Steelseries Gauges for WD

When surfing the web i stumbled upon the website of Gerrit Grunwald. http://harmoniccode.blogspot.com/2010/08/java-swing-component-library.html.

I really liked those gauges and after looking for more information i found that Mark Crossley http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/ implemented those gauges for Cumulus. So i downloaded the package, and saw that he used a realtimegauge.txt file. I changed the tags into WD tags (well most of them, asked Brian to create two new ones). And luckily Brian implemented an customclientraw.txt in WD, so this can be used to create the datafeed.

The gauges on my website: http://www.hetweerinruinen.nl

And the manual and downloads here: http://www.hetweerinruinen.nl/steelseries-gaugs-for-wd

Some tags can be wrong, it was very hard finding the correct tags out of the enormous tags list.

[b]Update:

Mark Crossley, the developer of the script picked up this thread and made some updates for WD.
The latest version can be found here: Steelseries updates[/b]

Jacco

Very nice Jacco, thanks for posting them.
I may have a play later today and see what I can come up with. :thumbright:

Jacco,

Many thanks for excellent work!

For folks who haven’t caught the significance of the SteelSeries Gauges, these are cross-platform, real time gauges that work on any browser platform (AFAIK). Jacco’s initial efforts are great, but there is much more that can be added in the future. For example, on Mark’s SteelSeries Gauge page: http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/gauges5/gauges.htm, when you mouse-over a gauge (or click on it from an iPhone/iPad), a historical graph window pops up. In other words, high-density information in minimal space.

While WDL and Cumulus Realtime webpage have a great look, they aren’t available on iPhones, iPads, and other platforms that support Adobe Flash or Silverlight. Access one of these webpages from your iPad, and you get a terse message that you need to download the latest version of Flash or Silverlight. I.e. the pages are not available for “i” users. Since the iPhone/iPad platforms are growing faster than PC and Mac platforms, and are becoming the platform of choice for viewing content, this is a huge limitation. (So huge that I wrote off WD as a weather software platform until some folks convinced me otherwise.)

Until I saw the SteelSeries Gauges and Jacco’s post, the only thing available for iPhone/iPad users was more traditional approaches, including separate sets of pages specifically for iPhone/iPad platform. That means two code bases to maintain and designing a website that would handle both. Using the SteelSeries Gauges, you can have ONE code base and a simpler website.

I’m just starting with my own website and appreciate all of the help that you folks have offered. OTOH, I’ve been a professional programmer for 20 years. IMO, this is one of the most significant advances in weather website development.

When my weather website is up, the first enhancement implemented will be the SteelSeries Gauges. And I hope to add to SteelSeries for WD knowledge and code bases.

Thanks and regards,

Dan.

How did you get the customclientraw.txt file to be produced without any units?
Most of them on my own file have

Dan,

The graphs, thats the next step, but i need something that creates great graphs to show in there.
So to be continued…

Jacco

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How did you get the customclientraw.txt file to be produced without any units?
Most of them on my own file have

That may be the problem, just unticked it and will see what happens.
I’ll also need to make sure it doesn’t effect other files I upload. :wink:

That did the trick.
Now the gauges are working it’s time to get them onto a proper page and start having a play. :smiley:

HI
I like them very much
and was hoping someone would make them available for WD

I could add option to WD to create with a tick the needed file with the needed data?
but using the custom client raw is not difficult,either , to setup, your instructions are great
and using the custom client raw means you have control more,…eg to add more etc

this needs to be made a sticky :slight_smile:

ps , is it fact or just opinion that iphone/ipad sales are and are going to outstrip Andriod equivalent?
as I have android phone/pad and love them :slight_smile:

Jacco,

Further to our conversations in the Cumulus forum I would like to thank you very much for posting here. As I thought, there is a lot of interest from WD users, myself included.

Best regards,

Simon

Having a little trouble with the conversions to US units. Most gauges converted with the changes made in gauges.js however the barometer gauge won’t change. Also the wind gauge reads “kph” even though it was switched to mph. Any suggestions?

Test Page… http://stillweather.com/gauges-ssT.htm

Thanks.

Check the unit tags in the clientrawlocal.txt. They are hardcoded. And the script reads the units from there.

the part: “tempunit”:“C”,“windunit”:“kph”,“pressunit”:“hPa”,“rainunit”:“mm”

Jacco

Check the unit tags in the clientrawlocal.txt. They are hardcoded. And the script reads the units from there.

the part: “tempunit”:“C”,“windunit”:“kph”,“pressunit”:“hPa”,“rainunit”:“mm”

Perfect, thanks that did the trick!

some strange comments made:

http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5478&start=590

Just wanted to thank you again for you help Jacco - this is amazing!

Here is my gauges page thus far: -

http://www.spireweather.co.uk/SteelSeries/gauges.htm

The only thing that doesn’t work is inside humidity…

Simon

Indoor humidity uses the %hum% tag in the download, it should be using %indoorhum%.
Also, if you have a VP2 then you can use %vpforecasttext% for the forecast, the download has just “Settled Fine” as a standard. :wink:

Brian,

Hi. Since the iPhone4s has come out, iPhone and Android sales have been pretty close, with Android taking the lead during the middle of the 2011. In the last few months of 2011, Android sales have dropped while iPhone 4S sales have risen as a percent of total sales: http://gigaom.com/2012/01/09/iphone-breathing-down-the-neck-of-android-in-u-s/ . That said, what is more important to weather website owners (IMO) is the web traffic, especially tablet traffic: http://www.padgadget.com/2012/02/01/android-tablet-web-traffic-still-no-match-for-ipad/ .

Another factor to consider is that Apple will be rolling out the iPad 3 and iPhone 5 in roughly March and mid year, respectively. That will bring in another influx of new users and more browsing by current users.

But it’s not important which platform we use personally. I like my iPhone (and iPad); it’s WAY better than my Win Mobile 5/6 (which was junk). You and several of my friends like Androids. No worries. They are all good devices.

The key is choice. I don’t want to be forced to choose my mobile devices based on what websites they can use. IMO, our websites should be fully available on ANY platform. Until now, the tablet which accounts for almost 55% of web traffic (iPad) could not see realtime weather. These SteelSeries Gauges and their offspring should change that. I want my website to be one of the first.

Regards,

Dan.

First stab…TEST PAGE ONLY, may change. :smiley:

http://stillweather.com/index2.php

they look great!
and they integrate very well into the web page
well done :slight_smile:

Very nice! Especially the integration. This is the nicest integration of SteeleSeries graphs that I’ve seen. :thumbright: :thumbright:

Dan.