Custom html wxlocal not updating tags

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I’m a Weather Display / Weather-Watch newbie who has had a difficult time figuring out why my baby step of getting wxlocal.html / wx.html to function as designed.

NOTE: You can skip to the bottom of this posting looking for **** Start Here **** for what I believe is the real cause of my issue! I had already written most of this when I just discovered what I think is the problem. I have some questions at the bottom and that is what I need some help with from those of you who are experienced in weather-display. The issue being - customized webpage and usage of tags. I have to add that I’m really, really, impressed with the capabilities of this software Brian has developed. I’ve been using VWS for 20 years and I believe this is going to be an excellent replacement since VWS has become “obsolete”. So many features and capabilities. Just a HUGE learning curve.

I’m leaving the rest of this post I started intact. Because like many other that have come before me - have or had the same issues I’ve been encountering. I believe/hoping my posting will help others that still might be new to WD are issues and resolutions that seems so many other new users seem to have and are related to customized webpages and the techniques for solving are scattered amongst many postings.

Yesterday, and finally after weeks of experimenting, I’ became successful in solving one of my priorities in the use of WD. The creation and updating by WD of of my 1st html page. Which will display my WH31 sensors thru the GW2000B. The steps to uploading to my server will be next, then on to my main webpage which will reflect my existing VWS main webpage and reporting of my Vantage Pro 2 weather station parameters. Success. The temperature sensors were displaying correctly yesterday when I finally was able in getting the right settings setup in WD to update my wx.html file from my wxlocal.html template file. Both that are in my webfiles folder. But for reasons unknown it stopped working today. But now I’m wondering if the data tags being reported yesterday were correctl- I just thought it was because it was simply working. In diagnosing the problem today I discovered that even though I have it set to update and upload every minute, it wasn’t updating the tags in the wx.html file. Does anyone have a similar problem, or know how to fix this issue?

Here’s some of the details:
I’m running the program as an Administrator.
wx.html is not showing my correct termperature data.
I have in my webfiles folder a template named wxlocal.html
I also have in my webfiles folder a file named wx.html.
WD is updating this wx.html file every minute, as it should, when looking at the windows file date/time stamps in my windows folder.
While testing with different options, I learned that if I made a simple text change to the template wxlocal.html it did in fact get reflected in the wx.html file when opened with my browser. So I know that wd is in fact updating the wx.html file

However, the tags were NOT be updated and here is some of the things I was doing in an attempt to get working.
For the file #22 wxlocal.html I have green dots for file create and file upload.
Per one previously posted topic long time ago, Windy2 said to “make sure to have the override switch on”
It is on. I have toggled it off, restarted wd, toggled it back on, restarted wd and the tags are still not be updated.
I have rebooted windows.
I have “I am running my own webserver, and no FTP needed” checked in the tab “Real Time Client FTP…”
I have clicked on “Update html file now” in the Web Files Setup #2" tab
I have "Use html instead of htm in tab “Custom Web Page Setup” in Webfiles/Web Page Setup
I have “Main On” turned on and green and upload timers set at 5 minutes.
I do have “use these settings” set to on.
I’ve tried selecting “upload this file now” with no success.
I’ve tried “save this file now”
Advanced settings for Creation / Upload of wxlocal.html is shown
I have Override On and Main On (both green) in tab “Other FTP Servers Setup” in the Customize Interet and File Creation Setup - Web Site Configurations - Web Files/Web Page…

FYI. At this point I’m doing my learning/testing using just my local windows 11 pro pc with weather display 10.37S152 installed and using FireFox browser and a couple of tries with edge browser.
So I’m not attempting to FTP at this point in time.
I’ve cleared cache many times.

If you skipped reading the not so important details above

***** Start Here *****
I have 5 questions I’m hoping someone can answer.
Ah ha! Am I on to something.

I found a file named wittboys.txt file which the cron w1000 appears to use - its reporting does reflects my sensors data accurately.

I originally thought WD was using data from this wittboys.txt file. Maybe not??? Point is I don’t know???
I just discovered there are two sets of clientrawxxxx.txt files.
One set in my folder wdisplay and one set in webfiles! The set in wdisplay has the current date / time stamps. The set in webfiles is old.
I can’t / haven’t figured out what determines which folder these data files need to be in ???
So am I to assume that these files in “wdisplay” are the one that WD uses to create customized webpages ???
Why or should there be another set in webfiles ???

I’m using a GW2000B console.
My hope was to use tags representing temp and humidity for my 8 WH31 sensors in my customized webpage. But there doesn’t seem to be any tags specifically for the GW1000, 1100, 2000 consoles. Is this correct ??? only temperature %extratemp1% - %extratemp8%.

Is there a webpage or utility program or something in all of WD that will read one of the clientrawxxxx.txt files and display a page consisting of a description and the value of a given parameter for use troubleshooting ???

Sure appreciate any answers you can provide.

Thanks. CloudyDaveww

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I’m answering some of my own questions.

  1. I’ve discovered that the major issue with the temp tags not being updated was becuause I selected the option Wittboy/GW2000 in use (uses HTTP).
    Once I deslected this my tag field values started getting inserted into my wx.html file. I don’t understand why checking this option stop tags from being inserted given that I have a GW2000 and that’s where my temp/hum sensors are sending their data to. If anyone understands why I’m all ears.

The clientrawxxxx.txt files in the wdisplay folder are no longer being updated and those in the webfiles directory are now being updated!

  1. the text file named clientrawdescription.txt in windows folder wdisplay contains a breakdown of the various fields in the clientraw.txt file
    I haven’t found any description txt files for the other clientrawxxxx files yet.
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Sorry I don’t know much about WD’s website, but I’m using the Dallas 1-Wire tags with my Ecowitt setup: see tagslist.txt lines 2399 ff. I only have one extra sensor, so I don’t know if they all work.

For clientraw*.txt, try Saratoga-Weather.org - Weather-Display clientraw*.txt parser or Clientraw - Script developers info: just enter your website URL.

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Tx for the tip. At the moment I’m running on my PC. But I’ll put together a page on my server so I can point saratoga to my clientraw.txt file. Seeing what’s happening with tag data will give me a way to trial and error things. It’s really depressing believing the capability for what I want to do appears to be within my grasp by using WD, but lack of current doc is making it frustrating. Tags are key to my success.

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That is sweet bitsostring. Thanks Much. Thanks to Ken also, for having that parser available on his website. I can now see that my humidity sensors are in fact being captured by WD. I still haven’t found a tag list that list the names of the tags. Assuming their available. I’ve tried guessing a few name but no luck so far. Anybody know of a location that matches tag names to clientraw.txt fields 26-28 and 122-126?

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A lot of the tags are listed here - Weather Display Custom Tag Reference - Weather-Watch Wiki

Some newer ones are probably missing but the clientraw tags, especially those near the start of files should be listed.

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I pointed you to that earlier: tagslist.txt is in the wdisplay folder, and you can search that for extrahum tags. As I said, I use the Dallas 1-Wire tags: there are others you can try.

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tx administrator
I have been through the wiki link weather display custom tag reference and there are extratemp1-8 tags but No extrahum1-8 tags that I could find. Even thought not listed I have tried hum1-hum8, extrahum1-8, extrahumid1-8, generalhum1-8 with no success.

tx bitsofstring
I’ve also been through the tagslist.txt file looking for any indication of tags similar to names I just mentioned and likewise - nothing there.

Should I ask Brian if he would put this on his list of todo’s as I’ve seen references in other postings that he would create them. I’m not going to die if I don’t have them but it just seems logical that they should be there. Especially given the capabilities of the GW1000, 1100, 2000, and future 3000. After all they should be valid tags as I’ve found the field names and the fact that the data does exist in the clientraw.txt data file?

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It’s worth sending an email to Brian. He might be able to confirm the names of the tags you’re looking for or add them if they don’t exist.

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Have you tried these:

hum1
hum1918×164 4.53 KB

If they don’t work, ask Brian.

BTW, clientraw is nothing to do with tags and you cannot change the content of any clientraw*.txt

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Yes, bitsostring (tx again for your input) I have tried those also even though I didn’t mention that in my earlier post (sorry). I’m 99.9% sure there are no tags available that have humidity data loaded and associated with them.

I’ve been working off and on with this software almost daily. My wx11.html screen is now mostly functional. Although I haven’t figured out why the outdoor temperature is not correct or where the “%temp%” tag is getting it from depending on which station is selected.

I’m now on to phase 2 which is letting WD load my data.csv file from VWS. It does in fact function as long as I don’t try to configure the gw2000 at the same time. Based on the postings I’ve been reading it appears WD can’t process more than 1 station at a time. I’ve been experimenting with various settings and when I try to configure using vws and ecowitt at the same time, the WD main menu keeps bouncing back and forth between the processing of the two stations every 1-2 seconds which results in the tags not being populated with correct data. Still haven’t figured it out. Windy2 (Brian) mentioned using Advanced/Misc. No luck yet though. Again, after reading and reading of postings on this forum and wxforum and unless someone else advises me otherwise, I’m going to set up a second instance of WD based on posting 10889. Then when I feel confident that the tags are populated accurately I will send off that email to Brian asking that he not only adds the humidity tags in for the GW2000/ future GW3000, but that he add the ability to add the GW1000/1100/2000 as a device in conjunction/additon with a chosen station. Mostly because I know he’s bored and has nothing better to do. If he’s retired like me, and losing his ability to function, he needs a challenge. : ) Come on Brian. laugh!

What’s ironic about creating my webpage to post on my website for monitoring temps from the gw2000, is the fact that I wouldn’t have to create a webpage if ecowitt / gw2000 developers had included some functionality/security such that a website viewer wouldn’t be able to modify my gw2000 configuration. Which is why I’ve gone thru all of the trouble to create a webpage that just displays the data. Not to mention the facts that had Steve not decided to drop support for VWS I wouldn’t even have to move off of VWS. On the brighter side I’m slowly starting to tame the WD beast. Maybe one of these days I’ll actually be able to answer questions from others. : ) Ok, I’m rambling. Thanks to all of you who do try to help those of us new to the product.