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#*It has been set in illustrated example to '''5''' minutes as that is quite good when you first start so you can see all your pages being updated frequently. Typically people set this to 10 or 15 minutes on established sites. It is tempting to change this to 1 minute, but little is gained from this as on most web pages very few figures change that frequently. | #*It has been set in illustrated example to '''5''' minutes as that is quite good when you first start so you can see all your pages being updated frequently. Typically people set this to 10 or 15 minutes on established sites. It is tempting to change this to 1 minute, but little is gained from this as on most web pages very few figures change that frequently. | ||
#As part of the Standard set-up you can request Cumulus to provide pseudo real-time data. The blue box in the illustration shows the relevant items for Cumulus 1. | #As part of the Standard set-up you can request Cumulus to provide pseudo real-time data. The blue box in the illustration shows the relevant items for Cumulus 1. | ||
##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 Cumulus 1 gauges page, you need to '''tick all three boxes'''. In reality, the standard cumulus 1 web templates used in this Simple setup only include two ‘realtime’ elements to show wind speed and direction on the gauges page. For Cumulus MX, the steel series gauges page provided requires all 3 boxes to be selected. If you are running Cumulus 1.x.y and do not wish to provide realtime data untick the 3 “Enable Realtime” boxes, and comment out the last two graphics on the 'gaugesT.htm' template. | ##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 Cumulus 1 gauges page, you need to '''tick all three boxes'''. In reality, the standard cumulus 1 web templates used in this Simple setup only include two ‘realtime’ elements to show wind speed and direction on the gauges page. | |||
##*For Cumulus MX, the steel series gauges page provided requires all 3 boxes to be selected. | |||
##*If you are running Cumulus 1.x.y and do not wish to provide realtime data untick the 3 “Enable Realtime” boxes, and comment out the last two graphics on the 'gaugesT.htm' template. | |||
##The next selection is the time Cumulus will wait after sending a burst of real-time information until it re-starts for producing another burst of real-time information. | ##The next selection is the time Cumulus will wait after sending a burst of real-time information until it re-starts for producing another burst of real-time information. | ||
##*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 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. | ||
Next, click on the '''Files''' tab: | Next, click on the '''Files''' tab: | ||
What you do here depends on which Cumulus version you are using. | |||
== Cumulus 1 == | |||
[[File:SimpleInternet-StandardTicks.png]] | [[File:SimpleInternet-StandardTicks.png]] | ||
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Make sure both “Include Standard” Files and “Include Standard Images” are ticked in Cumulus 1. | Make sure both “Include Standard” Files and “Include Standard Images” are ticked in Cumulus 1. | ||
You have now told Cumulus how to update your web space with the [[Customised_templates#The_Standard_Templates |Standard Cumulus Template]] files for the web. | |||
== Cumulus MX == | |||
Make sure “Include Standard” Files is selected for Cumulus MX. However, you also need to specify an extra file in the table for the steel series gauges page to work: | |||
#'Local filenames' column | |||
#*Use '''Browse''' option to find ''web\realtimegaugesT.txt'' | |||
#'Remote filenames' column | |||
#*Here you must type the path to where you want the web page to appear (i.e. where the other web pages are uploaded to) ending with the file name '' realtimegauges.txt''. Typically the path will involve specifying the directory you entered on the 'Sites/Options' tab (see the 'Web Site' settings step 3 for that tab above). | |||
#'Process?' column | |||
#*Select this, as ''web\realtimegaugesT.txt'' contains web tags and needs to be processed to create the remote file. | |||
#'Realtime?' column | |||
#*Select this, as you want the file to be created at whatever interval you have defined for real-time updates (see 'web settings' point 7 above for where you did that) | |||
# 'FTP?' column | |||
#*Select this. | |||
#'UTF-8?' column | |||
#*This is irrelevant for this file. | |||
You have now told Cumulus how to update your web space with the [[Customised_templates#The_Standard_Templates |Standard Cumulus Template]] files for the web. | You have now told Cumulus how to update your web space with the [[Customised_templates#The_Standard_Templates |Standard Cumulus Template]] files for the web. | ||
== Testing == | == Testing == | ||