I have a 1-wire system. I am unable to get the wind direction on to work on my ADS. I can see the A/D voltages change when using OneWireViewer from the Maxim site and changing the direction by hand. There must be something I am failing to set in WD but I am dumbfounded. I have everything in my weather system working but the wind direction. Any help would be appreciated.
I am running WD 10.37P on Windows Vista 32bit and the 4.02 device driver for the USB 1-wire adapter, also from Hobby Board.
Hi n4hy,
I have an entirely 1-wire station with the HB ads board with Inspeed vortex and e-vane.
I am really scratching at the cobwebs here but I think I recall having the same issue. As I recall it was because of an error in either the Inspeed or HB instructions which led me to incorrectly attach the wind vane to the ADS board. If you see the 1-wire device listed but get no readings I would carefully check the logic of the wiring on the sensor side.
If this is not enough to get you going I’ll try to recall more details.
Good luck
w0mbat
Thanks for your note. I do not believe it is a hardware problem. I should have been more explicit. Let me do that here so if others look, we might get some ideas.
IF I check inspeed on the com port control panel in addition to the ADS checkbox, I GET WIND DIRECTION READINGS. As I change the direction of the wind vane manually, the display changes. However, the readings are wrong. They do not correspond to the mapping. I also cannot remap them in WD since I get no values in the Dallas 1-wire page to do a set on and calibrate it.
I am having other problems as well. OneWireViewer from Maxim reads ALL of the Hobby board instruments perfectly and the A/D values correspond exactly to what is in the Hobby Board manual for the ADS wind instrument, barometer, temperatures, etc. but the displayed/calculation values are wrong in WD.
SLOWLY but surely I am teasing apart this unbelievably capable but unalterably too complex setup interface. I understand the need for these myriad controls but it is very difficult to wade through.
The ADS weather station from Hobby Board IS a 1-wire weather station. But you are asked to input its being using in the com port table in the block where you put in when you enter data if is is NOT a one wire instrument. But from Hobby board, it IS a one wire instrument and they supply the one wire interface for the windspeed and wind direction.
I now have every sensor loaded into WD 10.37P build 21 appearing to work, including the ADS wind SPEED indicator, as well as sending data to my web site (not yet displayed on the web site, but the data IS there via ftp). The one remaining serious problem is the wind direction from the ADS 1 wire weather station not working at all. I have the CORRECT device ROM ID in the “ADS Wind direction” block but the wind direction is non operational.
I got METAR updates from Trenton airport, tweeting my data, etc. THere is no doubt this is capable but I darned sure wish it were easier to set up.
My weather station web page (very rudimentary, raw output from WD with no editing at all yet): http://n4hy.org/weather/N4HY.htm .
So from start to finish, this took three days. The sensors are in temporary locations because of all the snow.
Now if I can just get the wind direction sorted out.
I have the ADS working fine - hope I can help.
Ok First off make sure your existing 1-Wire setup is working. I.e temp sensors…
Go Control Panel → COM Port → Make sure Use Winspeed/dir from a Hobby Boards ADS and if you are using the inspeed version (more expensive) tick that box also.
Go Control Panel → Dallas 1-Wire → On the Main Tab - Enter the rom id’s for Windspeed Rom and ADS Wind Direction.
If you have already have an existing station setup you will need to disable it as other stations setup will interfare in WeatherDisplay. (You may need to start from scratch). If you are only using 1-Wire sensors Go Control Panel → Station Type/Settings - Click the Stationless/WLK/Vortex/VWS tab → Select Stationless.
There is a more detailed doco on these forums about how to setup. I will see if I can dig it up.
No worries. Hope it works well. More than happy with mine.
You may want to check however that the direction sensor is running true. See here on what I had to do to mine. http://www.shellypark.co.nz/?q=node/24
If you want to see more diagnostics do the following.
From the Main Screen go Setup → Advanced/Misc/Custom Screen Settings → Program Tab → Tick “Log raw data for testing…” half way down the screen.
Go Control Panel → WS2010=13/WS2500 → you should see the data logs scrolling, see below.
flag result from hum read vad 1
1 wire extra temp 6 23.8
doing the windspeed read routine now 10:18:38 a.m.
windspeed read counter result =1
doing the windspeed read routine now part2 10:18:38 a.m.
flag returned from recallesquared solar 1
raw solar reading =31.5000
doing the windspeed read routine now 10:18:44 a.m.
windspeed read counter result =1
doing the windspeed read routine now part2 10:18:44 a.m.
flag returned from recallesquared solar 1
raw solar reading =31.5000
flag result from hum temp read 1
doing the windspeed read routine now 10:18:49 a.m.
windspeed read counter result =1
doing the windspeed read routine now part2 10:18:49 a.m.
flag returned from recallesquared solar 1
raw solar reading =31.5000
flag result from hum vdd read 1
doing the windspeed read routine now 10:18:53 a.m.
windspeed read counter result =1
doing the windspeed read routine now part2 10:18:53 a.m.
flag returned from recallesquared solar 1
raw solar reading =31.2000
flag result from hum read vad 1
doing the windspeed read routine now 10:18:58 a.m.
windspeed read counter result =1
doing the windspeed read routine now part2 10:18:58 a.m.
flag returned from recallesquared solar 1
raw solar reading =31.2000
Power count 66
You need to do this manually - turn the vane till you get a north reading in Weather Display. When set tighten the locking screw on the vane. Now twist the vane till it points north. Release the screw till it’s free. (get a correct screw driver for the job)(test it facing north as it can be hard to set 100%)
that works OK here in testing
the problem most likely is in the voltages for each direction
i.e you might need to add a resistor or similar
to reduce the voltage returned to what WD expects
that is discussed on the forum
Cheers
Brian
But I can’t find any thread relating to it on the board…
The voltage range for the ADS is max 5 volts as this is the source voltage.
Somewhere in WD there is a setting to change NESW to SWNE or similar. Make sure you are using no offsets anywhere.
Click the N or S etc buttons on the 1-wire screen could have upset things.