On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 03:53 AM, Bruce Colburn wrote:
G'Morning John and Red,
I've been debating that - I just have not had time to look at the innards of how a program would function to pull just the text file. I may have time this weekend to really play with something in C or Java, just not sure of the mechanics of how the applications pass information yet. I love what Red has created and that offers a lot more though with triggering PHP scripts on the back end after configuring FastCGI-PHP on Lighttpd as leverage on the OS itself. Pulling my weather station via RTL_433 then parsing that information into something useful via PHP. I'm not an APRS guy - so it would be nice to rather have some data like local wx available along with critical information on a "Cheat Sheet".... maybe I'll have time to actually dust off the programming hat and do something about it.
Red - All is working good now with your script. No issues yet - but I've had limited time to test since making changes.
Greg - N3BYR
Greg, the PHP stuff is awesome for fetching data and generating stuff as you said, great flexibility. I¡¯m pleased you¡¯ve found it worthwhile.?
A nicely formatted page with hyperlinks to different sections of your station apparatus to drill down into the cheatsheet has real potential. The menus are literally only html lists, setting the ¡®f¡¯ mode first will make a page appear all in one go with original formatting, by default it pages it condensed without empty lines (a side effect of the method to generate pagination), bonus mode for slow links.
Best of luck and happy experimenting!
73
Red