JavaScript WDL version 1.0.0 alpha.

Yerren · 12 January 2018 22:53

Dale Reid post:211:

I’m a late comer to this thread, which Don kindly indicated in another forum.

First, amazing to have this older style, but still very nicely designed, program emulated with much more secure and stable work.

I have read some of the comments and the intricacies to make this work are beyond my grasp, but hats off to Yerren for his work in getting this up to speed.

While I realize this is still in the very early stages, alpha I believe, perhaps I can comment on a couple things. I think Don has already mentioned that the ‘heartbeat’ pulse in the upper left has colors from grey to light green that are far from adequate contrast for us older folks. Perhaps the green can be a really dark green, approaching the saturation seen with the Wind Speed green and purple.

Secondly, I have used the config.js file to select US units for my display. However, while the tick marks along the side of the daily rainfall are correct, the monthly and yearly marks are set at and stay in mm. In addition, when one cycles the various options for temperature from C to F and back, the inscriptions along side the thermometer change nicely. However the rain module only changes the area under each tube, and doesn’t affect the inscriptions or scaling along the side of all three.

Perhaps these are areas already identified, and I apologize for bringing them up again.

But it is all in my enthusiasm to see my old friend “WDL” gaining a new lease on life through the efforts of Yerren to bring it to this level.

Thank you. Dale

Thank you for the kind words!

The issues you have brought up should mostly have been cleared up the next update which, if all goes according to plan, should be out sometime in the next few days.

Yerren · 12 January 2018 22:56

Thank you, and glad to see you got the unit issue sorted out! (Thanks Niko and Gus :))

You’re not the first person to request snow data, actually. It’ll come, eventually…

Yerren · 12 January 2018 23:01

Dale Reid post:217:

Can someone who understands the way this stuff works let me know if having this running on my web server which I rent from GoDaddy, is consuming their computer time, or does it somehow get loaded onto the computer of the person viewing FreshWDL, and only receive the packets with the updated values to then display on the viewer’s local computer?

If several folks are looking at the same time, are there as many instances of this code running at GoDaddy, and it’s computer is painting a new visual at very pulse, heartbeat, or refresh (whatever the correct term is now)?

Just curious as to where the horsepower is coming from, and while most of the time even I won’t be looking at the page, there may be times when I leave it up running constantly or if there is interesting weather going on several local folks may be viewing. I just don’t want to get a note from GoDaddy that I’m eating up more of their computer time than I get as part of my monthly fee.

Just curious. Thanks. Dale

I think SaratogaWX explained it well, but just to summarise, the ‘horsepower’ comes from the user’s computer. The load on GoDaddy is very minimal!

Dale_Reid · 13 January 2018 14:40

Ken,
Thanks for the detailed reply how these function in the world of servers and programs like javasript.
Obviously from your templates you have an in-depth understanding.

What you say as you lead me through the process makes sense. However I know from the past that assuming something works in a certain way can be far from the truth, so I appreciate the clarification.

Similarly there are other details that in the early stages of internet access may have made a difference, like packet size with header info and all, so even requesting 5 bytes of info caused a 1 kbyte packet to go out.

This sounds very efficient. And it makes me realize how rapidly things move on. I used to scour my expensive little IBM PC hard drive for errant files that took up room. Now when I run an antivirus scan I see that hundreds of thousands of files are scanned, making it impossible for us old farts to know what they are doing, and if they are vital.

I used to be in deep as possible with knowing all the tools, suites of programming tools and all, but that was another life and decades ago, so I leave it to you guys to bring us these marvelous tools to display weather (thanks to you, Yerren, Brian and Jachym) who bring me the ones I use the most.

Again, thanks, and I await the next generations as they come by.

windgust · 13 January 2018 15:16

One item I know see is the rain appears to be rounding up. In WDL or weather display I have .37 inches of rain in JavaWDL it is readin .4 inches. I am not sure but it might be rounding up. I am using inches .
and the latest weatherdisplay with windows 7

Windgust (K1DED)

W3DRM · 13 January 2018 21:57

Quote from: windgust on [b]Today[/b] at 07:16:53 AM

One item I know see is the rain appears to be rounding up. In WDL or weather display I have .37 inches of rain in JavaWDL it is readin .4 inches. I am not sure but it might be rounding up. I am using inches .
and the latest weatherdisplay with windows 7

Windgust (K1DED)

It’s rounding because because the rain data element is set for only one decimal point. Yerren is already aware of the issue so it’s on his “TO DO” list of items.

Yerren · 14 January 2018 00:24

Hey guys, just rolled out an update (version 1.1.3) that fixes and adds a few things people have requested.

The HTML file had a slight change, and as far as I am aware you will need to adjust it to ensure the update takes effect. I have sent to Brian to update, or you can find it here: https://github.com/Yerren/FreshWDL/blob/master/FreshWDLmaster.html Alternatively, and probably the easier thing to do, you can just go into your HTML file and remove the five instances of: ?v=1.0.1, (which are at the end of some script urls), and the seven instances of “repo” with “cdn” (which are in the middle of some script urls). This is all that has been changed.

The config file has only got another optional field now (see below), so unless you have downloaded any of the other script files and are hosting them locally, you shouldn’t need to do anything else for the update to take effect.

The changelog can be found here: https://github.com/Yerren/FreshWDL/blob/master/Changelog.md

The main thing is that most gauges can be hidden now, using the config file. A sample config file can be found here: https://github.com/Yerren/FreshWDL/blob/master/config.js where the UV and solar gauges have been disabled (as this is what most people needed).
The syntax for doing this can be a bit confusing, so if anyone wants help disabling any other gauges, just let me know!

windy2 · 14 January 2018 01:02

I have updated the WD download

windgust · 14 January 2018 01:23

easy changes, Rainfall is now correct with no rounding. Now we just need snowfall added.
Snow storm arriving Wednesday.
Able to remove gauges.

Great Job !

Windgust (K1DED) Echolink K1DED-R

windy2 · 14 January 2018 01:25

nice having the station name show up and the actual time of the data from the clientraw.txt file

Yerren · 14 January 2018 01:31

Sweet, glad to hear it is working!

Haha to get snow gauges in by Wednesday I’d need a time machine, and a raise :lol:

Glad you noticed that

windgust · 14 January 2018 01:34

I am sure snow will come in time.
Thanks for the great work…
I will put in for a raise for you.

Windgust (K1DED) Echolink K1DED-R

ALITTLEweird1 · 14 January 2018 01:36

I loaded the files and all it says is “collecting data”. So I looked at other peoples pages and that’s all it doing too, the page wont load, its stuck on “collecting data”.

Any ideas?

https://www.northbendweather.com/FreshWDLmaster.html

Thanks

Yerren · 14 January 2018 01:40

Try your link again now, it worked fine for me just now:?

ALITTLEweird1 · 14 January 2018 01:42

Nope, No ones will load for me, its stuck on that screen for some reason.

windy2 · 14 January 2018 01:45

works for me ALITTLEweird1 your site

Yerren · 14 January 2018 01:45

That is very strange… What browser do you use?

ALITTLEweird1 · 14 January 2018 01:46

Win 7 IE11

Yerren · 14 January 2018 01:50

Could you do me a favour and open the console (F12 > console) on one of the sites, and see if there are any error messages?

Was it working for you before the update?

Marian_Peteanu · 14 January 2018 01:51

It is getting closer to what we want.
Thanks Yerren!

Marian,

http://www.celinmeteo.com/wdisplay/wxfreshWDL.php