Dear schwab, Sean, and WeatherCat weather . . . .
"geeks"Any chance WeatherCat can be modified so its tags drive a VantagePro Virtual Console like this one?
http://www.chilthorneweather.co.uk/WD/vp_console.php
Here's a discussion thread:
http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,49563.0.html
This has come up at least once before, but alas, I cannot find a search string to bring up the previous discussion.
As I mentioned in that discussion, sure it is cool - but only for anyone who already knows what a Davis VP-2 console looks like. So you really do have to be a sort of "weather geek" to appreciate it. In addition, how many of us really depend on our VP-2 console for our weather information (especially when we have such a nice program like WeatherCat as an alternative?)
I suppose if it wouldn't take a lot of work to tweek the existing tags, Stu might be interested. On the other hand, it is written in PHP, so you might be able to adapt the code to work with WeatherCat and it's CGI interface. I would expect this to be a serious PHP programming project though. I don't know of anyone who is a regular user of WeatherCat who could take this one besides the authors of some of the fancy web templates for WeatherCat.
So I suppose your choice is to try to encourage one of those PHP gurus or make yourself into a PHP guru!
I don't know if there is enough coolness there to make the work involved worthwhile.
My two-cents, . . . . Edouard