w0mbat
12-02-2014, 05:04 PM
Hi all,
This is my first post to this forum even though I have been a member for a while.
I recently bought Back Yard EOS Premium Edition V 3.0.3 and generally I am very pleased with it. However I have run into some minor issues with its built in Weather Center.
I first tried the Yahoo group support page shown on the BYE website but that only gives a "page can't be displayed" error so I am trying here.
I have run a weather station for years using weather software called Weather Display. This generates a space delimited text file of weather data every 15 seconds so I was pleased when I found BYE could use this as a source of data for it's Weather Center.
In BYE Settings you have to set the position and length of each parameter (temp, humidity, location) in the text file. At first this seemed to work fine but I then found I was sometimes seeing silly numbers in BYE. I think this is because the length of the text file and therefore the position of each parameter changes as the data change. eg temp could be 7.5 degrees or 17.5 degrees. Other irrelevant data earlier in the text file also change length to add to the problem. So I am now wondering how this approach to extracting data from a text file can ever be reliable. Or am I missing something?
Also I notice that when setting the length and position numbers in the BYE settings that the different settings interact somehow. eg when setting the position and length for humidity the readings for temp and location change! I can't understand why this would be so.
I realise that this is probably a fairly obscure question but as the direct support site doesn't seem to work iceinspace is my only hope!
Regards to all,
Ian
This is my first post to this forum even though I have been a member for a while.
I recently bought Back Yard EOS Premium Edition V 3.0.3 and generally I am very pleased with it. However I have run into some minor issues with its built in Weather Center.
I first tried the Yahoo group support page shown on the BYE website but that only gives a "page can't be displayed" error so I am trying here.
I have run a weather station for years using weather software called Weather Display. This generates a space delimited text file of weather data every 15 seconds so I was pleased when I found BYE could use this as a source of data for it's Weather Center.
In BYE Settings you have to set the position and length of each parameter (temp, humidity, location) in the text file. At first this seemed to work fine but I then found I was sometimes seeing silly numbers in BYE. I think this is because the length of the text file and therefore the position of each parameter changes as the data change. eg temp could be 7.5 degrees or 17.5 degrees. Other irrelevant data earlier in the text file also change length to add to the problem. So I am now wondering how this approach to extracting data from a text file can ever be reliable. Or am I missing something?
Also I notice that when setting the length and position numbers in the BYE settings that the different settings interact somehow. eg when setting the position and length for humidity the readings for temp and location change! I can't understand why this would be so.
I realise that this is probably a fairly obscure question but as the direct support site doesn't seem to work iceinspace is my only hope!
Regards to all,
Ian