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Offline zinca

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Meteobridge PRO erased itself? **solved**
« on: December 17, 2022, 08:30:01 PM »
Been running my device for several years. Today I noticed that data had not been uploading to services, and when I went to my Meteobridge Pro via its LAN address it treated me like it was brand new! Had to re-accept the license/user agreement, and all configuration settings included weather station, services, time zone had all been wiped out. There were wizard messages telling me that I had to go to several pages and set configuration data and then apply. For better or worse I had a recently saved configuration file that I restored back to which saved some time and confusion. But was this intentional behavior? Has this happened to others or did I do something wrong that caused it to lose its memory? Any problems with using that stored configuration from September 2022 or has something changed? Seems like I remembered this happening at least once before but it has been a long time and I was newer to the device then so assumed I did it. This time I know I didn't do anything! Thank you for any help, explanation, or hints!
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Re: Meteobridge PRO erased itself?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2022, 06:16:53 PM »
it has happened to me once or twice - reason not reproducable.
Always good to have  a backup of the database and the configuration.  8-)
Meanwhile it's hasn't happened again since long ...
And after the license and configuration restore all continued normally.
The configuration file only contains your customized data - no nothing that can be wrong
WS2350 1.6.7, GW1000(3) 1.7.7,WH2650 WiFi (2) 1.7.7 (test/backup), GW1100 2.3.1, GW2000(3) 3.1.1, HP2551 1.9.5,5.1.5;HP3500 1.7.2,WS3800 1.2.8, WN1910 1.2.3,WN1980 1.2.3;
Ecowitt WS90(2)1.3.5/1.4.0, WS80(2)1.2.5, WS68, WS69, WH40, WH31, WH31-EP, WN30, WN34L, WN35, WH32, WH32-EP, WH32B, WH57 [Lightning], WH41 [PM2.5], WH51, WH45, WH55
MeteobridgePro(2)[test,prod] 5.8 Mar 01 2024, 15185 - Blake-Larsen Sun Recorder - RPi4/weewx 4.8.0/4.10.2/CumulusMX 3283/Meteobridge RPi4B-2GB(3169)
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Re: Meteobridge PRO erased itself? **solved**
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2023, 11:11:34 AM »
Latest releases take special care, that the configuration data is not lost when "pulling the plug" or alike while config data is still written back. Therefore, I expect this issue to not show up again.
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Re: Meteobridge PRO erased itself? **solved**
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2024, 05:48:01 PM »
Happened to me today. Unfortunately, I did not save the configuration as I did not reaD THIS BEFORE OR HEARD OF THIS HAPPENING. aNY SUGGESTIONS?

tHANKS, tOM
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Re: Meteobridge PRO erased itself? **solved**
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2024, 05:58:24 PM »
Happened to me today. Unfortunately, I did not save the configuration as I did not reaD THIS BEFORE OR HEARD OF THIS HAPPENING. aNY SUGGESTIONS?

tHANKS, tOM
any data center administrator will tell - no backup - no mercy
in IT (and every computer and smartphone is IT) you should ALWAYS make backups - of your data, of your operation system
data is not only the database but everything around - like the configuration of MB

If you didn't make a backup, even though the Administartion page has an extra entry for that, you have to bite the bullet

You will have to start again from scratch and enter all your data
- your station(s)
- the weather networks you are posting to
- the resolution of archived/stored data
- the events you have defined earlier
- your station (console) longitude, latitude, time zone, and altitude
- any calibration you have set
- any sensor matching you had done earlier
AND THEN SAVE THE CONFIGURATION TO YOUR PC (and keep a second copy in a different place)
WS2350 1.6.7, GW1000(3) 1.7.7,WH2650 WiFi (2) 1.7.7 (test/backup), GW1100 2.3.1, GW2000(3) 3.1.1, HP2551 1.9.5,5.1.5;HP3500 1.7.2,WS3800 1.2.8, WN1910 1.2.3,WN1980 1.2.3;
Ecowitt WS90(2)1.3.5/1.4.0, WS80(2)1.2.5, WS68, WS69, WH40, WH31, WH31-EP, WN30, WN34L, WN35, WH32, WH32-EP, WH32B, WH57 [Lightning], WH41 [PM2.5], WH51, WH45, WH55
MeteobridgePro(2)[test,prod] 5.8 Mar 01 2024, 15185 - Blake-Larsen Sun Recorder - RPi4/weewx 4.8.0/4.10.2/CumulusMX 3283/Meteobridge RPi4B-2GB(3169)
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Re: Meteobridge PRO erased itself? **solved**
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2024, 11:09:13 AM »
Thanks Gyvate,

Lesson learned. I am back - only thing I did not fix is some networks I do not really care and I did not switch my wind meter from 00 to 01 which I had to do in my last configuration although I do not have two wind meters.

Sincerely, Tom
Ecowitt W90/HP2560 | WeatherBridge (Meteobridge)
WU  |  PWS_Dashboard  |  AWEKAS
AWN  |  WOW  |  CWOP

Davis Vantage Pro2 | WUHU and WLL
WU  | WL  |  CWOP

 

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