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Cumulus does not fully read .dat files.

Discussion and questions about Cumulus weather station software version 1. This section is the main place to get help with Cumulus 1 software developed by Steve Loft that ceased development in November 2014.
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TMSCwx
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Cumulus does not fully read .dat files.

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Ok, so first of all, I must explain why I am using the easyweather.dat file to begin with. I have just finished (almost besides very few minor details) building a scratch built weather station for my place of employment. I have the arduino code outputting the data into a format that is read by Processing and then Processing turns compiles the date, record number, etc into a file format for Cumulus (hopefully). I chose the easyweather format to make sure that I could get the station to communicate to the computer since it is arduino and not a standalone weather station. :bash: What I have Cumulus able to do as of now is to read the wind chill values of the data file and that is it. ???????? I have confirmed that it is reading the correct values out of the data file but all the rest of the data is zeros :bash: :groan: What am I doing wrong? Here is my current settings for Cumulus:

Station Type = EasyWeather.dat

Settings-
-use bearing zero when calm
-Use data logger
-EasyWeather.dat file location is set to the proper file (where it is being continuously updated).

Program Settings-
-none

Davis Type - Serial

Comm port = 8

I have tried restarting Cumulus after making changes to settings and even restarting the computer. Unplugging the station doesn't help either.

I am not set on using Cumulus if I can figure out a way to have Processing write to Wunderground directly and update RapidFire.

Thank you for your help and let me know if any more information is needed about how I prepare the data for the .dat file. I used the wiki as a guide to make certain that the data fields are in the correct order. Still, though it seems to me that it would display values even if they were not the of the right ones if I had the data fields in the wrong order. :?:

Jeff
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Re: Cumulus does not fully read .dat files.

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Please attach your easyweather.dat file to a reply (you may need to zip it).
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Re: Cumulus does not fully read .dat files.

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Steve,

Is the attached file what your are looking for?

Thank you.

Jeff
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Re: Cumulus does not fully read .dat files.

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You need to make your humidity values integers.
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Re: Cumulus does not fully read .dat files.

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Thank you so much Steve. That was the issue and it is working beautifully now. Thank you so much. I feel :oops: for not catching that. Once again, thank you.

Jeff
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