Ok, time for an update on where things are at with this....
Stu,
Thanks for all your work on this as it is greatly appreciated. All the exposed tags appear to be working as expected and the page is updating nicely. I still haven't been able to test the rain side of things as we haven't had any rain here since 20th Dec and as you may have seen in the news lately there are in fact major bushfires up and down the East coast of Australia so I don't expect to be able to test this part for a while yet. The BoM have stated that we are unlikely to get any relief until some time in late February.
Now for the bits that aren't yet working (please don't kill me for this)....
In the original request for the tags I inadvertently missed out some important points, however, in my defence this was probably due to the fact that I was still trying to understand the format of the Realtime file that the gauges require.
The Apparent Temp (AT) needs to also show the following:
The max and min AT for a given time period (e.g. SINCE9AM etc.).
The time that the max and min occurred in that time period.
The Wind Gust also requires the following:
The bearing of the max wind gust in a given time period. For example, if you show the max wind gust SINCE9AM, at what bearing was that gust.
Dominant Wind direction:
This appears to be using data from 0000 to 2359 and you cannot select a specific time period, is that correct?
Windrose data:
This appears to be using data from 0000 to 2359 and you cannot select a specific time period, is that correct?
I was unable to see a tag for UTC in the live view page at
http://live.trixology.com/custom/. Was this implemented and I can't find it, or was it an oversight or have no just not got to it yet?
In regards to rain, this is a bit of a weird one.
They also use a tag for max total rain in one hour for a given time period and a tag for the time of that event. This would show up as something like 14mm at 10:00 am. As far as I can work out for this one, WC would need to total the amount of rain for each hour and then report the time as a single hour time stamp.
For example:
If there was 14mm of rain between 0900 and 1000 and there was 12mm of rain between 1000 and 1100 then the tags they use are (i believe) as follows,
"hourlyrainTH": this would display 14
"ThourlyrainTH": and this would display 1000
Additional tags that are in the realtime file:
The version and build number of the application are in two separate tags "version" and "build".
There is a tag for the Beaufort scale called "Tbeaufort" which is a text field stating the description of the Beaufort scale number (e.g. 4 = "Moderate breeze"). What I can't seem to work out on this at the moment is whether it actually pertains to the current windspeed or gust or average.
There is also a "SensorContactLost" tag, which I believe contains either a 0 or 1 but I am still unclear on this.
I feel like I am giving you way to much to do on this and I don't want it to take time away from more important updates and fixes but I known there are several people out there who would like to get this up and running and I believe it may be a way to expand the WC user base even further.
Col.