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General Category => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: sportshoes on November 24, 2012, 09:03:55 PM

Title: Hi
Post by: sportshoes on November 24, 2012, 09:03:55 PM

Well I am looking at weathercat after using weathersnoop for awhile. I'm less interested in aesthetics than data so weathercat may be the way to go for me. I just recently got a Davis VV after my WS-1080 station was destroyed during Sandy. I'm in Toronto, Canada.

I've been trying out weathercat and seems to be good. After playing with it and doing some research I have a couple of questions. Maybe someone will see this here and answer otherwise will post elsewhere.

1) My sunrise/sunset reads 1:57 AM/1:57 PM all the time. As far as I can tell my position is right. Not sure if there's a setting I'm missing elsewhere or if I missed something in the manual.

2) One thing I would like in weatherstation software is the reporting of the Davis long form forecast. From what I can see Davis provides coding for the icon forecast (loop ID 89) and a long form forecast (loop ID 90) which has about 200 possibilities. In the weathercat html tags are these CSF$ and CF$ respectively. It looks like Weathercat reports the Icon forecast, but I don't see the long forecast anywhere. I really would like easy access to the long form forecast. The only software I found that reports the long form is Weathertracker.

Thanks

Title: Welcome to the WeatherCat forum. (Re: Hi)
Post by: elagache on November 24, 2012, 09:31:58 PM

Hi Sportshoes and WeatherCat fans,  [cat]

Unfortunately, I don't know the answers to any of your questions, but I still want to . . . .

Welcome you to the WeatherCat forum!! (http://www.canebas.org/Weather/LWC_forum/Custom_emoticons/welcome_smiley.gif)

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

Title: Re: Hi
Post by: WCDev on November 24, 2012, 09:52:36 PM

Hi Sportshoes,

First, let me join Edouard and welcome to the forum!

To answer your questions:

After setting your latitude and longitude in the Location/Colours prefs pane of WeatherCat's preferences, be sure to hit the 'Set Details' button to register the data.

With regards to the tags, CF$ is the long form forecast and CSF$ is the short form (icon data).

All current tags can be found at: http://live.trixology.com/custom/

Title: Re: Hi
Post by: sportshoes on November 24, 2012, 10:16:14 PM

I have to admit complete stupidity on my part. I had my lat and longs transposed.   :-[

Title: Re: Hi
Post by: WCDev on November 25, 2012, 12:10:31 AM

Easily done  :)

Here's an example of the differences between the short forecast and long forecast on a Vantage (this is from the forecast email but eactly the same strings are used for CF$ and CSF$)

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WeatherCat Forecast Email

This email is sent just after 7 A.M., 4 P.M. and midnight daily. You can turn this feature off via the 'Send Forecast Email' option in WeatherCat's Email preferences.

Current Forecast:
Increasing clouds and cooler. Precipitation possible within 6 hours. Windy with possible wind shift to the W, NW, or N.

Short Forecast:
Partially cloudy, rain within 12 hours.

User Text: WeatherBox

<END MESSAGE>

WeatherCat TimeStamp: 00:01:02 25-Nov-12


Title: Re: Hi
Post by: sportshoes on November 25, 2012, 01:50:10 AM

That's exactly what I want-Great
Thanks so much