Author Topic: WU change of Acurite's method of gust reporting as of May 29th  (Read 745 times)

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Offline BeaverMeadow

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 At 3:30pm on the 29th I noticed that gusts are now being displayed at every data point instead of only when wind reached 18mph. It's a lot more unneeded clutter in my opinion but it seems to be the current trend.

Is this happening on all 5 in 1 WU graphs? I see it on another Acurite near me but I don't know if it is a universal change.

I'm also wondering if this change is on WU's end, Acurite's server end, or a firmware upgrade to the hub. I use a SmartHub and although I doubt Acurite would be sending any changes out to Smarthubs, who knows?

Offline nincehelser

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Re: WU change of Acurite's method of gust reporting as of May 29th
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2018, 08:51:47 PM »
At 3:30pm on the 29th I noticed that gusts are now being displayed at every data point instead of only when wind reached 18mph. It's a lot more unneeded clutter in my opinion but it seems to be the current trend.

Is this happening on all 5 in 1 WU graphs? I see it on another Acurite near me but I don't know if it is a universal change.

I'm also wondering if this change is on WU's end, Acurite's server end, or a firmware upgrade to the hub. I use a SmartHub and although I doubt Acurite would be sending any changes out to Smarthubs, who knows?

Acurite made a change in gust reporting with the Access, eliminating the 18 mph restriction.

I'm not aware of them sending out a firmware change to the SmartHUB, though.  It would seem unlikely that they would do that.

 

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