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philcdav

Hi Dan and welcome to a new life of 'lost contacts@ :) What your describing is quite normal for this range of kit. So, what are the solutions? I have used most of the 'radio related' improvements such as getting the console (receiver) elevated, external aerials and aerial enhancements (reflectors), ...

philcdav

nice but a bit imprecise to set up. I used http://www..... etc and managed to crash it twice. Once crashed you cant get back into settings so have to uninstall ! http:// .../Cumulus/ worked great, just took me 30 minutes to suss it. A simple setup line detailing things like the trailing '/' and not ...

philcdav

Hi guys.

have a look for previous posts that feature directional aerials.

The cheap and cheerfull cardboard/foil REFLECTOR gives directional gain for pennies and 20 minuts of labour

philcdav

Hi guys.

Maplin in UK are currently advertising a FOSH unit for £30, reduced from £60

ID is N25FR and price includes FREE DELIVERY

Stock available > 40 units in my area, Liverpool.

Its probably about the same price as a full set of spares but all in one box

philcdav

hi guys.

As Steve says, its often asked.

I use 2 methods to view the current data

1. my website
2 Teamviewer for remote access to the online weather PC

Remote Desktop is good too

philcdav

Hi Bri.

interesting stuff for us 'nerdy' data processors.

You might look at a free program called CSVEdit

http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/

It works really well as a pre-processor for Excell

philcdav

hi Mp Am assuming you want the data to be available for others to use? As a backup system, I copy all my data to a NAS (xternal storage)every week. I also copy the system files weekly. Would this do if the NAS had general access? The dayfile.txt and other data files are uploaded to the web site so I...

philcdav

As I said, its what I do and its run pretty well non stop for 6 years (June 2008) Funny enough the hard drive broke last week and I lost a days data. Managed to replace the drive and its all up and running again. That said the HP is 14 years old so no surprise really https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/po...

philcdav

You could try setting the laptop in lo power mode.

Screen off, hard drive off after 5 mins, etc

Its what I do with my 24/7 HP laptop running 13 watts in lo power mode.

It runs quite cool

philcdav

Hi. Steve explained the answer very well. I am wondering why you would want to buy a server hardware and possibly software to use it, total cost 150 Euro plus, when you could do all this with the weather station and Cumulus for FREE. Make a donation of 20 Euro per year for 10 years to make yourself ...

philcdav

hi guys.

am wondering what range you are trying to cover

and if some aerial mods might work?

Adding a 'reflector' to the sender unit might easily double the range.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/150951/r ... _hack.html

Its not at wifi freqs but you get the idea?

philcdav

Hi Chris. The variations seem excessive at first sight but a i'll bet the units and locations are all quite different. A better 'view' of the data would be over several hours. I ran 2 FOSH units side by side for a while. One had a white painted flower pot over the temp sensor. Overnight temps were w...

philcdav

Hi JMB Have been running the solar unit for 15 months now. Before that the non solar for over 3 years. The 'new solar' is about the same in operation. It is still a bit quirky with some users but so far its been pretty good for me. That said, the pressure sensor readings have failed in the last mont...

philcdav

sorry, more .. It is the 868.3 MHz frq. I havent left the system with USB unplugged but .. another issue i am getting that i didnt before the move indoors is that the laptop is crashing requiring a reboot. Previously it would typically run fine (18 days or more) often only stopping for an XP automat...

philcdav

Hi Alan. The unit is the full solar with sun/light sensing. Not accurate but indicative :) Am still getting the spikes but of late at 1200 and 1900 give or take. They are so regular its got to be local interference but what? Still not got inside the console. Just too busy and cant find the screwdriv...

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