NON-BETA 14.00 P64 Feb 11 2009
http://www.ambientweather.com/do30tr.html NON-BETA FIXED Problems with 5 Day Forecast, can now only have 3 cities.
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http://site.ambientweatherstore.com/vws/beta/vws_install.exeVWS 14.00 P65 Feb 12 2009 Fixed Problems with 5 Day Forecast
P62 - P64. On some computers, the Wunderground | 5-Day Forecast panel would crash. I never figured out why but changing the number of cities from 4 to 3 eliminated the problem. The panel must be too complex to load on some computers. I hope this limitation in functionality will not hurt too many people.
More changes to the WMR200 download archive transition state. The difficulty arises because this station sends download data and real time data at the same time and there is no flag sent by the WMR200 that tells us when the download is complete, so I used to base this on timing between the first real time record equalling the last archive record time, but due to USB buffering, the first real time record could represent old data and therefore the download record was incomplete (it would assume there were no more archive records). I fixed this by setting a 20 second timeout for the archive records. The assumption is after 20 seconds, if there are no more archive records, the software makes the assumption that there are no more records left since they usually come in 1-3 second bursts.
P65. Some users are complaining that the rate of change and intergration features are not working properly. It may be an issue with clocking on the computer (which is speculation at the moment). To view the one second clocking, select Help | Internet Status from the menubar. At the bottom of the panel is a one second timer update. It should be close to one second. As with version 14.xx Pxx and above the CPU and Kernel times under Task Manager run at 50% to 70% all the time even though I set VWS to Low. This PC is a 100% Weather Computer running a Dell OptiPlex 330, 2GB Memory, 3.00 GHz Duo CPU E8400 Running Windows XP Pro Sp3.
Install Notes:
1. Turn OFF any Virus software before you start this process.
2. Exit VWS Software.
3. Copy your VWS Folder to a backup location.
4. Delete the folder C:\Program Files\VWS Installer
5. Copy the Install file to your VWS Directory, C:\VWS or D:\VWS I would install only on the C: Drive
I rename the Install file to VWS14xxPxx.exe so I know what Patch level I last Installed and Have a backup of the Last Patch.
6. Install VWS Software from this location. C:\VWS or D:\VWS
7. Defrag *Windows your hard drives
8. REBOOT your PC (Flush your memory) The Computer's Memory!
9. After VWS starts up let it update, so wait for the upload/download to stop.
10. Update any item the VWS prompts you to update or change. Not all updates will prompt you.
11. Touch each menu object and check that the data or item is correct.
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