Cumulus Support

Hi,

Running 1044

When I get an "Error - Station unplugged - check connections and restart Cumulus" even though the Error light is flashing, Toolbox does not pick this up, seems the Error webtag is not set to 1?


Also, is there a easy way to keep the cumuluswebtags.php up to date with new tags etc?

Snupple wrote:When I get an "Error - Station unplugged - check connections and restart Cumulus" even though the Error light is flashing, Toolbox does not pick this up, seems the Error webtag is not set to 1?

Which web tag are you using?

steve wrote:]Which web tag are you using?

ErrorLight

The code for <#ErrorLight> just checks whether the light is currently flashing, it doesn't know or care why. Perhaps the file of web tags that Toolbox is checking stops being processed for some reason after this error; have you looked at the file to see what the value actually is? Does the <#time> web tag continue to be updated?

I'll try it myself when I get chance, but I don't have Toolbox installed, and my Fine Offset console is currently out of range of the sensors, so I'm constantly getting 'sensor contact lost' errors, which will complicate things.

steve wrote:. Perhaps the file of web tags that Toolbox is checking stops being processed for some reason after this error; have you looked at the file to see what the value actually is? Does the <#time> web tag continue to be updated?

Yes, the Error light flashes ok when the station is unplugged, but the webtags file stops being processed, so it does not change the ErrorLight value from 0 to 1.

Problem being is that it was unplugged for a few days before I realised it

If it was possible to update the webtags or process that file once after it detects a station unplugged that would be ace

Hmmm. I don't think it's intentional that the web updates stop when the station is unplugged, in fact it's an option that people have asked for, so I don't know why it's happening. As I don't have any fully functioning stations at the moment, it's hard to investigate, but I'll see what I can do.

What interval are you using for web updates?

I have the update set to 5 mins..

I've managed to get it to work now, what I did was untick Restart if unplugged & Restart if data stops

I can see the webtags are continuing to be updated and toolbox emailed me to say the error light was flashing..


Addendum: Re-ticked Restart if data stops and the webtags are still updated enough to get the errorlight flashing

Snupple wrote: I've managed to get it to work now, what I did was untick Restart if unplugged & Restart if data stops

Yes, if it restarts and can't read data at start up, then it doesn't start the web update timer. That's really the point of those settings, to stop bad data being logged and uploaded to the web.

Thanks for your help!