I did have a look when the the lat/long issue first came up. I guess we 
weren't too far away a while back, 2 years ago we flew into Dallas for New 
Year, bit of a climate shock after mid-summer in Australia.

Gary

On Monday, 15 January 2018 23:38:18 UTC+10, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Thanks Gary,
>
> That was what I was doing wrong. I'll fix and see how it goes.
>
> I was wondering why that .php file wasn't in the gz directory. Ok so now I 
> know.
>
> You probably know from the earlier past of my lat and long, but I'm in 
> Oklahoma. USA
>
> Keith
>
> On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 7:03:24 AM UTC-6, gjr80 wrote:
>>
>> Keith, some answers below
>>
>> On Monday, 15 January 2018 18:06:34 UTC+10, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Gary,
>>>
>>> I have started working on rtgd and have a few questions.
>>>
>>> 1. in the gauge.js located in weewx/skins/ss/scripts directory where the 
>>> comment says to change to the location of the gauge-data.txt. How do I do 
>>> this? I tried the full path from /Users/keith/Sites/weewx to either 
>>>  gauge-data.txt in public_html and public_html/ss but it kills gauges.
>>>
>>
>> The realTimeUrlWeewx setting in gauges.js needs to be set so that your 
>> webserver can find gauge-data.txt. You can use a relative or absolute 
>> path but remember that any absolute path is relative to your web root (not 
>> the root directory of your web server). So if you web server is set to use 
>> /var/www/html as its web root and gauge-data.txt is in the 
>> /var/www/html/ss directory you could use '/ss/gauge-data.txt'. If you 
>> want to use a relative path for realTimeUrlWeewx then the path is 
>> relative to gauges.js (which by default is in the ss/scripts directory 
>> in your web root) and you might use '../gauge-data.txt'. Its a personal 
>> choice (though I am sure some will have good reason for one or the other), 
>> I tend to prefer relative paths but it really is your choice.
>>  
>>
>>> 2. in the github download i pulled down a post_gauge-data.php file along 
>>> with the tar.gz . Where do I put this or do I not need it?  I haven't seen 
>>> it mentioned anywhere.
>>>
>>
>> post_gauge-data.php is only used if your web server and weeWX are on 
>> different machines AND you wish to use http post to transfer 
>> gauge-data.txt to from your weeWX machine to your web server. If this is 
>> not the case then you can ignore post_gauge-data.php as it is not 
>> needed. If your weeWX and web servers are different machines let me know 
>> and I will talk you through its use.
>>
>> Probably dumb questions but it kinda has me stuck.
>>>
>>
>>> Also, out of curiosity, where do you live?
>>>
>>
>> I am just outside of Brisbane, Australia. 
>>
>> Gary
>>
>

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