Weather station type incorrect in the Windows banner

Software Weather Display for Windows
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I have a couple stable stations running on a computer using the latest (as of yesterday) WD (s75).

They are Vaisala stations, and are nicely working for a couple months.

An extra station and a little spare time is the devil’s workshop, so I connected a new TWI-8000 (for me) to a third instance of WD (again, all the same version, all in separate installs), and set it up.

Things are fine, but I notice that even though the correct com port is selected, and the weatherstation is selected from the Control Panel/Station Type and settings, and the interface is feeding data from the station to the program and graphing and displaying correctly, the header in the Windows window (the thing across the very top, ways Weather Display - Ver 10.37S75 Registered, but then says Vaisala and then the Wind direction, speed and temp.

With my fiddling around, it is nice to know which window I’m in, and if I do upload to my web page, that the correct station in use is displayed.

Is there a way to have it not read the station type from the first instance of WD loaded and display it correctly when more than one type of station is being used/tested?

As a wee bit of another concern, in the two Vaisala instances, I picked from the types of stations in the setup panel mentioned above, Vaisala 510. One is a 510 and one is a 520. The interface works just fine with either one, but once again, the header shows 510 for both of the instances. A minor point but it would be nice to have the chance to choose what that character string displayed is, to reflect and make identification easier when fiddling with the program and settings and all. Just a thought.

Any suggestions to get the Texas Wx identifier to display right?

Dale

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You have multiple instances of WD running on the same PC - right?

Do you have 2wd.txt, 3wd.txt etc files created in each wdisplay install folder to ensure that each instance has its own registry entries?

http://discourse.weather-watch.com/p/56498

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that’s not really the issue here Niko…I think you need a stronger coffee, hehe :slight_smile:

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Hmmm, I had tested that. Installed instance 1 set up as a client, installed instance 2 set up as a Davis VP without a 2wd.txt file, and both instances show client in the banner as the station type.

Oh well…

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one thing you can do Dale is set a custom mouse over hint
in setup, advanced/misc

the problem Dale has Niko is that he has a a couple of weather station that are very similar , but slightly different model numbers…but in WD its the same settings

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Got it :smiley: I didn’t realize the TWI and Vaisala were similar.

He could change the screen color too maybe.

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Brian, that is partially true that they are very similar but mainly different in name, as far as the Vaisala goes.

What the problem is that the Vaisalas are perking along just fine, with the slight name difference, and I’ll look at your hint.

The other problem with the name came up when I started a THIRD, testing, instance of WD. The other two are just fine, I installed a third with the necessary file to be able to have it run in it’s own directory. The station type I selected was a Texas Weather Instruments, which is, from looking at the selection of stations in the setup menu and looking at the incoming data stream, a whole lot different from the Vaisalas.

What the third instance, the TWI, windows header is showing, seems to be the correct data and all, but the NAME in the window’s banner at the top seems to be taken from the initial instance that is started, not from the third one (in order that I start them).

I guess that is where the situation I’m trying to describe.

By the way, the Vaisala interface works just peachy, and indeed I can select additional data to send down from the units such as the heater voltages and some other telemetry, and it doesn’t confuse the interface at all! Beautifully done, sir!
Dale

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Niko, yes I have four instances loaded on that PC.
The first two are solid and indeed run each one, with the needed files included as you referenced. I can shut either one down without closing the other instance after Brian tweaked some things somehow.

When I started a third instance (with the 3rd.txt file) it runs fine, sees the right com port, displays the data in it’s own window, but it is the windows header that is goofy. I’ll play a bit more, like starting as the first instance, the TWI and then start the Vaisalas to see if they show TWI if they are started after that station.

I had the Vaisalas to start automatically when windows boots so I can come back on the system if it gets knocked off by weather or such. My UPS needs new batteries but yet since this computer will be my ‘weather computer’ I just started out having it boot, then start running WD.

You said you tested the install on your machine and it shows the right header, correct?
Dale