Build 993 WMR100 Support

DigbyDave · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:28 pm

Steve,

Don't pull your hair out over the display problem. Looks like a computer kick in the pants solved that little issue. And the 2 installs are happily running side by side again.

steve · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:29 pm

DigbyDave wrote:

tried changing background then text colour, no change.

I've looked through the code and I can't see any problems with the setting of either the caption or its colour, so I'm baffled. If you change the caption in the display settings, does it come back?

steve · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:30 pm

DigbyDave wrote:

Looks like a computer kick in the pants solved that little issue. And the 2 installs are happily running side by side again.

Ah, that's good.

steve · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:34 pm

DigbyDave wrote:

And the 2 installs are happily running side by side again.

Are you running two copies at the same time with the same weather station? Normally that would cause problems, but as the WMR100 protocol is pretty much read-only, I guess it might work. I'm not sure both copies will be seeing all the packets, though; I don't really know how the USB code works.

DigbyDave · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:05 pm

One install is seeing the WMR direct (994), the other (993) is still using the WUHU / easyweather.dat / setup that I created some time back to enable me to use Cumulus.

As for running in parallel, assuming you are using the standard read functions, it shouldn't be a problem. I have been using VWS/WUHU/WSDL all polling the WMR up until now, what's one more to add to the mix, they all have their own benefits.

Hopefully once Cumulus is stable I can ditch a couple. Obviously 2 Cumuluses will not be necessary, VWS is going as soon as that happens (was the first and has my historic data - still working on a way to get that somewhere else). WUHU will no longer be necessary (tho I am using that to feed my weather DB and like it's data template flexibility and AWEKAS). WSDL, sorry but I still prefer WSDL graphs and it gives me QNH pressure correctly and calculates true MSLP from QFE.

steve · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:29 pm

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sorry but I still prefer WSDL graphs

No problem - it looks like nice software; I don't have any issues with people liking good software. And if you have the ability to run multiple programs, then why not.

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and it gives me QNH pressure correctly

Cumulus will do that too, but only via the <#altimeterpressure> web tag.

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and calculates true MSLP from QFE.

That's an interesting thought; it wouldn't be too hard to provide an option to do proper MSLP for those stations that don't.

DigbyDave · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:29 pm

Steve,

Your speed amazes me.

Alt. pressure works, and all other reading seem to work. Forecast is there, will have to wait for a pressure change to check trend.

Thank you and until I have something further.....

steve · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:41 pm

DigbyDave wrote:

Thank you and until I have something further.....

No problem - thanks for your help.

bigmac · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:14 pm

Steve, looks like there is some anomaly with the station name display, see attached picture. Part of the station name has been "blanked off".

UPDATE: It looks like it can refresh itself by going into "View" - "Highs and Lows" - then selecting one of the options, which effectively overlays the table over this part of the screen and on closing it, the full station name has reappeared. So, some kind of graphical refresh issue????

steve · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:23 pm

I think it's something to do with your screen resolution; it's trying to resize itself as best as it can to fit, which is why your display looks a bit poor. But I'll see if I can improve the title a bit, I may have accidentally resized the box. What is your screen resolution?

Edit: Actually, you may be right, it may be a redraw issue. This may be related to the problem that Dave was seeing. I don't have any control over the redraw, though, so it's likely there's nothing I can do about it. I installed a release of the third-party component pack, of which that label is one component, just before build 992. It's possible it's a bug in that release of the component pack, but no-one else has reported a problem, and I don't seem to be able to reproduce it.

DigbyDave · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:04 am

Steve,

bigmac is on the right track. If you open Highs and Lows and close that window with part of the station name obscured, the obscured part is not refreshed. If you then open Highs and lows, then move the dialog box off of the station name the station name refreshes. This is in 995, 993 does not seem to be afflicted with the same ailment.

Another possible clue, if I remotely connect to my weather PC by Teamviewer, the station name does not appear. Refreshing the station name as above will remain until I close a dialog box over it, but if I terminate a remote session with it displayed and then reconnect the remote session, the name is gone again.

Have confirmed this behaviour both on a local session and remote session.

steve · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:28 am

I can't reproduce the problem, and I've tried on three different flavours of Windows - including the XP SP3 that you're using. The component I'm using for that label did change recently, but at build 992. There's no real reason for me to be using that component there instead of a standard label, so I'll change it.

bigmac · **Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:33 pm

Hi Steve,

Haven't seen any repetition of the corruption of the station name since updating to build 996. Looks like it may have cured it.
Also, everything else seems to be working great. Although I haven't analysed any data in great detail, I don't see any glaring issues.
So, many many thanks for having the dedication to develop Cumulus for us OS WMR users. Donation will be on its way at next pay day :clap:

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