Re: How can I display the weather data

[John B]

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