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There is confidence that it will work stably and well, because I do not smile to climb on the roofs and waste time. I've done it enough times.

The amount of updates to the WS90 has been overwhelming over the past 2 years and the product has continued to fail to run to soft 1.3.8 according to the manufacturer's specifications in the product sheet. I have concerns that 1.4.3 will not be any better. I have already commissioned a colleague from Poland to test against Davis VP2 and Hongyuv WDS2E after Lorawan. It looks like we are guinea pigs for Ecowitt, paying money for the product and they are releasing new software versions by trial and error, probably testing the Wittboy and WS80 without a reference device a longer period of time.

In the near future, we will juxtapose the Wittboy on charts with this device to check the Fine Offset accuracy claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ZxAkw23DM
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Tech Corner / Re: Classic Weather Channel Display Project
« Last post by CW2274 on Today at 01:19:21 AM »
Granted, not wx 24/7 anymore, but at least when there's a severe outbreak, tropical land falling system, blizzard, ect., they still do a decent job with knowledgeable people. I guess better than a sharp stick in the eye, especially for the novice.
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Tech Corner / Re: Classic Weather Channel Display Project
« Last post by W Thomas on Today at 12:49:42 AM »
Been trying to figure out how to make this work on a server  https://battaglia.ddns.net/twc/
Kinda like it as its reminiscent of the old days when the TWC was weather and not just another dang near useless channel on cable tv,which we dont have here :)
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Tech Corner / Re: Classic Weather Channel Display Project
« Last post by Garth Bock on Yesterday at 11:40:54 PM »
I remember when Telecable came to Bloomington (IL). and at least one TV in bars were tuned to TWC. It was better than some of the channels anyway.
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jgentry, how’s that new sensor working? Is it a completely new station or just a new sensor?
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Tech Corner / Re: Classic Weather Channel Display Project
« Last post by Notsorusty on Yesterday at 10:59:43 PM »
"And now your local forecast"
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Hi!

For the WS90 is a new firmware available: v1.2.8

Changelog WS80 Firmware V1.2.8 Upgrade 2024-04-15

1.Optimize wind speed measurement. To ensure accuracy with the upgrade, a recalibration tozero is required for it to take effect.

You may find these files also on the Ecowitt product page for the WS80.

Oliver

 To ensure accuracy with the upgrade, a recalibration to zero is required for it to take effect.

Does the upgrade automatically do the recalibration to zero? If not, how to perform this task.
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I would be concerned about the 'rain shadow' being cast by the buildings (and possibly the trees).
How often do you need to actually do something with the rain gauge that would make the top of your roof (where the current station is) not suitable?
Susan
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updated and recalibrated in the middle of elevated wind. Not sure what you can take out of this, maybe its almost the same.

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I notice that worldextremes.php was having issues loading data from https://www.ncep.noaa.gov/ (actually from https://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/cadb_v2/daily/ ) with long timeouts.

Hopefully, the NWS will fix that.  Meanwhile, change the script to a longer cache life to have that page (or your site, if you'd used it in the menubar.php) work again.

Change worldextremes.php
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$cache_life = 3600*6;
to
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$cache_life = 3600*24;
  Hopefully theyll get it fixed tomorrow...
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