In praise of Cumulus
Posted: Mon 07 Nov 2011 8:01 am
Cumulus is really-really great compared to the software provided by Davis (Weatherlink)!
We have a Davis Vantage Pro 2 station and use an ICS-100 as the COM<-->TCP/IP converter. We publish current and last 24 hours of data in 1 minute interval in our homepage. The problem we encountered with Weatherlink is that both the current data and the 24h graphs "froze" spontaneously. 24h graphs froze more often, at least 2 times in a month: the software kept generating the graphs of some point in the past. The only way to remedy the situation was to power off the station on site - in port, 1000m from the shore, 7 m up (not so bad in summer, terrible in winter).
Cumulus doesn't freeze, the graphs are more flexible and look better (which I haven't took proper advantage of yet).
Thank you!
We have a Davis Vantage Pro 2 station and use an ICS-100 as the COM<-->TCP/IP converter. We publish current and last 24 hours of data in 1 minute interval in our homepage. The problem we encountered with Weatherlink is that both the current data and the 24h graphs "froze" spontaneously. 24h graphs froze more often, at least 2 times in a month: the software kept generating the graphs of some point in the past. The only way to remedy the situation was to power off the station on site - in port, 1000m from the shore, 7 m up (not so bad in summer, terrible in winter).
Cumulus doesn't freeze, the graphs are more flexible and look better (which I haven't took proper advantage of yet).
Thank you!