Photos of the weather station, been meaning to put them up for a while. Lost the photos when the site moved so had to update it. Davis Vantage Pro2 which has been calibrated by Davis, the baromter was drifting. Solar powered temperature heat shield, Solar and UV sensors, rain gauge has been updated with the new version with bird wires. CoCoRaHS – Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network rain gauge on back of station. Cement paver path so I can get to the gauge with out walking in the mud. Weather Display software
Weather Display v10.37S b102
Tag: Weather
In the last few months I have had 3 bloomskys and took down the Storm unit today to send back. I bought a storm about 6 months ago and the first Bloomsky v1 unit died a week later after being up for 6 months. The two replacement Version 2 Sky units I have received will not stay connected to my router even sitting in my office with it. After months of going around with their tech support I got tired of it and told them I want my money back. Have a call tag for the Storm, need to box it up and send it back along with the ridiculously priced mount
https://www.bloomsky.com/product
I’m sure I paid more like $100 6 months ago http://shop.bloomsky.com/products-list/mount
I would not recommend them to anyone.
The weather page for my Davis station is up and running though.
Scottsworld.info updated
https://scottsworld.info Biggest change is implementing https on the site, the default URL for the blog was changed to https and had to change all the links in my pages from http to https. Now getting any links to my site to change because if you to the http link instead of https it will stay on http until you click on a new link with the https coding.
Updated The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding ©, v. 12.0.2 from version 8 and updated the gedcoms that provide the information. https://scottsworld.info/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=Woodward https://scottsworld.info/genealogy/index.php
Have mostly completed updating the HTML/CSS of the site to be HTML 5 compliant. Unless you know website coding it probably isn’t of must interest. A lot of things I was instructed to do in html 4 now is depreciated or not supported and I had to remove it. The main changes are designed to make sites more flexible so they display on any display or device. If you don’t know HTML is Hyper Text Markup Language and CSS is Cascading Style Sheet. More and more of the control of the site from the color and fonts to margins, alignment of elements and so on are in the style sheet.
Biggest annoyance is over the years they have gone from the “center” tag to using “align=center” in that ever tag we wanted to center and you could center a whole page and everything on it with div align=center. Well all that is depreciated and they want you to align stuff with the style sheet and one alignment command is now replaced with half a dozen different ones and what works on text does not work on images or tables and so on. I had to learn a whole new technique to align images and tables. Now have one style command with half a dozen align and margin commands to do what align=center did with style=center with isn’t as reliable, some times doesn’t work.
Was working on the Woodward pages Friday night and yesterday, have one page that will not obey the style sheet and all the text runs from one side and off the right side… Driving me nuts, can’t find a reason why and html tidy and the css checker say there are no errors but obviously there is a problem. https://woodward.scottsworld.info/introduction.htm All the subpages from that page work using he same code.. ARGGG! Computers!!! Enough to drive a person insane some times..
The weather page is mostly working. https://weather.scottsworld.info/index.html At least the main page is, having issues with the program Weather display not uploading files it is set to and creating and uploading one image I have turned off completely but it still does it.. Bloomsky v1 died and was replaced with Bloomsky v2 but I have had issues with my internet dropping and have to get up on the roof and reset the bloomsky to the router. If it is not one thing it is another around here, murphys law is working over time.. I will have to post some photos later, my phone crashed said the sd card was corrupted and the last photos I took the other day aren’t on it any more..
Removed the Gospel Principles pages, the list hasn’t been used in a few years now. Had too many people complaining they wanted to be removed (although instructions on how to unsubscribe were at the bottom of every message) and not one person (over 500 subscribers) complained when I stopped posting as I don’t have enough time. So I decided to remove the pages.
Think that is everything, lot of coding changes and other technical changes but it still looks mostly the same. You would probably have to be me to spot the changes really.
Scottsworld Website changes
Some changes to the webpages, replaced the drop down link menu with a side bar menu which works much better, the drop down tended to be touchy and did not work well in some versions of Explorer..
The gospel principles pages are gone, I was getting a lot of complaints from people asking to be removed from the list who were apparently too dumb to read the directions at the bottom of every message.. I dot not have a lot of time to post it any more and when I stopped two years ago not one person emailed me asking why. Most email lists have died, I think a lot of people only do social media any more. I know most of the time the only traffic on my LDS singles list was the monthly posting of the rules of the list. I’m not single any more so I don’t post on it myself.
Cleaned up the links pages which I had not really done in 4 years. A lot of LDS sites have disappeared and many other sites as well.
Working on getting my Cactus Wren, Scott’s Weather Station pages up. I had to change from Virtual Weather Station because it kept crashing in Windows 10 and the author doesn’t seem to want to support it any more. Have switched to Weather Display, some what more complicated, settings are scattered all over mutiple menus and webpage creation is a lot more complicated. I understood how VWS did it, now having to learn a whole new system.
Just installed a new beta editor in Word Press called Gutenberg, Seems nice so far. It will be the new editor in WP 5. It introduces the block and you can move them around and edit things easier.
Pretty much all new content will be here in the scottsworld blog as I can just sit down and type with out a lot of html editing, and then having to FTP it to the website. Which all that is a whole process that takes time.
Thanks for visiting Scottsworld, surprised there are 180 people subscribed to this blog.