Hello. Trying to update steel gauges to get rid of the rainrate problems which i could see during a thundershower this morning. Rain rate jumping wildly from say 0.5 inch an hour to 0.1 in a second or two. Looking at the forum, i can see an update which possibly fixes this. I havent updated since the gauges were set up initially. Downloaded the latest files and updated the gauges.js and customclientrawlocal.txt but all i get is (see attachment). What have i missed?. I updated my server with the old files again and its back working. Any ideas?
I think i may have sorted it. Put both new files, gauges.js and the clientraw into my server and overwrote the old ones. When i checked the gauges.js on the server, i hadn’t entered the number 1 for Davis and the path to my clientraw. All is fine at the moment and i will keep an eye on the rainrate dial.
Edit…think i spoke too soon. Heavy rain at the moment. Rain rate gauge showing what wd says then dropping to 0 quickly. Then back up again a few seconds later.
I’ve noticed this problem with rain rate on the SteelSeries Gauges ever since I installed them. It’s bothersome, but not a deal breaker. Still, it sure would be nice to quash this bug.
It has been a while, but my ajax-dashboard69x displays the current rain rate and uses AJAX via clientraw.txt to maintain a current value. It never swung back to zero like the SteelSeries Gauge did, so the clientraw.txt value is OK. Unfortunately I don’t know about the customclientraw.txt value.
Ok Brian will check the customclientraw at the next rain event (which shouldn’t be long judging by the amount of rain we’re getting in the Uk)
Thanks Forever.
I used this version as i believe Mark fixed an issue with the rain rate around then. ps i only updated the gauges.js and replaced the customclientraw in my wd webfiles folder.
Hi steve,
I am also running v2.4.4 of the gauges and my rain rate gauge works fine. I am running one of the latest WD builds though - you are on build 79 still? Perhaps it is an issue with the data in the customclientraw that the old WD version produces. Have you thought about updating WD to the latest to see if that fixes the problem?
Ok Brian, here are some images taken this morning when it was raining.
Have been thinking of that Martyn. It may be a simple fix to go to the newest version. See what Brian thinks.
Perhaps lots of users with older versions like me and with ssgauges may not have noticed this issue unless you spend some time looking at the gauge.
Nothing better to do than sit and stare at the gauges, eh Steve?
Have not noticed this in my setup, but it’s supposed to start raining tomorrow with the possibility of lasting all week. Will keep an eye out. Note I am running v307 of WD and v2.5.9 of the gauges, both current. You might want to consider an update to one or both of those.
Yeah, still just a tech, Steve (my situation prevents me from getting any additional equipment so a license upgrade would be useless). Use it mostly for Skywarn.
Ah, OK I was just catching up, I didn’t see specific mention that the figures didn’t match. As no one else seems to be reporting the problem it seems an update is in order as you said.
Ok, updated Wd to the latest version but problem persists. See images below.
Rate reading correctly in Wd and Wdl but intermittent in Ssg. When Ssg was reading correctly a minute or so before i took these shots, Customclientraw was showing the correct figure, then suddenly reading 0.00 as in image.