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by martinu
Wed 20 Oct 2021 11:45 am
Forum: Davis VP/VP2/Vue
Topic: Vantage Vue - raining cats and dogs message
Replies: 11
Views: 8854

Re: Vantage Vue - raining cats and dogs message

Incidentally, the first person to ask for this "facility" in Cumulus will get :bash: And here was me in the middle of editing my strings.ini file !!! You could have a configurable parameter asking which part of the UK you were in, with appropriate regional dialect phrases such as (for Yor...
by martinu
Wed 07 Jul 2021 5:59 pm
Forum: Davis VP/VP2/Vue
Topic: Vantage VP2 lost contact with rain/temp/humid module (but not with separate wind module)
Replies: 5
Views: 1296

Re: Vantage VP2 lost contact with rain/temp/humid module (but not with separate wind module)

Or perhaps ... ... and it has missed periods of heavy rainfall. ... the rain was heavy enough to reduce effective transmission distance. Was / is the problem always associated with rain ? Interesting suggestion. I've looked at the rainfall rate over that period of time, and it doesn't correspond. T...
by martinu
Wed 07 Jul 2021 5:50 pm
Forum: Davis VP/VP2/Vue
Topic: Vantage VP2 lost contact with rain/temp/humid module (but not with separate wind module)
Replies: 5
Views: 1296

Re: Vantage VP2 lost contact with rain/temp/humid module (but not with separate wind module)

Hmm, the data stopped only kicks in if ALL the primary sensors flat-line. In your case the wind was still reporting so it never triggered. The data stopped granularity could probably do with improving here. Sensor contact lost does not apply to Davis VP2 stations, it is for FineOffset stations and ...
by martinu
Mon 05 Jul 2021 11:10 pm
Forum: Davis VP/VP2/Vue
Topic: Davis Vantage Vue rain reporting issue
Replies: 3
Views: 1248

Re: Davis Vantage Vue rain reporting issue

Does Cumulus (and the Davis Console) record an extra 0.2 mm of rain each time you manually tip the "spoon" in the same way that rainfall would tip it? If not, you may need a new tipping spoon. I'm not sure how it communicates with the ISS (the large white sensor housing) but I found that t...
by martinu
Mon 05 Jul 2021 2:23 pm
Forum: Davis VP/VP2/Vue
Topic: Vantage VP2 lost contact with rain/temp/humid module (but not with separate wind module)
Replies: 5
Views: 1296

Vantage VP2 lost contact with rain/temp/humid module (but not with separate wind module)

My Vantage Pro 2 setup has two transmitters: one in the rainfall/temperature/humidity module and another in the wind speed/direction module which is in a different location. Intermittently over the last 6 hours the David console has lost contact with the rainfall/temperature/humidity module ("...
by martinu
Mon 12 Apr 2021 8:43 am
Forum: Davis VP/VP2/Vue
Topic: Reflection-proofing a VP2 wind vane
Replies: 7
Views: 1515

Re: Reflection-proofing a VP2 wind vane

Primer for plastic is available in spray cans (in this part of the world anyway) which provides a secure base coat for a matte top coat. Black might get too hot in the sun though. I only suggested black paint because the vane is already black plastic. Sanding the vane is a good first step that I ha...
by martinu
Sun 11 Apr 2021 8:30 pm
Forum: Davis VP/VP2/Vue
Topic: Reflection-proofing a VP2 wind vane
Replies: 7
Views: 1515

Re: Reflection-proofing a VP2 wind vane

Good job you haven't got one of those super shiny rotating chimney cowls! :lol: But think about the geometry, it is perfectly possible to reflect the sun to your North. Yes it is a good job I haven't got a cowl. She said she had to draw the blinds in her conversatory whenever it was sunny. To begin...
by martinu
Sun 11 Apr 2021 2:27 pm
Forum: Davis VP/VP2/Vue
Topic: Reflection-proofing a VP2 wind vane
Replies: 7
Views: 1515

Reflection-proofing a VP2 wind vane

A weird one... I've got my VP2 wind vane/anemometer unit mounted on my TV aerial pole. A neighbour (who lives due north of me) came round to complain that she keeps seeing flashes from my wind vane as it reflects the sun when it swings in the wind. Leaving aside how someone north of me can be seeing...
by martinu
Thu 11 Feb 2021 9:02 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Development Suggestions
Topic: Question for Mark Crossley: Historic Charts - possible new graph for wind direction?
Replies: 1
Views: 789

Question for Mark Crossley: Historic Charts - possible new graph for wind direction?

Mark: I've been looking at the dashboard interface HTML/JS code and I'm curious about a possible future enhancement... I notice that the dashboard interface for the Historic Charts (interface/js/chartshistoric.js) has a commented-out doWindDir() routine which reads data from api/dailygraphdata/windd...
by martinu
Tue 09 Feb 2021 2:09 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Cumulus 3107 crashes when I use the :8998 site
Replies: 4
Views: 676

Re: Cumulus 3107 crashes when I use the :8998 site

Excellent: the link that I found was the same one, so I'm doing it correctly! And the ongoing status messages talk about overwriting 6.x.x over 4.x.x.


UPDATE: Cumulus started OK and seems to be behaving itself now. Thanks for you help, sutne.
by martinu
Tue 09 Feb 2021 1:46 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Cumulus 3107 crashes when I use the :8998 site
Replies: 4
Views: 676

Re: Cumulus 3107 crashes when I use the :8998 site

Ah. I must have missed the mention in one of the build release notes to upgrade to Mono 5 or 6. Do I need to uninstall Mono 4, or if I install Mono 5 or 6, will it remove/update the Mono 4 files? I've been keeping the Pi up to date with sudo apt update and sudo apt full-upgrade, but evidently this d...
by martinu
Tue 09 Feb 2021 12:21 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Cumulus 3107 crashes when I use the :8998 site
Replies: 4
Views: 676

Cumulus 3107 crashes when I use the :8998 site

I've noticed a number of instances when Cumulus has crashed (no access to 8998 site, no mono process running) while I've been using the 8998 site. Running on Raspberry Pi 3 B+. (Raspbian Stretch) "uname -a" gives "Linux martin-pi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv...
by martinu
Tue 09 Feb 2021 11:35 am
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Historic graph - where does it get its data from?
Replies: 1
Views: 361

Historic graph - where does it get its data from?

I've just upgraded to b3107 and I'm very impressed with the historic and select-a-chart graphs. On my "round tuit" list was a task to devise a means of uploading data to my server, getting the server to add it to a SQL table, and then write PHP to extract data for a selected time period an...
by martinu
Mon 01 Feb 2021 12:32 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Alarms in Dashboard (localhost:8998) - nothing showing when Davis console lost contact with remote sensors
Replies: 6
Views: 716

Re: Alarms in Dashboard (localhost:8998) - nothing showing when Davis console lost contact with remote sensors

Have you actually set values for and enabled (Settings|Alarms) the Alarms? Are they currently green? They are not reset at midnight, they will set and clear with the condition unless you enable latching and specify a latch period for them to stay active for. Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!! A slight case of RTFM :-...
by martinu
Mon 01 Feb 2021 11:32 am
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Alarms in Dashboard (localhost:8998) - nothing showing when Davis console lost contact with remote sensors
Replies: 6
Views: 716

Re: Alarms in Dashboard (localhost:8998) - nothing showing when Davis console lost contact with remote sensors

Though, it should be detected indirectly with the Data Stopped alarm which checks for the same data values being reported for a period. Leaving aside the specific case of the stopped data, I'm not convinced that any of the alarms are working. If the temperature is > highest record or < lowest recor...