Simple Website setup: Difference between revisions

Next click on ‘Auto Update’ so that it is ticked.  Now look at Interval, in this example 15 minutes.  This is how often Cumulus will update your website.  It is tempting to change this to 1 minute, but little is gained from this.  Typically people set this to 10 or 15 minutes.

As part of the Standard setup you can request Cumulus to provide pseudo real-time data.  In this example, 90 seconds.  Consider Realtime carefully -- firstly this impacts on your internet connection as Cumulus will update a very small file on your website every XX seconds.  Also, some weather stations only update Cumulus less often (e.g. The Fine OffSet stations are updating every 48 or 60 seconds) so a 15 second realtime update is wasteful and unnecessary.  In reality, the standard cumulus web templates used in this Simple setup only include two ‘realtime’ elements to show windspeed and direction on the gauges page. There are now three 'Enable...' boxes for Realtime; if you want Cumulus to upload the realtime.txt file for the 'Flash' gauges on the standard gauges page, you need to '''tick all three boxes'''.  If you do not wish to provide realtime data untick the 3 “Enable Realtime” boxes.