Hello Brian,
Let’s see if I can get off on the right foot this time. As you may be aware, I’ve been using WD for years and years now. It’s the best there is and you do a great job with maintaining it. So I like to keep it going. I’m not able to use the Windows box any more for the weather station, so I’ve come back to the Mac. OSX 10.11.4. This is the El Captain version.
Please remember that I am not complaining, nor being rude, but trying to outline what I have done here.
So in the interests of being as definitive as I can, I have completely removed the “old” setup of WD. From Applications. and from Documents. I then downloaded the latest version again, V270, and installed that.
Before I did that, I ran Coolterm to monitor the Arduino port. /dev/cu.usbmodem14441 The FX13 Sender from the old WS3600 unit is not sending the external temp, but the other parts still function. I’ll renew the sender later maybe.
- WD is not remembering the comport/device setting between restarts. Once I re input it, the display starts, but with incorrect info?
So, this is what I log from the Aduino. Note the temp is a default, and the rain is also Zeroed. Humidity, the second set of ‘’ is also missing.
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=SSW,windgustspeedkph=6.9,winddir=WNW,windspeedkph=2.4,pressure=940.43,indoortempc=22.9,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=WNW,windgustspeedkph=3.3,winddir=WNW,windspeedkph=2.5,pressure=1007.07,indoortempc=21.5,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=W ,windgustspeedkph=6.9,winddir=WNW,windspeedkph=4.5,pressure=1004.62,indoortempc=21.0,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=SSW,windgustspeedkph=7.8,winddir=W ,windspeedkph=4.5,pressure=1003.61,indoortempc=20.9,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=SSW,windgustspeedkph=15.8,winddir=WNW,windspeedkph=7.3,pressure=1004.30,indoortempc=20.8,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=W ,windgustspeedkph=15.8,winddir=W ,windspeedkph=5.8,pressure=1004.63,indoortempc=20.7,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=W ,windgustspeedkph=18.9,winddir=SSW,windspeedkph=7.6,pressure=1004.75,indoortempc=20.5,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=WNW,windgustspeedkph=6.4,winddir=W ,windspeedkph=4.6,pressure=1004.46,indoortempc=20.4,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=W ,windgustspeedkph=12.6,winddir=WNW,windspeedkph=6.3,pressure=1004.64,indoortempc=20.4,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=WSW,windgustspeedkph=6.6,winddir=WNW,windspeedkph=4.3,pressure=1004.86,indoortempc=20.3,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=W ,windgustspeedkph=5.3,winddir=W ,windspeedkph=4.0,pressure=1004.53,indoortempc=20.3,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=W ,windgustspeedkph=11.4,winddir=W ,windspeedkph=4.8,pressure=1004.58,indoortempc=20.3,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=SSW,windgustspeedkph=6.2,winddir=SSW,windspeedkph=3.7,pressure=1004.39,indoortempc=20.4,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=W ,windgustspeedkph=5.7,winddir=SSW,windspeedkph=3.3,pressure=1004.17,indoortempc=20.4,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=WSW,windgustspeedkph=5.7,winddir=W ,windspeedkph=3.7,pressure=1004.04,indoortempc=20.5,#
$,tempc=71.0,,rainmm=0,windgustdir=W ,windgustspeedkph=5.6,winddir=SSW,windspeedkph=3.4,pressure=1004.00,indoortempc=20.5,#
You can see the other variables changing as each ‘send’ comes in though. So I know that part is ok.
Now what I see when I check the WD log is quite different.
day month year hour minute temperature humidity dewpoint barometer windspeed gustspeed direction rainlastmin dailyrain monthlyrain yearlyrain heatindex
27 4 2016 9 13 13.0 90 11.4 1013.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.0
27 4 2016 9 14 13.0 90 11.4 1013.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.0
27 4 2016 9 15 13.0 90 11.4 1013.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.0
27 4 2016 9 16 13.0 90 11.4 1013.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.0
27 4 2016 9 17 13.0 90 11.4 1013.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.0
27 4 2016 9 18 13.0 90 11.4 1013.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.0
- Post reinstall, the METAR now downloads, although under it’s own hourly instruction, pressing [Test] does not do it.
But basically a reinstall fixed that little problem.
Anyway, I’ll leave it with you, and see if a release down the line a little fixes any of these little problems.
Regards
Robert