ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Arbor Studios ThirdAveSuite Home Page</title> <META NAME="viewport" CONTENT="width=device-width"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ccdddd"> <H1>ThirdAveSuite, NEWS!</H1> Many apologies. NOAA has changed its method of delivering tide information and I only found out yesterday. It will take me some time to build a new parser.<P> The good news is that ThirdAveSuite has been rewritten to support iOS 5 and the iPad and has greater stability and flexibility. I hope to have a version back up on the App Store in a week or two. I will try to build into the new version a fix against loss of NOAA data going forward.<P> <H1>ThirdAveSuite, Current Version is 2.1</H1> ThirdAveSuite is an iPhone application that is dedicated to monitoring the Third Avenue kiteboarding and sailboarding weather instrument mounted on top of, and the network ptz camera mounted inside of the Electronics for Imaging building in Foster City, CA.<P> <H2>Weather Instrument Information</H2> The weather instrument being used is a Davis Vantage Pro2, and the weather information is served using a Meteohub weather server. The data is collected every 15 seconds and posted in Weather Display Live format to the Arbor-Studios website. The data is acquired on the same schedule by the iPhone application.<P> ThirdAveWind displays different background images and audio based on wind speed and direction.<P> The default setting for audio is OFF as a consideration to those who might be checking conditions at 3rd during meetings.<P> The information screen shows some more of the data that is available through the Davis Vantage Pro2. More may be added in the future.<P> <H2>Network Camera Information</H2> The network camera being used is a Sony SNC-RZ30N pan, tilt, zoom device, and the images are served using a Fit PC Slim running Gentoo and custom software for acquiring, manipulating, and uploading the images to the Arbor Studios website. The images are collected every 240 seconds (4 minutes). The data is acquired on the same schedule by the iPhone application.<P> <H2>Credits</H2> We would like to thank Scott Ellington for his most beautiful splash page image. We would like to thank Clark Beckstead for his most beautiful sunset photo of Third Ave looking toward Coyote Point. <H2>Proviso</H2> We have found that the older phones just don't have the OOMPH to run all of ThirdAveSuite. If this should happen to you then you can try the ThirdAveWind/ThirdAveView combination, which run on 3G phones. We are trying to find out whether either combination will run on the pre-3G phones. <H2>Differences with Flash Web Site</H2> In April, 2010 an experimental version of ThirdAveSuite (and ThirdAveWind) was deployed that eliminates the conversion from knots to mph. The intention of this change was to accommodate the differences between the observed wind speed values on the EFI roof and the observed wind speed values at the corner by the sailboarding ramp. Since that deployment the values in these apps and the observed values have been much more aligned. In fact, the values in the apps now appear to be between the values at the sailboard ramp and the channel marker, whereas the observed values align better with the channel marker and the SFO sensor. As such, this change has been made permanent, and users of ThirdAveSuite and ThirdAveWind should know that the values displayed in these apps are not observed values but are intended to comply with our goal of providing accurate information on the kiting/sailboarding conditions at 3rd Avenue.<P> <H2>Tutorial</H2> Please select the following link for a tutorial on the features of ThirdAveSuite: <A HREF="Tutorial/index.html">TUTORIAL</A> <H2>Release History</H2> <H3>2.1</H3> <UL> <LI>Fixed a problem in tide data acquisition that was stuck on 2010 data. <LI>Updated precipitation graphics to new (test tube) format. <LI>Other minor fixes, graphical. </UL> <H3>2.0</H3> <UL> <LI>Upgraded to support iOS 4.0. <LI>Updated dial graphics to look more 3 dimensional. <LI>Updated the wind history to include wind direction. <LI>Eliminated the gust display and gust history tab. <LI>Replace the gust display with a meter display that shows a barometric pressure meter and a humidity meter. <LI>Replaced the gust history display with a gauge that shows a precipitation gauge, a cloudbase gauge, and a tide gauge. </UL> <H3>1.4</H3> <UL> <LI>Changed the wind speed display to use instantaneous (gust) speed rather than average speed. <LI>Reduced the animation duration from 5 to 3 seconds and changed to using a constant. <LI>Changed the wind history legend to say current and average rather than speed and gusts. <LI>Changed the URL to point to the tutorial rather than the A-S main page. </UL> <H3>1.3</H3> <UL> <LI>Fixed a bug with the tide calculations <LI>Changed all tables to use range Y scales (A->B instead of 0->B). <LI>Reduced width of graph lines for readability. <LI>Now parsing forecast to determine the forecast icon. <LI>Changed moonphase icon to use fewer new moon icons in the month. </UL> <H3>1.2</H3> <UL> <LI>Added support for variable height cells in sensor data, to accommodate multi-row forecasts and icons. <LI>Started checking for day/night when assigning forecast icons. <LI>Acquiring tide data on day before and after given day to make sure that there are no holes in the data. <LI>Fixed some memory-related issues. <LI>Fixed the panning problem in the TAV views. </UL> <H3>1.0</H3> <UL> <LI>First official version (i.e., first version on the App Store). </UL> <H2>Sample Images of Application</H2> <TABLE BORDER="5" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="1"> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-V1.2-Splash.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-V1.2-Info.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-WindDial.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-WindHistories.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-GustDial.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-GustHistory.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-TempDial.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-TempHistories.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-Sensor1.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-Sensor2.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-Sensor3.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-ViewsView.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-PLView.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-FlagView.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-JumpView.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-BeachView.jpg"/></TD></TR> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="TAS-PanoramicView.jpg"/></TD></TR> </TABLE><P> <H2>Future Plans/Improvements</H2> <UL> <LI>Fix zoom on PL view. <LI>Improve usability of views. </UL> <HR> Space Provided By <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a> </BODY> </HTML>