National Geographic 265NC from Wal Mart.

[AlongTheWay]

This is some info that I have found out using an National Geographic 265NC weather station purchase at Wal Mart in Canada.
When you install you weather station it comes with Easy Weather Version 2 software. This software is for one computer only. I use Cumulus to be able to expand my view by putting the info through Cumulus software onto my website. Now with this relatively cheap Easy Weather software and weather station there are a few glitches in getting the Cumulus software to link to the National Geographic weather station output.
Here are a few things of what I had to do to get the Cumulus software to connect to my National Geographic weather station:
1: I have to run Easy Weather software at the same time as Cumulus Software (turning on Easy weather software first and giving it a minute to load all the info)
2: On my Configuration / Station / Station Type I had to click the button for FINE OFFSET (Not Easy Weather)
3: I sometime have to reload Cumulus a few times to get the data transfer to get the info from the National Geographic weather station setup. ( And you always have to wait a bit for the information to get to Cumulus after you start Cumulus).
Once I have the info on the Cumulus software screen then it will keep that data continuously until you shut your computer down. (Which happens to me every Wednesday night when Microsoft downloads updates for Vista)

Hope this helps someone as this works for me. But it may or may not work for your system. I am suspecting that further Cumulus updates may help in getting a better link with this Weather Station.
Also if any members out there have any suggestions on how I make my connection please let me know as I may be missing something and linking up the hard way. Thank you

Steve

[Super-T]

You shouldn't be running Easyweather and Cumulus at the same time....they compete for the data on the USB.
Just set Cumulus up to be "Fine Offset" (the manufacturer of your Station) and forget Easyweather unless you want to use it to setup some details on the desktop unit. Never run them together.
Easyweather Version 2 is well out of date...latest is 6.1
http://www.foshk.com/en/products/show.asp?id=42

[AlongTheWay]

Made some errors on my setup. Am now running Cumulus software on its own. It is working good now. Thank you for your help.

[akasonny]

From one Steve to another:

I find this kind of unusual. Those of us who use the various-named weather stations (Zephyr, etc., which are really all just Fine Offsets) use Easy Weather to do the initial setup....save the setup...then close Easy Weather. Then, Cumulus is loaded...reads the data...and begins its "thing".

I'm wondering if, in the Cumulus control screen, you have the Configuration-->Station setup properly. I'm unable to troubleshoot your FTP log or your Debug log (but that might become necessary by someone else).

If you've set this up properly, then this is a very different sort of weather station.

1: I have to run Easy Weather software at the same time as Cumulus Software (turning on Easy weather software first and giving it a minute to load all the info)

[nb_799]

Recently I've found when downloading the data from the unit to my laptop there is data missing, once in August and again in January the memory showed it was at 75% and I downloaded it but there is about 14 days worth of data missing. It's storing updates every 15 minutes. Is this simply batteries?

[steve]

Recently I've found when downloading the data from the unit to my laptop there is data missing, once in August and again in January the memory showed it was at 75% and I downloaded it but there is about 14 days worth of data missing. It's storing updates every 15 minutes. Is this simply batteries?

Unlikely to be batteries. I'd need to see the diags files from the runs when this occurred, but it's almost certainly too long ago now. What's your normal pattern of running Cumulus - you leave it switched off overnight and run it during the day?