Is There an Alternative to Windy for Embed in Belchertown Skin

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G Hammer

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May 17, 2019, 9:04:59 AM5/17/19
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I use and like the Belchertown skin.
I like the Windy.com website and the app on my mobile.

I do not care for the embed, it only shows metric values and clicking the label does not change this as it should.

So, any favorite to replace the Windy embed?

HoracioDos

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May 17, 2019, 10:33:10 AM5/17/19
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Hello.
Windy iframe designer allows to change wind and temperature units to F and mph. This is the link
Then you can generate the iframe code that suits you and paste in radar_html keyword

G Hammer

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May 17, 2019, 10:34:08 AM5/17/19
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Except that doesn’t work. 

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Colin Larsen

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May 17, 2019, 2:16:02 PM5/17/19
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Are you wanting to change the map picture or the 8 day forecast?

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G Hammer

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May 17, 2019, 2:17:04 PM5/17/19
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The radar map. 

Colin Larsen

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May 17, 2019, 2:23:48 PM5/17/19
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As was pointed out this map is highly configurable via Windy.com, just decide what you information you want and paste the link into the appropriate conf file. Otherwise you may of course change the link to any other source you like too.
Can you post an example of what you mean by "clicking the label"

G Hammer

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May 17, 2019, 3:13:53 PM5/17/19
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I understand that the embed configuration indicates you can choose how to display wind and temperature.
The temperature never shows any but metric no matter what I choose in the setup. See image step-01
Rain is always in mm, wind however does show mph. See image step-02

What I mean by 'clicking the label' is, for example, click the C next to Temperature and it should change to F. That applies to any of the data displayed, Rain Wind Wind Gusts
This also only works with Wind.

Are these Windy problems? Yes. Which is why I wanted to know if anyone had a different radar display they like.



On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 2:23:48 PM UTC-4, Colin Larsen wrote:
As was pointed out this map is highly configurable via Windy.com, just decide what you information you want and paste the link into the appropriate conf file. Otherwise you may of course change the link to any other source you like too.
Can you post an example of what you mean by "clicking the label"

On Sat, 18 May 2019, 06:17 G Hammer, <gary....@gmail.com> wrote:
The radar map. 

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:16 PM Colin Larsen <colin...@gmail.com> wrote:
Are you wanting to change the map picture or the 8 day forecast?

On Sat, 18 May 2019, 02:34 G Hammer, <gary....@gmail.com> wrote:
Except that doesn’t work. 
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:33 AM HoracioDos <rose...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello.
Windy iframe designer allows to change wind and temperature units to F and mph. This is the link
Then you can generate the iframe code that suits you and paste in radar_html keyword

On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 10:04:59 AM UTC-3, G Hammer wrote:
I use and like the Belchertown skin.
I like the Windy.com website and the app on my mobile.

I do not care for the embed, it only shows metric values and clicking the label does not change this as it should.

So, any favorite to replace the Windy embed?

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Colin Larsen

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May 17, 2019, 3:27:18 PM5/17/19
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Ok I see what you mean, I'm going to have a play and see if it's working for me or not. I use metric anyway, but I'm sure many others use US units with degrees F and wind mph etc. Does the copy and paste of the generated link have a problem? Have you looked at that just in a browser, outside of the skin?

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Colin Larsen

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May 17, 2019, 3:30:22 PM5/17/19
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Also just a thought, there is a switch in the Windy API to force the units, but I would have thought it was in the generated link too. I'll see if I can fish it out but I know it's documented on the Windy website somewhere

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G Hammer

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May 17, 2019, 4:55:46 PM5/17/19
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It's along running issue with the embed.
Been reported for at last as long as I've used it.

Thus, find a different radar embed.
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Pat

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May 18, 2019, 9:10:02 AM5/18/19
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I haven't found a good embed other than windy which is why I put it in there. The URL variables have a metricTemp option but setting it to 0 or 1 doesn't change the temp to imperial, so it seems like a windy problem like you've mentioned. 

I once ran and developed a live storm chasing video streaming website called TornadoChannel.com (which I still own, but it's offline) where I used radar data provided Iowa State University through their Mesonet. TornadoChannel would request transparent radar overlays from iastate, which I would overlay on top of Google Maps. I haven't dug around their website in a couple of years - so I don't recall if they have an embed radar/temperature model, but it may exist. Feel free to see what they've got. Maybe it'll help?
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