Weather Alert - Config Area

[GreenAcres]

Tom,


The LEADM option is still not working. Other then that all is great

Thanks

Thom

[jayfro]

Tom,

Any luck in getting a filter function added back into the Warnings script? My local NWS issues a "short term forecast" quite often throughout the day and night, and I would really perfer to not get these as a severe weather event.

Thanks!

Jay Fro

[GreenAcres]

I agree, I had more the ten of them today alone.


Thom

[Sean Willoughby]

Me too.

[Tom Caldwell]

I'm sorry I haven't had the chance to update the script yet. I have made a couple of small changes. But haven't had a chance to add the filter yet. I've been working on the recipe package lately. Truthfully for a few weeks. But Between all the overtime I work and the work here at home I haven't had much chance for writing code. Hopefully the work here is about finished and it will leave more time for fun.

[jayfro]

No problem Tom, I know how that can go. Hopefully you don't mind, but in the mean time I am providing sort of a hack that will allow users to filter without too much difficulty. I am Not an ASP expert, and I don't know how all the script install stuff in here works, so I didn't want to mess with and end up breaking any of that.

I tried to test on a couple areas, and I think it is filtering out properly, but everyone will have to install this manually until Tom has a "REAL" solution.

In the weatherwarnings.ini file (in Config folder under homeseer root), add the following (you should be able to cut and paste the text between the "-------":
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
; alerts you don't want to be processed - enter PIPE (|) delimited list
DontProcess=SHORT TERM FORECAST|RED FLAG WARNING

; list of alerts the NWS will issue
; TORNADO WARNING
; SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
; FLASH FLOOD WARNING
; TSUNAMI WARNING
; INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING
; HURRICANE FORCE WIND WARNING
; HURRICANE WARNING
; TYPHOON WARNING
; BLIZZARD WARNING
; ICE STORM WARNING
; TROPICAL STORM WARNING
; HEAVY SNOW WARNING
; WINTER STORM WARNING
; INLAND TROPICAL STORM WARNING
; DUST STORM WARNING
; STORM WARNING
; COASTAL FLOOD WARNING
; LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING
; HIGH SURF WARNING
; HEAVY SLEET WARNING
; FLOOD WARNING
; HIGH WIND WARNING
; LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING
; EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
; RED FLAG WARNING
; WIND CHILL WARNING
; AVALANCHE WARNING
; FREEZE WARNING
; GALE WARNING
; FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
; SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
; SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
; TORNADO WATCH
; SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
; FLASH FLOOD WATCH
; HURRICANE WATCH
; TYPHOON WATCH
; HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT
; TYPHOON LOCAL STATEMENT
; SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY
; FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY
; FREEZING DRIZZLE ADVISORY
; SNOW ADVISORY
; SLEET ADVISORY
; WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
; LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY
; WIND CHILL ADVISORY
; HEAT ADVISORY
; HIGH SURF ADVISORY
; BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY
; HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY WARNING
; DENSE SMOKE ADVISORY
; SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
; DENSE FOG ADVISORY
; MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT
; WIND ADVISORY
; BLOWING DUST ADVISORY
; FROST ADVISORY
; LAKE WIND ADVISORY
; ASHFALL ADVISORY
; FREEZING FOG ADVISORY
; AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY
; TSUNAMI WATCH
; COASTAL FLOOD WATCH
; LAKESHORE FLOOD WATCH
; BLIZZARD WATCH
; TROPICAL STORM WATCH
; INLAND TROPICAL STORM WATCH
; INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH
; WINTER STORM WATCH
; FLOOD WATCH
; LAKE EFFECT SNOW WATCH
; HIGH WIND WATCH
; EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH
; WIND CHILL WATCH
; FREEZE WATCH
; FIRE WEATHER WATCH
; AVALANCHE WATCH
; EARTHQUAKE WARNING
; LOCAL AREA EMERGENCY
; LAW ENFORCEMENT WARNING
; 911 TELEPHONE OUTAGE
; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WARNING
; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WARNING
; RADIOLOGICAL HAZARD WARNING
; CIVIL DANAGER WARNING
; CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE
; EVACUATION IMMEDIATE
; FIRE WARNING
; SHELTER IN PLACE WARNING
; VOLCANO WARNING
; FLOOD STATEMENT
; COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT
; LAKESHORE FLOOD STATEMENT
; SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
; SHORT TERM FORECAST
; FIRE DANGER STATEMENT
; HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
; CHILD ABDUCTION EMERGENCY
------------------------------------------------------------------

Then, replace the weather warnings.txt file in your scripts directory with the one attached to this message.

You should be good to go now. Just add a pipe delimited list of alert types you want the script to ignore into the weatherwatches.ini file.

There is one small issue I am sure will plague this (if this becomes a big issue before Tom updates his system, I am sure it is a 10 minute fix I just haven't put my mind to fixing in my logic - I kinda took the easy way out). If there is more than one alert for your area, and the last alert in your area is one you set to ignore, I am replacing that with a string that makes HS think there are no alerts. I think the other alerts will still be processed, but then they may be cleared by this last one. Hopefully what I threw together will work while Tom finds time to do it right. And hopefully my instructions don't blow up anyones computer!

Jay Fro