So I did some trial and error, and found out how to change the colors on a beta brite led sign
the following is what I use in my “special file conversion” in WD updated every 5 minutes, and uploaded to my website to share to others and my other site every 10 minutes
—I was going to post the code here, but it wont let me put in the special character that dictates what color the font is for the sign…
you can view the file here http://www.burson-weather.info/kitchi.txt
the you can see the special characters (i cant even find out what they are, or what code to use to get the characters to display) then a number such as 1, followed by a symbol that looks like this… ˧ (but does not do the same as in the file… i used windows notepad for this… because notepad++ just shows weird box symbols…)
in the file you see “wichita”… just before that… there is the characters… and “3” followed by another symbol…
1=RED
2=GREEN
3=AMBER OR YELLOW?
4=LIGHT RED
5=LIGHT GREEN
6=ANOTHER AMBER BUT DARKER
7=ANOTHER AMBER
8=YELLOW
9=MIX1[RED/AMBER/GREEN]
0=OFF (blank: DOES NOT DISPLAY)
You can see several of these codes through the file, all most all of my “conditions data” is in green… and the title for the data is in amber…
if anyone else has anything to add , or has more experience than what I have with this, please let me know… I know there are a couple of colors missing from this, but I haven’t figured out what symbles or numbers they are yet… anything other than what i have listed changes the color to the first number and displays the 2nd digit with the text following the color setup…
such as (characters)11(character) test
would show :red text: 1test
I use kitchi with my USB betabrite. I haven’t messed with it in a long time but I plan to get it going again.
Here’s the output to my webpage (not current) - http://travelingrvwx.com/rss.html
Here’s the code I used in my setup.kcx file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configfile version="1">
<folder name="Folder">
<datastream name="DataStream">
<input name="Temp" description="temp" method="localfile" datatype="delimited" filename="C:/wdisplay/webfiles/wdfulldata.xml" forceupdate="true" textbefore="<temp>" textafter="</temp>" htmlstylespacing="false" />
<input name="Wind Dir" description="wind" method="localfile" datatype="delimited" filename="C:/wdisplay/webfiles/wdfulldata.xml" forceupdate="true" textbefore="<dirlabel>" textafter="</dirlabel>" htmlstylespacing="false" />
<input name="Wind Speed" description="gust" method="localfile" datatype="delimited" filename="C:/wdisplay/webfiles/wdfulldata.xml" forceupdate="true" textbefore="<gustinmph>" textafter="</gustinmph>" htmlstylespacing="false" />
<input name="Rain" description="rain" method="localfile" datatype="delimited" filename="C:/wdisplay/webfiles/wdfulldata.xml" forceupdate="true" textbefore="<dayrnusa>" textafter="</dayrnusa>" htmlstylespacing="false" />
<input name="Humidity" description="humid" method="localfile" datatype="delimited" filename="C:/wdisplay/webfiles/wdfulldata.xml" forceupdate="true" textbefore="<hum>" textafter="</hum>" htmlstylespacing="false" />
<input name="Barometer" description="alt" method="localfile" datatype="delimited" filename="C:/wdisplay/webfiles/wdfulldata.xml" forceupdate="true" textbefore="<baroininches2dp>" textafter="</baroininches2dp>" htmlstylespacing="false" />
<input name="BaroTrend" description="and" method="localfile" datatype="delimited" filename="C:/wdisplay/webfiles/wdfulldata.xml" forceupdate="true" textbefore="<pressuretrendname>" textafter="</pressuretrendname>" htmlstylespacing="false" />
<input name="Time" method="localfile" datatype="delimited" filename="C:/wdisplay/webfiles/wdfulldata.xml" forceupdate="true" textbefore="<time>" textafter="</time>" htmlstylespacing="false" />
<input name="URL" method="inlinetext" datatype="none" text="travelingrvwx.com" />
<output name="Betabrite" method="usb" datatype="alpha" file="A" runsequence="A" maxKB="14" lockfile="true" mode="rotate" color="dim red" showdescriptions="true" showtimesupdated="false" speed="1" font="sevenstroke" position="middle" />
<output name="Marquee (C:\pjw_marquee.html)" method="localfile" datatype="marquee" directory="C:\" filename="pjw_marquee.html" prependtime="false" style="default" font="Arial" color="lightgreen" showdescriptions="true" showtimesupdated="false" speed="2" maxitemsperinput="all" maxKB="none" reloaddelay="none" />
<schedule initialupdate="true" notimer="false">
<event name="Schedule" method="timer" delay="5" delayunits="minutes" />
</schedule>
</datastream>
</folder>
</configfile>
Add: Ok, I have the rss file updating kitchi now. Next step is to hookup the Betabrite and see how it formats on the LEDs.
Here’s the setup in use now that grabs the observations RSS file from my webpage (http://travelingrvwx.com/RSS/cr2rss_CObs.php) and imports that into Kitchi for the marquee shown at http://travelingrvwx.com/rss.html.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configfile version="1">
<folder name="Folder">
<datastream name="DataStream">
<input name="Input" method="http" datatype="rss" url="http://travelingrvwx.com/RSS/cr2rss_CObs.php" forceupdate="true" useragent="kitchi (http://www.kitchi-rss.com/)" referrer="http://www.kitchi-rss.com/" filterXML="fullscan" itemlimit="nolimit" />
<input name="URL" method="inlinetext" datatype="none" text="// travelingrvwx.com \\" />
<output name="Output" description="TravelingRVWx" method="localfile" datatype="marquee" directory="C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop" filename="RVWxObs.html" prependtime="false" style="default" font="Arial" color="red" showdescriptions="true" showtimesupdated="false" speed="2" maxitemsperinput="all" maxKB="none" reloaddelay="none" />
<schedule initialupdate="true" notimer="false">
<event name="Event" method="timer" delay="1" delayunits="minutes" />
</schedule>
</datastream>
</folder>
</configfile>