wviewweather.com

newbush · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and I've compiled in mysql, cwop, and wunderground support with a vantage pro2. I managed to get the code to compile and everything to install fine, but different parts of the system just aren't working.

For instance wviewd fetches the live data off the station correctly, and htmlgend generates the respecitve pages, but wviewd never fetches to the historic data, so htmlgend thinks there's been no rain for the year, yet the station receiver says there's been 15.71 inches to date.

My /var/wview/archive contains only sensorstore.bin, and that was created on start. Shouldn't I have a bunch of .wik files or something?

Furthermore, wvsqld is running, and apparently logged in to mysql successfully (i.e. no "dbdatabaseOpen() failed" messages), but nothing is ever stored. (Because nothing is is in wview/archive?) and wvcwopd and wvunderd never upload anything to the servers. (I confirmed that nothing was uploaded via ethereal.)

It's been running for three hours. It seems like it should have done something by now. Normally, I'd think this was some sort of permissions problem or something, but there aren't any errors, so I have no idea what is wrong.

Thanks.

Here's my wview.conf

newbush · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

To follow up to my own post, running vpconfig gives:

newbush · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

I cleared out my archive via the receiver/console. Still no joy. Mad

bhnb · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 127

Hiya

Do you get the 'newest archive record: 2000-00-00 00:00' message every time it starts up or does the date and time change?

This is a total shot in the dark, but in the Davis specs there is a START and a STOP command for archiving. As far as I can tell wview doesn't issue those commands (just had a grep through the code), but is it possible that a STOP has been issued by some other software and archiving just isn't happening? It may be worth connecting to the VP with some terminal emulation software and giving it a 'START' just to make sure.

Cheers

Jon

newbush · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

I've got it working now.

I used to get the 2000-00-00 00:00 message right before I got a series of "retry archive" messages. I managed to get the archives to download correctly by clearing the archive from the VP console, then putting the console into to setup mode, then reseting the console by pulling the power, setup the station through the console, then finally clearing the archive again via `vpconfig cleararchive`.

I suspect I might have just needed to clear the archive through vpconfig, but clearing the archive from the alone wasn't enough.

newbush · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

Oh to answer your question about whether the 2000-00-00 appeared all the time, it didn't. 2000-00-00 just happened to be the most popular. Occasiaonally I'd get data from 2037-12-13 and other data from the future.