Anyone know how to get the history data from the weatherstation's memory onto your PC with nothing more than the included EasyWeather software?
Easyweather automatically downloads the history data at the first read when started.... see above for Geoff's explanation for the location of the data file. I've found easyweather isn't too bad if you just start it when you want to do a read or process some data. The resource problems occur when it's left running.
Like the others I'm running WD 10.37J build 4 and it's running sweetly as a systray item. Apart from a few hiccups when I first installed my WS it's been running perfectly. I've had the web upload working in previous versions but haven't got round to doing it again yet.
Last edited by acropolite; 14-06-2008 at 08:06 PM.
A while back, there was talk of the test-program project1080.zip
Its original link http://www.weather-display.com/downl...roject1080.zip
seems to be broken.
Can someone post the file, or at least a working url? Thanks.
Thanks for the replies guy's. For some reason my station isn't downloading anything from history before when I first plugged it in yesterday, even though the memory is nearly full. It is downloading information since then when I plug it in. I'm not sure what's going on.
I've downloaded Weather Display but haven't got it running yet, still working through the setup and how to get it connected.
I've finished and tested the USB interface board (Velleman kit) Have done some testing with infrared and peltier device. The test rig is going to be setup for some longer term testing I will make look a bit better when finished. If the peltier device works well I will use that as I think it will cope better with the weather. I'm now writing the interface program. I'm also playing with a Rain sensor I got from a garden centre.
Hi all, long time no post.
I received one of the 1081's last week (ebay, $64) and have had most of the problems mentioned in this thread, when windy the rain fall go's up but only on the easyweather software, I have WD 10.37k build 7 (11-6-08) on XP but it wont register rain fall at all but this could be id-10-t error as I know absolutely nothing about WD or any other weather software, someone may have a suggestion there. Waiting to here from bbxvolcano to see what he has to say. The temp and barometer seem to be steady and accurate, if I can sort out the rain issues it would be a good little unit "for the price".
Thanks for any help guys.
Cheers from Mick.
Your rainfall is probably dropping due to the period you have it set to show rain for. If you press the rain amount, then press plus/minus, you can cycle through 1 hr, 24 hr, 1 week, 1 month I think it is. If you have it on 24 hour then it stops raining then slowly it will go down, as less rain had fallen in the last 24 hours.
Go in to the control panel, Station type & settings, "Universal Interface ...."
Click on the "EasyWeather" button way down the bottom right, and click "use direct". You won't have to run the "easyweather" software that way.
It's quite detailed - there are heaps of options in the software.
There is a forum on their website that might help - I just fiddled around for a while. The one I have (in my signature block below) is pretty much the standard one that comes "out of the box".
There are heaps of ways to upload to an external website, copy files to a web-directory etc. My advice is just sit and fiddle.
As Rob said it's not that difficult, the best way is to first get WD to upload web pages to your local HDD and browse them there first. Once you're happy with the result you can set up to FTP to your website.
I just picked up one of these, not a bad unit really.
I have an issue with the rainfall on EasyWeather though.
The Last 24 hour, Last Week, Last Month, and Total all say 4.2mm. Last hour did until I figured out how to reset it - but I cant seem to reset the others.
Any guesses how I reset these? I especially thought the Last 24 hour would have reset by now, but its been showing 4.2mm since thursday night when I set it up.
Oh...and no, we havent had any rain
I'm attempting to write some code to upload the data from the easyweather.dat file, both in html and wap mobile phone friendly pages, on a 30 minute basis. I'll post the results when I have it running.
The spurious reading may be from movement of the tipping bucket after initialisation. I found mine didn't behave properly until I had everything plugged in to the remote before installing the batteries. If you reset the station buffer as per the instructions and delete the weather.dat file your readings should all be reset.
I've got MaxKon WS1081 (eBay), did a bit of digging around, and found Easy Weatger 2.0 (2008) looks like an identical program at http://www.proove.se/ hope you have a better luck with that one,
Acropolite, how do I reset the unit?
I tried deleting the .dat file, no go, seems to be internally stored. I tried reinstalling the software, installed it on another machine etc.
I've even used the clear memory technique (hold down memory for 3 seconds etc). It says it has deleted, but I still get the 4.2mm issue.
Helix, when you clear out the buffer from the Ws1081 does the small Memory pie chart at the bottom RHS go blank?? if not, the memory isn't clear. To clear the buffer, once the "CLEAR" message appears it's necessary to press & hold the round memory icon for a couple of seconds. Other than that, remove the batteries for a few minutes, that will clear everything. Make sure you have the USB connection disconnected as the unit will remain powered from the USB otherwise.
. Waiting to here from bbxvolcano to see what he has to say. The temp and barometer seem to be steady and accurate, if I can sort out the rain issues it would be a good little unit "for the price".
