Topic: WS-2000 Firmware Update

[kbellis]

https://www.ambientweather.com/amwewsfidoce.html

FYI - Release of v1.4.1

[galfert]

Thank you. Beat me to it.    This one sounds very important. We haven't heard of any corrupted updates around this forum, so maybe this is just code improvement that they caught before it became an issue. Of course there is always the chance that it happened to someone and we just never heard of it here in the forum.

April 15 2019 | Version 1.4.1

Changes:

• Memory stack optimized.
• Checksum prevents corrupted updates.

[kbellis]

Update process went fine with no issues.

Still am not seeing icons on main display screen for: batteries on Osprey array; batteries on WH32B;

Then there is some unexpected messing with the Time field in the .csv created on the WS-2000 after performing a backup; i.e., daylight savings time became retroactive all the way back to the first record.

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N.B. This data from February 2018 and prior to Christmas 2018 is from the factory.

[galfert]

That is funky. Please report it to Ed @ Ambient.

I'm going to hold off upgrading as I usually do and let it simmer.

It is never a good idea to use local time in a database, so that is poor practice to see. It is best to use UTC which is never adjusted for daylight saving time. What the WS-2000 should then do is convert the UTC in the database to local time when displaying the data charts. Then so that people don't complain that their data exports contain UTC instead of local time, there could be a second data column that is the converted local time which was also saved. Then if the user needs to import the data into some software package they can then choose to use either field depending on the software and its capabilities.

[kbellis]

That is funky. Please report it to Ed @ Ambient.

Ed already has too many people bugging him; that, he's made clear to me more than once.

[galfert]

Firmware 1.4.2 Released

https://www.ambientweather.com/amwewsfidoce.html

April 24 2019 | Version 1.4.2

Changes:

• Fixed history time format exported to SD Card.

* See Ed listens. Only took his programmers 1 week since I reported the issue. He probably just doesn't want to be bothered with non-major issue related ideas. Ambient customer service is top notch.

[DWIGHT123]

what does this Firmware update improve in easy terms? Thank you!

[galfert]

what does this Firmware update improve in easy terms? Thank you!

If you are upgrading from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 then the only improvement is the change I listed in my prior post. Essentially if you read the prior posts you see the bug that Kelly discovered with the SD card archive, and 1.4.2 fixes this issue.

If however you are upgrading from an even earlier version than 1.4.1 then you gain all the incremental changes for every prior version you missed. Read the change log to see what new feature or bug fix that every version brings.

Version history change log:
https://www.ambientweather.com/amwewsfidoce.html

Let me know if you need further clarification on anything else.

[kbellis]

Thanks for the heads up George! Also, thank you for turning me onto https://www.wachete.com to help watch for when the firmware update page changes; quite handy, and is working well for these past (2) updates of the WS-2000 firmware.

And more on topic, the DST bug that I discovered in v1.4.1 appears to have been fixed in v1.4.2; and thank you for your intercession and the relaying of that information to Ambient Weather - much appreciated!

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