Newbie help please

[andy_burnton]

Hi All,

HISTORY:
Just got and fitted up a W-8681 solar powered station. It all seems to be working and have connected to a PC with Cumulus running using USB cable and Cumulus downloads data sucessfully. The PC is wire networked to my PC and my wife's.

QUESTION:
I noticed that in the settings page of Cumulus there is an option for an IP address and port to be set up. If I installed Cumulus on my wife's machine and pointed it to the IP address of the machine with the weather station attached would it download the data from it ? Or is this setting for something else ?

Any help would be appreciated as, although I'm a computer technician in a college, the weather station side is totaly new to me.

Thanks in advance,

Andy

[steve]

Andy, that setting is only for Davis stations with an IP interface fitted. Allowing one instance of Cumulus to connect via TCP/IP to another instance is something I've been thinking about, however, and it's quite likely I'll add it at some point in the future.

[andy_burnton]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the quick response and for producing this software in the first place.

Cheers,

Andy

[andy_burnton]

Hi Steve,

I did manage eventually to get this working (sort of).

On the machine attached to the weather station I created a folder called wdata and shared it over the network. I then wrote a batch file to copy the files from the C:\Cumulus\data folder in to this. I set up a sceduled task in windows to do this at 23:50pm each day.

On my wife's machine I installed Cumulus and set it up the same as the weather machine EXCEPT I switched data logger off. I then mapped a drive to the shared folder on the weather machine. Made up a batch file to copy all the files in this folder in to the C:\Cumulus\data on her machine and inserted a shortcut to this batch file in to the startup folder in Windows.

It took less time to do it than to write this....

So, at 11:50pm each night a copy of the Cumulus data is copied in to the shared folder. Whenever she starts her machine up it takes a copy of this data and overwrites the Cumulus stuff with it.

OK, she doesn't have realtime data, but can do analysis on the historical data, view graphs etc.

I hope this may help somebody in a similar situation. Oh, and thanks very much for all the effort you've obviously put in to the program.

Cheers,

Andy

[Charlie]

Why not simply set up a website that the other machine can browse? If you have nowhere to host it, and only want it available on your home network, simply run Apache server on the machine hosting the station. That way you can get data updated as often as you wish.

It's not too much work to make it available off your network too, if that has value to you...

[andy_burnton]

Hi Charlie,
Thanks for the suggestion. I already have a website (based on the one generated by Cumulus) at:

www.simpit.me.uk/weather/index.htm

where the data is updated every 15 mins. Unfortunately it only shows data for the last couple of days.

She wanted to do things like have multiple data one one graph (the things you can do in select-a-graph).

Cheers,

Andy

[philcdav]

Hi Andy.

Seems everyone wants to do this haha.

I access my data several ways.

1. web site http://www.philcdav.webspace.virginmedi ... ather.html

2. over LAN using wifi when in range

3. over LAN using Team Viewer 6 when away from home. This also allows access tp the dedicated WX station PC for resets, whu