Cumulus stops reading my WS2080

[Anderski]

You all were so helpful getting my WS to upload to Wunderground.com after the holidays!

Now we seem to run into a problem of Cumulus not displaying information. We have closed and re-opened Cumulus several times but it won't show current data at all with the exception of the trend box, which shows -.3 degree F/hr. I have taken the USB cable out of the WS and will get an error on Cumulus saying "1/13/2012 1:58:42 PM : Error - station unplugged - check connections and restart Cumulus" so I know Cumulus can "see" the WS.

Any ideas? I had it working for a brief moment and it uploaded the info to Wunderground.com and then it zero'd out again.

Thank you so much for your help!

Marisa

[steve]

Have you tried resetting the station (remove USB and batteries, with Cumulus not running)? Sometimes Fine Offset stations just seem to 'stop talking'. If a reset doesn't help, please zip up the diags folder and attach it.

[Anderski]

Thanks Steve, it did seem to get it back reading, but I am hoping to not have to do this often, as it is kind of annoying to have to re-enter time/date etc repeatedly. Is there by chance anything I have missed in the settings?

[steve]

Is there by chance anything I have missed in the settings?

I don't think so. It just seems to be an aspect of Fine Offset stations that a number of owners experience.

[adyjay]

My WH1081 stopped downloading for no reason today.

For a few days before Cumulus kept saying "Lost Sensor Contact" so was this a warning of things to come I wonder?

All the batteries are new so its not them, maybe the low temps cause a problem?

I stopped Cumulus and disconnected the unit then removed the battery and all is back to normal, seems to be a three week thing as I notice others seem to have the ame issue about that time also

Its probably a firmware error in the unit or the memory in the unit get messed up, who knows?

Cant see away to sort it other than remove the battery each time, thats a pain if you are away and it locks up.

Guess a Davis does not have this problem so maybe thats the way to go in the future.

Time to start saving me thinks.

[steve]

seems to be a three week thing as I notice others seem to have the ame issue about that time also

Its probably a firmware error in the unit or the memory in the unit get messed up, who knows?

Could be. What logger interval are you using (in the station)?

[adyjay]

Do you mean in the program Cumulus...5 Mins... you?

I dont really know, dont think you can change that can you?

[steve]

No, I mean the station. You can only change that interval using Easyweather. I think the default is 30 minutes; it might be interesting to see what effect - if any - changing the interval has on the three week issue.

[adyjay]

Will check it out