Using Metar Rain Data In WD

Sounds neat! Will have to check it out in the next few days. Will you be able to upload it via FTP to add it to your Web page?

yes, you could use the general FTP to upload the movie.mp4 file created in the bloomsky folder

OK will check it out and let you know how it works. Thanks!

Brain-

Just downloaded the update. When I go to the movie “tab” click “enabled”. Then when I hit “Play Latest” the movie box flashes and then stays black. I checked the web portal for my Bloomsky and there is a movie from yesterday.

Thanks

WD creates a today movie …To current time…
Give it a little while to build some images

OK so that is how it works. I have it working and also added it to my site. Will check it little on and see how it works.

Question: with the time stamp and temp on the pictures is it taking it directly from the Bloomsky or WD itself? I have a off set temp set up

It’s from the bloomsky :wink:

Hi
good news
the storm data is now available in the API data
I will update WD now to be able to pick up that data :slight_smile:

added the Storm data now to the latest .zip update of WD :wink:

Awsome. Will download it and check it out. :o

Do I need to change anything to start using the data from my Storm within WD?

Hi…WD should auto pick up the data…as long as its in your api data (it is in ardvarks data feed)
see if it shows in the bloomsky.txt file in the WD web files folder
there is an update to the cronbloomsky.exe also in the latest WD update

Here is what I get from the bloomsky.txt file:

[{“UTC”:-8,“CityName”:“Walnut Creek”,“Storm”:{“RainRate”:9999,“SustainedWindSpeed”:9999,“RainDaily”:0.0,“WindDirection”:9999,“WindGust”:9999},“Searchable”:true,“DeviceName”:“Walnut Avenue”,“RegisterTime”:1481220403,“DST”:0,“BoundedPoint”:“”,“LON”:-122.0281982421875,“Point”:{},“VideoList”:[“http://s3.amazonaws.com/bskytimelapses/gqBxp6apnJSnm6il_-8_2017-01-20.mp4",“http://s3.amazonaws.com/bskytimelapses/gqBxp6apnJSnm6il_-8_2017-01-21.mp4”,“http://s3.amazonaws.com/bskytimelapses/gqBxp6apnJSnm6il_-8_2017-01-22.mp4”,“http://s3.amazonaws.com/bskytimelapses/gqBxp6apnJSnm6il_-8_2017-01-23.mp4”,"http://s3.amazonaws.com/bskytimelapses/gqBxp6apnJSnm6il_-8_2017-01-24.mp4”]

Fixed the problem; reset the dongle. It is now reporting to WD Thanks! :slight_smile:

Still no able to download NOAA Forecast. Is the NOAA Forecast used to make the 5 day forecast gif?

"RainRate":9999,"SustainedWindSpeed":9999,"RainDaily":0.0,"WindDirection":9999,"WindGust":9999},"
your data is obviously out of range which suggests to me your sky is not either sending or they are still rolling out support of all devices to the api data feed does the sky data show on your mobile phone app?

ah, just seen your reply

re noaa forecast download, yes…that is…if you have setup to use that
you do need to make sure you are downloading the correct file
what do you have set there?

ps, you should unset now for WD to use the metar data as its data

Almost forgot about unchecking the Metar information 8O

For the NOAA Forecast I have it set as: Dirctory: is set to CA and I have the file set at caz511.txt (I live in California in the East Bay). I checked the NOAA and the file is there; but when I do the test I get the below from the log:

actual messages from upload session**
Start Time/date:1:53:00 PM 1/24/2017
ca013.txt
Permanent connection selected
Permanent connection, will do ftp now
Checking for what else to do…
there are 2 more things to do
Checking for what else to do…
there are 1 more things to do
Next file HTTP metar station download
https://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KCCR.TXT
Downloading to :C:\wdisplay\KCCR.met
final download setting=C:\wdisplay\KCCR.met
Doing metar download now
error verifying server certificate: 0x800b010f
Download complete
ERROR: 276: Server certificate verification failed. Connection aborted. at time/date
1:53:01 PM 1/24/2017 agenda item: doftpdownmetarstation
Doing abort procedure/program close…

that is the metar download
and that is using the http method
are you using the latest ftpupd.exe version?
(included in the full install)
needed to be using https for http download of metars
download from
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/ftpupd.zip

That fixed the error :smiley:

So the forecast gif File#40 should be updated with the NOAA data? I have the file selected for the 5 day forecast.

post a screen shot of your noaa forecast download in WD