Name:	Cumulus WeatherConsole
Type:	HTML & Javascript
Author:	David Jamieson
Contact:	DAJ
Last update:	12 Jan 2010
Version:	1.2

The WeatherConsole is an simple web page presenting 'live' and automatically updating information to viewers. It is a text based display, and is easily customised to suit your own site design.

Click on the example screen shot on the right. Alternatively see the console live at http://azer.com.au/weather/WeatherConsole/

Example screen

Requirements

a website
Cumulus realtime.txt file being updated regularly by Cumulus

The Basics

download the following file...CumulusWeatherConsole.zip
Unzip the contents (five files will be extracted)
Edit the file wconsole.js. There are two lines which need modified at the top. The location of your realtime.txt data file, and how often to refresh the display.
Copy all the files to your web site into a subfolder, or the root -- your choice
open wconsole.html in a browser

Usage

By default the Console is displayed within a current browser, however clicking on the icon on the bottom right of the screen will pop-out the Console to it's own window and can be left running in the background.

Possible problems

If the WeatherConsole can not find your realtime.txt file it will give an error. Check the setting in wconsole.js. The location is typically a folder location on your webserver. Examples could be /realtime.txt or /data/realtime.txt

Personalising

Edit wconsole.html and modify the wording after <TITLE> on the 6th line. This is the text to be displayed in the title bar at the top of the window. You may also wish to edit line 20 to a more personalised title shown within the browser itself.

All colouring can be adjusted in the stylesheet file wconsole.css

Version Control

1.2 Fixed problem with Beaufort descriptions; two were missing!

1.1 Added 'pop-out' feature

1.0 Public launch

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