Loving the WXSIM-EWN scripts now I have them working thanks to Wim. One thing of note is the “Next update:” time at the top of the page. I don’t understand where it is getting this from, and it’s completely wrong, see here:
WXSim updates the forecast every three hours with the exception of midnight, so the next update right now should be 08/01/25 15:14, not 08/01/25 05:14. Any ideas? Ideally I would like to change this to “Issued at:” with the time of the current lastret.txt but my PHP skills are a bit lacking. If it was python…
The WXSIM PC program does not tells us in its data when it will run again.
You have to set the times yourself in your WXSIM PC program.
Check wxsim-ewn/wxsim/config.php line 29->30. It now reads something like
$updatehrs = array(5,10,15,20); # Hours when wxsim runs
$updateminute = 14; # minutes past full hour for upload time
Adjust as you find appropriate for your WXSIM PC program settings.
Wim
P.S. be aware that this are old scripts which are not maintained anymore by the original author.
I am not sure that the script uses these settings but it seems obvious.
But it will need some testing to be sure.
Thanks Wim, I changed it to the actual hours, however it seems to jump to the next update time each time it is refreshed. I found the following code in frc.php so uncommented the updated line and commented out the next update:
That’s great Wim, and thank you for all your help. The comments in the PHP files are very useful, but some documentation for new users would be great. I have it up and running on my main weather page now with a fully dynamic and responsive iFrame. I’ll start another post with the code, it resizes the frame dynamically as you click on the tabs, always displaying the full content. See here:
