Average monthly rainfall on year graph [RESOLVED]

monadh · 29 November 2011 12:49

I have set up the Yearly graph to show the monthly average using:- “Total for last year carried into this year and
reset at start of rainfall year in January”. I have 4 years of data but the monthly average figures appear to be wrong e.g. the November figures for the last 4 years are 42.0, 76.1, 64.9 & 32.1 giving an average of 53.8 but the graph is showing an average of 10.2.

Do I need to set any flag in WD :scratch: or have I set up WDL wrong :oops: or is there a bug?

Full details can be seen here :- http://monadh.com/nbl.html

Softvark · 29 November 2011 13:24

It appears to be the values coming from WD. I’ve put your data files into the clientraw parser and you can see the results attached.

Julian

monadh · 29 November 2011 15:45

Thanks Julian.

Do you know how I can get this corrected or do I need to contact Brian?

Regards

Ray

Softvark · 29 November 2011 17:15

I’d drop Brian an email or he might see this thread anyway.

Julian

windy2 · 29 November 2011 20:03

check the data in the wdisplay.ini file
for
[Rain chart]
Nov=

what is shown there?

monadh · 29 November 2011 20:51

Hi Brian,

data as requested:-

[Rain chart]
Jan 2009=287
Feb 2009=243
Mar 2009=557
Apr 2009=155
May 2009=469
Jun 2009=683
Jul 2009=1646
Aug 2009=732
Sep 2009=620
Oct 2009=876
Nov 2009=1014
Dec 2009=234
Jan 2010=244
Feb 2010=265
Mar 2010=263
Apr 2010=392
May 2010=557
Jun 2010=260
Jul 2010=778
Aug 2010=1118
Sep 2010=1180
Oct 2010=671
Nov 2010=649
Dec 2010=200
Jan 2011=346
Feb 2011=505
Mar 2011=572
Jun 2008=527
Jul 2008=532
Aug 2008=1001
Sep 2008=560
Oct 2008=569
Nov 2008=422
Dec 2008=381
Apr 2011=184
May 2011=601
Jun 2011=700
Jul 2011=852
Aug 2011=1116
Sep 2011=576
Oct 2011=558
Nov 2011=0

Is this OK?

Regards

Ray

windy2 · 30 November 2011 02:31

the data to average is
101.4
64.9
42.2

the problem is you also have a 0 for the current month

which version/build of WD?

windy2 · 30 November 2011 02:51

i.e I need to not include the current month in the average

monadh · 30 November 2011 08:36

WDisplay v 10.37R build 00 29/11/11.

I understand the need to ignore the current month in the average, but all other months are showing the wrong average value in WDL is this part of the same problem?

windy2 · 30 November 2011 08:41

I have done that ignore current month in the latest update

the average should be OK
make sure you use data from the ini file to calculate your average comparison

monadh · 30 November 2011 08:56

Many thanks for prompt reply.

I am a little confused. I am not calculating the average manually it is being calculated by WD and then displayed by WDL. Julian says the wrong average values are being passed to WDL from the WD data files, how do I correct this?

monadh · 1 December 2011 17:47

Hi Julian, I think I have found what is going wrong.

I ran the WDL Client Parser tool, after installing Brian’s modification listed above, and noticed that the Raw data appears to be correct (last 12 records in file) but the Parsed data is picking up a set of values before the Rain Month Avg ones, and these are the ones being displayed on the WDL graph.

Also there is a warning “Array length does not match number of records expected (443)”. This error only appears on the “Clint Daily.txt” all other “Client” files are OK.

I am using the latest releases of both WD & WDL so not sure what to do next - any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Ray

Softvark · 1 December 2011 20:21

Hmm, the file is much larger than it should be. Let me have a chat to Brian.

Julian

windy2 · 1 December 2011 20:54

the problem will be with the option to include indoor temperature in the clientrawdaily.txt
(for use for things like jpgraph)
in the webfiles/web page setup, real time ftp setup, in WD

monadh · 1 December 2011 22:44

Thanks Julian & Brian

I can confirm that removing the indoor temp from the clientdaily.txt file solves the problem with the monthly rainfall averages.

Is this a temporary solution?

Regards

Ray

windy2 · 2 December 2011 00:00

did you need those values?

monadh · 2 December 2011 08:16

I can manage without them at present, but would be nice to have sometime in future.

windy2 · 4 December 2011 22:25

its going to have to become default having those by the looks
Julian will update WDL to expect them, and I will change WD to always create them

what were you using that data for?

monadh · 4 December 2011 23:31

Many thanks Brian.

Trying to set up a system associated with the temperature in my workshop.

windy2 · 7 December 2011 02:29

the optional indoor temperature data is now at the end of the clientrawdaily.txt
in 10.37R 01