Battery check

[xairbusdriver]

Old Console reported Gail Force (not to be confused with Gale Force) wind of 0 to 1mph from the east. That was sure easier than climbing back up on the roof!.
Unfortunately, the New Console  reports only 0 mph and no direction at all (even with the vane pointing east)! Another call going to Davis... after I re-install the old Console which reports all data!

After the phone call:

So SIMPLE (minded!). The key here is that I mentioned "roof"! As in, "The anemometer is remote from the ISS, that's why it has its own battery/solar panel." Since I've slept several times since installing that anemometer some ~10 months ago, my WIFE forgot that it also required telling the Console that the Wind data was coming from another transmitter, NOT the main ISS! I guess I'll simply have to start writing this stuff in the Journal, since I can't depend on HER to remember!

Long story short: Brian instructed me to run through the transmitters the Console was receiving from and noted that only one was listed; the main ISS, of course. He then very politely instruct me how to enable another transmitter for the Console to monitor! I had the phone on speaker, so my WIFE could hear the instructions, also...

[Blicj11]

I love it when one of these weather data mysteries comes to a logical conclusion. Thanks for sharing.

A couple of years ago I actually pulled together a step-by-step document outlining everything I knew at the time about installing WC and my weather station hardware. It has come in quite handy on more than one occasion.

[dfw_pilot]

LOL! Pilot wives are all the same!

BTW, be careful if you google Gail Force (not Gale Force) . . .  ha!

[xairbusdriver]

First, I want to make sure you all know that none of these problems were caused by WC. Second, I am very happy with the tech support from both Bruce and Brian(sp?) at Davis. They were both knowledgeable, courteous, efficient, and helpful in trouble-shooting by phone. [removed link to the now castly photobucket.com site] I can only wish more companies had tech support like these two gentlemen!

[xairbusdriver]

Wunderground & CWOP both show "Running" in the WC Status->On-Line Services area. But they also both show Packets: 0/0. Neither site shows any data since yesterday.A Quit/Restart WC seems to have fixed both those Partners.
 
Restarting WC also cleared Bad Comms/Sensor Errors; they are now both 0. Station Comms is back to 100.00%.

Noticed the webcam video on my site was from yesterday, while weather data is from today. Strange. ~/Library/App Support/WCMedia/Movies/Today shows 15 movies as of 3:23. [removed link to the now castly photobucket.com site] ~/Library/App Support/WCMedia/Pictures show all new jpegs up to current time. Show Video Preview looks fine. I manually uploaded the "WeatherCatDailyMovie.mov" a few minutes before WC created a newer one. But it does not seem to have been uploaded. That was before restarting WC, however, so I'll see how it does in about 35 minutes.

[elagache]

Dear X-Air and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

So is the situation the same at this time?  Only the anemometer is reporting errors?

Cheers, Edouard

[xairbusdriver]

So is the situation the same at this time?  Only the anemometer is reporting errors?

Only problem

No no! All sensors are showing valid data and it is now being sent to WU and CWOP. Everything seems fine except for getting the latest movie uploaded to my site, and that may be fixed by the time I post this. UPDATE: It seems to be working there. also. The last created move (from 3:00 to 3:58) was just uploaded. It's just a few minutes past 4pm local. The only thing I see that is incorrect now is that the WCAM640$ image is not showing in one of my [rolleyes2]pages. It IS being uploaded, my WIFE must have made an erer on the web paige...

UPDATE #2:My WIFE must be working on the web site on her iPad, she's not in here with her MBP, but the correct image(webcam640.jpg) is now being updated on the Stations page. I guess I need to go thank her!

Everything seems to be purfek!

[WCDev]

Sounds like your all good.

Ignore the test option in the Vantage hardware options - the only thing it does is make sure all the relevant alerts get sent out by testing every possible power state - the 8 binary states for each of the transmitting stations and the analogue voltage reading from the console with appropriate trigger levels.
 

[xairbusdriver]

I can assure you that the alerts and voltage warnings work! Probably cost me at least one movie viewing because of the bandwidth used!

I mentioned the voltage displays on that dialog and the tech, of course, had no knowledge of how one would get that info through the logger. However, it seems to be very accurate, and therefore useful for an early warning. In my case it was not relevant as the voltage from the batteries went from nominal to zero.  I'm not sure what value you use for a warning, is it ~4 V where the color changes from Green to Yellow, or the change to Red (~2 V?)?

[WCDev]

The actual indicator warning value is 4v (orange), critical at 3v (red).

The warning email depends on the logger but will go out before the voltage drops to 4v - if it's USB then the email warning voltage is slightly lower than if it's the IP logger (as the IP one will run down the batteries very much quicker than the USB one, so the email warning threshold is set at a higher voltage for the IP one).

[xairbusdriver]

OK, thanks! Got a couple of plugs for WC while talking with Bruce and Brian, also.