WeatherLink / WxSolution

[gclarkso]

Hi,

Just recently discovered WxSolution (WOW!) and am asking for some direction on how WeatherLink/WxSolution can best live together RE: the proper time to download the archive from WeatherLink, and in general, tried and true methods to keep them both happy.

I shut the PC down during the night so in the morning I have been starting WeatherLink, downloading the archive, shutting WeatherLink down then starting WxSolution and letting it run throughout the day. So far, so good (except the fact WeatherUnderground has no data being displayed for when the PC was off...)

Thanks,
Gordon

[Admin]

Personally, I have my archive interval set for five minutes, which is good for just over a week of storage in the datalogger, so I only download into WeatherLink about every 6 days. One thing you might consider is that unlike any of the other software, WeatherLink can send "back" data to Wunderground. So, if you're downloading into WeatherLink every morning, you can set WeatherLink to send past data. There's an option in the Weather Underground setup in WeatherLink to tell it how many of days of data it can send. Set that to one, and you should be OK there. It takes a few minutes to send that much data, but that way you can have uninterrupted records at Wunderground. That configuration item can be found on any of the three profiles in WeatherLink's Internet Setup area. Within a profile, go to Reports, then setup your Weather Underground info there.

If you haven't already done so, please join the Citizen Weather Observers Program (CWOP). Sending your data to CWOP will have your observations included in the NWS forecast models (and other good uses.) For more information and/or to sign up, visit www.wxqa.com.

[gclarkso]

Gary,

Thanks for that great tip...I appreciate it. In the few days that I have been evaluating WxS, I have discovered that WxS can import the archive from the datalogger as well. But alas, this data that's imported into WxS to fill the gaps when WxS was down for the night is averaged to a hourly value, which skews the high/low data a tad.

All things considered though, WxS is top-notch IMHO.

Gordon

[Admin]

Bear in mind that WxS can also import WeatherLink files. These seem to import more comprehensively than the datalogger download. Biggest downside there is that importing WeatherLink files doesn't provide for the *average* wind speed as calculated by WxS, and wind rose graphics only deal with the 16 cardinal points rather than all 365 as when the wind rose is generated solely from WxS collected data.

If you get to a point where you can run your computer 24/7, you'll be much happier with the data collected!

[gclarkso]

Gary,

Your tip regarding downloading the archive in WL then uploading to Wunderground to fill the gaps works flawlessly...Thanks.

However, once I shut down WL and start WxS for the day, I can't seem to populate my observations.html or display my high/low data, regardless what I try for the time when the PC was shut down.

I've tried:

Importing then current .wlk file from WL through WxS.
Importing the archive from the datalogger through WxS.

I was successful once before with this by importing the archive from the datalogger through WxS (I think) as my post above describes my high/low data is averaged to an hourly value when the PC was off. But I think this was performed prior to downloading the archive through WL.

Do you have any insight or possibly a suggestion (except for the obvious of leaving the PC on 24/7) that may address this issue?

I appreciate it.

Gordon

[Admin]

Try this - after your bring the data into WxS, whether from the logger OR from WeatherLink, shut down WxS, wait the ten seconds or so it insists upon, and restart it. This should take care of it for you, at least it works that way for me. (Don't ask me why... I just accept that it works and run with it... Yes, it'd be nice not to have to do that, but I guess one must expect some compromises when running different software packages or not running 24/7...)