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realtime.txt specs
Posted: Tue 03 Mar 2009 11:05 pm
by w5afw
Can someone tell me if the realtime.txt file is formatted in the same manner and order as the WD clientraw.txt file? If so, I want to try to adapt a sidebar gadget made for WD with Cumulus. Thanks for the info.
Re: realtime.txt specs
Posted: Tue 03 Mar 2009 11:28 pm
by Greebo
No idea what the other format is, but the realtime.txt format is explained in the help file.
If the 'realtime' option is selected, Cumulus creates a file called realtime.txt once a minute, and uploads it to your web site. The format of this file is as follows:
Example: 18/10/08 16:03:45 8.4 84 5.8 24.2 33.0 261 0.0 1.0 999.7 W 6 mph C mb mm 146.6 +0.1 85.2 588.4 11.6 20.3 57 3.6 -0.7 10.9 12:00 7.8 14:41 37.4 14:38 44.0 14:28 999.8 16:01 998.4 12:06 1.8.2 448 36.0 10.3 10.5 13 0.2 14 260 2.3
Field Example Description
1 18/10/08 date (always dd/mm/yy)
2 16:03:45 time(always hh:mm:ss)
3 8.4 outside temperature
4 84 relative humidity
5 5.8 dewpoint
6 24.2 wind speed (average)
7 33.0 latest wind speed reading
8 261 wind bearing (degrees)
9 0.0 current rain rate
10 1.0 rain today
11 999.7 barometer
12 W wind direction
13 6 wind speed (beaufort)
14 mph wind units
15 C temperature units
16 mb pressure units
17 mm rain units
18 146.6 wind run (today)
19 +0.1 pressure trend value
20 85.2 monthly rainfall
21 588.4 yearly rainfall
22 11.6 yesterday's rainfall
23 20.3 inside temperature
24 57 inside humidity
25 3.6 wind chill
26 -0.7 temperature trend value
27 10.9 today's high temp
28 12:00 time of today's high temp (hh:mm)
29 7.8 today's low temp
30 14:41 time of today's low temp (hh:mm)
31 37.4 today's high wind speed (average)
32 14:38 time of today's high wind speed (average) (hh:mm)
33 44.0 today's high wind gust
34 14:28 time of today's high wind gust (hh:mm)
35 999.8 today's high pressure
36 16:01 time of today's high pressure (hh:mm)
37 998.4 today's low pressure
38 12:06 time of today's low pressure (hh:mm)
39 1.8.2 Cumulus version
40 448 Cumulus build number
41 36.0 10-minute high gust
42 10.3 heat index
43 10.5 humidex
44 13 UV Index
45 0.2 Evapotranspiration today
46 14 Solar Radiation W/m2
47 260 10-minute average wind bearing (degrees)
48 2.3 rainfall last hour
Re: realtime.txt specs
Posted: Wed 04 Mar 2009 12:16 am
by w5afw
well... I examined the two and discovered they are similar but different so the cool gadget can't be easily adapted. Pity...
Re: realtime.txt specs
Posted: Sat 14 Mar 2009 5:52 pm
by GlynH
w5afw wrote:Can someone tell me if the realtime.txt file is formatted in the same manner and order as the WD clientraw.txt file? If so, I want to try to adapt a sidebar gadget made for WD with Cumulus. Thanks for the info.
You know I was just asking the same question myself recently but not for the same reason.
I was hoping to be able to use a couple of 3rd party applications that depend upon Clientraw.txt;
1. Weather Display Live: Great looking set of instruments & gauges
2. MesoMap Live: Wanting to display my own weather station data on a local map of my area
There may be more 3rd part applications out there...I never thought of those sidebar gadgets for example but can see the attraction in wanting to use them.
I thought it was a great idea to make Realtime.txt compatible with Clientraw.txt until I saw there were four files making up the Clientraw.txt family;
http://www.tnetweather.com/nb-0100.php
Despite there being a lot of optional items (and many that could just have a null or zero value) it still looks like a lot of work for somebody...
Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-
Re: realtime.txt specs
Posted: Sun 15 Mar 2009 4:02 pm
by TNETWeather
I did create a clientraw.txt version of the Cumulus data at one point so that I could do some banner stuff, but it is missing a lot of values. I never bothered with the other 3 clientraw files as most of that information is either missing or not in the same format. Those files include a lot of history information that Cumulus does not on its own keep track of.
With a lot of work, you could accumulate the same type of info outside of Cumulus and then recreate many parts of the 4 file set, but it would be a lot of work.
Note that Julian and Brian worked for a number of years to get where they are now with the WD and WDL products.
Re: realtime.txt specs
Posted: Sun 15 Mar 2009 10:56 pm
by w5afw
Kevin: Do you have a "translation" program for the basic data set we could play with?
Re: realtime.txt specs
Posted: Mon 16 Mar 2009 5:10 am
by TNETWeather
Been a long time since I've played with it so it is possible to make it better now.
I created a txt file on the win box and have Cumulus parse it out.
The filename is status-current.txt which I then symbolically link to clientraw.txt on the Unix side.
It contains the tags:
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12345 <#wspeed> <#wgust> <#bearing> <#temp> <#hum> <#press> <#rfall> <#rmonth> <#ryear> <#rrate> 0 <#intemp> <#inhum> 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <#hour> <#minute> 0 TNETWeather_Mesa,_AZ 0 0 <#day> <#month> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <#wchill> 0 <#tempTH> <#tempTL> 0 0 <#presstrendval> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <#wgustTM> <#dew> 0 <#date> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <#windTM> 0 0 0 <#avgbearing> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <#pressTH> <#pressTL> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 <#year> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33.4026 -111.8831 0 0 0 0 !!C<#version>!!
As you can see, there is a lot of padding going on. Also contains some hard coded info like the site location, Lat and Long (which is more detailed than WD provides) etc..
A link on my webpage that shows it live is:
http://cumulus.tnetweather.com/clientraw.txt
It was good enough for me to use my WD parser for generating Images on Wx-host.com so that I have an experimental signature graphic like below from that:
and
I've not touched it for a while though.