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Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 2:36 pm
by RayProudfoot
I'm pretty useless at changing my website but Sat24 which I've used for years have a new owner and they've changed the widgets I use on the front page.

I've copied and pasted the code generated for two satellite images but they don't show. Could some kind soul help sort out what's wrong please? I've used their site to size the images so they match what was there previously.

This is what the code for the two rows look like...

<tr>
<td colspan="5" style="padding: 10px 0; text-align: center;">
<a <iframe sandbox="allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox" src="https://widgets.meteox.com/en-GB/widget ... 52353/rain" style="width:100%!important;max-width:845px!important;max-height:615px!important;height:100%!important;padding:0px;border:none!important;box-sizing:border-box!important;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" style="padding: 10px 0; text-align: center;">
<a <iframe sandbox="allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox" src="https://widgets.meteox.com/en-GB/widget ... /satellite" style="width:100%!important;max-width:845px!important;max-height:615px!important;height:100%!important;padding:0px;border:none!important;box-sizing:border-box!important;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>>
</a>
</td>
</tr>

view-source:http://www.cheadlehulmeweather.co.uk/

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 2:41 pm
by freddie
This bit:

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<a <iframe
should be:

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<a><iframe
There's two places to correct.

You also have one of these:

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</iframe>>
which should.be:

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</iframe>

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 2:56 pm
by RayProudfoot
Many thanks Freddie. Quite a relief it was just a couple of typos. But a different problem now. They're both letter-box format when I was planning for 845 x 615.

Any clues on how to get that?

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 3:14 pm
by freddie
I'm no web page expert - I look after the engines not the airframe :)
I can see you have 845x615 as a maximum setting. You also have some width and height attributes in there that are set to 100%. Maybe if you experiment with pixel values for those two attributes rather than % values?

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 3:31 pm
by Dador
The old Sat24 website is still available at this address.

https://sat118.sat24.com

After disabling api.sat24, unfortunately, free maps with clouds and precipitation are currently not available. I hope they include it.

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 3:40 pm
by RayProudfoot
Dador,
Do you mean this site? https://sat118.sat24.com/en/freeimages

The images still appear to be useable. I don't knowingly disable the api.

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 3:51 pm
by Dador
RayProudfoot wrote: Wed 27 Dec 2023 3:40 pm Dador,
Do you mean this site? https://sat118.sat24.com/en/freeimages
Yes,

I used some free maps from this site. Before Christmas everything stopped working. Nothing is currently displayed :(

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 3:52 pm
by RayProudfoot
MeteoBlue looks okay. https://www.meteoblue.com

I have two of their widgets installed and look okay.

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 4:01 pm
by RayProudfoot
The MeteoBlue widgets appear when i use my Windows laptop but not on my iPad. I've cleared the Safari website data but no joy. Just seeing placeholders.

Some permissions required?

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 4:20 pm
by freddie
Perhaps you need to explicitly allow iframes in the browser on the ipad?

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 4:45 pm
by RayProudfoot
freddie wrote: Wed 27 Dec 2023 4:20 pm Perhaps you need to explicitly allow iframes in the browser on the ipad?
How is that achieved? I'll google it and see if anything helps.

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Wed 27 Dec 2023 7:01 pm
by RayProudfoot
Google search revealed nothing that has helped. I wrote to MeteoBlue support and had a reply inside 2 hours.

They suggested a larger zoom (over 5) but that didn't help. They'll ask their tech people to determine why it's fine with Windows and my Android smartphone but not with an Apple iPad.

Re: Sat24 have changed their widgets - help required please.

Posted: Mon 15 Jan 2024 4:56 pm
by RayProudfoot
With the help of the staff at MeteoBlue I’ve finally got the weather widget working across all platforms including iOS.

There was a <a command messing things up. Hard to spot unless you’re an expert which I’m definitely not.

If anyone wants to add a widget to their website I can highly recommend MeteoBlue. The widget is extremely flexible and powerful.

https://content.meteoblue.com/en/busine ... te-widgets