Station Problems

[J Jones]

Is there any benefit to having the station poll the sensors every
10-15 seconds vs 30 seconds?

Also I am having trouble with my station locking up every 24 hours or
so. I was getting a radQueueSend: write failed on fd 9: Broken pipe
failure with 5.4.0 and htmlgen would stop. My last archive data had
-100000.0 values on the temp sensors. Now with 5.5.0 htmlgen doesn't
lock up but about every 24 hours my archive data is -100000.0 for all
sensors except barometer and it messes up the charts. I an running
Ubuntu 8.10 with a Davis VantagePro2 station and a weather evnoy with
firmware 1.80. Sensor polling is set to 10 seconds and archive is set
to 10 minutes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm tired of
deleting my archive and starting over every other day.

[Deborah]

Hi J,

Does the discussion here look familiar? (Before I hijacked it with
talk of null values?) I don't think that this has been solved yet.

http://groups.google.com/group/wview/browse_thread/thread/00ac10b2ef4f33d7#

[J Jones]

It does seem the same except all my values are null except the
barometer. I just reinstalled fresh I'll post the archive clip when it
happens again. I'm also running the desktop version of ubuntu. Think
that has anything to do with it?

On May 18, 6:28 pm, Deborah <debbiep-goo...@futzle.com> wrote:
> Hi J,
>
> Does the discussion here look familiar?  (Before I hijacked it with
> talk of null values?)  I don't think that this has been solved yet.
>

> http://groups.google.com/group/wview/browse_thread/thread/00ac10b2ef4...

[J Jones]

Ok it happened again. It took 4.5 days to do it but here's the log.
The only way to fix it is to delete archive and restart.


--Timestamp--- Temp Chill HIndex Humid Dewpt Wind HiWind WindDir
Rain Barom Solar ET UV
-------------- ---- ----- ------ ----- ----- ------ ------ ------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----
20090524 00:00 70.6 70.6 70.6 80 64.1 2 4 68 0.00 29.904 0 0.001 0.0
20090524 00:05 70.4 70.4 70.4 80 63.9 2 5 68 0.00 29.905 0 0.000 0.0
20090524 00:10 70.4 70.4 70.4 80 63.9 2 5 68 0.00 29.904 0 0.000 0.0
20090524 00:15 70.4 -100000.0 70.4 80 63.9 -100000 0 -100000 0.00
29.905 0 0.000 0.0
20090524 00:20 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000 -100000.0 -100000
0 -100000 0.00 29.903 -100000 0.000 -100000.0
20090524 00:25 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000 -100000.0 -100000
0 -100000 0.00 29.905 -100000 0.000 -100000.0
20090524 00:30 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000 -100000.0 -100000
0 -100000 0.00 29.900 -100000 0.000 -100000.0
20090524 00:35 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000 -100000.0 -100000
0 -100000 0.00 29.902 -100000 0.000 -100000.0
20090524 00:40 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000 -100000.0 -100000
0 -100000 0.00 29.900 -100000 0.000 -100000.0
20090524 00:45 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000 -100000.0 -100000
0 -100000 0.00 29.898 -100000 0.000 -100000.0
20090524 00:50 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000 -100000.0 -100000
0 -100000 0.00 29.895 -100000 0.000 -100000.0
20090524 00:55 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000.0 -100000 -100000.0 -100000
0 -100000 0.00 29.892 -100000 0.000 -100000.0

[Mark S. Teel]

First, don't delete all data, just the bad data:
sqlite3> delete * from archive where windDir IS NULL;

What type of station, is it a VP envoy, etc. would be helpful.

[J Jones]

It's a vantage pro2 with added uv and solar sensors. A wireless
weather envoy with firmware 1.80.
I'm running unbuntu 8.10 with a amd 3200 1ghz and 500meg of ram.

I would love to just edit the data but I don't know how. Do i just
modify the line sqlite3> delete * from archive where windDir IS NULL;
with the other sensor name's? All the data is -100000 except rain and
barometer.


Thanks again
Jeff

[Mark S. Teel]

Station type? (I'm guessing VP envoy)...

[J Jones]

Yes it's a wireless vp envoy.

I just did something different. The retransmit channel was set to 299.
I used Davis Weatherlink to set it up for a different iss channel
Before the vpconfig change. When the retransmit channel is blank on
WeatherLink it sets it to 299. I selected off this time. Keeping
fingers crossed this is the problem.

[J Jones]

I think it's my envoy. I put my data logger in a console and no
problems for 5 days.

[Deborah]

On Jun 25, 8:51 am, J Jones <microlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's my envoy. I put my data logger in a console and no
> problems for 5 days.

That matches my experience. The Envoy just seems to be less resilient
with respect to poor quality data.

I always meant to write code to dump these dodgy packets to the log
and see if there's anything odd about them. I haven't got around to
it yet.

[Graham Eddy]

i moved vp2 serial interface from console to envoy 2 years ago and have
not noticed any difference.
which is not to say that others do not experience otherwise; just
offering a data point
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*Graham Eddy*

[J Jones]

Another problem I think I'm having, when I install php5-sqlite it
installs libsqlite0 also. I am trying running it without php support
and configuring it with wviewconfig.

I am still getting all null values even with a console. Very
frustrating.