RRDWeather

Released under the GNU General Public License
http://www.wains.be/projects/rrdweather/

What is RRDWeather ?

RRDWeather is a set of scripts working with RRDtool and weather.com. It collects weather info from the web on a regular basis and puts it in RRDtool graphs.

Installation

See INSTALL

Contributors

• Heikki Hokkanen
• Lionel Porcheron
• Gregory Bittan
• Gregory Guthrie

Changelog

Version 0.42 - November 2007 :

• weather.cgi
  • added one "if" to suppress warnings when creating last set of graphs (Heikki Hokkanen)
  • if the GET parameter 'zip' is not provided, use the first ZIP code found in /etc/rrdweather.conf (Heikki Hokkanen)
  • when clicking on the yearly graphs, you are now redirected to daily graphs (Sebastien Wains)
  • cities monitored selectable from a drop-down list (Sebastien Wains)
• rrdweather.conf
  • VERSION variable

Version 0.42 - October 2007 :

• weather.cgi
  • header titles now link to their section. (Heikki Hokkanen)
  • click on graphs to go to the next section (click on daily graphs to reach weekly graphs and so on)
  • no longer necessary to have several weather.cgi files to display different cities, zip passed as argument. Idea by Gregory Guthrie
  • city name fetched from the XML source
  • made XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1 compliant (again)

Version 0.41 - October 2007 :

• applied the patches made available by Lionel Porcheron in Ubuntu Universe repository
  • configuration file in /etc instead of editing script files
  • remove interactions and read informations from configuration file
  • change database location in cgi script
  • db_builder.sh and db_update.sh scripts now go in /usr/share/rrdweather and no more in /usr/lib/rrdweather
  • call rrdweather_cron.sh which creates rrd database if necessary (no need to run db_builder.sh first)
• lower and upper limit variables for pressure graphs in cgi script
• speed variable for wind graphs in cgi script
• reduced size of graphs and changed general layout of graph page
• removed the average label for pressure, which was kind of pointless, and due to the smaller graphs, the labels for pressure were too large, so I needed to get rid of one
• new install script

Version 0.40 - December 2006 :

• Gregory Bittan gregory.bittan@gmail.com reported an issue when the web connection is down. The script would still feed the RRD databases with a value of 0, messing up the average figures.
• The update script can now handle the monitoring of several cities
• Lionel Porcheron lionel@alveonet.org made RRDweather available to the Ubuntu Community trough the Universe repository
• To achieve the goal of monitoring several cities from a single script, RRDWeather had to use a new directory structure in order to store database files
• Better indenting
• Improved bash code
• Improved debugging mode
• ...

Version 0.36 - January 2006:

• Lionel Porcheron lionel@alveonet.org made weather.cgi fully w3c XHTML 1.1 et CSS 2.1 compliant