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Offline wvdkuil

  • Wim van der kuil
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WeatherLink.com XML => no PC/Mac => Full blown WeatherWebsite
« on: October 29, 2014, 05:04:57 AM »
I adapted the template to use WeatherLink.com as primary source of the weatherdata.
It could be of interest for those people who are using (planning to use) a WLIP-logger and do not want to use an extra device / PC 24/24 to upload data to their website.

Demo-site is at:http://www.weerstation-leuven.be/weatherWLC/
The website uses my local (Leuven) xml-data from http://www.weatherlink.com/user/wvdkuil/index.php?view=summary&headers=1. I installed the template for the Canada-region as I want to test a few other un-related things also.

Yesterday(28 October)  the layout / contents of the WL.com xml changed suddenly.  I therefor would like to have more users to do more Beta testing.  I do not want to use only  my own situation this time.

The Beta-testing / checking mostly involves the startpage.  All other  pages are "the same" for all supported weather-programs but as usual, comments are very welcome for all pages.

WL.com (as the Weatherlink program) do not support yesterday values. So a cron job is needed to get the todays values at 23:45 (11:45 PM) and save them as yesterday values for the next day.

If the provider does not support cron jobs the free cronjob.de can be used as it is only one cronjob / day.

If you are interested, please post here, send a PM or mail me at wvdkuil  at  gmail
The WL.com version should be ready in a few weeks as nearly no documentation is requiered.
Wim
« Last Edit: November 19, 2014, 03:52:11 AM by wvdkuil »

Offline wvdkuil

  • Wim van der kuil
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WeatherLink.com XML => no PC/Mac => Full blown WeatherWebsite
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2014, 03:51:31 AM »
I am still looking for someone who
+ wants to have a fully populated Leuven-template weather website and
- does not want a PC / Mac /Weather program 24/24.

If you have a Davis weatherstation and a WLIP logger you can run your complete weatherstation without a weather-program at home.  Demo: http://www.weerstation-leuven.be/weatherWLC/
This demo site is customized for Canada, but the template can be used all over the world as can be checked on the list of users at the supportsite: http://leuven-template.eu/userlist.php?lang=en

How it works:  The template/website will pull your weather-data from the Weatherlink.com website and other free weather sources.
If you let WL.com already upload to WeatherUnderground, that data is also used for reports and graphs.

Wim
« Last Edit: November 19, 2014, 05:58:08 AM by wvdkuil »