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anchorageweather:
Does anyone know of a widget (yahoo, vista, etc) that shows PWS weather that does not use WD's clientraw files?  I use WeatherLink and thought maybe I could use a widget that uses some WeatherLink info that could be downloaded from my site.

ncpilot:
Seems as good a place as any to ask if WeatherLink can output a file in the same format as clientraw.txt? I already know Weatherlink can output a delimited file... just curious if it can emulate clientraw.txt?

Searched here and in WD forum, didn't find any answers...

Figured it's a related question...?

PSJohn:

--- Quote ---Does anyone know of a widget (yahoo, vista, etc) that shows PWS weather that does not use WD's clientraw files?
--- End quote ---

sorry, I don't know of one, I've been searching for something like this for awhile now.

Do you know of one that pulls from clientraw? If not, I'm surprised that someone hasn't developed a widget that would pull directly from a PWS yet.

saratogaWX:
Sadly, WeatherLink's minimum upload period is 1 minute, so updates at less than that period aren't available with the native package  :cry:

That said, if 1 minute is ok for your 'real-time', then you can create a .htx file that has comma or space delimited <!--WeatherLinkTags--> in it, and an AJAX script can be modified to use that as a source.

I'd recommend you use Anole's weather graphic tags list as the starting point, which looks like this as a .htx file
--- Code: ---<!--stationTime-->,<!--stationDate-->,<!--outsideTemp-->,<!--outsideHeatIndex-->,<!--windChill-->, <!--outsideHumidity-->,<!--outsideDewPt-->,<!--barometer-->,<!--BarTrend-->,<!--windSpeed-->,<!--windDirection-->,<!--dailyRain-->
--- End code ---


Best regards,
Ken

ncpilot:
Oh yeah, I didn't even think of the upload frequency limitation with regard to "real time"...

I was trying to think of a way to use Weather Display Live without the main WD package...

Just trying to put off the spiral of software acquisition--if I got WD, then I'd have to get VirtualVP, etc.......  :wink:  Then I'd be forced to get a lightning detection system, etc.......

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