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by cats_five
Thu 09 Oct 2014 8:04 am
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: Alternatives to WH1080
Replies: 6
Views: 2645

Re: Alternatives to WH1080

spider-related problems with the rain gauge on my WH1080. If you do a forum search on 'spiders', you will find what others have tried. For me, I glued a piece of what they use as fly netting on ventilator grills right across the bottom of my Fine Offset rain gauge covering every hole and the spider...
by cats_five
Wed 08 Oct 2014 7:50 am
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: Alternatives to WH1080
Replies: 6
Views: 2645

Re: Alternatives to WH1080

Not sure what you mean by 'surface spray'. Could you give a brand name for example, please?
by cats_five
Tue 07 Oct 2014 4:23 pm
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: Alternatives to WH1080
Replies: 6
Views: 2645

Alternatives to WH1080

I'm having all sorts of spider-related problems with the rain gauge on my WH1080.

Are the rain gauges on any other weather stations more resistant to the problem? It's taken since 6th September for a new rain gauge to get so sticky with (presumably) spider web it's not working again. :x
by cats_five
Fri 18 Oct 2013 2:14 pm
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: WH1080 - rain gauge not working
Replies: 17
Views: 10351

Re: WH1080 - rain gauge not working

The diagnosis was spot on - there were several spiders and an earwig in residence, a couple of spider nests, and lots of cobwebs stopping the rocker from rocking. However I managed to break one of the plastic lugs taking it apart, so I think I'd better get another one anyway.
by cats_five
Thu 17 Oct 2013 7:24 am
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: WH1080 - rain gauge not working
Replies: 17
Views: 10351

Re: WH1080 - rain gauge not working

Sorry for taking so long to come back, I have had a lot of other stuff going on in my life. I think I need to replace the gauge and then try to fix the old one at my leisure. I was able to buy a replacement wind vane from Maplins (some kind soul posted me the relevent URL), presumably I can get a ra...
by cats_five
Sat 21 Sep 2013 6:07 pm
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: WH1080 - rain gauge not working
Replies: 17
Views: 10351

Re: WH1080 - rain gauge not working

Thanks. I think I'll have to take it off and really clean it out. :(
by cats_five
Sat 21 Sep 2013 7:42 am
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: WH1080 - rain gauge not working
Replies: 17
Views: 10351

Re: WH1080 - rain gauge not working

I managed to wiggle a little finger in and poke it up & down quite a bit, and it shows rain for that time. I'll put some more water through today to make sure it's OK. Do you know how many ml from a syringe should make the gauge tip? I couldn't hear it, but there was wind & traffic noise and...
by cats_five
Fri 20 Sep 2013 7:32 am
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: WH1080 - rain gauge not working
Replies: 17
Views: 10351

Re: WH1080 - rain gauge not working

I will have to go out with the step ladder. I'll let you know what I find.
by cats_five
Thu 19 Sep 2013 5:36 pm
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: WH1080 - rain gauge not working
Replies: 17
Views: 10351

Re: WH1080 - rain gauge not working

No. I did pour some water through from a watering can and could see it dripping out of the bottom.
by cats_five
Thu 19 Sep 2013 4:10 pm
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: WH1080 - rain gauge not working
Replies: 17
Views: 10351

WH1080 - rain gauge not working

The rain gauge has stopped working on my WH1080. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement, please?
by cats_five
Mon 22 Oct 2012 9:37 am
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: Bad temperature reading
Replies: 1
Views: 1250

Bad temperature reading

I got a bad temperature reading, looks like the wrong sign. This was yesterday: 14.7 15.2 16.4 16.3 -15.9 15.7 15.7 15.4 15 This is the WH1081 station. Is this simply a glitch that happens very occasionally, something wrong with the station, a Cumulus problem? And what is the easiest way of correcti...
by cats_five
Mon 22 Oct 2012 9:00 am
Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
Topic: Spare parts
Replies: 7
Views: 2953

Re: Spare parts

The package from Maplins arrived a little while ago and my anemometer (looked up the correct word) should be working again.
by cats_five
Sun 21 Oct 2012 4:15 pm
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: Webservers
Replies: 18
Views: 5495

Re: Webservers

Not sure a GUI is needed to run on a Raspberry Pi as they are usually run headless. Some kind of GUI is required. Not everyone wants to upload their data to a web site just to be able to look at it locally. I run my Pi headlessly, but I use VNC to view the desktop. The GUI wouldn't necessarily have...
by cats_five
Sun 21 Oct 2012 11:03 am
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: What screen resolution does your Cumulus PC use?
Replies: 118
Views: 300484

Re: What screen resolution does your Cumulus PC use?

I never run anything full-screen...

Also I realise this is a fairly old poll, would have thought a very common screen size now is 1920 × 1080 which I guess has come along since this poll was started.
by cats_five
Sun 21 Oct 2012 11:00 am
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: Future data formats
Replies: 45
Views: 114176

Re: Future data formats

I think ideally we would have a configuration choice of flat files or a database. Those of us that are sophisticated to want a database should also be able to extract the data from it as we require. However not sure if it would be easier from your PoV to do either flat files, or flat files plus a da...