I still occasionally receive comms errors where I have to quit WeatherCat, unplug my weather station's USB cable, plug it back in, and then restart WeatherCat to resolve. It's mostly just annoying and it happens once every few weeks. I'm not sure if I'm having a new problem or a different symptom of this same problem. Last night a little after 8 I received an admin email stating that there was a comms error, attempting to reset. Six minutes later I received an email saying that the reset was successful. It took me another hour an a half to get the time to check everything out. When I did I found that Weather Underground was still not receiving the correct data. I performed the procedure mentioned above, which resolved the problem, and then I starting looking in to how long I had been having an issue. What I found was odd. Starting a little before 3pm my weather station data was not being correctly reported. The temperature nose dived and then started trending back up. In fact, the data that was reported from about 2:50 pm until 9:53 (when I performed the rest procedure) seems to be an exact duplicate of the data my station collected between 7:49 am and 2:44 pm. I do not see this same issue in the WeatherCat data, although the lack of smoothness in the graph for this period of time seem to suggest that all was not normal.
So I have several questions: 1)Why didn't I get any comms errors before 8 pm? 2) Why was I still having problems after WeatherCat performed a comms reset? 3)Why did Weather Underground receive duplicate data from earlier in the day?
I've attached a screen shot of my Weather Underground graphs with a WeatherCat temp graph overlaid. You'll see that the temp trends look exactly the same for those two time periods.
Thanks,
Chris