Hello Matt, On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 4:10 PM mwall <mw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 1:55:15 PM UTC-4, William Burton wrote: >> >> If the screen capture for your own site fails or if the site's skin has >> been changed, is there a way to get the registration process to retry the >> screen capture? >> >> Is there a way to test the screen capture outside of the registration >> process to see if it will work correctly? >> > > hi bill, > > i made a wiki page to explain the registry: > > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/registry > > Thanks, this is helpful. Does the description come from [Station], location? i'm still working on the capture process. the previous implementation used > wkhtmltoimage, but that would periodically suck up every bit of memory and > swap, bringing the capture server to its knees. using phantomjs has > alleviated that somewhat, but there are still some problems. i'll try to > remember to write up what i learn once its sorted out. > I tried a few test captures using phantomjs 2.1.1 and there were a number of problems due to missing content or sections being rendered incorrectly. > > there is no way to force an update of the capture. it is a somewhat > stochastic process (intentionally, to avoid overloading the system). > Yes, of course. > > once the capture process is more reliable we will be able to tune it. who > knows, some kind of waybackmachine-like abilities might even be possible! > A couple of challenges I can see are some of the skins are sensitive to width such that a certain minimum around 1300px is needed and the second is that if the capture is done at a random time, it may not reflect what the site owner would like for the image due to the time of day or other factors. -Bill -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAKKfUm93QAwEvnsyOtFnc2pCCdeP6ScK%2BeMWOsCNO4G8P5TT6g%40mail.gmail.com.
