Topic: www.palominovalleyweather.com

[pvw]

Hello,

New member here. Just 'finished' (Do you ever finish these things) putting together my weather site.

http://www.palominovalleyweather.com

Running an OSWMR968 wireless station.

Using a little mini-itx box running linux and wx200d off of a thumb drive for collecting the weather data and uploading it to wunderground and my own shared server.

Website code is done in perl, using GD::Graph and GD::Simple for the graphing tasks.

Picking up the forecasts using SOAP::Lite and parsing with XML parser.

Basically, a fun little project.

Let me know what you think!

Sincerely,

Brent

[Ravenstar]

Welcome to the forum and very nice looking site I like it. Gotta love perl and GD graphics for those graphs, they look real good looks like you're having a lot of fun with it.

One thing, why does the precip graph go into the negative?

[pvw]

Well, It gets so dry here in the desert, I needed someway to measure the negative effect on the precipitation!

Still tweaking things a bit.  I have my wife trying to catch most of my coding errors.  I'm surprised she didn't catch that one.

Guess I need to go look at the GD::Graph::Lines doc some more...

But the real answer is I just wrote a generic graph wrapper for my stuff, and really didn't even try to tweak the graphs all that much.

I'd like to work on the fonts a bit more, as well as a few other things.

Thanks!

[Ravenstar]

This should do it when you're setting attributes for the graph:

Code: [Select]


y_min_value => 0,


No comma of course if it's the last attribute.

[pvw]

Thanks!

Perldoc is my friend....

Now just to add warnings, radar, ....

Oh well, a work in progress...

[saratogaWX]

Very nice job on your site!  Don't ever consider it 'finished' .. all our sites are 'works in progress'.. sometimes improving faster, sometimes pausing for a rethink.  My site is in fairly constant tweaking mode (got to have a hobby, Y'know)

Welcome to WXForum.net!

Best regards,
Ken

[pvw]

Thanks for all the kind feedback.

Just thought I'd mention that the picture in the header is one I took from the back corner of my property looking toward the "Palomino Valley Wild Horse Adoption Center".  

https://www.blm.gov/adoptahorse/onsitegallery.php?horseCategory=56

From looking at the sites other people here have put together, I have a long way to go, but it's a lot of fun...