Rain Today

[icestorm]

In the rainfall section of Cumulus, were it indicates Today’s Rainfall. We had rain yesterday and the ’’today value’’ does not go to zero the next day. The today value never resets itself to zero.

[steve]

It must be failing to do the end of day rollover. Please zip up the diags folder and attach it.

[icestorm]

Hi Steve,

When I try to compress the file I get the message Diags is empty so Compressed Folders cannot add it to the archive.
Do you want me to send you the folder?

[steve]

You're running Vista. Which folder did you install Cumulus in? Did you read the readme file which pops up when you install Cumulus?

Here's the beginning of the file:

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Cumulus readme.txt v.1.8.9 - please read all of this file!
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Installation:

Important: On Vista and Windows 7, it is strongly recommended 
that you install Cumulus outside the Program Files hierarchy, 
e.g. put it in C:\Cumulus\. If you choose to ignore this advice,
you may have trouble locating your data files (and any diagnostic
files produced by Cumulus) as Windows will redirect them to a
hidden folder. See the FAQ ("I can't find my data files") for 
more details.

But even if you did ignore this, I don't think it can be the cause of your rollover problem. It just makes it hard to solve as you'll now have to try to find the diags folder - see the FAQ entry for how to find it.

[icestorm]

Hi Steve,

I followed the intructions for installation and attached the compressed diags file. I attached the file where it says Easyweather.dat is this correct. When I try to check the data in (This period) for yesterday it hasn’t recorded any information. Thanks Mark

[steve]

I followed the intructions for installation

So you've installed to C:\Cumulus?

and attached the compressed diags file

I can't see an attachment here. What did you do, exactly?

I attached the file where it says Easyweather.dat is this correct.

I don't understand. You shouldn't be using an easyweather.dat file at all. What type of station have you selected - "Fine Offset", hopefully?

When I try to check the data in (This period) for yesterday it hasn’t recorded any information. Thanks Mark

Yes, this is because it isn't doing the daily rollover. I need to see the files from the Diags folder before I can say why.

[icestorm]

Hi Steve,

Here is the requested file. Thanks Mark

[steve]

Nothing happened between 22:17 last night and 07:42 this morning:

15/07/2010 22:17:00.640 : Writing todayfile, LastUpdateTime = 15/07/2010 10:17:00 PM raindaystart = 3.90000009536743
16/07/2010 07:42:44.879 : Writing todayfile, LastUpdateTime = 16/07/2010 7:42:44 AM raindaystart = 3.90000009536743

Do you have your PC set to suspend overnight? Cumulus doesn't allow for the PC being suspended, when it wakes up it doesn't realise it has been suspended so just carries on as if nothing had happened, hence no end of day rollover.

On the previous night, it was closed down properly, so when it was started again in the morning, it downloaded the data from the station and did the end of day rollover.

[icestorm]

Hi Steve,

When say the computer was suspended is this the energy saver? How do I fix this? Does the computer always have to be on? Thanks Mark

[steve]

When say the computer was suspended is this the energy saver? How do I fix this? Does the computer always have to be on? Thanks Mark

Yes, it will be in your power settings. You don't have to have the computer on all the time, but don't let it suspend while Cumulus is running or it will miss data. You need to close Cumulus before it suspends and start it up again when you wake it. Or disable the 'sleep' settings.

If you still want to keep your power-saving settings, there's a setting in the Cumulus station settings where it will try to close itself when the PC goes to sleep. This isn't guaranteed, and you have to remember to start it up again when you wake the PC.

Ideally, Cumulus would notice when the PC suspends and wakes and cope with it, but I wasn't able to get this working successfully with Fine Offset stations.

[icestorm]

Thank you very Much!