Topic: multiple nws-alerts

[txweather.org]

Team,

Is it possible to have multiple alerts display on the status of nws alerts on the front page?

Right now it only shows one. It's also complaining that I have multiple alerts configured with no cron. I do have a cron but is remote not local s I had to suppress the error mesg for now.

Ideas?

TIA!

[cospringswx]

On nws-alerts.php find line 113 and set to false to get rid of the error message.

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if($cmyzc > 4 and $noCron == false) {


As far as the cron is concerned I use a vbs script to check for alerts from the NWS. I run it with Task Scheduler.


Here are my settings within nws-alerts-config.php

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// ALERT BOX SETTINGS
$useAlertBox   = true;                      // true=use alert box & write data file   false= not using alert box & don't write file
$titleNewline  = true;                      // true=new line for each title   false=string titles with other titles
$aBox_Width    = '99%';                     // width of box  examples - $aBox_Width = '80%';  $aBox_Width = '850px';  or smallest box  $aBox_Width = '';
$centerText    = true;                     // true=center text in alert box    false=left align text
$showNone      = true;                     // true=show 'NONE' if no alerts in alert box   false=don't show alert box if no alerts
$locSort       = 1;                         // location name sort - use number listed below
//                                             0 = sort location as listed in $myZC array
//                                             1 = sort location alphabetically

$sortbyEvent   = 3;                         // sort titles by severity in alert box & then by number listed below
//                                             0 = location - duplicate events will be displayed
//                                             1 = location - duplicate events removed
//                                             2 = event - duplicate events will be displayed
//                                             3 = event - duplicate events removed


// BIG ICONS
$iconLimit     = 0;                         // the number of icons to display  0=show all
$addNone       = true;                     // true=add NONE foreach location with no alerts        false= don't show any NONE
$shoNone       = true;                      // true=show one 'NONE' if no alerts for all location   false=don't show one 'NONE' if no alerts for all location
$useIcons      = 3;                         // select number below
//                                             0 = don't use icons - the cache file will not be written
//                                             1 = sort by alert - duplicate events will be displayed
//                                             2 = sort by alert - duplicate events removed
//                                             3 = single top alert icon for each location
//                                             4 = sort by location - duplicate removed
//                                             5 = sort by location - duplicate events will be displayed




[cospringswx]

Looks like you got it.

[txweather.org]

Looks like you got it.

Yes Sr.

Thank you very much for the tip!

Regards.

[cospringswx]

Glad to help.

[Curly]

With 4 or more codes to fetch, the script will complain about using a cron job if disabled in the settings.

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$noCron        = false;                     // true=not using cron, update data when cache file expires   false=use cron to update data

If the source of the data is busy, it could take 6 seconds to fetch the data for each code. Having 4 locations with 2 codes each, the processing time for the data download would be at least 48 seconds.
After the script finishes the processing, the index page will then proceed to load.
That's a lot of time to wait for the main index page to load so I highly recommend a cron job or a similar way to run the script at intervals.
As mentioned, the Windows Task Scheduler is very reliable and easy to set up.

[txweather.org]

With 4 or more codes to fetch, the script will complain about using a cron job if disabled in the settings.

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$noCron        = false;                     // true=not using cron, update data when cache file expires   false=use cron to update data

If the source of the data is busy, it could take 6 seconds to fetch the data for each code. Having 4 locations with 2 codes each, the processing time for the data download would be at least 48 seconds.
After the script finishes the processing, the index page will then proceed to load.
That's a lot of time to wait for the main index page to load so I highly recommend a cron job or a similar way to run the script at intervals.
As mentioned, the Windows Task Scheduler is very reliable and easy to set up.

Curly,

Thanks for tip.
I do have a cronjob setup but is not local to the system. Is a remote cron via one of my systems.

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*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/wget -O - http://txweather.org/nws-alerts.php > /dev/null 2>&1

If I am not mistaken this should work.

Thoughts?

[txweather.org]

Or maybe a curl?