Good morning
the PM are filtering through as an alternative to get my attention
so here is some open answers ..
1. i removed the wind direction SVG icon in the forecast output as it is somewhat tedious on working to get it right in other languages other than english.
the script simply takes the wind direction output in the forecast itself , it doesnt generate a bearing number output like 90 it generates East .
so when looking at the output to generate the corresponding svg icon the issues arise ..
for just one example there could be others
SW in French is SO so would call SO.svg
SE in German is SO so would call SO.svg
so see the problem it would take a lot of unique scripting to cater for correct icon to display across all the languages the problem shown above is that you cant have two identical named files and it gets messy and would probably require a separate image folder for each language where one conflicts with the other.so I have removed it . its not just one language to look at it is and was 27 languages and extra icons would have to be made and checked across all languages .Confused? so Im sorry it was removed and is only available in the WXSIM version .
note all icons are made in SVG i do myself using Sketch or AI using a vector image size of 1600px this way it scales up and down with out any loss of quality and working with SVG has no real bearing on the file size in general most svg's with in this template are less than 4k ! so there is no performance hit unlinke using a png or gif,jpg at image size 1600px .beauty of SVG you can actually edit it directly in a text editor or dedicated html,php,code editor .
example of controlling the output size <svg width="302pt" height="340pt" ....
so scaling up and down as you can see from screenshot scaled up x5 original size in the browser !
2.why the separate downloads for example cu-x5 ? it is for anyones benefit who likes to tweak the template to there liking using the individual versions CU-X5(cumulus) the only code you are using and editing is cumulus related stuff and your not loading up anything unused ..theoretically
3.why cant i use the weatherflow code yet ? i have only partially added this code for future reference/release of hardware and have not added any other stuff related to weatherflow hardware . until the hardware is fully available to purchase I am not releasing the full api based script or direct hardware script . When its all officially released i will release a dedicated branded version of the template solely for the weatherflow hardware. the code is fully working at my weather station url
https://weather34.com once I have received the wind,rain,uv,solar hardware i will put up a full working demo.
4.why the silent updates ? these are just things that were put together and never got released prior to August 2017 . I recently cleared out my ext hard drive and found a few scripts and ideas I had been working on and 90% completed but never added them on to the releases in the past.So thats all they are and they are NOT significant in anyway that changes or adds on extra features there just designed based which theoretically improves the appearance and design..
5.why don't you release the MYSQL version done by Tony(HRVISTA)? best thing is to contact tony and discuss with him i thinks its better as he knows better about his implementation than I .. ps it works really well and could easily be adapted to meteobridge,weather display and so on ..but Im not getting involved mysql support in any way I use it at
https://weather34.com and it is uses automated script routines at the end of each day 11:59:40 I never have to do any direct maintenance and it NEVER grows to more than 1mb in size
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6.you recommend WXSIM but its expensive ? well its totally reliable and is a real good EXCELLENT addition to any personal weather station and takes away the emphasis on using the commercial or popular SCRAPED forecast data provided by companies like WU,DarkSky and so on .. you just have justify its cost and it really makes your weather station independent somewhat ! ps I dont use it I dont use any weather based computer software at all I just observe what others use..
so there we are hope that answers some of them openly ..
https://weather34.com/homeweatherstation/