El cheapo weather station.

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

i'm running the latest 01 release and it seems to be crashing/running out of resources or something after a while

geoff

[snowyskiesau]

Received my replacement weather station on Friday and it shows exactly the same symptoms as the last one!
When I spin the anemometer, I get a rainfall indication as well as a wind speed indication.
This time I tried using the supplied software as well as downloading the latest WD software, no difference.
Nothing I do seems to make any difference to it.

Anyone want to know what they look like inside??

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

you sure you plugging the wires into the right holes Geoff ?

what happens when you don't have the rain guage lead connected ?

geoff

[snowyskiesau]

Checked and double checked the wires.
If there is no rain gauge plugged in, the result is the same - you get a rainfall reading when you spin the anemometer.
The wind speed reading seems to be correct as far as I can tell.

Installed new batteries.
Switched off the Oregon Scientific wireless rain gauge I have, just in case it was interference.

I thought it might have been the old one returned by mistake but pretty sure it's not.
Outdoor temp and humidity readings seem OK

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

Oh well

back it goes then

geoff

[coldknights (Cathy)]

Hi All, well i got a ws-1081pc from ebay and found the software that come with it does not work good at all rain gauge ( wrong readings ) so i downloaded the weather display ver 10.37k and have been running it for about a week and have had no problems like other people have had with there ws-1081 weather stations.
Ok the stations work !!!!! the problems i think is EASYWEATHER program.
Iam writting the email; to ebay seller telling him the problems we are all having with this model and asking them to get the manufacturer to get the program fixed if they cant get the program fixed we all want a free full working version of WEATHER DISPLAY VER 10.37K as your ebay listing connect to pc !! software supplied !! so i hope this helps us and will give them a link to this site so they can read the problems we are having or all of us will send them back to you at the same time wanting ALL our money back including postage as i feel we have paid enough for the station that is supplied with the software that does not work why should we pay for more software at a cost of $80AUD OR MORE when the software should work but has a bug in it and they cant supply us with a update to fix this problem.:mad 2:

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

OK - how you all going with your weather stations

who has them ?

are they behaving themselves ?

who has their web pages up and running ?

don't talk too loudly - but - i now have WD running as a service and it is behaving it self nicely and has been running for 2 days without falling over

geoff

[snowyskiesau]

Yes, I have one and No, it's not behaving itself

Still arguing with the supplier who doesn't accept that the second unit supplied has the same fault as the original one.

Glad this thing wasn't too expensive

[astroron (Ron)]

As mentioned in a another post mine seems to be going along OK, now and again get some funny readings,but all in all I am Happy for the price.
I to am using WD and after a full uninstall of my weather station and reinstall all is working well.
The rain gauge is compatible with my glass gauge and the wind seems right.
so all in all it seems to be money well spent for the enjoyment I get
I hope to have my website up soon,as it is in the process of being constructed
Ron

[turbo_pascale (Rob)]

Mine has been behaving itself (I have never actually checked the measurements against an alternative source to QA it, but it is about right based on looking up other local WS on Wunderground etc.

Only thing is I don't appear to be able to get it to run as a service properly (could be vista getting in the way), so the other day when vista automatically rebooted at 3am, lost about a day of data (recovered by loading easyweather and back-loading it the old way)

my site is here: http://turbopascale.sytes.net

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

good one Rob

would you like some of OUR rain to test your rain guage out ?

we've had 3 inches register here the last two days and it might hit 4 before 9am in the morning

geoff

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

I had stuck with running ver 10.37j build 13 of Weather Display for some time, using it to read the .dat file created by Easy Weather - this gave me pretty reliable figures and consistency of data capture, with only occasional hickups, those mostly fixed by manually clearing of the data log in the station itself once it got somewhere past half full, and on 2 occasions powering down and reinitialising the station intself.

However in the last week we've received the first rain since I've had the station, and with something like 248 mm's of rain in the last few days I kept finding the PC bogged down by Easy Weather doing rain history calculations - lower left frame "status" would show it going 1% ... 2% ... 3% etc- for about 30-40 minutes, during which no data would log to WD or WUnderground, and the PC grinding along like a 2 legged dog on tranquilisers. I kept closing EasyWeather and opening it again to free things up but this was a fairly short term solution.

I've updated and am now running ver 10.37k build 04, not running Easy Weather at all but now running via Direct mode (ie USB connect).
I hadn't been able to get this to receive data directly vis the USB connection for some reason on previous versions, but build 04 seems to be doing it all ok. Also uploading to Weather Underground at the same time and WD's full "auto generated" webpage is here.

Ron if this continues ok we'll get you updated in the next couple of days - next step then is the Skycams!



(Just read your post Geoff - I've had my rain resetting at midnight, about 3 days ago I passed 100mm's by 10am. Glad to finally see my rain guage recording something.)

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

yep - i think Ron is hanging out for that web page Steve

i think the standard reset time for Aus and NZ for rain reporting is 9am Steve - get with it man - COMPLY!

have you all found mine on my website (weather link in side menu) ?


NOW ---- Dujon - where are you ?

you should be coaching us on this subject

geoff

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

You're right of course Geoff, the rainfall is always quoted on TV as being "until 9am this morning", etc. I've simply left it at the default midnight setting until now because it mostly suited my purposes, but just to keep you happy mate I've gone compliant!



I'll be customising the weather output page that WD produces over the next few days as time allows, with so many weather data "graphic" files automatically uploaded to choose from it won't be too difficult to pick and choose until I get the look I want.

Had a look at your page Geoff, nice job there by the way, it looks good. I've liked the look of that WD background colour you've used (yellow-ochre) for a while, I reckon it fits right in with the "Sunshine Coast" theme I want to generate for my page eventually.

So many things to do ... so little time.

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

Another interesting find browsing through the many many pages of settings, etc, within Weather Display - it can also generate a WAP version of the weatherdata while still doing the full html version:

http://www.users.on.net/~darklord/wap/index.wml



(I couldn't figure how to type in the ~ part of the address on my phone - so I just left it out - stuff me if it didn't still work just fine on my Samsung phone!)

http://www.users.on.net/darklord/wap/index.wml

[AlexN]

thats very cool steve! and I agree, SKYCAMS at Rons! That way every night of the week I could see just how much suburban skies SUCK!

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

The plan is also that anyone who isn't sure about heading up to Ron's place can get specific weather data (and eventually an actual sky image) to judge by for themselves, thus removing the guesswork! I reckon it will increase the attendance of "maybe's" from Brisbane by 100%.


I like the WAP bit, even though it's boring B&W it does still include all essential text info & basic versions of the data graphs. Being able to remotely check weather at a specific place (like home or Ron's) while on the run somewhere else might come in pretty handy - I'd know if it's worth rushing back from Brisbane to Caloundra to get my scope out, etc.

[AlexN]

Indeed. say... the web page that the weather station provides, is it customizable at all? I've been slapping together a web page for ron, and If I I could integrate the data into the site seamlessly that would be awesome...

[acropolite (Phil)]

Indeed. say... the web page that the weather station provides, is it customizable at all? I've been slapping together a web page for ron, and If I I could integrate the data into the site seamlessly that would be awesome...

The 3rd Party software Weather Display allows that sort of custonisation. WD will upload graphics (or even a whole page) at specified intervals to either a hard drive location or FTP site.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Anyone know how to get the history data from the weather station's memory onto your PC with nothing more than the included EasyWeather software? It's manual says how to clear the data and to make sure you upload data first, but it doesn't say how to upload data from the weather station to the PC!

Mine is connecting fine, the EasyWeather software shows current stats fine, but the memory on my unit is getting full so I want to dump it onto the PC.

Thanks,
Roger.