New Computer - new problems

[JimDantin]

I just set up a new computer and moved my Cumulus installation to it. I'm having problems where the web pages show "0" for data after running successfully for a while. I haven't figured out exactly when things fail -- I'll just notice the web site is wrong.

The old computer was Windows XP. The new computer is Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

I simply copied the Cumulus folder from the old computer to the C: drive of the new one. Plugged in my WMR-968 into the COM1 port (I do have an actual serial port, not a USB adapter), checked the settings in Cumulus, and it fired right up. It will work fine for a while, then at some point the web pages (such as index.htm) will start displaying 0 in all the fields. Data fed to Weatherunderground or for the new gauges page are fine. The cumulus display on the computer is fine.

I'm not getting any errors associated with this problem, although I occasionally have problems with ftp uploads (AT&T issues)

Any ideas?

Thanks
Jim
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/j/d/ ... /index.htm

[steve]

The figures go to zero without you doing anything, e.g. restarting Cumulus?

You say you just copied Cumulus over? So you didn't run the installer on the new PC and then move the data? If you didn't, how are you running Cumulus - just by clicking on the cumulus.exe file? It's possible it's an issue with the working directory - I've tried to remove all reliance on that now, but it's possible I've left something in somewhere.

[JimDantin]

Because of all the customizing i had done i didn't want to risk overwriting something. I didn't think there was any sort of registry settings for Cumulus. I kept the same folder setup on both machines.

I am quite willing to run the install and then recopy everything is you think that would help.

Odd thing is that it seems to fix itself (data is fine for a while) then goes to 0's again, then works OK. The timestamp on the web page is changing correctly -- just the data is 0. Weird!

[steve]

I didn't think there was any sort of registry settings for Cumulus.

There aren't, but the installer creates a shortcut with the correct working directory.

I am quite willing to run the install and then recopy everything is you think that would help.

You could just make sure that the shortcut you're using has the correct working directory set. But I think it's a red herring, I don't think that would cause zeroes to appear in the data. I think that for that to happen the data would actually have to go to zero.

Odd thing is that it seems to fix itself (data is fine for a while) then goes to 0's again, then works OK. The timestamp on the web page is changing correctly -- just the data is 0. Weird!

Is all of the data going to zero? What about dates and times of today's highs/lows etc?

[JimDantin]

The web page footer line "page updated 9/5/2011 1:34:38 pm" is fine. It's the temperatures, pressure, wind, etc that go to 0. I'll watch for it happening (probably won't ever happen again now that we're talking about it!) and grab the actual HTM file plus a screen dump.

Odd thing is that it seems to fix itself (data is fine for a while) then goes to 0's again, then works OK. The timestamp on the web page is changing correctly -- just the data is 0. Weird!

Is all of the data going to zero? What about dates and times of today's highs/lows etc?[/quote]

[steve]

I was looking at your site just now when the data went to zero. The update time for the index.htm page was 1:39:38 pm, but the update time for the today.htm page was 1:38:36, and it says you're updating every five minutes. I think you have two copies of Cumulus uploading to the same site.

[JimDantin]

Well, duh! Looks like my old computer got rebooted (probably an automatic microsoft update) and I had forgotten to remove cumulus from the startup.

Thanks for the help. Once again Cumulus proves itself to be pretty much bulletproof!

I was looking at your site just now when the data went to zero. The update time for the index.htm page was 1:39:38 pm, but the update time for the today.htm page was 1:38:36, and it says you're updating every five minutes. I think you have two copies of Cumulus uploading to the same site.