Cumulus Support

I have been playing around creating a new sun graphic for my site. It shows the Sun's elevation through the day and plots when it has been sunny (answer: not very often this summer).

Here is a sample from today... And the current test link... [removed]
What do you think, promising?

Me like

Yes very nice Mark.

Could my B-L sunrecorder data work with that?

Paul

Hi Paul, the script is self contained to plot the elevation, and uses my realtime MySQL table to plot the sun shine. So if your B-L sunshine is recorded by Cumulus into a table it would just work. You need minute by minute values for #IsSunny available from one source or another, if in a text file then you would need a parser.

Or more like this...? Live demo... [removed]

Neat, great visual info

mcrossley wrote:Or more like this...?

I prefer the first one. The green seems to distract from the more important detail.

I think I prefer the first one too, the shade of green needs a tweak in the second, I'll have a look later...

Right one script, but you can configure the look a little. Either by editing variables or supplying overrides.

No overrides gives the full caboodle....


Or, change the size, switch off ground plot, switch off sunshine plot (?size-h=300&size-v=150&showSunshine=0&showGround=0)...


Edit: I forgot, you can make the background transparent too with the over-ride "transparent=1"...

I really like it! You always have imaginative ideas, but put them to good use.

mcrossley wrote:Right one script, but you can configure the look a little. Either by editing variables or supplying overrides.

No overrides gives the full caboodle....


Or, change the size, switch off ground plot, switch off sunshine plot (?size-h=300&size-v=150&showSunshine=0&showGround=0)...


Edit: I forgot, you can make the background transparent too with the over-ride "transparent=1"...

i think thats an awesome piece of coding

Thanks everyone, I think the code side is just about done, now I need to find a space for it on my web site...

I've replaced the Sun 'pie chart' with this plot for now on my main page. What do you think? EDIT: I have some 'responsive' scaling issues, I'll take a look at that tomorrow.

Any interest in me releasing this script?

100% - I am.

Does it plot the sunshine from our sql db?

Mapantz wrote: Does it plot the sunshine from our sql db?

Yes it does.