Thanks for your input. My app is in the application folder. I can’t remember what the issue was but one time I did an update and nothing worked. I put back my current version and everything went back to working OK except there are times it doesn’t do the monthly reset so I have to manually reset the monthly rain total. Don’t have a lot of that in Phoenix so hasn’t been a big problem. It’s looking like Sierra is the way to go. I also have to stay compatible with Indigo my home automation program which seems to have lots of issues with High Sierra. There’s know problem getting Sierra, while I’m slow to update OS’s I keep a copy of all the ones I haven’t installed. I’ve got it sitting on a zip drive.
Great! Soon as I get my VP2 back I’ll do that. Should I update to the latest version and get it working before I update to Sierra (currently 10.10.5) or wait till I’ve updated OS’s or does it matter? May be a few weeks before I get around to OS update, got several priorities ahead of it.
@Colovin, some great suggestions were made. The big one is moving the files over to your home directory. That plus latest version I think will help you out a lot. You can do this now! Good luck !!!
@ Brian, no real changes. I still continue to get the flat lines - albeit not as often. Since the issue typically happens approx 915pm or so, I find myself checking WD before I goto bed and when I wake up @ 5am every day. I also as a good habit restart WD every few days. I would love to not have to do that, but I do. I haven’t a clue how to troubleshoot this. I have done everything you asked. This is just a weird corner case. Or it could be something stupidly simple (At my job a client was experiencing a MAJOR issue and was losing $30k/hour this system was down. Turns out a switch was plugged into the wrong port and domain - once corrected all worked fine).
Is there any debugging that can be put in to capture something like this perhaps?
I copied my settings files to /Users/xxx/Documents/wdisplay/ I was surprised at how large it was, 3.4 GB. Downloaded Build 304 and put in the apps folder. Fire it up, startup screen comes up, loading various elements then it goes away. Each time I launch it, it shows loading different elements, (3D graph, more metar, new rain chart . . . ) each time it’s just loading one, it’s something different for a few seconds and then goes away. I suspect this is what was happening last time I tried to get current. Build 17 is still running just fine.
I’ve repaired permissions (you can still do that on 10.10) and cleaned out all cache files. I hesitate to uninstall Build 17, I’d rather have something working than nothing working. Could that be interfering with B304? They have different names ( WeatherD / weatherdisplay ) so they peacefully co-exist in the app folder. I’ve attached a screen shot of the startup screen. Not sure what I’m doing wrong seems like it should be simple enough.
Restoring the tty configuration
Exception EAccessViolation in module weatherdisplay at 00042EEF.
Access violation at address 946DD6F8, accessing address 01E5BF14.
FastMM has detected a GetMem call after FastMM was uninstalled.Runtime error 203 at 0001F64E
Everything is now up and running. It was the WDISPLAY.INI settings but more than just the webfies location. There were several pointers to the old location that had to be quashed. Once the program started running I wasn’t getting data out to indigo and the wunderground station. The wunderground station hasn’t been maintained for years (my call) but I now wanted to have it up and going. Brian tirelessly worked with me (he did the work, I just followed his directions) to track down the problems. Came down to, “make sure the main Internet switch is on under control panel, ftp/Internet setup.” It wasn’t on, once turned on the data flowed as it should.
Next step is to move to OS 10.12 which will happen in a week or two. I’ll followup with that, hopefully that will be a non event.
There is no program out there that is supported better than Brian supports Weather Display. Once again he has come to the rescue. After I make the move to 10.12 it will probably be years before I have to touch the program again. It just works . . .
It’s USB. Currently running Silabs 3.1 #-o but I’ve downloaded the current 5.04 waiting for the Sierra. Not going to be messing with it now because (say again) if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I know it will be broke with Sierra though.
Btw I’m on slabs 5.x and works fine with sierra !!!
I really need to goto High Sierra. Overtime I call Apple for an issue while they say they still support Sierra, most of the time they tell me to upgrade first - which I won’t do.
It’s looking like Sierra is the way to go. I also have to stay compatible with Indigo my home automation program which seems to have lots of issues with High Sierra. There’s know problem getting Sierra, while I’m slow to update OS’s I keep a copy of all the ones I haven’t installed. I’ve got it sitting on a zip drive.
