Topic: Website Project - A Work In Progress

[TheBushPilot]

Hi all,

Last week I had finally gotten around to moving webhosts from Wordpress.com to ICDSoft. After doing a little research it looked like quite a few people here used them. So far so good.

Here's the main landing page:

https://www.met-instruments-project.com/

There you can navigate to each part of the website. I tried to keep the layout simple yet effective.

And for probably my favorite part, a page for each station emulating the legacy ASOS video display unit. The VDU updates every new data entry.

https://asos.met-instruments-project.com/RNY003/RNY003-video-display-unit/video-display-unit.php

It's certainly more of a utilitarian approach than most, but I haven't seen anyone do this and thought it would be really neat. I also intend on adding a fully functional Operator Interface Device for viewing historical data and generating PDFs of notable observations.


Cheers

[countzero]

The VDU is cool

[TheBushPilot]

Hi all,

Just wanted to make a little update post to my website:

Currently now have live data coming in each minute from Lakeland, Florida and Rochester, New York. The QDAWS is my deployable weather station set up at any given location to record impactful weather.

Things are pretty much complete in terms of layout. Main graphical displays are done with a couple things here and there I've been adding when time allows.

The Rochester site is a great example of what a site is capable of in reporting pretty much any measurement you can think of including snow depth and dual height web cameras updating each minute.

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Pretty happy with how the station plot came out. Up until about a month ago it was only plain white. I wrote a python script to generate a map for the background and it really brings it together.

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Also shamelessly copied the NWS Time Series Viewer page format for table data which goes minute by minute for the last 24 hours.

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Still some discrepancies between CSP002 and RNY003 due to RNY003 sort of being the testbed for new displays and formats that get rolled over to the other site. Should eventually all have site page homogeny.


Cheers

[TheBushPilot]

Hi all,

Excited to share some new developments on my website I've managed to fully deploy as of today:

Once again using the Rochester site for the showcase here, I've completely overhauled the station plot. I have a local server machine running python scripts every 5 minutes that generate the map and radar imagery for the background image for the plot online. They pull the latest radar file from the NEXRAD AWS server. Also queries the respective weather station SQL database latitude and longitude to center the map automatically. It then gets sent to my web server via FTP. I set it up this way because my deployable weather station can be set up anywhere, and having the ability to automatically adjust where the map "plots" it is imperative. And makes any adjustments down the line easier if for whatever reason a site moves or whatever. I'll probably add a timestamp to the radar eventually as a sanity check for data latency and such.

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The second big change is the addition of 6 and 24 hour maximum and minimum temperature readings on the time series viewer. Shamelessly "inspired" by the NWS sites for both ASOS/AWOS and CWOP stations. It's not a lot visually but having that data presented makes all the difference in my opinion.

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And lastly, I put together a sort of daily summary for relevant stats which resides above the current conditions to give the end user a comprehensive idea of what's going on.

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I've kind of determined this site isn't for the average enthusiast as a lot of the products are utilitarian in nature and as such have a lot of implied prerequisite knowledge. Perhaps an environmental diagnostics tool? Aside from me being lazy and the pain of figuring out how to convert UTC to applicable local time. It's for data, not the typical park goer.

Still lots more to do but only done so time allowing.


Cheers