I’m having some trouble setting up the 5day forecast FTP download. I get the following error messages in my FTP log:
Logging onto FTP server....weather.noaa.gov
Connecting to FTP server.
Failed to connect: [10060] Connection timed out
Ftp down error
10060: [10060] Connection timed out
changing directory to data/forecasts/state/co/
Next file ftp down
Local directory for Noaa download is c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Weather
Retrieving the NOAA file coz039.txt now
Saving the NOAA file to c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Weather\coz039.txt now
Connecting to FTP server.
Failed to connect: [10060] Connection timed out
Ftp down error
10060:
Finished ftp download, loggin off from server
Doing abort procedure/program close...
Bob,
Thanks, that resolved the FTP errors. Now it seems to be downloading the forecast file just fine. But it won’t show up from the WD-Live page. http://www.leyner.org/WDL.htm
If you are using a Davis Vantage Pro then you can display the forecast text provided
via Weather Display. To do so set this tag to a number between 1 and 99
corresponding to the number of seconds between the alternating of the current
conditions and the forecast text.
10
In this example the current conditions and forecast text will alternate at 10 second
intervals. Set to 0 to only show current conditions, set to 100 to only show forecast.
To make the icon follow the current conditions of forecast text set this tag to 1
Thanks again Bob & Chuck for your help and patience.
It is not ticked. The settings are exactly as shown in the photo above in the OP, except that now i have changed “weather.noaa.gov” to “tgftp.nws.noaa.gov”
-David
Okay, I’ve got it ticked now, but I’m still missing something. I can’t see that it is loading anything to the website in response to this. Where do you setup the FTP settings to move this file to the website? Does it need to go into the same directory as the clientraw files and the wdlconfig.xml files?
Also it looks like I may not be actually getting the zone forecast text, but seem to be getting a statewide forecast. See the raw text file here: http://www.brobergfamily.com/Weather/coz039.txt
If I had to guess I would say no. If the forecast is included with the client files I think WDL would use it no matter what station you use. But I’m just guessing…