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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">For whatever reason and a long time
ago, down Oz we stopped using millibars and started using
hectapascals (hpa). They are numerically identical. I suppose it
saves one letter when abbreviated<grin><br>
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Ray vk2tv<br>
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On 28/01/14 08:22, Robert Kirk wrote:<br>
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<div>Minor correction... Convention has it that millibars is
abbreviated mbar not the plural sounding mbars. Much like you
write 15cm not 15cms. <br>
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<span style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On
01/27/14, <span>Steve Dimse<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve@dimse.com"><steve@dimse.com></a></span>
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<div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">I’m
playing with doing a more modern-looking weather display for
findU, and thought it might be fun to try a little
crowdsourcing.<br>
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I want your idea for what a weather display should look like.<br>
<br>
I can draw any truetype font, and pretty much any graphic I
want within the cgi. For example here is a quick control panel
that uses an LED font to show a few of the latest weather
values for a station<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="parsedLink"
href="http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/panel.cgi?call=k4hg-2"
target="_blank">http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/panel.cgi?call=k4hg-2</a><br>
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This is not a finished product, it is an example, though I
will end up with something like this as one of the options: a
simple text display that can be read across the room suitable
for surplus iPads, monitors, raspberry pi, etc. Expect this
URL to change (definitely will have wind rose instead of
cardinal text), have errors, or even disappear before it is
officially released.<br>
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I’ve always tried to make findU be as readable as possible, I
hate some of the weather client programs that fill the screen
with oodles of complex looking widgets that obscure
information. Here is an example of what I don’t like that uses
way too much of findU’s resources. (There is no identifying
info, so if this happens to be someone on the list, sorry, but
you are the only one that knows!)<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="parsedLink"
href="http://pinespantry.com/weather/Current_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htm"
target="_blank">http://pinespantry.com/weather/Current_Vantage_Pro_Plus.htm</a><br>
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I like clean and easily readable displays with as much info
“above the fold” as possible. This one, for example, uses
three findU graphics down near the bottom of the page. It
refreshes every 2.5 minutes, and in January so far it has
loaded 28113 images, few of which were likely seen. I hate
that!<br>
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So, send me ideas, mockups, or pet peeves for me to consider
in this next display!<br>
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Thanks, Steve K4HG<br>
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