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 >> > -- 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.
