I know the rest of you have already done it and it’s old hat to you but I got a new cellphone and just had to enable WAP in WD. Now, that’s way cool!
http://apsn.awcable.com/weather/wap/index.wml
thanks, Brian!
I know the rest of you have already done it and it’s old hat to you but I got a new cellphone and just had to enable WAP in WD. Now, that’s way cool!
http://apsn.awcable.com/weather/wap/index.wml
thanks, Brian!
How did you do the graphics?
I figured it out! Guess I just need to update more often!
Very Nice!
there is a little problem with the graph…
i have it hour stamped…to get past it being cached by the wap phone…
but once you have viewed each hour of the day, you get cached images…
so i will need to add a day stamp too…
but that will mean lots of files piling on the on the server (but they are very small size)
glad you like it!
ryan, long time no hear!
your one of the very first WD users
Brian,
you could also try adding the following META tag in the HEAD tags for the WAP code that WD auto generates - it will mean nothing gets cached.
Someone had pointed out to me that even my weather data was cached on their phone so hopefully this has sorted it out (I use custom WAP so added the META tag myself).
http://www.martynhicks.co.uk/weather/wap/index.wml
If the META tag works then you don’t need time or date stamped graph files which would stop loads of files being generated?? Especially as I do not use the graphs in WAP!
Just a thought
Cheers
Martyn
i just was not sure if that worked in WAP…
but if it does, then I will add it!
there is a custom tag to show the graph…(hour stamped file name)
I tried WAP (not WD WAP though) shortly afer it came out and gave up because it was so horribly slow and expensive. These attributes prompted our Corporate IT Technology Manager to remind me and my technical colleagues at regular intervals that WAP rhymes with Cr**.
Has it improved since the early days or is it just implemented better outside the UK?
works great here
i get a latest weather conditions on the cell phone in less than 60 seconds flat
depends what you want to use WAP for I suppose - I rarely use it - the Google search engine has a clever feature to translate most pages on the web to be read by WAP using a mobile phone - for those pub quiz moments lol
and yes if I am away from home and I want to check the weather I can use WAP to get the latest data from my AWS. WAP is good for small data applications like that.
can be a pain to enter URLs into a phone though - but when they are set as bookmarks it is ok.
Chris,
When I got my new cell phone and tried WAP, I was in agreement with you: it was CR**! I had the provider kill the service. Now that WD “WAPS”, I had the web access option re-enabled to try it out. And it’s pretty neat. I wouldn’t surf the Web with it but it’s the ticket for WD.
I like to keep track of my domestic hot water boiler and hot tub temps when it’s very cold (so I can get home and fix them before they freeze up) and this is going to let me do it easily. Access here is very quick, definitely less than 60 seconds as Brian said.
I’m tickled.