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Watson W-8681 connection problems

Posted: Mon 27 Jul 2009 12:02 pm
by gloec
Hi,
I have a Watson W-8681 and it was working with Cumulus perfectly, until I decided this morning to "correct" some rainfall false values.
Since I changed the values, Watson W-8681 stopped communicating with the program.
When I saw that there was no communication with the station, I restored the backup of july's log file, which I made earlier but the problem remained.
Easyweather communicates with the station with no problem.
I installed the 1.8.7 version of Cumulus but the problem remains. I also unplugged the USB cable with no luck at all.
Any ideas?
I am attaching the diags directory, just in case Steve could have a look at it.
Thank you in advance,
Nikolaos Frestis
Athens, Greece

Re: Watson W-8681 connection problems

Posted: Mon 27 Jul 2009 12:41 pm
by steve
I think this is your problem:

Read pressure values: rel=681,3 abs=1003,7 offset =-322,4

You have your relative pressure set far too low, so Cumulus is ignoring all of your data as bad:

2009-07-27 14:46:24 : EWUSB: Ignoring bad data: pressure = 681,599975585938
2009-07-27 14:46:24 : EWUSB: offset = -322,400024414063

If you correct that, it should start working again.

Re: Watson W-8681 connection problems

Posted: Mon 27 Jul 2009 1:33 pm
by gloec
steve wrote:I think this is your problem:

Read pressure values: rel=681,3 abs=1003,7 offset =-322,4

You have your relative pressure set far too low, so Cumulus is ignoring all of your data as bad:

2009-07-27 14:46:24 : EWUSB: Ignoring bad data: pressure = 681,599975585938
2009-07-27 14:46:24 : EWUSB: offset = -322,400024414063

If you correct that, it should start working again.
Steve,
Thank you ever so much for your immediate response.
The problem is that I do not know wher I should go in order to correct the values!
Could you give me an idea on how to do it?
Thank you again!
Nikos

Re: Watson W-8681 connection problems

Posted: Mon 27 Jul 2009 1:36 pm
by gloec
Found it!!!
I did from Easyweather and it worked!
Thank you Steve!!!
Regards,
Nikos