Hi,

As I live near the cost everyone wants to know the sea temperature. I can
get this from the local beach officer but would like to add it to the htx
file. Does anyone kow a way in which I could do this. I run a Weather
Monitor 2. I did wonder if I created a notebook file with just the
temperature whether I could insert this into the htx file automatically? Is
there a spare variable that you could enter the temperature so it could pick
it uip that way?

Any ideas?

Ray

http://image.weather.com/web/maps/en...rr_720x486.jpg

should be good enough

Jack

Thanks for info, strangely it is not very accurate, we are currently reading
21 degrees C. What we hoped to do was to put in our own local reading.

see the banner on


http://www.bexhill-on-sea.org/weathe...onitor_Mod.htm

Currently I am adding this manually but am always looking for an easier way
as I have more than one file to keep up to date. Thanks for input

Ray

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http://image.weather.com/web/maps/en...rr_720x486.jpg

should be good enough

Jack

"Ray Jeffery" wrote in message
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Thanks for info, strangely it is not very accurate, we are currently
reading 21 degrees C.

.... this is a common misconception. It *is* accurate for where the
figures are - your readings I suspect are taken from much closer to the
shore-line (not clear from the display); this is why the Met Office
isotherm chart, for example, *deliberately* stops the isotherms *away*
from the immediate coastal shelf. There is a considerable gradient of
SST between the shore-line seas and more open water. It is the *latter*
that forecasters need to know for convection forecasting etc.

Martin.


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Thanks for info.

Ray
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"Ray Jeffery" wrote in message
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Thanks for info, strangely it is not very accurate, we are currently
reading 21 degrees C.

... this is a common misconception. It *is* accurate for where the figures
are - your readings I suspect are taken from much closer to the shore-line
(not clear from the display); this is why the Met Office isotherm chart,
for example, *deliberately* stops the isotherms *away* from the immediate
coastal shelf. There is a considerable gradient of SST between the
shore-line seas and more open water. It is the *latter* that forecasters
need to know for convection forecasting etc.

Martin.


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Not quite sure what you're asking here. If you're going to add a value
that's measured outside of your AWS system to the web page
presentation then it's going to have to be manually added at one point
or another. But there's no easy ** way AFAIK that a value can be
passed in from the outside and made known to Weatherlink. (But even if
this were possible it would still need to be a daily manual task to
pass in this value.)

Perhaps what you're doing now is to manually edit the web page and
then upload it again. Another option would be to manually edit the
..htx file on your local PC every day, having added a line to the
generic .htx file that shows the sea temperature somewhere on the page
and simply overtyping this text value every day with the latest value.
This would require some minimal knowledge of HTML but would be quite
easy to do.

And for anyone with a smattering of eg Visual Basic it should be
simple to write a little program that parsed the generic .htx file
looking for a placeholder string that you define like seatempxxx and
replaces it by a value that you enter via a small textbox. That way
you wouldn't even need to edit the .htx file manually each day.

There are of course other packages such as Weather Display that would
replace Weatherlink and that might (?) make it easier to add in
external values. But it's debatable whether it's worth changing your
whole software approach just to facilitate one small aspect.

** This isn't to say that there might not be clumsy workarounds like
somehow setting eg a leaf or soil temp value to the sea temp value in
eg the console and then using the relevant eg leaf temp HTML tag to
display the resulting value, but I can't immediately think how to do
this and it would almost certainly still involve some programming.
It's also worth bearing in mind that now that Davis have released
details of the Weatherlink API for add-on modules, you could in theory
write your own module (provided you speak C++) to pass in an external
value, though presumably still needing to mimic some existing
parameter value.

John Dann
www.weatherstations.co.uk

Thanks John,

At the moment I am adding manually. re the Visual Basic, I will have to try
and remember it, so long since I used it. I have thought along the lines of
the leaf temperature, but I don't believe the Whether Monitor 2 has this
facility

Thanks for input.

Ray
"John Dann" wrote in message
...
Not quite sure what you're asking here. If you're going to add a value
that's measured outside of your AWS system to the web page
presentation then it's going to have to be manually added at one point
or another. But there's no easy ** way AFAIK that a value can be
passed in from the outside and made known to Weatherlink. (But even if
this were possible it would still need to be a daily manual task to
pass in this value.)

Perhaps what you're doing now is to manually edit the web page and
then upload it again. Another option would be to manually edit the
.htx file on your local PC every day, having added a line to the
generic .htx file that shows the sea temperature somewhere on the page
and simply overtyping this text value every day with the latest value.
This would require some minimal knowledge of HTML but would be quite
easy to do.

And for anyone with a smattering of eg Visual Basic it should be
simple to write a little program that parsed the generic .htx file
looking for a placeholder string that you define like seatempxxx and
replaces it by a value that you enter via a small textbox. That way
you wouldn't even need to edit the .htx file manually each day.

There are of course other packages such as Weather Display that would
replace Weatherlink and that might (?) make it easier to add in
external values. But it's debatable whether it's worth changing your
whole software approach just to facilitate one small aspect.

** This isn't to say that there might not be clumsy workarounds like
somehow setting eg a leaf or soil temp value to the sea temp value in
eg the console and then using the relevant eg leaf temp HTML tag to
display the resulting value, but I can't immediately think how to do
this and it would almost certainly still involve some programming.
It's also worth bearing in mind that now that Davis have released
details of the Weatherlink API for add-on modules, you could in theory
write your own module (provided you speak C++) to pass in an external
value, though presumably still needing to mimic some existing
parameter value.

John Dann
www.weatherstations.co.uk