Yes. 1 hPa = 1 mbar. Anyway, That Degree days of yours, Is it the growing degree days? what is the default threshold of that? you should also include assigning the threshold of degree day for the users.
The Degree days and Cumulative 2-day rainfall are left over from a rewrite a did. If i can remember correctly the degree days was Heating Degree days with a threshold of 72 F. The 2 day rainfall I've been thinking about replacing with
Yesterday's rainfall or adding it separately.
The link you provided for calculating Heating and Cooling Degree Days was interesting. I'll add it to my bookmarks list.
I think they have the same communications protocols because the TCP/IP data loggers of davis are compatible to Vue, Pro and Pro2.
Based on the Info I've found that was the conclusion I came to.
Its interesting looking at the Davis and PeetBros WX Stations from a programming standpoint because all of their stations use the same communications protocols. To me, it just makes sense to use the same firmware for your next station as a starting point then add the code to handle the features that you want to add.
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One thing I just remembered, I heard somewhere (I don't recall where..) that the 'WeatherLinkIP' could only support one client connection at a time. I don't know whether or not this is true. Can anybody verify this?
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Jos,
actually old versions of firmware of weatherlinkIP can support multiple client connection at a time using Virtual VP. that is how it is until VirtualVP is no longer compatible with the latest version of Davis' Weatherlink software since 2012. Kindly see reference link http://www.softwx.com/purchase.html . Now, data can't be downloaded from weatherlink software if you will use Cumulus to connect to WUnderground at the same time. what I did is I scheduled the downloading,I close Cumuls during downloading and resume cumulus after downloading. Hope this information might help.
This information is helpful.
If I'm understanding you correctly, your running Cumulus as the main program then when you want to download the data records from the
'WeatherLinkIP Dataloggers' you close Cumulus and start Davis' WeatherLink software? Are you saving the data to the local HardDisk, or uploading to a server somewhere? If your saving the data to somewhere besides the Weatherlink.com servers, I'm wondering if adding the ability to download logged data from the WeatherLinkIP's would be helpful, Let me know and I will add it to my todo list.
Thinking about logging data, Right now I have my software setup to log to a SQLCE Database, But was wondering if logging it to a comma separated (CSV) or Tab separated file would be useful. Or maybe add a utility to export specified records from the SQL database into a CSV format might be better.
Any thoughts?
Have you tried using the cumulus software? I am sure you can get a lot of information there for connection settings and as well as other advance connection such as pushing the readings to weather underground site.
dean,
Its been awhile since I've tried using the cumulus software, however I'll take a look at it again.
Uploading to Weather Underground is also on my todo list. I'll add hpa to the Barometer Units selection as well.
Give me a few days to work on it.
Thanks for giving me a hand.
I do have a question though, it shouldn't make a difference but have you been trying to have it connect over a local LAN or the Internet?
You're welcome.
Jos,
That would be great, you should include WUnderground because as far as i know, I think more than 60% of the user that has personal weather station preferred to send their data continuously to WU to get detailed local forecast from their AWS, and I am one of them. Let me know if the connection issue of your software is fixed.
I almost forgot to tell you, I am controlling and monitoring my stations remotely. We have a Private/local network connection(Intranet), 20 Davis VP2 stations are setup to different areas remotely, each AWS IP has internet connection to send data to weatherlink.com so that we can use their mobile app (WeatherLink mobile) in android and iOS to see our stations thru mobile. So I am connected to my stations thru LAN by intranet.
Since we use WUnderground for our forecasts I've been thinking about uploading to them as well. Because of this, WUnderground uploads have been moved closer to the top of my ToDo List.
The TCP connection Issue should be fixed now. If you could to give it a try again that would be very helpful.
When I first got my software connecting to a Vue, I had it going through a local LAN. The only reason I can see there being any difficulty connecting over the internet would be if Port forwarding was not configured properly. Since you've already gotten Cumulus working with your setup you shouldn't need to change anything for my software.
Thanks once again for your help.