Good morning :site:
For the past few days, I've been struggling with getting an accurate reading of the outdoor temperature. Parking lot on either side of our building throws the temperature way off when the sun is out, even with the sensor in a white open-ended pipe 10 feet above the ground (10-15 degrees above what it actually is outside).
Boss man says just get it from the internet (yeah that easy right). So I've tried using VBS on one of our OPC Servers to pull down an xml file from OpenWeather, I can get it to get the xml file, but if I do a substring operation on it, depending on the length of that substring, everything is going to move about and it's really not the best option I don't think.
Instead of going with substring/string to float coercion on an XML file I'd figure I'd ask you fellas if you've ever done anything quite like this. Ideas, links, anything will help. Thanks guys.
For the past few days, I've been struggling with getting an accurate reading of the outdoor temperature. Parking lot on either side of our building throws the temperature way off when the sun is out, even with the sensor in a white open-ended pipe 10 feet above the ground (10-15 degrees above what it actually is outside).
Boss man says just get it from the internet (yeah that easy right). So I've tried using VBS on one of our OPC Servers to pull down an xml file from OpenWeather, I can get it to get the xml file, but if I do a substring operation on it, depending on the length of that substring, everything is going to move about and it's really not the best option I don't think.
Instead of going with substring/string to float coercion on an XML file I'd figure I'd ask you fellas if you've ever done anything quite like this. Ideas, links, anything will help. Thanks guys.