Itās been awhile (years) since Iāve had WDisplayLive running. Thought Iād give FreshWDL a try with the demise of Flash approaching. Seems like it should be simple enough, but . . . Iāve got a couple of problems going.
I canāt get the clientraw.txt file to upload to my ftp server. 1st screen shot is of the Web files panel that I believe is setup correctly. The FTP setting are correct, I use Cyberduck and Iām getting on the server with these settings. Could there be another panel somewhere that also needs to be setup? I tried to uncheck, āReset the FTP error countā and āI am running my own web server, and no FTP neededā, to see if that would force it to FTP the file. They wonāt stay unchecked, next time the panel is opened they are checked. The clientraw file is updating in the documents/wdisplay/webfiles folder so that is working.
I uploaded the clientraw file along with config.js and FreshWDLmaster.html files to the server just to see what it would look like. It comes up as data currently unavailable. (2nd & 3rd screen shots) Iām on a Mac, checked the JAVA settings, Iām running the most current JAVA, web brower is enabled. I also put the config and html files in the documents/wdsiplay/webfiles folder with the same results. Iād like to get the minute by minute clientraw file on local computers vs the every 5 minutes that Iām trying to upload to the FTP site.
Iām not sure what Iām doing wrong here. Are there more files needed besides the config and html files? Iāve downloaded both the freshwdl.zip and FreshWDL-1.1.1a.zip files. The 1.1.1a had all sorts of other files and folders that just for grins I put all those up on my FTP server with the same results so they have been deleted.
Iām sure there is massive operator error going on here, can someone point me in the right direction?
You have checked the box for ārunning my own server, no FTP neededā, but your post has āI canāt get the clientraw.txt file to upload to my ftp serverā.
Yes I want to upload the file to FTP server. Iāve repeatedly unchecked the ārunning my own server, no FTP neededā hit OK then when I reopen the panel it is checked again.
Hmmm, well thatās the problem. In windows I would direct you to Control Panel, FTP & Connections, where there is a similar setting which could be forcing that one, but I donāt know if you have that in mac :dontknow:
Humm, OK now it is uploading to the FTP Server, along with clientrawdaily.txt, clientrawexttra.txt and clientrawhour.txt and the web page is working. I suspect that I needed more than just the clientraw.txt. Right now itās updating every 30 seconds, not sure how itās doing that, Iāve got the upload set at 5 minutes. WOW really looks good. I guess it just needed to think about it for awhile . . .
I put the config.js and FreshWDLmaster.html files in the documents/wdisplay/webfiles folder hoping to use that on the local network but still coming back as not receiving data. I tried putting all the files from the 1.1.1a files into the web folder which has no effect. Is there a way to have it work on the local network separately from the Internet?
Ideally what Iād like is to have the near realtime on the local network and a 5 minute upload to the FTP server/Internet.
Didnāt mean to start this off with the same Humm. Your reply was coming in as this was going out
At this stage, it is not possible (as far as Iām aware) to run the system on a local network.
However, uploading a text file uses very, very little data, so having the clientraw file upload in close to real time is definitely an option that many people use to get pretty much real time reporting.
Yeah, Iāve kind of gotten used to the near real time results although I still havenāt figured out how Iām getting them. I have FTP setup for 5 minutes and the control panel wonāt let me uncheck the running my own server option so I guess some how that is going to the FTP which in reality itās my server since itās my domain just not housed on my computer. Love what youāve done, it looks and works great!
Hi Yerren is the latest version that you made mention of on the 6th July the same version that is available for download on this site dated 29th June ???
Or is there a newer version to this 29th June file.
Thanks for this. I have FreshWDL running. I also use the Saratoga template and have a page that has the WDL display. When I access the FreshWDL page directly is looks great http://weather.5-scotts.com/FreshWDLmaster.html. When I access the FreshWDL page through the saratoga template it does not āautoscaleā. It looks like this:http://weather.5-scotts.com/FreshWDLSaratoga.png.
What do I need to do to have it āautoscaleā to the Saratoga template? Thanks for your help.
Use a simple webserver such as Mongoose to have JavaScript WDL on the local network. I have quickly tested this and it works for me. If your PCās are behind a NAT router without port forwarding it should be relatively safe but try at your own risk, I have not spent more than a few minutes on this.
Copy the JavaScript WDL files into the same folder as the clientraw files.
Download the Mongoose Free Windows version executable into the same folder (you may have to move it there after download).
Click the Mongoose.exe to start it, youāll get a windows popup, let it have access.
A browser window will open, direct it to localhost:8080/FreshWDLmaster.html - you should see JavaScript WDL working
On other PCās on the network you should see JavaScript WDL at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/FreshWDLmaster.html where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of the server PC. (Obviously that PC should be assigned a fixed IP for this to be a workable system.)
I do not know how to do that? The HTML page is loaded with an āIncludeā and I cannot put a iframe in that call. The FreshWDL.html is all script calls so I donāt know how to do iframe there?
Thanks that helped. I am able to scale it down. In the Saratoga templates there is a user selectable option for āwideā or ānarrowā display. I was able to auto adjust for that like this:
<div id="main-copy">
<h1><?php langtrans('Fresh Weather Display Live'); ?></h1>
<?php
if($_SESSION['CSSwidescreen'] == 1) { ?>
<object data="FreshWDLmaster.html" width="1200" height="600" background="white"> <embed src="FreshWDLmaster.html" background="white"> </embed> Error: Embedded data could not be displayed. </object>
<?php
;} else { ?>
<object data="FreshWDLmaster.html" width="650" height="375" background="white"> <embed src="FreshWDLmaster.html" background="white"> </embed> Error: Embedded data could not be displayed. </object>
<?php
;} ?>
</div><!-- end main-copy -->