Email Warning Setup - Custom File of html

Software Weather Display for Windows
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Hi

In the control panel ‘Email Warning Setup’ under the ‘Custom Options/All Time Records’ tab I have setup to use a custom file (customemailwarning.txt), use html formal and use a custom subject. My customemailwarning.txt is formatted in html.

When I test the custom email or a weather warning threshold is detected, the email gets delivered however the email client displays the raw html i.e. it doesn’t render the html page as expected. I am using html formats for my daily and weekly weather reports and I am confident the html is formed correctly.

The MIME header for the daily weather report has:

Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

The MIME header for the warning email has:

Content-Type: text/plain

Does this look like the issue?

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Looks like a bug to me, selecting/deselecting the ‘Use html’ checkbox on this setup window has no affect on the resulting email.

Please help :?

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I was just about to write a post, good job I searched 1st,i too have been trying to figure this out since I had a 2mm of rain warning, it came through as just tml code

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use this update
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/wdwarningemail.zip
vers 1.9 of that program
and it should fix that

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I have updated and tested it and its working great, thank you

Quote from: Weather Display on 11-07-2017, 23:25:13

use this update
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/wdwarningemail.zip
vers 1.9 of that program
and it should fix that

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Nice One BMX, I thought it was just me struggling with this feature.

It sure did, also tried toggling the html checkbox option and it switches between plaintext and html as expected, thanks.

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Somewhat related to this thread, does anyone know what tag I use to report the trigger for the weather warning e.g. maximum wind speed, etc?

I have tried the following:-

  • %current alarm flashing% always seems to reports “—”
  • %warningemailalarm% always reports " - Warning on 6/7/2017 14:20 (Day)"; this output is directly related to the ‘Custom Subject’ set in the Control Panel → ‘Email Warning Setup’ window ‘Custom Options/All Time Records’ tab which I have set as “- Warning on %date% %time% (%dayornight%)”

Maybe what I am trying to do is not possible, however I thought it would be as I assumed the default weather warning setup would use a similar approach using tags. Or, is the Custom Subject working/not-working?

Thanks

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the default warning output does say what the threshold reached was
but there is currently no custom tag for that

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Thanks for the confirmation.
Do you know of any method I could use to report the weather warning other then the default email e.g. is there a file I could append?

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simply put that info in the custom email (i.e as text), I would have thought
ie what your thresholds are for the warnings you have enabled, or something similar?

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Yeah that is an option, which I might go with.
I was wondering if I could attach like the daily hi/lo table or something similar such that the email receiver has knowledge of sensor readings. Although I can’t see a way to generate a internet file creation on demand apart from the scheduled generation/upload times configured, so unless this file is generated frequently there would be no point.