I created a “gotmoon.htx” and have added it to the HTML settings of VWS. VWS produces both a *.txt and *.htm file. I’ve included ^moon_percent^ and a few other tag just to show its working. I enclosed the result of the tag in between |*| so I know if a “space or blank” is being produced. My ftp uploader is updating these files every 2 minutes on my website.

The ^moon_percent^ html tag in VWS requires the broadcast display to be displayed on the desktop. For those who don’t use the broadcast image on their website, apparently in generating this image vws also performs the calculations required to calculate the moon %. It records that value in ^moon_percent^ html tag. Since I don’t use the broadcast image, but I want the html tag to be claculated, I’ve unchecked “create JPG File”, but will leave the broadcast display running.

This wasn’t a common issue, and most people leave the default/all images running on the display. This explains why it appeared everyone else worked but me. That will teach me for hiding unused items from my desktop.

Virtual Weather Station today recorded its 365 day of data.

Its has been a long road, but after plaing with VWS software locally we were ready today to start uploading images to Castlerockweather.Org. I wanted to thank those in the weather community, who have helped me these last few months get this site up and running.

John (from weather.lissproductions.com) suggested we upgrade to that latest version of code. We downloaded version 13.01P09 from their website and installed it on our weather server. Soon after the upgrade we saw VWS collecting data. I was unhappy to learn that we lost 2 months of data by converting from Weatherlink to VWS. Oh well.

After spending some time revisiting both pieces of software we choose Virtual Weather Station (VWS). VWS appears to have the best looking graphs and a large community of users to draw from. The software  has been installed, but we’re having trouble getting it to collect data. No time to search the forums for the solution, will take a look at it tomorrow.

We’ve been collecting data using Davis’ Weatherlink software that came with the data logger. The software has a complex interface. Performance is clunky and images are less then desireable. I have started looking at Virtual Weather and Weather Display.