I have CumulusMX & a webcam running on a Raspberry Pi collecting data from a Davis VP2 and Davis Weather Envoy. Images are FTP'd via a BASH script, and I'm attempting to get the Saratoga Templates configured correctly. Sofar a few items appear to be failing/missing and others seem to be working fine. Website is http://www.apcat.org
What works: webcam page, ajax live updates on homepage, radar (needs tweaks), most external reference pages
What doesn't work:
1)Almanac>Weather Trends-this shows error at bottom of the page "windrose plot file ./images/windrose.png not found" In fact I had no image folder inside public_html created when the Saratoga Templates were unzipped so i created one hoping it would be filled somehow.
2) Almanac>Station Graphs-once again, many missing png files from the image folder
3) Status-Most of the time (but not always) the Status will be "Not Current" although realtime often is, and I have seen all three at one tome or another read "current" briefly
The "Cumulus weather data" shows a bonkers age of 405814:53:25 last updated on Wed, 31-Dec-1969 5:00pm
Any help or advice would be most welcome!
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Cumulus MX V4 beta test release 4.0.0 (build 4017) - 17 March 2024
Legacy Cumulus 1 release v1.9.4 (build 1099) - 28 November 2014 (a patch is available for 1.9.4 build 1099 that extends the date range of drop-down menus to 2030)
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Newbie Problems I Suspect
Moderator: saratogaWX
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Newbie Problems I Suspect
Best Regards,
Anthony Catalano
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Webcam & Weather at:
http://www.boulderwx.com, http://www.apcat.org, http://www.boulderweather.org
Blitzortung Lightning Detector Station 1965
Anthony Catalano
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Webcam & Weather at:
http://www.boulderwx.com, http://www.apcat.org, http://www.boulderweather.org
Blitzortung Lightning Detector Station 1965
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Re: Newbie Problems I Suspect
Regarding the windrose plot and the graphics missing, it's because the CumulusMX software does not generate/publish the .png images the original Cumulus Windows software did. I've not yet released an update to the CU-plugin to support dynamic creation of the images from the JSON files produced by CumulusMX .. sorry...
The Status date issue is caused by a mismatch in the date format produced by CumulusMX which is DMY and the Settings.php entry which indicates the date should be in MDY format. Change it to and the odd 1969 date issue should be resolved.
Best regards,
Ken
The Status date issue is caused by a mismatch in the date format produced by CumulusMX which is DMY
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$WX['date'] = '17/04/2016';
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$SITE['WDdateMDY'] = true; // for WD date format of month/day/year. =false for day/month/year
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$SITE['WDdateMDY'] = false; // for WD date format of month/day/year. =false for day/month/year
Best regards,
Ken
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Re: Newbie Problems I Suspect
I did not realize the substantial differences between MX & the older version. I imagine it is quite a substantial coding effort required to create the png files that MX is lacking. That's too bad. I just assumed they were equivalent. Many thanks for the excellent diagnosis for my other ills!
Best Regards,
Anthony Catalano
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Webcam & Weather at:
http://www.boulderwx.com, http://www.apcat.org, http://www.boulderweather.org
Blitzortung Lightning Detector Station 1965
Anthony Catalano
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Webcam & Weather at:
http://www.boulderwx.com, http://www.apcat.org, http://www.boulderweather.org
Blitzortung Lightning Detector Station 1965
- saratogaWX
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Re: Newbie Problems I Suspect
Mark Crossley has created a set of JPGraph scripts to create the images on-the-fly from the JSON outputs of CumulusMX
See: https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=13189
for more details.
It will be somewhat tricky to install both JPGraph, get it working, and then configure the scripts to work on your site.
It took me a couple of hours to work through the details to get it running on my test CumulusMX site. I then had to
modify both wxgraphs.php and CU-trends-inc.php to no longer check for the presence of the .png files, but to just
create the <img> statements and let the server do the rest.
cumulusmx.saratogawx.net/wxgraphs.php
cumulusmx.saratogawx.net/wxtrends.php
are the result.
So... it is quite doable, (but not so simple) to implement.
My thanks to the excellent work by Mark
See: https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=13189
for more details.
It will be somewhat tricky to install both JPGraph, get it working, and then configure the scripts to work on your site.
It took me a couple of hours to work through the details to get it running on my test CumulusMX site. I then had to
modify both wxgraphs.php and CU-trends-inc.php to no longer check for the presence of the .png files, but to just
create the <img> statements and let the server do the rest.
cumulusmx.saratogawx.net/wxgraphs.php
cumulusmx.saratogawx.net/wxtrends.php
are the result.
So... it is quite doable, (but not so simple) to implement.
My thanks to the excellent work by Mark
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Re: Newbie Problems I Suspect
Thanks Ken.saratogaWX wrote: My thanks to the excellent work by Mark