Weather Display Widget
A Yahoo Widget that works with Weather Display weather station software where the clientraw.txt data file is uploaded to a web server.
Current Version: 0.9.5 download
Features
• Choose any clientraw.txt location
• Live update interval from 5 to 60 seconds
• English or Metric units
• Wind speed in knots option
• Wind speed in km/hr or m/s when using metric option
• Rain rate appears only when raining
• Auto-switches between Heat Index and Wind Chill
• Activity LED flashes when new data retrieved
• Asynchronous HTTP requests
• Choose any font color
• 5 different backgrounds
• Runs on Windows XP SP2, 2000 SP4, or Windows Vista (Mac OS X 10.3.9 and up not supported yet)
Screenshots
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Default Screen
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Current Condition Icons
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English or Metric Units
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5 different background colors
blue, brown, gray, green... |
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Current Temperature Shows in the Dock |
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Program Preferences
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Version History
0.9.5 beta / August 2007
• Added: Fix to handle free web hosts that add HTML to clientraw.txt data
0.9.4 beta / July 2007
• Added: Red data LED when bad or incomplete data received
• Added: Current temperature shows in dock
0.9.3 beta / June 2007
• Fix: URL does not have to have a trailing slash anymore
• Fix: English rain total changed to hundreths decimal
• Added: Reset timer when preferences are saved
0.9.2 beta / June 2007
Initial public version
About
Weather Display Widget
For users of Weather Display weather station software. www.weather-display.com
Written by Johnny Wetlaufer johnny@wetlaufer.com http://www.wetlaufer.com/wx/
Some Javascript for this Yahoo Widget has been adapted from the AJAX script (ajaxWDwx.js) for the
Carter Lake templates available at Ken True's site: http://saratoga-weather.org/scripts-WD-AJAX.php#WDajax
(used on this site!)
Contributing authors to the ajaxWDwx.js include:
Kevin Reed - http://www.tnetweather.com/
Pinto - http://www.joske-online.be/
Tom Chaplin - http://www.carterLake.org
Ken True - http://saratoga-weather.org
FourOhFour on http://wxforum.net
Johnny Wetlaufer - http://www.wetlaufer.com/wx/
* Weather Display logo used with permission from Brian Hamilton - http://www.weather-display.com
* Current condition icons used with permission from Larry Boyd - http://weather.anolecomputer.com
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