I always wanted a live version of the Steel Series Gauges from Gerrit 
Grunwald and Mark Crossley. 
My Davis Vantage Pro2 is read by two weewx drivers, vantage and meteostick, 
and both drivers emit loop packets each 2.5 seconds.

My first attempt was to use the MesoWX package to fill on the webserver two 
MySql tables, one with archive data and the other with loop data.
After a loop packet is received a self-writen routine calculates the data 
for the Steel Series Gauges with both archive and loop data.
The data is written to a file and the Steel Series Gauges use this file for 
presentation.

At first I used the Weather Display data lay-out, later when it became 
available, I used the weewx steelseries skin and data format.
An extra complication was the introduction of weewx version 3.0 because the 
MesoWX uploader program 'sync.py' wasn't working anymore, so I had to fix 
that as well.
Finally all programs worked smoothly together, see the results at my 
website: http://www.lucdesign.nl/gauges-ss/gauges-ss.htm

Nowadays live became a lot simpler with the introduction of meteotemplate 
version 12.0 Orange and the new weewx-meteotemplate uploader.
I have configured the uploader to use loop packets and configured in 
meteotemplate the steelSeries plugin to accept input via the api.

The other configuration settings in meteotemplate control the lay-out of 
the gauges. 
I'm very pleased with the output and in the near future I probably will 
delete the Mesowx version from my website.

The live meteotemplate Steel Series Gauges can be seen here: 
http://www.lucdesign.nl/template/plugins/steelSeries/index.php 
Or on my home page lucdesign.nl with the (desktop) menu choise: Weather 
station | Live | Gauges

Have fun !

Luc

-- 
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.

Reply via email to