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There was a problem with the xAP support for this Weather Station
initialy, in that the Weather Report xAP messages were only
transmitted once an hour. Some clash with the data collection from
the weather station apparantly. Heartbeats were every minute. I
worked through some of this with the author via the WD forum, and I
now have a version that reports every minute, with every fifth
(minute) message being replaced by a heartbeat. Hopefully this should
make its way into the full release.

When WD started supporting xAP, he copied the weather messages from
James Weather app exactly. That is the vendor ID and xAPUID he uses
by default is that for James app. These are changeable in the WD
config, I have used "Windy" for the vendor ID and added one to
the
xAPUID. Also the heartbeat interval value remains at 60. I have
pointed this all out to WD and requested that he consider changing
these items.

I also purchased WD live, the Flash addon, and use this in my
xAPIntranet. Configuration is straightforward, but you can have my
file if you want.

Hope this is helpful

Kevin T


--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "Martyn Wendon"
<martynwendon@...> wrote:
>
> I just got one of these and am integrating it into my xAP setup.
>
> Please share anything you've learned!
>
>
> Ta,
>
> Martyn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "turner228" <kevin@...>
> To: <xap_automation@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:07 PM
> Subject: [xap_automation] xAP and Weather
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I recently treated myself to a Weather Station.
> >
> > I was tempted by a special offer at Maplins combined with a
voucher
> > and bought the USB Wirelss model N96FY. Not an expensive or
> > professional model perhaps, but an interesting device.
> >
> > Apart from the relatively low cost the other attractions were
that
> > the data collection pole connected wirelessly to the base station
and
> > the base station talks over USB to the PC (it's all in the
name...).
> >
> > The accompanying software is nothing special, but Weather
Display,
> >
> > http://www.weather-display.com/index.php
> >
> > supports this model directly now , ie without havving to use the
> > supplied software as well, and Weather Display also supports the
xAP
> > Weather schema, Weather.Report.
> >
> > An addon for Weather Display is WD Live which displays live data
on a
> > web page using Flash. I have incorporated this into my xAP
Intranet
> > using my "Generic Intranet Wrapper".
> >
> > Weather Display and WD live are not free but I am very pleased
with
> > the results. You an see a couple of Screen dumps on my site
> >
> > www.netcomp.biz
> >
> > click on Weather on the right hand side
> >
> > If any of you want to follow a simialr path I would be happy to
pass
> > what I have learned
> >
> > As I get time I will probably develop this a bit further, I will
let
> > you know
> >
> > Kevin T
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>



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