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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #60 on: May 29, 2015, 03:36:40 PM »
Thanks! Not yet set up, but your instructions sound simple enough for even me!

I like the added historical temperature data. Nicely done!

Sounds like you've done a lot of consolidating of text files and working on making things easier and quicker for first timers. It should be easier for long time users, also, since there should be less searching for where to make changes or edits. ;)
Thanks for the compliments.

If you have a nice running site, there is no real advantage to go to the 2.7 version and do a lot of customizing again.

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #61 on: May 29, 2015, 03:51:45 PM »
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there is no real advantage to go to the 2.7 version and do a lot of customizing again.
I think what Mr. van der Kull is saying is "Please stop missin' with my hard work!" That's the genteel way we'd say it in the 'Old South'. :D He's simply too polite!! [tup]

Hope you don't mind my "customizing". [blush] It was not because I didn't like what you provide. It has most been to make things more to my, often weird, tastes! [rolleyes2] It's been fun and educational [computer] and the work you're doing looks to make it more widely available for those who don't have as much time to "tinker"!
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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #62 on: May 29, 2015, 06:05:45 PM »
Wim,

Just a question about the GUI. In the Weather Reports tables, there is a range of colors signifying "intensity" or a range of values from minimum to maximum. That helps in spotting the extremes, of course. When blue colors are used (usually the low end of the scale), the text is usually white. However, when red colors are used (generally at the higher end of the scale), the text is still black. I would suggest than better contrast would result from having the text be white in those instances, as well. [computer] For hexadecimal colors, when any R, G, or B value exceeds a particular value? For HSL, when the Luminosity is less than 40%? Perhaps there is even a 'high contrast convertor' PHP or javascript around? I suspect you are already doing this to convert the text color to white. [cheer]
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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #63 on: May 30, 2015, 10:40:43 AM »
Wim,

Just a question about the GUI. In the Weather Reports tables, there is a range of colors signifying "intensity" or a range of values from minimum to maximum. That helps in spotting the extremes, of course. When blue colors are used (usually the low end of the scale), the text is usually white. However, when red colors are used (generally at the higher end of the scale), the text is still black. I would suggest than better contrast would result from having the text be white in those instances, as well. [computer] For hexadecimal colors, when any R, G, or B value exceeds a particular value? For HSL, when the Luminosity is less than 40%? Perhaps there is even a 'high contrast convertor' PHP or javascript around? I suspect you are already doing this to convert the text color to white. [cheer]
I put it on the ToDo list for after the official roll-out for release 2.7

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #64 on: June 06, 2015, 07:08:11 PM »
The beta version test has ended and today the full 2.7a release is available as the current release.
All information (WiKi), download links, demo sites and so on are at: http://support.leuven-template.eu/

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #65 on: September 29, 2015, 05:38:44 PM »
Version 2.8 is available now. Starting with a template became FAR MORE easier than before.

Especialy interesting for new users or those people who want to run Leuven- and Saratoga-Template  next to ech other.

New users benefit especialy from the on-line question and answer screens. No more typing in settings in a PHP script resdulting in far less typing errors and no more PHP errors. Explanation how it works at:  http://leuven-template.eu/dokuwiki28/doku.php?id=en:check_these_first

Leuven-Template user with a previous release or Saratoga users can make a text-dump of their current settings which is used to already set the answers for a lot of the questions.  Explanation  at: http://leuven-template.eu/dokuwiki28/doku.php?id=en:upgrading

The resulting settings file is much smaller as it only contains the settings for your weather-program and area. That file is much easier to adapt later on also.

There are over 310 users of the Leuven-Template of which only 13 use WeatherCat.

Some newly added pages:
New always up-to-date mesonet script which can be used without maintenance for any regional network
This is mine based on my settings for BNLWN : http://www.weerstation-wilsele.be/index.php?p=wsRegionalMap&lang=en
Adding one name to the URL and the Namibian Network is displayed: http://www.weerstation-wilsele.be/index.php?p=wsRegionalMap&wp=MH&lang=en&meso=namwn

The Davis console script, still in its first incarnation for 12 different weather-programs:
http://www.weerstation-wilsele.be/index.php?p=console&lang=en&wp=MH#data-area  for Meteohub as it is on my own weatherstation
but also usable for WeatherCat: http://www.radiv.com/weather28/index.php?p=console&lang=en#data-area

Hope to see more WeatherCat users around,

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #66 on: September 29, 2015, 05:59:27 PM »
Wim:

Looks like some really nice improvements for the Leuven Template. I especially like the Davis Console addition. Thanks for your hard work and for supporting WeatherCat.
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Congratulations! (Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat)
« Reply #67 on: September 29, 2015, 09:52:58 PM »
Dear Wim, Blick, and WeatherCat web spinners,

Congratulations on the new upgrade.  Too bad I'm too stubborn and busy or I would consider abandoning my old fashion pages.

I have to admit though I am amazed at how popular creating web versions of the Davis console has become.  Okay, we've all gotten used to that console, but if we could get Davis to come up with a new console with a better user-interface - who would say no?

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #68 on: October 26, 2015, 11:32:30 PM »
I would like to thank everyone for their incredible work on this. I recently had a problem on my webhost, so I reinstalled from scratch, and it was a breeze! I have no fear of editing the php (I do a lot for my day job) but this was so convenient!

I'm still poking around and tweaking a lot of bits, the new site is at http://weather.hoke.org/station/ (but I used symlinks to keep the old /weather2/ URL valid).

Now to play around wiht different graphs and see if I can tweak the steelgauges a bit

Thanks again !

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #69 on: October 27, 2015, 12:09:29 AM »
John:

I took a tour of your rebuilt website this afternoon. Nicely done sir. I am quite impressed with Wim's template. It's a nice improvement over his first release and I think you have it looking really good, mate.
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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #70 on: October 27, 2015, 01:23:38 PM »
I would like to thank everyone for their incredible work on this. I recently had a problem on my webhost, so I reinstalled from scratch, and it was a breeze! I have no fear of editing the php (I do a lot for my day job) but this was so convenient!

I'm still poking around and tweaking a lot of bits, the new site is at http://weather.hoke.org/station/ (but I used symlinks to keep the old /weather2/ URL valid).

Now to play around wiht different graphs and see if I can tweak the steelgauges a bit

Thanks again !

-john
Thanks for your nice remarks about the Leuven-Template.
Before you start to tweak the steelgauges and spend to much time with it, here is the first version of the next release gauges. Works also inside release 2.8.

All scripts are checked and made ready for a long list of changes asked by the template users. This provisional version has
1. A clock gauge which should display the web-server time inside the header or on the start-page.
2. A separate clock demo script, if one wants a clock in the side-area.
3. Easier selecting which gauge should be displayed and how much on 1 line. Calculation of the number of rows/number of gauges is done inside the script.

Some of the upcoming changes:
1. Ajax support in the same way as the dashboard, no extra Steelseries file to download. Values on dashboard and gauges always the same.
2. Standalone gauges, for use on the dashboard
3. Multiple gauges for temp and humidity for display of multiple temps (outside, glasshouse1, glasshouse2, water) next to each other
4. A configuration tool to select the framedesign, colors and so on

But the most often asked extension: Your own set of colors to make "flat" gauges which blend in the background . Or have gauges with the same colours (also dynamically) as the rest of the website. "I want on my site GREEN gauges, and is should be my-green.  "

In use at my production site http://www.weerstation-wilsele.be/  and at some Dutch-user sites. No problems encountered.

Installation:
1. Make a copy/backup of the weather??/gauges/ folder and wsHeader3.php  script. (a simple rename will do)
2. Unzip attachement and
3. Upload the contents of the gauges2.9-1 folder  to your weather??/ folder replacing the current gauges/ folder and header script.

Tweak this 2.9 version and if you got improvements, let me know.

There will be two or three new gauges folders before roll-out of template release 2.9 in June next year.

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #71 on: October 28, 2015, 06:41:34 PM »
Very interesting news about SteelSeries Gauges. Waiting on Marks official release!

Cheers,
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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #72 on: October 29, 2015, 03:38:45 AM »
Wim

Thanks! I will download and put them up this weekend if I get a couple minutes... off to Australia and New Zealand next week for work, so gotta get packed and all ;)

Otherwise, I'll hit them when sitting in one too many airports ;)

Thanks again!

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #73 on: October 29, 2015, 09:15:52 AM »
Very interesting news about SteelSeries Gauges. Waiting on Marks official release!

Cheers,
Reinhard
Hello Reinhard,
To clarify things:   There are at least 3 sets of Steelseries => gauges available.

They all use the javascript "Steelseries" from Han Solo https://github.com/HanSolo/SteelSeries-Canvas
But mostly  a subset of this large javascript is used, as only parts of the available gauges / lcd / lamp are needed. No thermometer a.s.o.

The first one to create a weather-website page with that was Mark Crossley   
Download / documentation o.a. here http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/SteelSeries_Gauges
Added up to 11 gauges, 10 of them using Steelseries.js, one using Rgraph.
This one is the full page as used by most users.

The second one was HENKKA of http://www.nordicweather.net/  download from the menu there.
Added a Snow-gauge and the extra boxes with min/max.
This script is also used on the EWN Weatherstation page: http://euweather.eu/stations.php?lang=en&lat=50.8952&lon=4.69741

The third implementation is used in the Leuven Template. About 80% is the code as the other two.  No windrun graph as only the Steelseries are used. There is the one-full page as with the previous two, but most users either display a small frame with 5 to 6 gauges in the header or a subset of the gauges on the start-page.

All three implementations have their own, not interchangeable, javascript to implement the gauges on a page. Mark: gauges.js , Leuven:  wsgauges.js or  Henkka: jq/eugauges.js

And then there are dozens of others who have modifed the standard scripts in such a way that again a new "product" emerged. But those are not supported outside their own website.

So my ideas how the gauges in the Leuven-Template will evolve will certainly NOT mean that those ideas are 1-1  implemented  in the version you are using now.

One can choose from three different gauge-implementations, as one can  with WXSIM or YrNo forecast scripts. But you can not mix them.

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Re: Leuven-Template available for WeatherCat
« Reply #74 on: October 29, 2015, 06:04:32 PM »
Thanks Wim,

very helpful explanation, much appreciated!

Cheers,
Reinhard
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