CUMULUSUTILS

[MHaf]

Hans,
on your website, how do you enable the "overview" to see all on one screen ( the grafik right)

[HansR]

on your website, how do you enable the "overview" to see all on one screen ( the grafik right)

Ha.... now we're progressing

The charts you see now on your site are the default Home button charts. They are included to make the startup easier for novice users and will always be generated in case of absence of the file CutilsCharts.def.

However to have full flexibility for the user in creating charts I developed the ChartsCompiler which takes user defined charts in the so called CDL (Charts Definition Language) as input. This may seem a bit much and a bit complex for a start but as always, flexibility comes at a cost.

Therefore the distribution contains a file CutilsCharts-default-for-use.def. If you rename this to CutilsCharts.def and put it in the utils directory (you know, the one in the CumulusMX directory where all files go) and you rerun CUtils website command, you will get the advanced charts which you can modify to whatever you want.

I have the following remarks:

1. If you are satisfied with the website and just want to experiment with the charts you may use the command CompileOnly

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   user\bin\cumulusutils.exe CompileOnly

   This will make developent a lot faster as you will find out.
2. Before modifying the charts, backup the original CurilsCharts.def to which you can return in case of error.
3. If you need support on the ChartsCompiler, always send the logfile and the CutilsCharts.def
4. In combination with CutilsMenu.def and the OUTPUT keyword from CDL you have almost limitless flexibility can give your website the look and feel you want.
5. The last item for Flexibility and User contribution is in the USerReports, but that would be for a later phase.

NOTE: If you want to use ExtraSensors, the use of the ChartsCompiler is required.

[MHaf]

ok
then I will carry on with testing

[Nossie]

That's looking great so far Mhaf!



welcome to the Cutils family.

[MHaf]

Thanks trying hard

[MHaf]

Hello Hans, or others
another question

If I have 3 webcams, and I like to add the pictures there, does every single cam need to be in a seperate folder?
Also in case I like to upload mp4 is this then also, seperate folders?

Thanks a lot for your help
Mat

[HansR]

Hello Hans, or others
another question

If I have 3 webcams, and I like to add the pictures there, does every single cam need to be in a seperate folder?
Also in case I like to upload mp4 is this then also, seperate folders?

Thanks a lot for your help
Mat

Hi Mat,

Currently Cutils only supports one image in the module MeteoCam so there is no use uploading more, you have to choose which can you want to use. When uploading, the existing image will be overwritten, there is no image history supported. I would have to think on how to support three or even more images if that would be asked for.

The video's are uploaded to the same folder, selection of the video's is done by the website user. There is no automatic cleanup.

Note that to realise the use of the meteocam the directory for the meteocam must be rwxr.xr.x on the website otherwise no users can select.

[MHaf]

Hi Hans
with rwxr.xr.x you mean the allowed access an the specific folder (example folder CAM)

also wehre can I find the update of cumulusutils?
Thanks
Mat

[HansR]

with rwxr.xr.x you mean the allowed access an the specific folder (example folder CAM)

Yes

also wehre can I find the update of cumulusutils?

All updates are published in the first post of the distribution thread (to which it is good to subscribe )

[HansR]

You may have noticed that the pressure in the overview chart has a scaling of 0 to 1300 which is not useful.

The reason for this is that the scaling for this axis is based on the min and max record values achieved on your location, values are taken from the alltime records (alltime.ini) (see Wiki). In your case those values are pretty extreme

[MHaf]

Good morning Hans
just been onm y site, and when I click on Records, nothing happens, any idea, any setting I need to adjust?

BTW
Thanks a lot for your support
Mat

[MHaf]

forget it, now its working
guess it took some time then