I'll admit I didn't read all 3 pages, but I'll add my 2 cents as well.... I started with the Linux version on a different server and had reliability problems, so I switched tot he Windows version (and registered it) as a temporary solution while the serial port problems were being worked on. The windows version worked perfectly and was quite stable and as reliable as the machine it was on.
Several things happened in the meantime: 1) I bought a "real" server, intel quad-core, redundant drives, yadda yadda and built it with Mandriva 2009.1, 2) I bought a now "everyday" PC for myself with a lot more horsepower, and 3) I was forced to move out of my place and bought a house.
So along the course of all this I was pretty much absent here, even though I had been doing my best to contribute in the past. I went through the annoying process of installing all my programs and data onto the new PC until I was down to WD, and I just left that run on the PC it was on because my ultimate fantasy was to move it back to the linux box where it belongs. So then I moved and disrupted my whole weather station for several months, changed ISP so I had IP addresses and stuff to mess with, etc. During the course of that time I downloaded the current version of WD Linux and got it running on the new box, sort-of. I set the program up for the most part, but it had been so long that I couldn't remember where I was publishing some of the data and files for the template set I'm using - so I was sending the clientraw file for WDL, and updating wunderground and some of the stuff worked on the templates - I was tweaking as I went along, I'm also updated to 2010.0 since then as well.
At that point the absolute ONLY problem I've been religiously having with it is that just about once a week, you can almost set the clock by it, it will stop accepting serial data (or something) and all the graphs will flatline. At that point all I have had to do is stop the program and close it's terminal window (because I couldn't get some ftp checking routine thingy to quit), then just fire it right back up and it was good for another week. Every few weeks I would come to this site and grab any newer version hoping that one problem would be solved - never came on here and complained or anything because I've been too busy settling into the house. I did manage to get the weather station back up on the roof before winter though.
OK, so today I came to find if there were any updates and found this. OK, I can understand. I never registered the Linux version because I considered it a work in progress, but I am a paid user of the windows version.
So I'll continue to run what I have with this one question:
If I load a windows emulator like WINE or something onto the linux box can I just take my whole registered installation off that old PC and dump it onto the emulator and get it back running?? I was smart enough to build a windows partition on the linux box when I was laying out the disks for just that potential need. That would save me a lot of hassles because all my files are already configured correctly on there (except for location settings, etc). After it gets running I can then update everything to current versions?? i would be more than happy to "renew" my registration after I get it running and stable, and then I can just delete the linux stuff off the machine and let it rest in peace....
(Brian) do you have any problem with that scenario?
