VP Data Tags

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I’m setting up a page that I can hit that is formatted for my phone.

In creating it, I’ve run into a problem and what appears to be some missing tags…

%decsolstice% returns does not convert into the Dec Solstice date.

There does not appear to be a month or year ET tag. There are a couple other high/lows missing but I cant recall right now.

Also, I have two wireless transmitters. One for the ESS and one for the Anometer. None of the software packages have a way to display each of their reception rates (even WeatherLink). The console can show them though. Do you know if this information is available off the datalogger?

It would be nice to be able to monitor remotely the Reception rates of all possible 8 channels.

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the decsoltice tag should be ok
but check that you have the lat/long set correctly under view, sun moon…
does that info appear ok, the dec soltice, when go to view , sun moon,more details?

reception
try these tags:
%vpconsolebattery%…The Console battery, volts
%vpreception%…The recpetion of the data from the ISS status,Total packets received, Total packets missed, Number of resynchronizations, The largest number of packets in a row that were received., and the number of CRC errors detected.
%vpreception2%…The current % reception

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the decsoltice tag should be ok but check that you have the lat/long set correctly under view, sun moon... does that info appear ok, the dec soltice, when go to view , sun moon,more details?
I had removed the tags... but put them back in to show you... and of course they work. I know I reentered the value a number of times to make sure that I was not doing a typo... but I must have.
reception try these tags: %vpconsolebattery%..........The Console battery, volts %vpreception%...............The recpetion of the data from the ISS status,Total packets received, Total packets missed, Number of resynchronizations, The largest number of packets in a row that were received., and the number of CRC errors detected. %vpreception2%..............The current % reception
I know about these but assume that they are talking about channel 1 only like the WeatherLink package does. I am using both channel 1 and channel 2 and both have different values. Its not a biggie, but would be helpful down the road for monitoring system status.

I don’t know if the data is even available though from the datalogger.

Sample Page:
http://weather.got-there.com/kazmesa12/wd/phone.html

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%VPetmonth%

i will add that for the next vers of wd

(but i dont have a year to date figure)
also, i have now that if the time of next update is not available, it returns —

have you seen the WAP function in wd?
you can even create your own wap site, and view it from your cell phone

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WAP… actually no. I know it is there but I am still learning other sections. The phone I have is a Smart phone and will read this okay.

I will be moving to WAP soon… but I want to take a look at the MySQL stuff too.

The current phone.html file is formatted a lot like the left side of WeatherLink’s weather stats. I noticed that when I hit that with my phone, all the data on the left side fit.

Now that I’ve got most of it coded, I can play with the format a bit.

I also did the following to grab via PHP on another non-same system web page

http://weather.got-there.com/kazmesa12/wd/textsummary.html

It has no html/body/head etc… since it is included into an existing page.l

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seems like you are becoming a real weather display Fan…its like xmas…finding all the goodies (but it is a guess a rather steep learning curve)

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Its a pretty steep learning curve indeed.

As I understand how things work, I might be able to contribute on the documentation side as well.

There are still whole sections I’ve not touched though… email and pager notification, figuring out the Metar stuff correctly etc…

I also want to try to interface the Lightning data that I host for another site KAZMESA1. I’ve not decided if it makes sense to setup another lightning detector when he is about 4 miles from me unless I can do something with it he is not. I would like to have my pages know if there is lightning around though.