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Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 4:28 pm
by GiveToLive
After trying several different Weather programs I settled on Cumulus and for a couple years I have been using Cumulus with a WMR 928. I set it up to report to Weather Undrground, Weatherbug and PWS. Recently I changed stations to a Davis Vantage Pro2. And I have updated Cumulus to the latest 1099 build.

Now, even though the station and Cumulus show a temperature of 37 F, Cumulus is reporting to these sites that the temperature is 78 F.

Also Cumulus is showing wild figures in the Trend box. Currently it shows -13.7 F/hour while the Davis shows the temperature as steady. Yesterday it showed +14.7 F/hour when the temperature was actually dropping as the sun was setting.

What do I have to do to get Cumulus to report the correct information all the time?

Glenn

http://www.wunderground.com/personal-we ... R2#history

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 4:37 pm
by mcrossley
It looks like you have two programs uploading data. One is sending 'static' incorrect data, the other sending the real data, both are saying they are Cumulus v1.9.4
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Do you have another copy of Cumulus running in the background on your 'puter?

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 5:11 pm
by GiveToLive
Not that I can see.

Task Manager shows only one instance and in the Processes only one Cumulus is listed.

I have not set up any other program to send data.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 5:13 pm
by mcrossley
I suspect that if you stop Cumulus uploading, that you will still data being added by another copy somewhere.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 5:20 pm
by steve
When did you last restart Cumulus? I guess it's possible that if you changed station types without restarting it, then it could perhaps somehow be running two sets of processes updating at the same time. But the only times that I have ever seen graphs like that, it was caused by two instances running.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 5:22 pm
by GiveToLive
I understood that two copies of Cumulus would not run at the same time.

I have unchecked the enable boxes to see if you are correct.

http://www.pwsweather.com/obs/GIVE2LIVE.html

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 5:28 pm
by steve
GiveToLive wrote:I understood that two copies of Cumulus would not run at the same time.
Some people want to run multiple instances, from separate copies (they may have more than one weather station connected, for example). There is a "stop 2nd instance" option in the station settings, which attempts to prevent multiple instances running.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 5:53 pm
by GiveToLive
steve wrote:
GiveToLive wrote:I understood that two copies of Cumulus would not run at the same time.
Some people want to run multiple instances, from separate copies (they may have more than one weather station connected, for example). There is a "stop 2nd instance" option in the station settings, which attempts to prevent multiple instances running.
This option does not seem to be working very well as I do have it checked. I have rebooted to make sure no other copies of Cumulus is running. Then I did a reinstall of build 1099. Hope this works.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 5:57 pm
by steve
According to WU, something has been uploading data for your station every few seconds, even after you said you had unchecked the enable boxes:
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Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 6:00 pm
by mcrossley
WU seems to reporting accurate data now.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 6:01 pm
by GiveToLive
I had the "Rapid Fire" ticked. Un-ticked now.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 6:04 pm
by GiveToLive
mcrossley wrote:WU seems to reporting accurate data now.

Does look like it.

Thanks to both of you for the help.

I do like Cumulus of all the programs I have tried, so do want it to work.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 6:07 pm
by GiveToLive
I am still getting the weird trend reading at times.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 6:08 pm
by steve
Presumably 'part' of a previous instance was still running, but the offending processes weren't named. The mutex which prevents two instances running is owned by the main program thread, which had apparently closed down without the other processes closing, which is why a new instance didn't detect it.

Re: Incorrect Reporting to PWS

Posted: Mon 01 Dec 2014 6:09 pm
by steve
GiveToLive wrote:I am still getting the weird trend reading at times.
There will be invalid entries in the log file created by the other instance; the latest entries in the log file are used at start up to determine changes in the last hour and 24 hours.