[beteljuice]

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)

[beteljuice]

Curious - nearly 40 'views' so far

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

Is there a problem ?

[scotweather]

Looks jolly good there BJ pity I don't use Easy Weather

Keep up the good work.

[harrym1byt]

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

[beteljuice]

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 ?

[harrym1byt]

>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.

[beteljuice]

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 !

[SLOweather]

Originally Posted by beteljuice

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

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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[astro0]

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

[harrym1byt]

Originally Posted by astro0

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

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' -

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