Wind gust problems

Terry · February 27, 2022, 5:27pm

I’m having incorrect data being displayed for the daily high gust and in the all time/yearly and monthly records, I have to do a reset almost every morning. The data at the weather station does not correspond to what is being displayed on WD, the data at the weather station is correct.

In some cases the wind gust looks to have its decimal point in the wrong place, if the true data shows 8.5 the data posted to the web page and displayed on WD shows 85.0, unusual…I’m running the latest version of WD, also the program at some times freezes up, I have downloaded a new copy and reinstalled, it still does it at random.

windy2 · February 28, 2022, 10:11pm

what mode do you have it set to ?
(e.g complete record mode or)?
re freezing up, try unticking to use threads in setup, advanced/misc

johnmac78 · March 1, 2022, 9:19pm

I am having a problem with “All Time Wind Gust”. It only shows the current year gust and not the all time gust. Testtags.php. $recordwindgust shows the same as this years record gust which is 40mph and the all time wind gust should be 58mph. I see discussion about “Complete Record Mode”, but cannot seem to find a check box for it or should I be looking at something different. WD - ver1037s134. using the AltAjaxDashboard with Saratoga templates.

Thanks, John

Terry · March 2, 2022, 8:34pm

It is set to ““Complete record mode”” and has been since the start.

And I don’t see an option to un-tick ““use threads in setup, advanced/misc”” there is no option like that.

Bashy · March 3, 2022, 4:07am

Its there in the latest version for sure, on the Program tab, scroll to the bottom

Terry · March 3, 2022, 10:18pm

If tit’s there then I’m blind, don’t see that option anywhere…Running version 10.37 S134

Bashy · March 4, 2022, 4:05am

Thats why i said “in the latest version”

Terry · March 6, 2022, 6:23pm

OK, downloaded and updated to the latest WD version, no change, still have the intermittent unresponsive problem, and the wind gust problems.

Bashy · March 7, 2022, 3:19am

Youve now unticked the Threads option yet or not?

Terry · March 10, 2022, 4:07am

Yup, unticked that option, problems still there.

Bashy · March 10, 2022, 5:02am

Okiday, thanks, hopefully Brian will pick up on the thread again…

Terry · March 12, 2022, 6:43pm

Still having the wind gust problem and the “program not responding” problems, also a new problem popped up this morning, the main display for WD on the PC was like this …

All blue with the header and a small square at the top left.

So I downloaded a fresh install file of WD, and it cleared up, all back to normal, will have to wait to see if the wind gust problems have gone away.

Terry · March 28, 2022, 2:18am

Application freezing has gone away, but the wind gust problems are still here, it looks like the gusts posted tot he web site are 3 times what they should be, will look in to the weather stations memory and see what the true wind gust was for that date/time.

Terry · March 30, 2022, 8:09pm

OK, this morning the wind gust was reported as 65.7 MPH at 02:36 3/30/22, checking the weather instrument data history, at that time and date the high wind gust was 6.57 MPH…So at random times WD is misplacing the decimal point one place to the right…Weird problem, the data line from the weather instrument to the computer is a shielded RS 232 cable…

Terry · April 1, 2022, 4:07pm

It did it again, this time I got a screen shot…Decimal point one step to the right.

Terry · April 21, 2022, 9:03pm

OK, I’m getting a bit frustrated having to correct the wind gusts almost every day, (still being reported over 75 to 90 MPH) it looks to happen only at night, around 2 to 4 AM, now looking back at the data on the Ultimeter it shows ether zero wind at those times or very little, (under 5 MPH) is there a way to shut off only the wind gusts being reported in the “Daily high wind gusts”???

Terry · April 27, 2022, 1:44am

So no one knows how to fix this, or shut it off, or just doesn’t care…???

The gust data stored in the ultimeter is fine, the gust data being reported is corrupt at some times, and only at night.

Terry · May 17, 2022, 5:30pm

I’m still having this problem, so no ideas as to why???

windy2 · May 17, 2022, 6:39pm

what mode do you have your ultimeter set to ? (e.g complete record mode?)
you could try unsetting to use threads in setup, misc setup (latest version of WD)

Terry · May 17, 2022, 11:41pm

I have tried all modes on the ultimeter, and have it set to ““complete record mode”” I have unset ““use threads”” a long time ago, I see a newer version (2 steps up) from what I am using, I will try it out.

It’s funny as this only happens at night (1 AM to 6 AM), checking on the ultimeter it shows as one tenth of the posted wind speed. (if any wind at all)