Cumulus Support

Hi all.

I have been experimenting a bit with the "Synchronise station clock" option lately.
First, YES - it DOES work with the WeatherLinkIP logger, at least with the latest firmware (1.1.1).
I would say that these lines from the diag file shows this:
2014-04-03 16:23:27.338 : VP2: Setting station clock
2014-04-03 16:23:27.338 : y=2014 m=4 d=3 h=16 m=23
2014-04-03 16:23:29.401 : VP2: SetStationTime_V res = 0

I have, as many others, noticed that the time on the console lags sometimes quite a lot.
I know that this is because the set time command only accept a 1 minute resolution, and Cumulus simply strips off the seconds from the current time when setting the console time.

What I was thinking --
Would it not be possible to synchronise the issuing of this command with the PC clock, at xx seconds sharp?
Either at a predefined value or user configurable, to take into account some local network latency.
I would imagine that this could make the initialising process a bit longer when starting Cumulus, but I for one would gladly take that if it would insure an accurate clock on the console at all times.

I use a Davis Vantage Vue station with WeatherLinkIP logger and Cumulus 1.9.4 b1085.

Regards

Presumably you don't leave Cumulus running overnight? When it does the daily clock setting at around 0400, it should do it within a couple of seconds of the hour/minute. At start up, you can wait until a few seconds before the minute before starting Cumulus.

Hi.

That's correct, I don't run the system 24/7 (yet).
I simply wrote a short program that holds my startup sequence until the system time reaches a specific second before starting Cumulus.
There seems to be an average of 13 seconds after startup until the set time command is issued, so I think this will work.

Thanks

I think that as a possible future enhancement, it could delay setting the clock until after it has downloaded any logger data, then set the clock on the next minute after that; rather than pausing when it starts up, doing nothing for up to a minute.