Daily Archives: April 17, 2012

Weather

Saratoga-Weather.org Weather Website Templates Configuration

I saw a link to another weather station software.  Saratoga-Weather.org was making available a template of their entire website.  I decided to check it out.

The site looked great.  Much better than the built-in templates from WeatherLink and it would work with WeatherLink running.  So, I decided to configure it for my website.  Here are the additional steps I did.  Their online instructions are great and these are just my specific changes.

  • Downloaded, extracted and uploaded base template.  This is the root folder.
  • Downloaded, extracted and uploaded weather software plugin.  Add these files to the root folder also.
  • Downloaded, extracted and uploaded Carterlake Forecast icon.  I put the forecast folder in the root folder.
  • Changes to settings.php
    • organ – Woicik Weather
    • copyr – Woicik Weather
    • location – Sumner, WA, USA
    • email – info@woicik.com
    • latitude – 47.23672
    • longitude – -122.20763
    • cityname – Weather Station
    • UVscript – comment out since my weather station doesn’t support this
    • WXSIM – false
    • fcsturlNWS – edited URL to include city, state, latitude and longitude
    • NWSforecasts – edited URL to include city, state, latitude and longitude
    • noaazone – WAC053
    • noaarader – ATX
    • WUregion – nw
  • Changes to settings-weather.php
    • WXsoftwareVersion – 5.9.3
    • NOAAdir and NOAACurDir – set to ./NOAA-reports/
    • conditionsMETAR – KPLU
    • UV – false
    • SOLAR – false
  • Configure WeatherLink
    • copy WLtags.htx to templates folder
    • Data Profile 1
      • set to every 5 minutes
      • upload WLtags.htx file
      • change extension to php
    • Data Profile 2
      • set to every 5 minutes
      • select report files and historical data images listed on WeatherLink Setup
      • Upload Weather Reports to /NOAA-reports subfolder
  • changes to top.php
    • edited meta description to have more relevant information
    • Add Google Analytics code
  • changes to wxabout.php
    • edit the body text for relevant information
  • edit WX-radar-inc.php
    • RDR – ATX
    • lat – 47.23672
    • long – -122.20763
    • city – Weather Station
    • WUregion – nw
    • WUname1 – City Level
    • WUname2 – Puget Sound
    • WUname3 – Western Washington
    • WUname4 – Northwest US
    • WUname5 – Entire US
    • CityURL, MetroURL and CityPOS – following instructions for updating WU-radar-inc.php

I uploaded all the files and tested the website.

I finally added a link from my home page to the Woicik Weather Conditions.