the key is if its working OK for where there are alerts, etc?
No alerts here in Haywood Co. North Carolina as of yet. Been very hot and dry
for the last couple of weeks. If we get an alert I will post info about how it’s working.
Thank you Brian.
Right! We just had a bout of severe weather and that’s when I noticed the alerts stopped working. Now it is predicted to be clear and sunny for the next week or more but I’ll report the next time I there is an alert to retrieve. I could change my zone to someplace with active weather but I don’t want to mess it up. Thanks, Brian!
Well, that didn’t take long. I got an alert and it retrieved fine but the custom tag I’m using to display it %NOAAEventno% is showing the first line instead of just the Alert description on the last line. (see below) Can this be adjusted so that the tag %NOAAEventno% only displays the last line “Air Quality Alert”?
This is how it outputted:
VAZ053
Air Quality Alert issued June 19 at 4:35PM EDT by NWS
…AIR QUALITY ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR MONDAY JUNE 20 2016… THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, AND DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT HAS ISSUED A CODE ORANGE AIR QUALITY ALERT MONDAY FOR THE DC METRO AREA.
Air Quality Alert
%NOAAEventno% is displaying the first line:
Air Quality Alert issued June 19 at 4:35PM EDT by NWS
I installed 5.1 but I’m still getting the first line instead of the alert description when using either tag %NOAAEvent% or %NOAAEventno%. On the NOAA Warnings 5.1 setup, it does display only “Air Quality Alert” but the tags display the first line.
Let me know if there’s more info I can provide to help.
what would you like to see in the %NOAAEvent%
from what is shown
VAZ053
Air Quality Alert issued June 19 at 4:35PM EDT by NWS
…AIR QUALITY ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR MONDAY JUNE 20 2016… THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, AND DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT HAS ISSUED A CODE ORANGE AIR QUALITY ALERT MONDAY FOR THE DC METRO AREA.
Air Quality Alert
?
Just the last line, Air Quality Alert. Maybe NOAA also changed what is generated? I’m really not sure what the generated text looked like before but that’s all the tag would display. Thanks.
Brian,
Updated to the latest version 5.2.
- if you select the setup button and then choose a state and select go, you get double of the same counties.
- If you don’t select the setup button and select the state and select go, you get one of each county like you should.
Installed 5.2 but %NOAAEvent% continues to display “Air Quality Alert issued June 19 at 4:35PM EDT by NWS” instead of only “Air Quality Alert”.
@davest123
ok, sorted that issue now, vers 5.3
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/wdxmlwarning.zip
@CurtisZM
I do not follow what you are meaning?
what is the setup button?
Looks like 5.3 is a winner! The tags now display only Air Quality Alert. (Lovely!) Thanks so much for your persistence!
Brian,
I downloading vers 5.3 at http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/wdxmlwarning.zip
When I try to open the zip it says that it is corrupted. I use the NOAA Event in my banner below.
Please reload to server.
Thanks,
Gus
Gus, you might have downloaded it as it was being uploaded
try again now
Retry worked. =D>
Thanks
Brian,
I cannot send you an attachment. Here is the error. The file is only 28K
Your attachment couldn’t be saved. This might happen because it took too long to upload or the file is bigger than the server will allow.
Please consult your server administrator for more information.
Just stopped by here to hopefully find a solution to this issue which most of you seem to have fixed but following the steps, nothing is fixed for me.
The steps I saw earlier didn’t talk about running the program, but I did, and that didn’t matter. Have the new wdisplay and the latest 5.4 version of the new program. Took WD down, installed the new wdisplay, upgraded the new exe, ran the new exe, closed it?, and brought WD back up. My WS still says “Advisory Information Unavailable, error fetching or reading data from the NOAA advisories server.” Did I mess up a step?
Thanks!
Lew
Do you mean you installed the current version of WD? Your site says " Weather-Display (10.37R-(b80))" so maybe you are still running the old wdisplay.exe and not the new one called weatherdisplay.exe ?
Well, good point 
I have been using a shortcut on the desktop that went to weatherd.exe…so it was running a 2014 version. Changed to weatherdisplay.exe and was surprised by the new console look.
Anyway, that didn’t solve the issue.
Not knowing for sure what is supposed to happen, but when I run the wdxmlwarning program, it already shows NM and NMZ519. If I click the GO button to the left of New Mexico, the status bar (green dots) goes half way and stops. It never pulls up a list which I have seen others mention.
Here in New Mexico, we are called the forgotten state, as if you go from Texas to Arizona…
Thanks Niko!