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Heavy Weather & Vista
ryan hothersall:
I have only just joined the forum today.
I have the La Crosse WS-2307 on order from Ebay here in Australia so I am waiting for it to arrive.
My questions are, Does the Heavy Weather software work under Vista?
Can I set the software to record data at a certian time each day?
wuhu_software:
--- Quote from: Ryan Hothersall on April 28, 2008, 10:03:06 PM ---I have only just joined the forum today.
I have the La Crosse WS-2307 on order from Ebay here in Australia so I am waiting for it to arrive.
My questions are, Does the Heavy Weather software work under Vista?
Can I set the software to record data at a certian time each day?
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It should work if:
1) You have a real serial port or a reliable USB to serial adapter. Always use a real serial port if possible.
2) If it is a multi-core processor, run the HW app on one processor by setting the processor affinity. You can make a batch file to do this.
You could schedule it to run if you create a scheduled task (control panel). I am assuming scheduled task are still available under Vista.
ryan hothersall:
Thanks, I never thought of the task scheduler, Once I get the weather station set up I will try it.
The machine I want to run the software on is a pentium 4 so it is single core.
When the programme takes a recording is this recording include the date and time it was taken, so I know when it was recorded?.
I plan on taking readings twice a day 9 am and 3 pm and then put the data into an excel file.
wuhu_software:
--- Quote from: Ryan Hothersall on April 29, 2008, 09:22:11 AM ---Thanks, I never thought of the task scheduler, Once I get the weather station set up I will try it.
The machine I want to run the software on is a pentium 4 so it is single core.
When the programme takes a recording is this recording include the date and time it was taken, so I know when it was recorded?.
I plan on taking readings twice a day 9 am and 3 pm and then put the data into an excel file.
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After you run Heavyweather, it will read from the console the history and save this to a file called history.dat that can be exported. The interval at which it stores data is determine in the Heavweather setup. Once you get the software, you will easily find that.
When you view the history data, there should be an export button there that will write a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file that can be easily imported in to Excel.
Most people run their computers 24x7 and upload their data to sites like Weather Underground.
See:
http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/PWS_-_Personal_Weather_Stations
ryan hothersall:
Got the weather station yesterday and so far I have got the base station unit and the temp sensor going as a test overnight.
Software works ok with Vista. However the date shown in the history file is one day out while the date on the base station is correct. What causes that and how do I fix it?.
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