Re: How can I display the weather data

[Frank Mc Alinden]

Hi Martin

> I've been meaning to get a book on VB6 for some time now, I guess that
> is bit more urgent now.

Have a quick look here for intro in Visual Basic.....
<a href="http://www.rentron.com/intro.htm";>http://www.rentron.com/intro.htm</a>

Wish i had the time to sit down and learn it....

Frank

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Subject: RE: [ukha_xpl] How can I display the weather data


> Hi John
>
> I've tried Tony's app for the WM918 and that works fine it's a pity I
> can't make it co-exist with the windows app I have running ? Don't
know
> if there is a way to 'share' the com port.
> The windows app also produces a web page for showing the weather data
> etc and I might have difficulty replicating that functionality.
> I've been meaning to get a book on VB6 for some time now, I guess that
> is bit more urgent now.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
> (now addicted to Xpl)
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] How can I display the weather data
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> > I have a WM918 weather station hooked up to my PC using a program
> > called FreeWX to dump the data into HV. This works well and I
dont
> > want to change it.
>
> AFAIK Tony has an app that reports WM918 data directly as xPL
messages,
> but if you want to stick with your current software then I guess that
> rules this one out.
>
> > The program dumps a file on the PC freedata.txt containing all
the
> > weather values which is read by HV. Can someone point me in the
right
> > direction as to how this can be done within HAL. Each value is
the
> > text file is separated by a comma but it also does a CSV version.
> > I want to set each value into the Global variables and then
display
> > this on the Slimp player say every hour.
>
> OK, I can see two ways of achieving this:
>
> - You could use Steve's HV app to read the values back from HV into
> xPLHal (Steve - is this possible?)
> - You could use a bit of VBScript to read the file directly into
xPLHal
> globals, and have them displayed on the Slims at regular intervals.
>
> I'll await Steve's comments on the first idea, but if that's not
> possible then I'll see about putting together a bit of VBScript to
read
> the file in for you.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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