Can cycle work with weathermap ?

[mdherens]

Hello all !

I'm setting up "Cacti TV" so that the graphs and wheathermaps are displayed every 30 seconds.
I found the cycle plugin which work great to cycle the graphs but is it possible to make it work with the weathermaps as well ? I mean when done displaying all the pages of all the graphs, can it display the weathermaps one by one ?

That would be terrific ! Otherwise I will have to use a firefox plugin to do it but it is not very pretty...

Thanks for your help !


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[DLNoah]

Weathermap has a built-in cycle option.

See: http://www.network-weathermap.com/manua ... lugin.html and scroll down to "managing maps - display options" to get more information on controlling refresh rate. To start cycle mode, there is a link in the top/right of the page when you're on the weathermap tab.

As far as cycling graphs then weathermaps, I am not sure of whether that's possible out-of-the-box right now.

[kmhendress]

I'd like to be able to cycle graphs and then weathermaps as well!!

[Howie]

I've never used Cycle, but there's nothing special on the Weathermap side of things to support it at the moment.

It's one of those situations where a plugin that has it's own hooks would be kind of useful. Weathermap actually adds a PA hook for Gilles' Manage plugin (I don't know if he ever used it). It's not that hard to do. Maybe Cycle could then support Cycling other kinds of data.

So I assume Cycle has some kind of picker for populating it's graph list... that could then use do_hook_function() to allow other plugins to offer additional items to cycle between, and maybe a function to call to actually do the drawing. I started doing some stuff like this a couple of years ago to allow other things (weathermaps mainly, but also images, urls and text) to be added to Trees, and for plugins to register new data types - the Cacti team released a new version before I was done though, and I didn't feel like starting again!

Looks like TheWitness takes care of Cycle nowadays - maybe we could come up with something.

[streaker69]

It's one of those situations where a plugin that has it's own hooks would be kind of useful. Weathermap actually adds a PA hook for Gilles' Manage plugin (I don't know if he ever used it). It's not that hard to do. Maybe Cycle could then support Cycling other kinds of data.

Howie, you have me intrigued again, in what way does Weathermap hook into Manage. I may have missed it in the documentation.

[Howie]

It's one of those situations where a plugin that has it's own hooks would be kind of useful. Weathermap actually adds a PA hook for Gilles' Manage plugin (I don't know if he ever used it). It's not that hard to do. Maybe Cycle could then support Cycling other kinds of data.

Howie, you have me intrigued again, in what way does Weathermap hook into Manage. I may have missed it in the documentation.

I don't think it actually does, but I did add a hook a few versions ago so that other plugins could insert HTML into the weathermap full screen view. Somewhere around here there's a request from Gilles to be able to post-process maps to add other information. It was something to do with adding Manage status to weathermap.

Here we are, it's in 0.95 CHANGES:

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ADDED - Weathermap has a hook in the map viewing page to allow other plugins to add code there

where I have:

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   print do_hook_function ('weathermap_page_top', '' );

I have a feeling it doesn't work with PA 2.x actually - I think I need to register the hook somewhere.

[Howie]

It's one of those situations where a plugin that has it's own hooks would be kind of useful. Weathermap actually adds a PA hook for Gilles' Manage plugin (I don't know if he ever used it). It's not that hard to do. Maybe Cycle could then support Cycling other kinds of data.

I've installed Cycle on my test system now, so I'm going to try and add this. I've run out of weathermap motivation for the moment, so this will be a nice distraction