Just curious if there are any updates to FreshWDL? Can’t see anything for a year. I though I contributed to further improvements so would like to reassured. Happy to say I haven’t kept up - but can’t find anything.
Anybody?
I think you will find its updated in the background
there has been some threads where there has been new features added
It’s mostly been small things/behind the scenes stuff updated. I work on it purely in my free time, when I can find any between study and work. This year has been slower, as I’m now in my third year of university, so the work load has increased, as well as working 12 hour days 7 days a week during the summer break to try pay for university.
I really appreciated your interest in seeing FreshWDL be improved, and your support does help - it means I can justify working on the project rather than only focusing on getting income - however it really is a slow process.
If you, or anyone else is interesting in working on it, it is completely open source on GitHub - so anyone can contribute to it and move the development along! (Though obviously this isn’t easy without the background knowledge of some programming… But I had no experience with JavaScript before starting the project, so it’s not impossible!)
Anyway, thanks for your understanding and patience,
-Yerren
keep up the good work Yerren! 
Very happy with WDL Yerren
Trust me Yerren - I haven’t been unhappy with what you have done. Very impressed actually. I was just expecting a few more configuration options after the length of time with the contributions - happy with that isn’t a priority but for instance a refresh period less than 15 minutes would be a good option. Anyway, when I retire sometine soon I may have to spend some time on some improvements. Cheers.
15 minutes?
I really like FreshWDL.
Is there a way to display Dewpoint instead of Heat Index?
If not, that would be a great option.
Thank you for the kind words.
Just to clear that one point up, it will check for new data every five seconds and refresh if there is anything new to display. So, if you’re only getting refreshes every fifteen minutes, it is most likely because the data itself is only being uploaded at that rate.
-Yerren
Thanks Yerren - you would think so - that is what my WeatherDisplay Live site does - but the FreshWDL only updates every 15 minutes. Is there a newer version than 1.1.7.7?
Yes, every 15 minues out of the box. Running 1.1.7.7 - if there is a newer version that I can change to that if it has different settings I’m happy to upgrade if there is one. Trouble is your web site only has a date for the lastest version - not a version number.
What is the url ?
the update rate is based on how fast you have the clientraw.txt file updating
I’m afraid mine isn’t working that way - my Weather Display Live site (fugitive.net.au) updates ~ every 20 to 30 seconds or so. It is 15 minutes for FreshWDL site (fugitive.net.au/weather).
Your FreshWDL site updates every 5 seconds, at least it tries to read new data.
But the returned data is not updated that fast this url => http://fugitive.net.au/clientraw.txt => Bywong-NSW-6:03:09_PM
It is now 6:10 in your timezone, I think
Probably your webserver is set to cache .txt requests for 15 minutes to lessen the load on the server.
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Your Weather Display Live site (fugitive.net.au) also request the same data, but in a different way, it adds a current-time to the request
http://fugitive.net.au/clientraw.txt?nocache=1564992963047
Therefor the data is refreshed much faster.
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Just check how you specified the location of the clientraw.txt in FreshWDL.
Wim
Hi, if your WDL has live data, where is it getting it from? I cannot see any references to clientraw locations in wdlconfig.xml
Default WDL will load it from the same location as WDL.
See also my previous post from a few minutes ago.
Wim
Thanks Wim, this is why I am confused then if WDL is also using http://fugitive.net.au/clientraw.txt why it is getting live data as the timestamp in the data is only updating avery 10/15 minutes or so! Which is why I asked him how WDL is configured.
The nocache is added by WDL automatically, this is another site using “right-click => inspect => network”
http://weather-template.com/weather27x/uploadWD/clientraw.txt?nocache=1564994846370
http://weather-template.com/weather27x/uploadWD/clientraw.txt?nocache=1564994906529
The config is in http://weather-template.com/weather27x/uploadWD/wdl-en-config.xml
Wim
I see, so he will have to approach his host and ask for caching to be turned off?