have a look at today’s data. i am having some issues with the vista machine every now and again. but… I am getting large gaps in data when the machine hangs early in the morning.
Take a look. http://www.shaggysworld.com/wdisplay32/RainhamWeather.htm Any ideas? I am loggin every 1 min on data logger and the time in synced.
Now I think I know why its hanging. Its when the webcam capture restarts in the morning, but i cant figure out why.
If you look at the last 24 hrs graph, the time spacings would indicate a possible hang/crash at about 0540ish of your system maybe?? Worth investigating!!!??
Yeah, but why is the data logger not loggin the data?
What interval have you got the data logger set at…Are you using VirtualVP as well?..
Edit: There is a tick box within VirtualVP/Communication settings on the LHS upper for restarting the USB datalogger…
Data Logger every 1 min. Not using VP
USB or Serial?
(Is there an echo in here?)
I can’t figure out the trail of what actually happened…can you enlighten…it looks like the PC went down at about 0540(ish) restarted, but it took until 0950(ish) before WD started taking data at the 1 min intervals…between those times there has been some data uploaded, but at largish intervals…
Maybe if you had Startwatch and VirtualVP running it would have overcome whatever problem you are currently seeing…
I suspect that it is unlikely to be wholly webcamcapture related as your first entry suggested…but maybe???
Edit: Maybe this is some restart problem yet again of a USB datalogger???
Hmmm. The PC went down as stated. Then I restarted at 9:50’ish, it then took the data from the VP but has not taken it at 1 min intervals, thats what I cant figure out. Why its not uploading the recorded data in 1 min intervals.
Does the USB data logger problem have an affect on PC’s hanging? It was hung, I had to restart it.
You mean the period with big steps? That’s because the weatherlink logger itself is not set to a one minute archive interval.
Hi
I know nothing about any loggers but i know a little about Vista.
When i got up in the morning i noticed that it took a minute or so for the machine to
wakeup, i.e. it looked like it had crashed, but it hadnt and it finally kicked in
The 1st thing that came to my mind was the Power Options, i.e. CPU, HDD and so on…
I modified all my options to never sleep, never turn off, maximum performance.
You get 3 options i think it is, advanced or maximum, anyway click the Change plan
on the bottom 1 then click Change advanced power settings, The only thing i
reccomend is to set ya monitor to turn off (just in case ya leave it on by mistake
or get tied up with sommat else) for everything else, choose NO or NEVER then click
ok and save settings, then see how it goes in the morning…
If it is a system crash then sorry for making you read all that waffle above lol
Goto the start menu and type in the search box Performance, there should be 2
options, choose the 1st 1, Reliability and Performance…
Then click the Reliability Monitor from the list on the leff.
You will then see what crashed at what time and hopefully be able to resolve it.
If you already knew all of this, i wish you had said pmsl…
Good luck, I love Vista but it does have its little issues here and there :roll:
Top tips on Vista. I changed the profile so the PC does not turn off. And I tried the performance bit, the only thing I could see on the 31st was a driver update. Now I cant see how that happened as I had Auto updates turned off.
What Niko has said above was going to be my next gambit…In WeatherLink (it has to be connected via a comport and bulletin data NOT being downloaded) go “Setup” and make changes to “Set Archive interval”, to reset to the 1 minute setting from whatever it says at the moment…
Did you try this last night or this morning?
If last night, how was it this morning?
You can also set the interval in the datalogger screen in WD, worked for me when I upgraded to VP2’s, but YMMV.
Thanks guys. I set it to 1 min in Weather link, it was set to 30 mins. I have not rebboted the PC since I made the change last night.
Fingers crossed, and thanks as ever for the help.
what I have wd now doing is picking up the data logging interval from the missed data extraction at start up and then seting that logging interval for when you go to the data logger setup in wd, instead of assuming that its 1 minute when it might be the default of 30 minutes
