I am sorry, I did not see this post with the flurry of activity on the 14th.
I appreciate the limitations of the Zambretti forecast, but I prefer it to 'forecast not available'. I am not sure exactly what you mean by 'include webpage code that will display a professional forecast obtained via the Forecast extension or other means', when I said I would have a chat with Matthew I should have said that was in regards to getting the forecast extension to make available forecast text other than the Zambretti text. I am loathed to try to include other (internet based) lookups in rtgd, it already runs in its own thread generating output potentially every 2.5 seconds. Pullling data from the internet or caching internet content is added time (through timeouts etc)/complexity that I don't think is warranted if we can get suitable info out of the forecast extension. Gary On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 02:49:48 UTC+10, tempus wrote: > > Has there been more progress on your new custom Service bound to the > NEW_LOOP_PACKET event? It would be great to have even a > partially-functioning beta-version as a stop-gap solution. > > > Zambretti forecast data doesn't seem important, because those forecasts > are so poor compared to forecasts readily available from multiple other > sources as to reflect poorly on the likely reliability of everything being > displayed. Why not eliminate the Zambretti forecast and let users who want > a forecast above the gauges include webpage code that will display a > professional forecast obtained via the Forecast extension or other means? > > Bob > > On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 4:27:44 PM UTC-8, gjr80 wrote: >> >> Any chance you could use the NWS or WU current forecast for the >>> tickertape/scroller in place of the Zambretti? >>> >> >> At the moment all I can do is pull the Zambretti forecast from the >> forecast database (provided the forecast extension is installed), >> unfortunately the WU and NWS forecast text is not saved in the forecast >> database. I have had the WU forecast text being pulled in through weewx-WD >> but that is something for the next version of weewx-WD and that is going to >> be weeks away (at least). >> >> I might have a chat with Matthew and see what he may be prepared to do, >> though I know he has a lot on at present. >> >> Gary >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
