / dusk flag.
Just one thing.. if the user has not set long. / lat. does the dawn / dusk flag just get set to '0'
as default?
tjaliwalpa
I like what you have done with the generated graphics on your webpage.
Mark
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Fri 25 Apr 2014 7:32 am
by steve
Solorize wrote:Just one thing.. if the user has not set long. / lat. does the dawn / dusk flag just get set to '0'
as default?
No, because the defaults for lat and long are zero, which turns out to be in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Africa. So they will get the results for there, but adjusted to their own time zone. Just as they do for sunrise and sunset etc in Cumulus itself. People tend to spot quite quickly that those times in Cumulus are incorrect, and set their co-ordinates.
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Fri 25 Apr 2014 7:35 am
by Solorize
Hi Steve,
Thanks for confirming. I will see if I can recode this weekend if I get chance
Regards
Mark
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Fri 25 Apr 2014 8:12 pm
by PaulMy
Hi Mark,
Possibly you had not seen my previous post of March 18
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=11696 and I have again had the same thing earlier today (just noticed it now though but was using the weather computer about the time it occured). Other than the single spike to zero for all data, everything else seems to be normal. Previously it was on version 1.5.8 and now using 1.5.9, and about 5 weeks since I had noticed it before. Nothing significant as it will go away after the day's rollover, but just wanted to make you aware.
Paul
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Sat 26 Apr 2014 4:37 pm
by Solorize
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the link to your post (I had not seen it before).
I have to admit that has stumped me as I have never seen that happen
in all the time I have been running Grabber.
FYI.
If grabber can't get the realtime.txt file at the specified interval it will
just keep the previous values held within the variables (it will not set
them to zero), and then will try another two times to get realtime.txt,
after which it will display an error (MessageBox), to the user to inform them
to check if there is a problem with their Inet or FTP.
So I am unsure why and how these spikes are being produced. The only
way it could be at a value of zero is if the values are at zero in the realtime.txt
file.
Sorry I can't be of much more help. I will however keep this problem in mind and
if it happens to me I may be able to work out / see, what is causing the spike.
Regards,
Mark
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Sun 27 Apr 2014 7:48 pm
by PaulMy
Thanks Mark.
I will keep a better eye on it to see, if/when it happens again, what the local circumstances may be if I am lucky enough to see it at that exact time. I have also checked the realtimelog.txt file in my Cumulus folder (updated by Toolbox) and nothing there showing any drop in data around the spike time but then I had it saving realtime.txt string in realtimelog.txt every minute so most likely haven't captured the realtime.txt at the exact time of the indicated spike in the images. Again, not any issue as there is no recorded data error but just inquisitive mind wondering "what?" and just for my curiosity I have now set Toolbox to save realtime.txt every 0.1 min and auto pruning older than 3 days.
I have also changed the path for realtime.txt from my website URL to C:\Cumulus\realtime.txt as it is updating locally anyway.
Paul
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Sun 27 Apr 2014 11:31 pm
by milos.jirik
Hi Mark,
it is possible to add in the next version the compass points names for Czech and Slovak language?
For the Czech and Slovak language, it should be
CS/SK = ( S, SSV, SV, VSV, V, VJV, JV, JJV, J, JJZ, JZ, ZJZ, Z, ZSZ, SZ, SSZ )
Thank you.
Milos Jirik
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2014 3:02 am
by PaulMy
Well, my strategy did work... just found the spike to zero again, and it was captured from the realtime.txt at 27/04/14 21:53:41 -
27/04/14 21:51:47 5.9 76 2.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 1021.30 --- 0 km/h C hPa mm 64.4 +0.52 40.8 112.4 0.0 25.3 26 5.9 -1.7 14.9 16:35 -1.3 06:14 8.6 12:40 25.7 12:30 1021.95 08:50 1018.93 00:00 1.9.4 1093 0.0 5.9 5.9 0.0 0.00 0 0 0.0 1 0 0 --- 486 m 4.2 5.8 0 0
27/04/14 21:52:47 5.8 76 1.9 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 1021.27 --- 0 km/h C hPa mm 64.4 +0.52 40.8 112.4 0.0 25.3 26 5.8 -1.7 14.9 16:35 -1.3 06:14 8.6 12:40 25.7 12:30 1021.95 08:50 1018.93 00:00 1.9.4 1093 0.0 5.8 5.8 0.0 0.00 0 0 0.0 1 0 0 --- 486 m 4.1 5.8 0 0
27/04/14 21:53:41 0.0 0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.00 --- 0 km/h C hPa mm 64.4 +0.48 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 -1.7 14.9 16:35 -1.3 06:14 8.6 12:40 25.7 12:30 1021.95 08:50 1018.93 00:00 1.9.4 1093 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.00 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 --- 0 m 0.0 5.8 0 0
27/04/14 21:54:41 5.8 77 2.1 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 1021.24 --- 0 km/h C hPa mm 64.4 +0.50 40.8 112.4 0.0 25.4 26 5.8 -1.7 14.9 16:35 -1.3 06:14 8.6 12:40 25.7 12:30 1021.95 08:50 1018.93 00:00 1.9.4 1093 0.0 5.8 5.8 0.0 0.00 0 0 0.0 1 0 0 --- 461 m 4.1 5.8 0 0
27/04/14 21:55:56 5.8 77 2.1 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 1021.17 --- 0 km/h C hPa mm 64.4 +0.50 40.8 112.4 0.0 25.4 26 5.8 -1.7 14.9 16:35 -1.3 06:14 8.6 12:40 25.7 12:30 1021.95 08:50 1018.93 00:00 1.9.4 1093 0.0 5.8 5.8 0.0 0.00 0 0 0.0 1 0 0 --- 461 m 4.1 5.8 0 0
Attached is cumulus.009 zip and a screen shot of the spike image.
I was working on the weather computer around that time after the v1.9.4 b1093 update and was adding the ExtraUTFxx=1 to both the Configuration Internet Files and the cumulus.ini process file listing. Cumulus was running while I was editing cumulus.ini and then shut down Cumulus to restart with reading the edited .ini and shortly thereafter noticed the spike in CRTDG. Everything else seems to be normal - nothing indicated in Apr14log.txt or today.txt.
Paul
Re: Cumulus RealTime Data Grabber - Tool
Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2014 7:23 am
by Solorize
Hi Paul,
That is very strange as it looks like realtime.txt holds some values but then is missing
a lot of other values. I have no idea as to why this is happening as Grabber only reads in
the realtime.txt file and does not write to it.
I wonder if Steve may know what is causing this to happen?
btw.
I can't open the cumulus.009, any change you could compress it as a standard *.zip file?
Thanks
Mark