EasyWeather Forum Poster

Due to the rather huge quantities of newbies who have purchased the Watson or one its clones, the beteljuice has produced this:

EasyWeather Forum Poster

Most of the 'newbies' are innocents in every respect, having little or no software / web design experience, and unwilling to purchase expensive wx software.

This uses a php parser which is not really fully tested yet, but hopefully I will 'release' later for those who are interested.

There may also be an AJAX version in the works if someone else doesn't do a better version first. (Please)

Curious - nearly 40 'views' so far

..... but nobody seems to have tried it !!!!!!!!

Is there a problem ?

I have just fed it a months worth of data, how's that?

The routine starts with the last (latest) entry, and works backwards for upto 24 hrs (todays worth).

Yes the routine could be expanded to cope with say a years worth of data, but there is no guarantee that an on-line request would be a complete or meaningful record. Plus no ones had a Watson for a year yet

Your own records highlight what seems to be a recuring Watson problem. signal 'drop-out at 20:10 and 20:15.

I may have to rewrite the code. The inbuilt php 'Max' function regards --- as a low value - no problem, but it is also true for the 'Min' function - that is why your Min. temp value of --- (no signal) is regarded as valid !

I may have to go back to real maths and compare throuhout the various arrays.

Most important thing - do you think it's useful, or will it never see the light of day ?

>Your own records highlight what seems to be a recuring Watson problem. signal 'drop-out at 20:10 and 20:15.

It would be unreasonable to expect 100% perfect reception, besides which there has been lots of thunder tonight, which might have knocked the signal out. Even under normal conditions the signal has to pass through 3 to 4 house walls and around 30 metres of distance.

>Most important thing - do you think it's useful, or will it never see the light of day ?

Most - definately very useful. The problem with the forum is that the useful to Watson owner material needs to be searched for. Likely the other owners have not yet found it.

Hmm......

In trying to get around the "---" no signal entry I have discovered a few other associated problems.

I'm going to have to do a bit of a rethink and re-write - I'll be back !

Edit: 05:00

Quick fix done, but if "current" readings are lost it will still look odd.

tweaks will be ongoing !

If nothing else, you could possibly rework the Carter Lake Ajax templates. They were originally written for Weather Display, and have been modified for VWS. I believe I'm using some of the base AJAX code for my WeatherElement development.

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Thanks beteljuice for the poster i'm new to this i purchased my watson w-8681 last thursday 18th sept 2008 and stumbled on this forum whilst looking for easy weather software (my cd supplied was unreadable)
i have just posted my first data, which was made easy for a newbie thanks to your sticky, keep up the good work :icon_bigg:icon_bigg

If you are stuck for the EasyWeather software you can download it from the manufacturers web site-

Fine Offset Eletronics Co.,LTD.

Other than that, take a look at 'Cumulus' -

Sandaysoft

BJ, reason I haven't posted data yet... don't have the Watson but am interested in purchasing (have to convince the FM tho'). Am following the Watson posts with interest as it appears some users are having problems. Hopefully most of these will be gone by the time I have convince FM. Cheers, Lance

Do we have a 'scratching head' smilie ?
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beteljuice, firstly, grease, grease, thanks for the upload script poster. i now have the w8681 and have started using your load routine.

as you are no doubt aware from comments in the forum, there is a problem with the easyweather software producing copius quantites of rain when there is very little, if any, rain. some of the users, including myself, are using 'cumulus' for that very reason (steve of sandaysoft has done a good job here).

is it possible to have the script read from the 'cumulus' file instead of the 'easyweather' file. they are both comma de-limited. do you need a file to work with? last line from my monthly log-file is below. it doesn't have the header so i have interpreted from what i can read on the screen and what is in the file.

date,readingtime,temp,humidity,dewpoint,wind(kph),gust(kph),bearing,rain(mm),today(mm),barometer(hPa)
08/11/08,20:00,10.7,90,9.1,7.2,20.9,180,0.0,0.3,1004.4

i think the first rain is most likely the rainfall for the last hour, but it maybe the rainfall rate (mm/hr)

there is a line for each period (user set in 'cumulus', mine is 15mins)

please let me know if you need further info, or you have the inclination to do this for the 'cumulus' users amongst us

cheers, lance

The latest version of EasyWeather V4 so far seems to be free of any such problems.

You could always have looked in the help file

• Date in the form dd/mm/yy
• Current time
• Current temperature
• Current humidity
• Current dewpoint
• Current wind speed
• Current wind gust
• Current wind bearing
• Current rainfall rate
• Total rainfall today so far
• Current sea level pressure

Version 1.8.3 adds the following to the end of each line:

• Total rainfall counter
• Inside temperature
• Inside humidity

Cumulus also has a 'copy to clipboard' facility (on the Edit menu) which produces a vaguely similar sort of output to beteljuice's script.

Steve