On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 11:52:49 AM UTC-4, V. Kelly Bellis wrote: > > > The need to update xtide would be predicated on which old version of xtide > you are using with the latest harmonics, and you're particular need to have > accurate tide information. In your example listed from the forecast > extension page <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/forecasting>, > http://sailing.mit.edu/weather/forecast.html, I was unable to reach the > site (it keeps timing out) to see it working. >
sorry, mit is mucking about with the network right now (they just sold off a huge block of 18. addresses, and there are still some kinks in the transition to new address space). > https://flaterco.com/xtide/changelog.html > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fflaterco.com%2Fxtide%2Fchangelog.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGcYZS9J_IJqIpzowOirz2cIPC8Bg> > > might be worth consulting in making the decision to update xtide as there > have been several changes made since 2.13 (deprecated apt-get package > linked on your forecast extension page > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/forecasting>); and of course, > comparing your xtide results with > https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome.html is advised. > yup. none of the changes have any impact on the output from tide. you could probably go all the way back to the early 2.x releases circa 1999 and still get the same results. weewx-forecast uses only tide, not xtide or any of the other stuff include in the xtide packaging. only the harmonics matter, and how much those matter depends on your location. > You might want to consider adding a note on your forecast extension page > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/forecasting> that harmonics data > outside of the U.S. has been discontinued and hasn't been maintained since > early 2012. > done -- 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.
