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Title: Using VWS as stationless by reading CSV from WD
Post by: PSJohn on May 16, 2018, 11:28:38 PM
Can VWS be set to "stationless" and read a CSV file created by WeatherDisplay? If so does anyone know what format VWS expects?

I'm using Virtual VP now, and I'm constantly dealing with disconnects from VWS. I wish to finally decommission it!

thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Using VWS as stationless by reading CSV from WD
Post by: swise123 on June 15, 2018, 11:58:34 AM
Was curious as to if you tried this and if it worked?

Thanks,
Shane
www.nashvilleweather.net
Title: Re: Using VWS as stationless by reading CSV from WD
Post by: PSJohn on June 15, 2018, 02:20:46 PM
Yes! I have it working! Its been flawless so far 3 days in! I still haven't had rain to test those perimeters. I had to reset VWS total rain after the setting change to station less.

I went to Brian (WD Developer) over at the Weather Display forums and he did help me. Here is the link to that conversation you can see....https://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,66693.0.html (https://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,66693.0.html)

I had VWS, WD, and Cumulus working with VirtualVP for at least the last 10 years not knowing what software I would end up using. Then with VirtualVP's development demise I have had connection errors for years I had to deal with. Now I'm running only WD, for 95% of my website, and VWS for a few graphics and to use with ImageSalsa. No VirtualVP!
Title: Re: Using VWS as stationless by reading CSV from WD
Post by: swise123 on June 15, 2018, 02:50:58 PM
Thanks for the info...I am looking to possibly move away from VWS since it's not being updated anymore and was looking at WD.
Title: Re: Using VWS as stationless by reading CSV from WD
Post by: AF6GL on August 22, 2018, 03:22:48 PM
I am trying to use VWS stainless with WD. VWS won't save my settings in the stainless mode. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Using VWS as stationless by reading CSV from WD
Post by: longmire on November 12, 2018, 01:45:02 PM
So - I have sort of the opposite question - is it possible to leave VWS collecting the data and have WD read in "stationless" mode from vws? I'd like to have a way to upload the data to the MySQL database when my aging install of vwsql says "NO!" for the last time.
Title: Re: Using VWS as stationless by reading CSV from WD
Post by: galfert on November 12, 2018, 02:49:27 PM
Why not run VirtualVP and then run both VWS and Weather-Display?
http://www.softwx.com/weather/virtualvp.html
Title: Re: Using VWS as stationless by reading CSV from WD
Post by: longmire on November 12, 2018, 09:49:16 PM
Because my weather station is a Texas Weather wr-25 connected via rs-232 and virtual vp won't work if you don't have a davis station.