I have just started using Weather Watcher after a Google hit a few days ago. I have reviewed past posts and noted this forum topic has been mentioned before but wondered what the current thinking was?
The previous suggestions involved utilising mappings to URLs on Weather.com and other similar sites. I was hoping the solution may be that Weather Watcher itself might write the current weather parameters periodically to a log file (csv?), maybe during refresh cycles. This would allow users to then analyse the data for past trends etc. I believe that this would give users a sense of owning a personal weather station with historical data to play with and maybe even attempt some amatuer forecasting.
adumbleton my friend this may be your lucky day. Open the Weather Watcher Options menu, click on the Log tab and click on the Enable Logger and you can have history galore. [8D]
Now, if you, or someone, would write a little program that would read the log and produce a graph or two… [;)]
And if WW would write a heading rcd to the top of the log… [:p]
That option is only available if you are using the beta though.
quote:And if WW would write a heading rcd to the top of the log...
A heading would work, but it would be tough to come up with a heading that worked with all data formats... or tough to create an option that allowed for dynamic headers.
I’m was thinking of just a heading for csv format. Basically the name of each element selected. The log can then be imported into an Excel spread sheet and manipulated there.
The csv heading could be an option. Those that want it can select it and those that don’t can not select it as the case may be.
I’m probably missing something here but the action of WW writing to the log file seems to be whenever it feels like it and sometimes not at all [:(]. The HTML export file (which I have also enabled) is updated on every refresh as I expected.
What is the trigger for the log write and is it configurable?
But I think it’s the wrong approach. In that the log’s time value will always change the log should record each refresh so that the log shows whether the data has changed or not. Without displaying the data one has to assume the data hasn’t changed rather than knowing it. HD space isn’t that much of a problem on most machines, there’s no reason to not keep a complete log.