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Hi everyone,

Just got using PWS Dash & I just set up my tester site (love it!) but my top row doesnt display any info?

My site is here: http://www.swivellondon.com/pwsWD/

See attached image for example of what I mean

Have I done something wrong?
Do I need to “populate” a file that these rows refer to?
Do these just not work?

Thanks in advance

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As this is your first post here:
:smiley: Welcome to the Weather-Watch forum and welcome to the PWS_Dashboard board.

Indeed, as you already hinted on, populating a dashboard with all those different data items needs

[ol]
[li]station data from a weather-program or weather-network, from WU in your case.
=> This list your WU data and that is all what is available from WU http://www.swivellondon.com/pwsWD/PWS_print_file.php?showall [/li]
[li]solution for missing high-lows
Therefor you need to run a “station cron” every 5 minutes to populate the “near-real-time” high-lows [/li][/ol]

It is described here: No High/Lows, where is history and graphs data used for, and ? cron ?

Succes,
Wim

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Hi again (we spoke here during my first setting up: Help! How to set up a website showing my PWS data? )

I had tried the cron from my host but was getting a path error, so will try the web wget solution instead and see if that works

:+1:

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I know, :smiley:

I had tried the cron from my host but was getting a path error,
It is always best to first try the host solution. They have support personnel and probably some help-documents. But ii is sometimes tricky. You could post your providers name, the full link you used in the cron-server and the error message from the e-mail or log Lot of users already went to the same learning curve.
so will try the web wget solution instead and see if that works 👍
External cron always work as it is the same as typing the link in a browser. Problem is sometimes the reliabillity.

For installing the dashboard, the cron is the most difficult part when I count the different support discussions over the years.

Wim

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Working great now!

Now time to go deep on the CSS and get a custom colour scheme going

Thanks!

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This is what helped

The website docs https://pwsdashboard.com/documentation2012/11_cron.pdf point to PWS_cron_addtoyear.php and not the correct file PWS_cron_stationcron.php

Changed that and bingo

MOD-edit: Thanks, updated the PDF 2021-06-16 Wim

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Just modify the lines in https://www.swivellondon.com/pwsWD/_my_settings/user_theme.txt
That will modify the “greenish version”

Wim