Weather via wxer.pl - Weather conditions

[Wernicke]

yeah, I got exact same problem,
im running redhat though

-Sigurd

[Wernicke]

Yeah, it works with a dummy host.. So i guess the poller would not schedule a poll on a graph without a host.. has to be a bug

-Sigurd

[TheWitness]

Actually, non-host data sources work with cmd.php, but not currently with cactid. I have arelease of Cactid (0.8.6e) almost ready that corrects this deficiency. In fact, we released it yesterday, but withdrew it because of an issue that we thought that was resolved that wasn't. The existing malody only applies to the Windoz environment.

Therefore, if you guys want to test in Unix/Linux, just let me know and I will make the file available to you for testing. I could use the help.

TheWitness

[TheWitness]

Roddie,

You can either download BRANCH_086 or I can send you an e-mail. Pick your poison.

Larry

[TheWitness]

Yes!

Larry

[TheWitness]

Lack of sleep will do it every time (me that is).

Larry

[Hoffswell]

Hi Everyone -

I'm glad some of you got things going. Like I said, I'm new to the template thing. I see that was definately a problem.

Is it possible that someone could post updated templates that work?

Regarding Weather::Underground perl.

Yes, I should have mentioned that! In order to get the script running, you must have the Weather::Underground perl package installed. Here is the best way I know to install a Perl package:

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linuxbox:~ # perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan> install Weather::Underground

[Wernicke]

The only thing i changed in the template was the tags in <site>
-
Roddie: My graphs started updating when I actualy made a host( It could not be a dummy host with snmp disabled)

Now it's working perfect.(Except Wind Chill witch is still nan)
Im sorry I can't test the experimental cactid, since this is a production server, but it sounds like it works fine

-Sigurd

[Hoffswell]

windchill works, but in my version of cacti 0.8.6.c, does not do negative values. If I am not mistaken, this has been fixed in 0.8.6d

[Wernicke]

heh, I need those negative values.. I live in a cold country

[TheWitness]

Check for patches in the patches link.

TheWitness

[frippe]

Negative values works for me, I just had to set minimum values in the data template. On the RRDs already created I used "rrdtool tune" to set minimum values for wx_temp and wx_windchill.

[Wernicke]

Everyting has worked perfect the last week, but suddenly the wxer script won't return the wx_wind_chill_f variable

Strange


[root@mrtg scripts]# ./wxer.pl BODO
wx_temp_f:4 wx_wind_speed:35 wx_pressure:29.59 wx_humidity:56 wx_wind_chill_f:

-Sigurd

[frippe]

I don't know the answer to your question Sigurd, However be observant that the script returns the wind speed in km/h instead of mph for Bodo, I altered my script so it translates the speed to m/s regardless if returned in mph or km/h.

This is the code snippet:

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   $wx_wind_speed = $arrayref->[0]->{wind};
   $wx_wind_speed =~ s/ .*//;
   if ($arrayref->[0]->{wind}=~ /mph/){
      $wx_wind_speed = $wx_wind_speed*0.447;
   } else {
      $wx_wind_speed = $wx_wind_speed*0.278;
   }

If you want it to return value in mph do:

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   $wx_wind_speed = $arrayref->[0]->{wind};
   $wx_wind_speed =~ s/ .*//;
   if ($arrayref->[0]->{wind}=~ /mph/){
   } else {
      $wx_wind_speed = $wx_wind_speed/1.61;
   }

[hbokh]

Importing the templates "works" after changing <site> into |site|, but nothing happens.
The templates won't show up... it looks like they are not even stored.

Oh... and how to look up the zip for a town? "Eelde, Netherlands" is zip 06280 on "wunderground", but

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wxer.pl 06280

gives different data compared to

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wxer.pl Eelde, Netherlands

FYI:
FreeBSD 4-11-RELEASE
cacti-0.8.6b (from FreeBSD-ports)
php4-4.3.10
mysql-server-4.0.23a
apache-2.0.53
net-snmp-5.2.1