WeatherCat on your Desktop

[wurzelmac]

I am interested in how you let WeatherCat show its features on your desktop! Display only graphs, only gauges (like me) or mix them up. Is your desktop cluttered or tidy? 

So here is mine:



Cheers,
Reinhard

[Steve]

I'm a creature of habit. I haven't changed my WeatherCat desktop in probably two years. During winter, I ad the fourth camera that's zoomed in on my snow gauge. (yes, I know I need a new arbor for the garden...)

[Blicj11]

Great question, Reinhard. I have a second monitor on which I display WeatherCat. I have a bunch of the new custom gauges that I was running, but when my plist file blew up I went back to the basics and just haven't gotten around to fancying it again, although I will, as I love the new guages.

[elagache]

Hi Reinhard, Steve, Blick, and WeatherCat cyber packrats . . . .

I am interested in how you let WeatherCat show its features on your desktop! Display only graphs, only gauges (like me) or mix them up. Is your desktop cluttered or tidy? 

Alas, I've never recovered from trying to display as much information as possible to test out the WeatherCat 2 betas.  I used to try to display some things on a second display space, but I gave up before Herb educated me about Mission Control.  So this is what it looks like right now - how cluttered can you get!!



I really need a strategy that changes the display between wet and dry seasons.  During the summer, WeatherCat is being monitored mostly to help control inside temperature.  In the winter there is usually one thing in my mind . . . .

Cheers, Edouard 

[Steve]

I really need a strategy that changes the display between wet and dry seasons.

While in WeatherCat, go to the Window menu -> Save Graph Position -> Set 1, Set 2, etc.

Then each season go to Window -> Restore Graph Position, -> Set 1, Set 2, etc.

Easy peasy!
Steve

[Randall75]

Hi Rheinhard
 I'm running 24 gauges since we were beta testing during the development testing
for some odd reason the Blancy-Criddle gauge didn't post


cheers


 

[wurzelmac]

Great feedback, folks - thank you! 

Cheers,
Reinhard

[WCDev]

That is a lot of gauges Randall 

[Blicj11]

You guys inspired me to do better. Here is my redo.

[elagache]

Howdy Steve and WeatherCat experts, . . . . .

I really need a strategy that changes the display between wet and dry seasons.

While in WeatherCat, go to the Window menu -> Save Graph Position -> Set 1, Set 2, etc.

Then each season go to Window -> Restore Graph Position, -> Set 1, Set 2, etc.

Easy peasy!

  . . . . . Yeah, that's a good system alright.  Just one small problem. . . . . . . 

Until I decide exactly what I want to display , then there isn't any graph positions to save yet!!

. . . . .

Cheers, Edouard 

[Bull Winkus]

Hello wurzelmac! Interesting thread you've started here.

My own preference is to use 2 monitors, the iMac's built in 27" and a 27" Thunderbolt Display. On the built-in, I use 2 spaces, one for WC and one for all other tasks. If I'm not working or playing on this computer, I show the gauges on the built-in, and, using 4 Spaces on the Thunderbolt, show graphs for 1 Day, 7 Day, 28 Day and 1 Year with each iteration on a separate page or Space.  Normally showing on the Thunderbolt is the daily graphs. There is a 14 day graph right now which shows the garage temperature. That temperature changes slowly, so it needs less screen width than 14 days would imply.  Under it is the  satellite image window. Here are the screenshots.

iMac Display - Other than WC functions


iMac Display - WC


Thunderbolt - 1 Day


Thunderbolt - 7 Day


Thunderbolt - 28 Day


Thunderbolt - 1 Year

[wurzelmac]

Hello Herb,

should I get interested in spaces?    Yes, I think I should! 

Cheers,
Reinhard

[Bull Winkus]

Note also that I only have 4 GB RAM in the WC iMac. I'm not monitoring memory usage, but all seems to be performing well.

[wurzelmac]

Herb,

you inspired me to use Spaces on my WeatherCat dedicated Mac mini - I wonder why I overlooked this very cool feature in the past! With just a switch to another desktop I now have:
#1 gauges and today window:
as posted before
#2 customgraphs last 24 hrs and customgraphs 3 days:

#3 customgraphs last 7 days

#4 customgraphs whole year


Thanks again for inspiring me!

Cheers,
Reinhard

[elagache]

Hi Reinhard, Herb, and WeatherCat explorers of . . . . . Spaces . . . . (pun intended of course!) 

you inspired me to use Spaces on my WeatherCat dedicated Mac mini - I wonder why I overlooked this very cool feature in the past!

It is a very neat feature, but alas Apple has gotten sloppy with Spaces like so many things these days.  So instead of providing a complete API so that Stu could remember which space you left a WeatherCat window, there is no such facility.  As a result, when you restart WeatherCat all your windows will end up in a single space.

As Herb "luurned" me, You can use Mission Control to move the windows from one space to another and the windows will pop into the previously located location in the new space.  However, you'll have to move each window "by hand."

As a result, I've never gotten systematic about moving some of my WeatherCat clutter into another space.  I already have 5 separate windows associated with Path Finder each of whom serves as a workspace for the activities associated with each space on my Mac.  So every reboot or even restart of Path Finder I have to move these windows over.  To divvy up the WeatherCat windows would just add to the restart burden. 

Oh well, someday.

Cheers, Edouard