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Author Topic: Creating and Uploading clientraw.txt for Weather Display Live or Client Viewer  (Read 23150 times)

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Offline niko

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Weather Display Live, MesoMapLive, Client Viewer and SVG use a small data file, clientraw.txt, uploaded to the webserver by Weather Display. This FAQ shows how to setup Weather Display to upload that file regularly.

On the Weather Display menu select:

Setup
Control Panel 

On the Control Panel select


Open this tab


On this page (shown below) complete these required items (circled in Red)

Enable check box

Weather Station Name (Note: Do not use a hyphen/dash "-" in the station name)

It is also recommended to set the two options circled in Yellow

Rename file (may not be supported by all FTP/web servers)

Restart instead of re-login


You can change other options, but it's probably a good idea to get the default configuration working and modify the options afterwards.

If you don't already have Weather Display's FTP set up to upload to your website, or want to put the clientraw.txt in a different location complete the items in the red box at the bottom of the window.

Push the OK button when done. Weather Display will start a separate program clientrawrealtimeftp.exe that shows in the system tray as





If you are running an older version of Weather-Display please look here for the older version of this window.
« Last Edit: January 25, 2007, 12:37:31 AM by niko »

 

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