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WeatherCat => WeatherCat General Discussion => Topic started by: pbeaudet on April 09, 2017, 01:01:51 AM

Title: 100 days and Counting
Post by: pbeaudet on April 09, 2017, 01:01:51 AM

I now have 100 days of WC running. The few sensor errors were from my main station when the battery died. Weathercam is uploaded with EvoCam 4 because EvoCam 5 sucked. WC uploads the WU image. [cheers1] ThU5:-)

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: Blicj11 on April 09, 2017, 03:19:50 AM

Nicely done, sir. WeatherCat is indeed stable.

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: xairbusdriver on April 09, 2017, 01:52:03 PM

Much more than the OS! How do you handle security updates? I thought at first you might have stayed with Snow Leopard, but your info says you're on El Capitan.

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: pbeaudet on April 09, 2017, 06:16:39 PM

Yes, I'm still on El Capitan because the mac mini cannot be upgraded to Sierra. I haven't checked for security updates but I will next time it goes down, if it goes down. I'm trying for 200 days.....

Thanks Stu for a stable app! [rock] [cheers1]

Title: Good to hear! (Re: 100 days and Counting)
Post by: elagache on April 09, 2017, 11:35:51 PM

Dear Phillip, Blick, X-Air, and WeatherCat cyber-endurance runners,

Quote from: pbeaudet on April 09, 2017, 01:01:51 AM

I now have 100 days of WC running.

Glad to hear it!  [tup]  Indeed a dedicated machine will do very well because not only WeatherCat is stable but it uses memory efficiently.  That isn't always true of some of the other applications we have come to depend upon . . . .  [banghead]

Cheers, Edouard

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: pbeaudet on April 10, 2017, 11:08:13 PM

Well, I jinxed it. El Capitan froze up completely on day 102....after a stray cosmic ray hit it. lol(1)

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: Blicj11 on April 10, 2017, 11:55:29 PM

Well dang it!

Reminds me of Osborn's Law: Variables won't, constants aren't.
(Don Osborn, associate director, Arizona Solar Energy Commission)

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: dogear on July 26, 2017, 04:59:26 PM

So is weather cat stable on Sierra now? Thanks

Title: WeatherCat running fine on Sierra (Re: 100 days and Counting)
Post by: elagache on July 26, 2017, 10:58:36 PM

Dear dogear and WeatherCat sys-admins,

Quote from: dogear on July 26, 2017, 04:59:26 PM

So is weather cat stable on Sierra now? Thanks

WeatherCat is running fine on Sierra.  The only potential issue is any driver software that might be needed to connect to your station.  Davis owners should download the latest driver from Silicon Labs.  You can find out how to do that on the WeatherCat Wiki:

http://wiki.trixology.com/index.php?title=Obtaining_the_latest_drivers_for_use_with_Davis_data_loggers (http://wiki.trixology.com/index.php?title=Obtaining_the_latest_drivers_for_use_with_Davis_data_loggers)

If you are using an older station with a serial to USB dongle, this could be a tricky situation.  If so, post a note on the forum and we'll do our best to help you out.

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: iccb on July 27, 2017, 07:56:20 AM

Very nice uptime! Do you have somethink other services in your computer running along with WeatherCat?

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: Felix on July 27, 2017, 10:42:28 AM

Quote from: dogear on July 26, 2017, 04:59:26 PM

So is weather cat stable on Sierra now? Thanks

It's worked fine on the setup detailed in my profile since the day the GM was released. Edouard already wrote about some configurations which have to wait on third parties to get on board.

Title: Re: 100 days and Counting
Post by: pbeaudet on August 01, 2017, 04:53:39 PM

Yes, da Cat is running fine with Sierra. I almost made 100 days again but the battery died on remote station. I ended up rebooting before I realized I needed to replace the battery. That also allowed me to update Sierra to the latest 10.12.6. Normally, the batteries are changed in November but the the excessive cloud cover this winter was too much for the poor battery.

The Mac Mini is a dedicated system running only WC and EvoCam v 5.0.

I was sure I had switched to EvoCam v4 because of a memory leak in v5. It appears to have no problem in Sierra. Go figure......