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General Category => General Computing/Macintosh => Topic started by: bcurry on February 18, 2017, 03:56:29 PM
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Hi all,
I bought a new iMac for my photography business, and so it is sitting in the study I use to do my printing and the vast majority of my work on computer.
The Mac Pro I had is what my WeatherCat is running on, connected to the Davis console by USB.
A question -
I'm only using the Mac Pro (note - big tower, NOT laptop) for networked storage as it has 4 big drives, and other than that it only runs one program - Weathercat. I was thinking of simply moving it to my Studio to a more out of the way location - and besides I can then use the ACD (30" display) in my Gallery on my laptop for lessons - which would be very useful to me.
I was thinking of changing my webpage a bit for my WeatherCat displayed info, and I like to play with it from time to time anyway.
I was wondering - what issues will I run in to if I transfer my Weathercat program to the iMac? I know I'd have to bring the whole directory over, but are there other pitfalls?
I'd also have to figure out an HTML editor (I've got a very old copy of Dreamweaver on the Pro, which I'd prefer not to have to try to re-install and the iMac doesn't even have a CD drive...)
Thanks for any thoughts,
Bill
www.billcurry.ca/weather
(http://www.billcurry.ca/weather/WeatherCatBanner.jpg)
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Bill:
Wow, you have some super duper computing power running WeatherCat!
Moving WeatherCat to another computer is a common occurrence. There is a Wiki article about how to do it. I have moved my WeatherCat twice now, and I just follow the wiki article and it worked out fine.
http://wiki.trixology.com/index.php?title=Moving_a_WeatherCat_installation_from_one_computer_to_another
Whilst there are many choices for html editors, many of us on the forum use TextWrangler. It it free, it maintains the UTF-8 format if that is your preference, it numbers the lines, it can compare two versions of a file and highlight the differences and it is still being maintained and improved by its developers.
http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/
Good luck.
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I should also have noted that the developers of TextWrangler state on their website that they are eventually going to retire TextWranger in favour of their paid product BBEdit, but for now, TextWrangler is still available. When you download it they give you one soft push to download the other product instead.
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Hi
Blick is correct on the move but my self I like the composer of SeaMonkey for building my web site it has alot of items to chose from and seems to so much easier to use.
Just my 2 cents worth
Good luck on everything
cheers
[cheers1]
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Thanks all-
Problem 1-
The Davis serial to Datalogger (to connect the console to the iMac) is not recognized by my iMac.
I am running 10.12 on the new machine, and that may be the issue, but the driver provided by Davis does not work on the new iMac (in fact it won't even install...)
I'll check out their support and see...
Bill
(http://www.billcurry.ca/weather/WeatherCatBanner.jpg)
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You might have better luck with the Silabs USB driver (if that's what you are talking about, if not, just ignore me like everyone else! ;) ). Perhaps you actually have it installed on the Mac Pro? This post (http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2339.msg22828#msg22828) shows the current version and where to check on your Mac Pro to see if it's there.
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Hi there,
Yes, that's the driver -I have it on my Mac Pro, but it won't even install on the iMac. The issue is when I run the install program, the driver installer crashes and says it "failed". Is there a source for a new driver? Silabs???
Thanks,
Bill
(http://www.billcurry.ca/weather/WeatherCatBanner.jpg)
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Wait for some one to double-confirm this is the driver you need. It may be a completely different driver for some other purpose, it is version 4.x.13, 8/31/16. That's almost a year after the creation date on my System. Still, it's 'name' is "CP210xVCPDriver". I'll do another search on these forums, I don't remember anyone mentioning an update 'recently'! [banghead]
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Thanks.
I looked for a driver and found one, but the Davis Weatherlink software that I still need to adjust it won't use that driver without a Java SE update, which I did and it still fails. I remember going through a lot of this 5 years ago setting up the link - Davis makes great hardware, their Mac software, not so much...
Enough frustration for today - it runs great on my Mac Pro, and it may be staying there! LOL
Bill
(http://www.billcurry.ca/weather/WeatherCatBanner.jpg)
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Hi Bill
I know that myself, Blick and Steve are all running iMac's so it should work.
see the attached driver
cheers
[cheers1]
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Thanks-
That's the driver I found.
So, do you also run Weatherlink, or can you get Weathercat to find the unit without installing Weatherlink once you have the driver?
Bill
(http://www.billcurry.ca/weather/WeatherCatBanner.jpg)
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Dear Bill, Blick, X-Air, and WeatherCat troubleshooters,
That's the driver I found.
So were you able to install that driver and connect to your station or are you still having problems?
So, do you also run Weatherlink, or can you get Weathercat to find the unit without installing Weatherlink once you have the driver?
You don't need WeatherLink if you have a working Silicon Labs driver. About the only use for WeatherLink is making some adjustments to a Davis Weather Envoy if you have such a thing. WeatherCat takes care of everything that WeatherLink does so long as you are wiling to use the console for basic configuration. It doesn't hurt to keep a copy of WeatherLink around, but it is very unlikely that you'll actually need it.
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Hi there,
Still having issues.
The driver is installed, but when I run weather cat to set it up, it can't find the station.
The default when I choose Davis VV from the station list is a bluetooth connection port - I assume that's my issue and I need it to find the UART USB.
I'll keep trying, but if anyone has tips - fire away!
Bill
(http://www.billcurry.ca/weather/WeatherCatBanner.jpg)
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Update -
Got the driver to install and it is correct and I brought up Weathercat but it wants me to set up all over again!
I guess I'll have to hunt and make sure the old Library files are in the correct place...
Thanks for the assistance.
I'll get it going eventually!
Bill
(http://www.billcurry.ca/weather/WeatherCatBanner.jpg)
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Did you make a Restart after installing the next? Makes no difference now, of course. :headbash: :lol:
You did move the several WC .plist files, right? ;)
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Hi all,
Thanks to your help - I got it going!
The only thing now is I've lost mt past statistics.
I assume I can just bring them over - if I can find them on my Mac Pro, yes?
(and I notice I've lost my banner...it's late, sleep, then fix that) - but its reporting fine and the main template is working - Yay!
Thanks,
Bill
(http://www.billcurry.ca/weather/WeatherCatBanner.jpg)
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If you follow the wiki instructions for moving your WeatherCat install, you should end up with your past stats on the iMac.
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I thought I had - but obviously some files are missing. The advantage of having the old machine on the network is it's drag and drop.
Does anyone know which file is the actual directory for the statistics data? Like, it is today obviously storing info from today and yesterday...if I found that I could then add in the older stuff, yes?
I am having another issue now too in that Weathercat isn't uploading to the FTP server, even though the test passes.
UPDATE - got things going pretty smoothly. I have the station uploading to FTP again, by erasing a plist file, and things seem to be progressing smoothly. I have the station reporting everywhere, and it found the webcam and the FTP site. I found the data files and placed them in the data folder and it worked! Yay.
I guess re-doing the banner is all that's left.
Thanks everyone for all the help,
Bill
ps - here's what it looks like:
http://www.billcurry.ca/weather (http://www.billcurry.ca/weather)
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Good for you Bill! I took a look at your site and I believe I recognize Edouard's SeaMonkey template. Glad you are up and running on the iMac. Redoing your banner won't take you too long.
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The image you use for the banner should be (on your Mac Pro): ~/Library/WeatherCatData/BannerGeneratorData/BannerGeneratorImage(in whatever image format you used).
In that same directory is the BannerGeneratorSettings.plist which contains the exact pixel locations for each label, the label text, and the actual info WC inserts.
Both these should be drag 'n droppable to the same location on your iMac.
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Dear Bill, Blick, X-Air, and WeatherCat troubleshooters,
I thought I had - but obviously some files are missing. The advantage of having the old machine on the network is it's drag and drop.
. . . .
UPDATE - got things going pretty smoothly.
Just in case X-Air's point wasn't clear. macOS/OS X caches the content of at least some of the .plist files. So when you were restoring files, you needed to reboot your iMac, not simply restart WeatherCat. So if anything remains out of whack, you might try again moving the .plist file and rebooting before starting WeatherCat once more.
Glad you hear that you are mostly back in business! ThU5:-)
Good for you Bill! I took a look at your site and I believe I recognize Edouard's SeaMonkey template.
[wink] . . . . . . Hmm, well what do ya' know . . . . that does look suspiciously familiar! . . . . [biggrin]
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Hi all,
Thanks again for all the help!
Yes, I got the template (which is the Sea Monkey one - thanks Edouard [bounce]...) to just drop over and it kept all the template's features except I had to manually add the data for the Statistics page.
It was a fun experience to do this change, and now the Mac Pro can go into the studio, right next to the printer, and I can use the monitor when I teach lessons in the Gallery next door!
Thanks also for the tip on TextWrangler - I have that installed and I like it a lot for tweaking the HTML, which I'll now do when I have time - along with re-doing the banner as I tried moving that but it just doesn't want to do it - but that's not a big job and I'll play with it soon.
Have a great day!
Bill
www.billcurry.ca/weather (http://www.billcurry.ca/weather)
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I should also have noted that the developers of TextWrangler state on their website that they are eventually going to retire TextWranger in favour of their paid product BBEdit, but for now, TextWrangler is still available. When you download it they give you one soft push to download the other product instead.
I moved from TW over to using Sublime Text https://www.sublimetext.com/ use it for all my programming needs (PHP/HTML, Ruby, Perl, JAVA, etc etc etc)
I have found I actually LOVE it more than TW by YMMV
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Whilst not a "visual" editor for HTML, I have moved from Sublime to Microsoft Visual Studio Code - and haven't looked back. It is free, open source, actively developed with a monthly update, and loads of plugin support. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Like Sublime it runs on a web client engine under the covers.
Don't confuse it with MS Visual Studio, despite the name it is nothing to do with the MS development environment.
I use it for virtually every code task now, the integrated debugger and GitHub support works well. Its great for step by step debugging PHP code which has always been a headache try to figure out on a web server. I use it at work as well, and have converted co-workers to it as well.
Like all editors it takes a little time to get used to and learn the tricks - you'll never know them all!
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it takes a little time to get used to and learn the tricks - you'll never know them all!
Sounds like it was developed by the MS Word crew! [lol]
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it takes a little time to get used to and learn the tricks - you'll never know them all!
Sounds like it was developed by the MS Word crew! [lol]
:-X
Like Sublime, too many features, too few hot-keys. Though there is a nice config editor plugin that allows you to switch the config based on the file type you are currently editing. Anyway enough evangelising, just forget it was written by some MS Devs.
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Anyway enough evangelising, just forget it was written by some MS Devs.
Hahahahaha. I'll try.