Thanks for starting this thread, Snowman. I don’t run Weather Display Live, but I do run Weather Display on a website, and several other things besides. It was your comments “what people have done with it” and “enjoyable to see all the different configurations” that really caught my eye.
Whilst I started out with a server running Weather Display, and eventually put up a website, it has become only one aspect of several things that I was involved in. The next stage was a local radio station grabbing the summary screen from Weather Display and presenting it on their website. Then, as they use FM, current weather conditions were summarised for display on suitable FM receivers using RDS.
The next stage was combining manual weather data with the newly acquired automatic data from the weather station in annual comparisons. So far this has been in the form of brief summaries on a blog e.g. “December weather in Tawa for last three years” (two of which were manually acquired).
Suddenly I found that there were three “front doors” to what I was involved with. My weather page, the local radio station which linked to my weather station, and my blog which linked to both. Its been a really interesting journey as the weather page just hums along, the radio station just grabs the data that it wants, and the blog is highly interactive. As time has gone on, the blog chews up more of my time (its not devoted just to weather) and the weather station keeps acquiring the data.
The interesting thing that I’ve found from the exercise, is that the weather station page attracts steady interest averaging about 30 visits per day. There are many more hits from 'bots and data engines, but human visitor counts only spike when there is a hot spell, windstorm or downpour and they want to watch the mm’s of rain falling each hour. The rest of the time, it seems that they prefer to have the weather info “packaged” via the blog or summarised via the radio station.
So, to return to the part of your post that really caught my eye - “what people have done with it” - in my case its quite different from simply running the weather station. That’s why I support the call for a page for members and their websites, as I’m sure that many users of Weather Display are presenting their weather data in more than just the usual formats. I’d be interested to see some of these alternatives.
Hope I’m not too far off topic. :oops:
My blog deals with more than just weather but can be seen at -
http://wildland.owdjim.gen.nz/
from there you can access the radio station and, of course, the weather station.
