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mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

The purpose of this is to reproduce information found in several places in the wview distro and bring it all together for configuring your wview installation. The main thing to remember is configuring wview for extended sensor support when running wviewconfig, editing your /etc/wview/html-templates.conf file and then editing your three html template files to remove the sensor images for sensors you DO NOT have.

***>>> From the wview User's Manual, section 12:

12.2.2 images.conf or images-metric.conf

12.2.2.1 If this is a new install, skip to 12.2.2.2. To upgrade, you will need
to copy the new extended data image definitions from the distribution
example file images.conf (images-metric.conf) found in
.../wview-x.y.z/examples/conf.
The new definitions begin with the heading:
"################# V P P L U S D A T A B U C K E T S #################"
Copy all definitions below this heading to your existing images.conf
(images-metric.conf) file.
12.2.2.2 Edit /etc/wview/images.conf (images-metric.conf if a metric station)
12.2.2.3 Starting at the VP Plus Data Buckets header, enable all desired sensor
images by removing all "#" characters from the beginning of the line.
Remember, if you don't have the physical sensor installed on your
station, you should not enable the corresponding images for it - it
only wastes resources. At a minimum, it is safe to enable Radiation,
UV and ET images if you have a Plus station.
12.2.2.4 For each new image you have enabled, translate or edit the title and
units strings as needed (no spaces in the units label).
12.2.2.5 Save and Exit the editor

12.2.3 html-templates.conf

12.2.3.1 Edit /etc/wview/html-templates.conf
12.2.3.2 Replace the corresponding old references with:

Current_Conditions_Plus.htx
Daily_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
Monthly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
Yearly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx

Leave index.htx unchanged.
12.2.3.3 Save and Exit the editor

12.2.4 index.htx

Copy the Plus index.htx template over the standard file:
cp /etc/wview/html/index_Plus.htx /etc/wview/html/index.htx

Edit the index.htx file as usual to customize for your station,
language and content preferences.

12.2.5 Current_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx

12.2.5.1 If upgrading, copy the example Current_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx file from
the distribution to your wview config tree:
cp wview-x.y.z/examples/html/Current_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx /etc/wview/html
12.2.5.2 Edit /etc/wview/html/Current_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx as usual to customize
for your station, language and content preferences.
12.2.5.3 Save and Exit the editor

12.2.6 Daily_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx

12.2.6.1 If upgrading, copy the example Daily_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx file from
the distribution to your wview config tree:
cp wview-x.y.z/examples/html/Daily_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx /etc/wview/html
12.2.6.2 Edit /etc/wview/html/Daily_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
12.2.6.3 Delete all extended data image references that are NOT supported by

your station. Find the comment lines:
!-- ***** Extended Data Begin ***** --
...
[extended sensor image references]
...
!-- ***** Extended Data End ***** --
and delete all non-supported sensor images. The extended sensor images
remaining should match the "Day" images you enabled in images.conf
(images-metric.conf).
12.2.6.4 Edit /etc/wview/html/Daily_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx as usual to customize
for your station, language and content preferences.
12.2.6.5 Save and Exit the editor

12.2.7 Monthly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx

12.2.7.1 If upgrading, copy the example Monthly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx file from
the distribution to your wview config tree:
cp wview-x.y.z/examples/html/Monthly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx /etc/wview/html
12.2.7.2 Edit /etc/wview/html/Monthly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
12.2.7.3 Delete all extended data image references that are NOT supported by
your station. Find the comment lines:
!-- ***** Extended Data Begin ***** --
...
[extended sensor image references]
...
!-- ***** Extended Data End ***** --
and delete all non-supported sensor images. The extended sensor images
remaining should match the "Month" images you enabled in images.conf
(images-metric.conf).
12.2.7.4 Edit /etc/wview/html/Monthly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx as usual to customize
for your station, language and content preferences.
12.2.7.5 Save and Exit the editor

12.2.8 Yearly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx

12.2.8.1 If upgrading, copy the example Yearly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx file from
the distribution to your wview config tree:
cp wview-x.y.z/examples/html/Yearly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx /etc/wview/html
12.2.8.2 Edit /etc/wview/html/Yearly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
12.2.8.3 Delete all extended data image references that are NOT supported by
your station. Find the comment lines:
!-- ***** Extended Data Begin ***** --
...
[extended sensor image references]
...
!-- ***** Extended Data End ***** --
and delete all non-supported sensor images. The extended sensor images
remaining should match the "Year" images you enabled in images.conf
(images-metric.conf).
12.2.8.4 Edit /etc/wview/html/Yearly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx as usual to customize
for your station, language and content preferences.
12.2.8.5 Save and Exit the editor

***>>> From the example html-templates.conf (to be edited in /etc/wview):

### Use these for Vantage Pro Plus Extended Data
### Remember to rename "index_Plus.htx" to "index.htx" in the /etc/wview/html
### directory for UV and ET display on the home page and URL references to
### these pages...
# Current_Conditions_Plus.htx
# Daily_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
# Monthly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx
# Yearly_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htx

# Home Page template, do not remove unless you are using the day/night
# alternative below
index.htx

# Daytime/Nighttime Home Pages - if you want a different homepage template
# based on day or night, uncomment these and copy your templates to
# /etc/wview/html/index-day.htx and /etc/wview/html/index-night.htx respectively
# index-day.htx
# index-night.htx

# Add, remove or modify as needed
Current_Conditions.htx
Current_Vantage_Pro.htx
Daily_Vantage_Pro.htx
Monthly_Vantage_Pro.htx
Yearly_Vantage_Pro.htx

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

I've followed all the VP2 directions to a tee (T?) a couple of times, but I can not get the program to generate the *_vantage_pro_plus.html files that are needed. Anyone with MacOS X been successful in getting them generated?

Thanks,
Paul

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mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Post your html-templates.conf file here and a directory listing of your /etc/wview/html directory.

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Since you have "Current_Conditions_Plus.htx" listed in your conf file but no such file in your templates directory (/etc/wview/html), it is probably failing at that file and not continuing... Comment out that entry - you are not using it anywhere anyway. Everything else looks fine...

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

I just changed the HTML file generation so it will just complain about the failure but continue to generate the remaining files. It will be in the next release, whenever that is...