Yesterday, I discovered my Windows 10 PC shutdown and restarted in safe mode in what appeared to be a Windows update. WD was shutdown and I noticed this after Weather Underground had no data being reported. I then installed the Windows update and restarted the computer normally, WD would not update Weather Underground. I noticed that some settings (like Weather Underground and the lat/long) were missing. Using the backup directory, I reinstalled the WDISPLAY.INI in the main directory; however, that did not do the trick. I upgraded WD from Build 150 to 152 and then manually re-entered the settings that appeared to be missing, including for the Weather Underground and PWS Weather login info. PWS started updating again, meanwhile CWOP, WOW, and Weather Cloud setting did not appear affected and were working without issue and I did not need to re-add those settings.
Today, I tried to get Weather Underground to start updating again. I changed the API key. I have changed Rapid Fire from 15 to 60 seconds. I have toggled both the Real Time and Main switches in the Weather Underground menu. When I ‘Test a data send’, it indicates ‘success’ but none of this has changed the fact that it is not updating. Going into my Weather Underground account, it indicates my station is offline. Is there something else that I should check? Seems like there is a cron job that is not working properly. I checked in the wdisplay directory and ‘cronwdwu.exe’ is there. Anything else?
One other item I just noticed is that WD is not seeing the historic data, as the ‘All Time Records’ are just since I updated yesterday.
I installed the only .ini file available in the backup zip for March. I now tried restoring the wdisplayftp.reg backup from 3/21 and that did not resolve anything with WU either.
I looked in the Averages/Extremes/Reports for March and all the daily extremes are there yet in All Time Extremes the data there is extremes starting since 3/22 when I reinstalled WD.
Also note that you not only have to copy backed-up wdisplayftp.reg from C:\wdisplay\databackup\wdisplayftp.reg, but you need to execute the file as well.
Also, in Windows Updates, you can pause updates for up to 5 weeks and make sure you do a Windows update every 4 weeks or less. That usually mitigates those unexpected updates.
Thanks for all the information and suggestions. It appears to me that the registry file must have gotten corrupted and I did not properly execute the backup file the other day. So, I took the backup wdisplayftp.reg which was from 3 days previous and executed last night. Now the issue I am seeing is the “Davis VP History Data Extraction” dialog box has been working for nearly 24 hours and not done yet. I’m not sure what “19277” equates to in the upper right of the box, but that has been incrementing now since last evening. I’m not sure when that will finish, if it will finish, or if I should abort and try something else.
The data logger if set to 1min archive will only have 41hours of data in it
The extraction time and date is in the ini file
It looks like it is looking for data that is not there so abort that and then see if it’s collecting live data if so, check the 32025lg.txt for missing data note the time if less than 41 hours old and then go to datalogger icon in control panel open and enter the time and date bottom left click ok then close WD and restart it, it should then get the missing data
Thank you for that tip. I followed your instructions and see that I am missing data for about 6 hours on the 22nd of the month. Since it was past 41 hours, I couldn’t recover it, but I appreciate knowing how to look at that in the future.
I am at the point now that while WD is running normally, it still does not:
Upload to Weather Underground
Access the historical data, i.e., anything prior to 3/23/25.
I need to figure out how to get it to ‘see’ the historical records. I’m not sure how to get Weather Underground fixed. I may just do a clean install of WD following the instructions of moving it to new computer.
At what point in my instructions would you suggest I add double clicking the registry file? I know that’s part of the process for moving WD to a new computer but I have not had to do that previously when fixing errors per my “cheat sheet”.
Probably best to put as option 7 in recovery if WD is still not running right after the restart then find the reg file and double click
I leave you to the wording
From memory I think a couple of posters recently have needed to reinstall the reg file due to corruption of registry due to power outage or windows update
My records now include record events going back to the 1st of March of this year after converting 32025lg.txt to graph file. Would you suggest trying that with the log file from each month going back to the start of my records?
NOTE: the problem uploading to Weather Underground is now resolved: user error. I pasted in the API key rather than the key (key is listed next to the device in the My Devices interface on the Weather Underground page).
