Trixology
WeatherCat => WeatherCat General Discussion => Topic started by: elagache on March 04, 2015, 10:21:38 PM
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Dear WeatherCat "power users," . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/driving_steering_wheel.gif)
Sufferin' succotash! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/badwords.gif)
My darn weather station generated some sensor errors once more shortly after midnight!! >:( I checked, the battery is fine so this doesn't look like a power issue anymore. However, the station transmitter is now a long away from the Weather Envoy, so I turned on retransmitting on the Console that is roughly 1/2 the distance to the transmitter. Hopefully, that'll lurn it! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/hammering.gif)
However, there was a small problem within this big problem. My WC Status Growler AppleScript still wasn't catching these errors properly. So I dug a little more and found yet another bug. (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/beetle-smiley-emoticon.gif)
While I was testing to confirm that everything was indeed working properly with WC Status Growler I noticed something a bit weird that I think Stu will have to answer (and definitely this can wait until the weekend or whatever.) I unplugged the anemometer cable to cause the sensor errors and while some of the data was listed as invalid, the Live Data didn't count up any sensor errors:
(http://www.canebas.org/misc/Voila_images/Anemometer%20unplugged%202015-03-04.jpg)
Even if the total sensor errors were incrementing. On the other hand unplugging the temperature/humidity probe does cause a tally:
(http://www.canebas.org/misc/Voila_images/Temperature%20unplugged%202015-03-04.jpg)
Stu, is this something to do with the temperature/humidity probe generating some sort sentinel value when the sensor is unplugged while unplugging the anemometer doesn't cause an analogous sentinel value?
Curious minds want to know! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/scratch_head.gif)
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
P.S. The same fix also finally got the station communication timeout errors to work properly on WC Status Growler. I had unplugged the USB connection from the Envoy to test that. WeatherCat successfully reset the communications by the way.
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I suspect it picked up it wasn't fitted (and therefore couldn't generate any sensor errors) - same as for example if no solar sensor is fitted, it'll just appear as invalid.