El cheapo weather station. - Page 8

acropolite (Phil) · #**141** 08-05-2008, 07:55 PM

Just got this email from Brian Hamilton

Quote:

Hi
I changed something and the latest version of update of WD is working ok here in testing now
Cheers
Brian

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**142** 08-05-2008, 08:52 PM

just a slight difference to the way the graphs look too

maybe it is fixed

now if i can just get that moon icon at the bottom to update

geoff

acropolite (Phil) · #**143** 08-05-2008, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Geoff

now if i can just get that moon icon at the bottom to update

I don't think it updates Geoff, but if you click on it you do get a popup with the correct phase, provided your Lat/Long is correctly set. Fingers crossed, my copy of WD seems to be behaving.

For anyone who is following the WD update the current version is now 10.37J build 19

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**144** 08-05-2008, 09:34 PM

mine has behaved all day as far as the rain goes

wonder what will happen when it does rain ?

you got yours up on the net ?

geoff

acropolite (Phil) · #**145** 09-05-2008, 02:21 PM

I've had mine up since I first downloaded WD some time ago. Since reinstalling, I haven't had the time to revisit the HTML stuff, I might do it this weekend. There are enough bells & whistles in WD to keep a tinkerer happy for a lifetime. You can have a peek at my earlier attempt here but it hasn't been updated since the end of march.

FWIW the page is hosted on an old spare machine at home using Xerver, an open source (free) XP web server package, easy to use, has FTP capability as well.

You can upload a snapshot of your weather data as part of your sig, but alas Mojo has (wisely I expect) nobbled the necessary capabilities.

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**146** 10-05-2008, 05:40 PM

after a full day of the station showing nice graphs and no rainfall, it is back to showing falls of 0.3mm and a spike in the graphing again

anyone else have this problem ?

geoff

Gargoyle_Steve (Steve) · #**147** 10-05-2008, 09:52 PM

I stopped tinkering around with WD ver 10.37 build 13 since it seemed that the later versions you guys are running seemed to get a bit 'buggy'.
Let me know when you have it all figured out.

Although that version (build 13) supposedly had direct USB support I couldn't get it to run, but everything seems to be running fine using EasyWeather
(as long as I shut down EW and restart it every few hours) with EW logging data from the weather station itself, and Weather Display taking that data and creating it's own graphs and uploading weather data here (Weather Underground station ID IQLDAROO2) and here (dumping data to personal webpage).

I do get occasional "negative" spikes in my barometric data only, seems it sometimes coincides with restarting EasyWeather. I've had zero rain since the weather staion arrives so nothing to report re it's behaviour there.

Looking forward to running full USB mode though!

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**148** 10-05-2008, 10:07 PM

i would download and run build 19 if i were you Steve
runs direct

besides you would help us to see if you had any problems, same as me anyway

geoff

Gargoyle_Steve (Steve) · #**149** 10-05-2008, 10:20 PM

Ok Geoff, I'll do it tomorrow. I know you wouldn't lead me astray.

astroron (Ron) · #**150** 10-05-2008, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Gargoyle_Steve

Ok Geoff, I'll do it tomorrow. I know you wouldn't lead me astray.

When you've done it Steve and it works properly

let me know and I will do the same

Ron

acropolite (Phil) · #**151** 10-05-2008, 10:31 PM

Build 19 still has problems for me, seems to either stop or record incorrect data, I've emailed Brian but he seems to think it's a problem with my setup, he asked me to check that my USB port isn't going into power down mode.

I don't think that's the problem as easyweather still gets correct data, although I haven't been able to ascertain which USB port is used by the 1081 to try turning off power management.

Waiting for Build 20......

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**152** 10-05-2008, 10:50 PM

turn it off on all of them Phil

geoff

turbo_pascale (Rob) · #**153** 11-05-2008, 08:33 AM

Build 19 made no difference for me whatsoever.
Still choppy spikes in there, and rain accumulating progressively throughout the day.

At least I don't have to continually shut down the software, although it it's very Vista friendly yet (it works, but all my screens have scroll bars and are too small, and there is no button to "minimise to tray" when using the aero theme)

Turbo

acropolite (Phil) · #**154** 11-05-2008, 09:53 AM

Rob, is your rainfall reading correct with easyweather??

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**155** 11-05-2008, 11:06 AM

Rob

are the spikes around 1 hour 20 minutes apart ?

and how much rain is recorded at that time ? mine was 0.3

see my earlier post about the settings on your console (the unit)

mine has behaved itself overnite

geoff

turbo_pascale (Rob) · #**156** 11-05-2008, 08:11 PM

Yep. Spikes are about 1hr 20 minutes apart, and up until yesterday (before build 19) was a constant 3mm (I think).
My site here: http://turbopascale.sytes.net

I had everything set for 24 hr time, but just noticed the base station was reading american date format for some reason. Just switched that over, and will see if that makes any difference.

As far as I can tell, the main unit has the right rain readings, although everything in there could be rubbish. I haven't attempted to calibrate it to known values at all. Nor have I actually compared base unit readings with what WD is returning to compare.

Thanks for the feedback though - looking forward to it reading vaguely right soon! I want to mount the unit properly, but have avoided putting it up out of the way until I can be sure it's right.

Turbo

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**157** 11-05-2008, 09:07 PM

Rob

on your console - does the date read as 11-5-08 or 11-5-SU (for sunday) ?

geoff

turbo_pascale (Rob) · #**158** 11-05-2008, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by GTB_an_Owl

Rob

on your console - does the date read as 11-5-08 or 11-5-SU (for sunday) ?

geoff

OK something odd going on here.
I set the date format on the base station (using the touch screen) to 11/5/2008 dM (there is no day anywhere). It stayed that way until I just looked at this post, it had reverted to 5/11/2008.

Arrrghhh.

acropolite (Phil) · #**159** 12-05-2008, 08:59 AM

I've found, after disabling power management on all USB ports, that WD stops reading data after being maximised from the systray. I've emailed brian yet again....

GTB_an_Owl (Geoff) · #**160** 12-05-2008, 09:18 AM

yes - i sure wish he could get to the bottom of it

it is not the unit
and it is not a problem reading the data, cause Easy Weather does - it no trouble

i am getting tired of changing settings and watching what is happening

geoff