Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion, most useful. I’ve followed it, and it is working nicely now on top of the hour (crontab). I use twidge to post the created datafile to twitter (#welsum). Thanks! Op dinsdag 30 mei 2017 13:50:10 UTC+2 schreef mwall: > > > > On Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 3:34:47 PM UTC-4, Maarten van der Hoeven wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've configured a Twiiter-feed in Weewx, working perfectly. With >> post_interval=3600, I told weewx to send the twitter feed every hour. >> Working okay. >> >> But, this hourly feed is initiated when weewx is started. For example, if >> I start weewx at 08:17, immediately a twitter feed is send, the next one to >> follow at 09:17. However, I want the twitter feed to be send at the top of >> every hour. 08:00, 09:00, 10:00, regardless the time I start weewx. >> >> Is this possible? How? >> > > hi maarten, > > the weewx uploaders are designed to send data as soon as there is > something new to send, i.e., when there is a change to the data. they are > not designed operate based on the clock. > > so there is no explicit way to do what you want with the weewx-twitter > extension. > > one way to do what you want is to make a new skin with a template that > spits out to file the data you want to tweet. then write a shell script > that tweets that file. then make a crontab that invokes the script at the > top of each hour. > > m > > > > -- 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.
