Thanks to Brian and his work in exporting data from Nexstorm to a generic format, I’ve been able to take the data and make a place file for displaying in GRLevel3.
Interestingly, I used the code that Jozef and I developed for the TRAC report graphic.
(This says display last 5 minutes of strikes, don’t show time shade, but show strike type symbols)
I still need to play with the icons themselves. When I have GRLevel3 save my radar in JPEG, they look like fushiaish blobs. Should be fine for PNG though.
Current data from my Boltek… detecting a storm 220-280 miles away around St. Louis.
The link to the placefile as posted by carterlake downloaded just fine for me. Remember it needs a right click/save as to get it (for me, anyway). However, the .zip file at cox.net times out.
The link you are referring to is the placefile running on Tom’s server for is Boltek, so you are only seeing his data. The zip file is what contains the script and icons to set it up and host it on your own server so you can use your own Boltek to display lighting strikes on GR3. Unfortunately it is not working a long with some others he has that I used.
I sent him one a while back and no response. He has several dead links on his script page. He may have removed them, but only reason I think he didn’t is he still has links to other scripts that are combined like the tracgraphic. I will send him another one and see if I get a response.
Or if you want to run NSLog, there’s a script based off his original one that does the same thing. It’s on the Add-Ons tab of http://jcweather.us/NSLog.php.
Oh wow Jim, great information, there is a lot of nice add-ons since the last time I was using NSLog. You definitely that placefile I am looking for. Haven’t got around to setting up my lightning pages but I will be sometime this week. Thanks for sharing that it will come in very useful.