Thanks for the help....
It's not possible to mix content (HTTP/HTTPS) within the same browser window without receiving this warning. That would be a major security no-no. Unfortunately the weather map in this thread doesn't support SSL/HTTPS so you only have a few options.
1. Find a weather map that supports SSL/HTTPS. I've been unable to find one so far but I'm sure one exists somewhere.
2. Download the image via HTTP using wget on a scheduled basis (every 5min for instance) on the local Orion server and reference the file's IIS location in the URL when creating the HTML resource.
It's an animated GIF file located here -> http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/NatLoop_Small.gif
Use the Custom Text and HTML resource to add code like the following
<IMG ALT="Live Weather" SRC="">radar.weather.gov/.../NatLoop_Small.gif" BORDER="0"> </A>
Great question. It was really easy for me to add that to Orion, and I actually spent much longer looking for a great map than actually adding it to the demo. Here are the steps:
<img src="<a href="http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/NatLoop_Small.gif">">radar.weather.gov/.../NatLoop_Small.gif"</a> width="450" border="0">
target="_New"
<a href="<a href="http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php">http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php</a>" target="_New"><img src=<a href="http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/NatLoop_Small.gif">">radar.weather.gov/.../NatLoop_Small.gif"</a> width="450" border="0"></a>
Have fun!
-Patrick
On the orion demo they have a live animated map from http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php Here is the link to the demo….http://npmv7.solarwinds.net/Orion/SummaryView.aspx?viewid=119&netobject= Does any know how this is accomplished? Thanks for the help....
Thanks for the detailed explanation.
As all of the posts are regarding America has anyone done this in the UK and pass on details of the map they used?
Thanks
Jon
Jon-
The US has amazing free weather, but that's the effect of decades of coordinated weather service at a continental scale. Europe is beginning to combine their efforts, and although I haven't been able to find regional maps with drill-down, you can now find public weather sites and some aggregation services to link them. There are excellent pay services with outstanding coverage, but not free.
For example, here's the Meterox radar loop for Europe: http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=holiday&jaar=-3&soort=loop3uur
And here's the BBC London: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/rain.shtml#no_url
Researching your question I found this really cool site, where the other links came from: http://www.kaikowetter.ch/radar.php . It has a European map, with icons for all the different weather services and their local products. It's not a single, integrated site, but it's a start.
Not that I'm a weather geek or anything..
Hi,
I don't know if you can use something from this page?
http://www.dagbladet.no/vaer/
/BT
Hate to keep beating this topic to death....but does anyone know if this wget application works with a proxy server? Since weather.com is constantly changing the IP address of their server are are having a hard time with FW rules keeping up. Instead of opening the FW to everything we were asked to get this to work via a proxy server.Anyone know?BB
If you want to allow drill-down to local maps, you could add them as well, or even build an HTML MAP. I wanted access to all the content on the Weather Service site, so I wrapped the image in a link tag, with the magic target="_New" attribute so it pops in a new window. The result looks like this: <a href="<a href="http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php">http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php</a>" target="_New"><img srchttp://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/NatLoop_Small.gif"; width="450" border="0"></a>
<a href="<a href="http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php">http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php</a>" target="_New"><img srchttp://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/NatLoop_Small.gif"; width="450" border="0"></a>
There's a little goof in there. It should be as follows:
<a href="http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php" target="_Blank"><img src="http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/NatLoop_Small.gif"; width="450" border="0"></a>
I am currently using Mapmaker to show the US weather (via the weather channel), and our node sites. I like this Radar.weather map a little better only because it's animated. Could I use this Map to replace the one that I am using in Mapmaker and also add nodes to this map?
{lurking in thread} That may work, but I' haven't tested animated .gif's with the MapMaker engine. My hunch is that it will just take the first frame, overlay the nodes and return it as a static image. To animate, it would need to put the nodes on each frame, and re-save it as an animated .gif. I'm eager to be wrong of course.
One problem im seeing with this is that we are using ssl for our orion site.
Since the url of the weather map is external and not covered by our cert we are constantly getting a mixed security message in our browsers on refresh. Any one know a way around this 'include'?
We are trying to use the map on an unattended TV console. When the page refreshes, it hangs on the security alert. Ive tried resetting browser security in IE to allow mixed content types but its still complaining every time it refreshes. ' The page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you wish to display the nonsecure items?'
I believe the setting you are looking for is under the Advanced tab in the Internet Explorer options. Look for an option that says "Warn if changing between secure and not secure mode"
<IMG ALT="Live Weather" src="http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/NatLoop_Small.gif"; BORDER="0"> </A>
Thank you aLTeReGo - this works!!
cheers,
Om
Until recently when using the network atlas I could link the background to a GIF and add my groups/sites to the page but since I updated recently that fails and all I get is a red background stating "Linked Background failed to load." and when I try to validate it I get "No image could be found at the specified location."
This is the one that was working until just a few days ago:
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/RadarImg/latest_Small.gif
Custom Text and HTML resource? Where do I find this?
-Jeff
Did you get an answer to this? We are seeing a similar issue, and when i go to network atlas and attempt to enter that URL for a linked background and validate it says no image could be found.
My coworker set up a script to keep updating the image locally and then displays that image instead of the link to internet.