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Event / Change Log
Weather Station Event Register
| Date | End Date | Event | Comments |
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| 12 Jan 2023 09:19 | - | Updated Regional Weather Script to 3.12. Fixed bug in rain rate in Weather Display Routine | |
| 2 Jul 2022 04:02 | 6 Jul 2022 17:30 | Website down | Anti virus issues |
| 28 Jun 2022 11:00 | - | Cleaned debris from rain gauge funnel. | For once before it got blocked. |
| 1 May 2022 17:50 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S139) | |
| 10 Apr 2022 13:20 | - | Added a new page showing wind temperature and rain, supplied by windy.com | |
| 10 Apr 2022 11:00 | - | Uploading data to windguru and added their forecast to one of my pages | |
| 31 Mar 2022 12:30 | - | Updated my Clevedon photos webpage to a single page viewer.php with a .json file in each folder contain photo details | Having a single, muliti purpose file makes updating much easier rather updating many index.php in each folder |
| 8 Mar 2022 10:00 | - | Updated home page to remove soil temperature measurements and replace with Windrun | |
| 27 Feb 2022 | - | Updated Regional Weather Script to 3.09. Trying to eliminate various errors since updating to latest version of WampServer | |
| 26 Feb 2022 17:15 | - | Updated Regional Weather Script to 3.08. Trying to eliminate various errors since updating to latest version of WampServer | |
| 25 Feb 2022 21:02 | 26 Feb 2022 08:00 | Webserver when offine, don't know why | Re-installed webserver to latest version |
| 18 Feb 2022 23:00 | 19 Feb 2022 10:15 | Webserver when offline, don't know why | Restored a backup image from acouple of days ago and all data was brought upto date from Davis console |
| 22 Dec 2021 15:00 | - | New South Facing Camera replacing the aging Y-Cam camera | New camera, a Reolink RLC-511WA |
| 13 Dec 2021 10:30 | - | New East Facing Camera installed outside - Looking good | |
| 12 Dec 2021 14:30 | - | Temporary installation of a new East Facing Camera | New camera, a Reolink RLC-511W, currently in the garage looking through a window. |
| 10 Dec 2021 16:00 | - | East Facing Camera failed after 10 years. (Panasonic BL-C140) | After a lot of messing around the camera is dead. |
| 7 Dec 2021 20:00 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S134) | |
| 17 Oct 2021 16:00 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S131) | |
| 9 Sep 2021 23:55 | 10 Sep 2021 06:45 | Weather Display crashed again | Restarted ok, no loss of data |
| 23 Jul 2021 07:40 | 23 Jul 2021 13:45 | Weather Display crashed, don't know why | Restarted ok, no loss of data |
| 12 Jul 2021 18:10 | - | Rain gauge funnel cleaned | Rain not shown at the correct time today |
| 4 Jun 2021 20:15 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S127) | |
| 21 May 2021 14:55 | 22 May 2021 09:05 | Anemometer stopped working due to the cups breaking, due plastic aging and strong winds | Replacement anemometer temporary fitted at a lower level in the short term |
| 5 Apr 2021 13:50 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S125) | |
| 7 Mar 2021 10:00 | - | Updated Proxy Server with a new installation. Proxy Server running on a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB housed in an Argon M.2 case with 240GB M.2 SATA drive running Nginx Proxy Manager installed | Enabled https:// with all traffic to the website forced to use it. Many of the website pages needed updated with some links requiring editing |
| 7 Jan 2021 | 14 Jan 2021 14:30 | Humidity Sensor failed producing wrong Humidity and Dew Point measurement | Sensor replaced |
| 1 Nov 2020 01:30 | - | UPS failed overnight | Ordered a replacement UPS - APC -Back-UPS 1400 after the last one failed |
| 31 Oct 2020 11:10 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S120) | |
| 9 Oct 2020 15:00 | - | Cleaned rain gauge due to the autumn leaves | |
| 19 Aug 2020 10:30 | 19 Aug 2020 17:30 | Weather computer / Webserver offline due hard drive corruption ?? | Recovered from daily backup. No data loss |
| 27 Jul 2020 22:17 | - | Updated Regional Weather Script to 3.07. Trying to eliminate an undefined index error in Cumulus import | |
| 4 Jul 2020 09:50 | 4 Jul 2020 10:00 | Rain gauge funnel cleaned, lots of debris again | Rain from yesterday shown today |
| 29 Jun 2020 21:45 | - | Updated Regional Weather Script to 3.06. Improved error handling for Cumulus data import | |
| 28 Jun 2020 15:00 | - | Added a PHP to the root index page to stop malformed URL's messing up the formating by preventing the javascript running | |
| 27 Jun 2020 18:00 | - | Refreshed a couple widgets on the home page | |
| 18 Jun 2020 18:00 | - | Installed a Reverse Proxy Server | |
| 17 Feb 2020 11:10 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S109) | |
| 20 Oct 2019 16:00 | - | Rain gauge funnel cleaned, lots of debris again | |
| 20 Oct 2019 12:38 | 20 Oct 2019 17:20 | Computer crashed and restarted but Weather Display failed to restart correctly. WDISPLAY.INI recovered from morning backup | Some Weather Display data lost |
| 29 Sep 2019 22:31 | 29 Sep 2019 23:20 | Computer crashed and had to power down | Lost some data from Weather Display but recovered wdisplay.ini file from 10:30 baclup |
| 31 Aug 2019 08:00 | 14 Sep 2019 18:30 | Accidentally switched off main webcam while on holiday | |
| 30 Aug 2019 16:40 | - | Checked rain gauge funnel, found lots of debris, cleaned before it got blocked up again | |
| 2 Aug 2019 08:45 | - | Wind Speed Anemometers was not going round in little wind conditions. Found to be the work of a spider's web. A light flick fixed it, now ok | |
| 15 Jul 2019 08:40 | 15 Jul 2019 08:45 | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S99) | |
| 6 Jul 2019 18:00 | - | Cleaned rain gauge funnel which had become blocked while on holiday | |
| 7 Dec 2018 10:00 | - | Replaced ISS battery due to Low Battery warning | |
| 25 May 2018 13:55 | - | Updated Regional Weather Script from 3.02 to 3.03 to support realtime.txt from weeWX software with a Cumulus extension installed | Brent Knoll replaced Weather Display with weeWX running on a Raspberry PI |
| 21 Apr 2018 10:00 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S70) | |
| 21 Apr 2018 09:30 | - | Regional Weather page updated to use latest version of the script. | Regional Weather Script Version 3.02 now in addition reading data from Weather Display clientraw.txt file can read data from Cumulus realtime.txt and Meteobrdige MBrealtime.txt files |
| 28 Feb 2018 18:00 | - | East Facing Weather Camera restored now a new electrical supply has been installed to the garage. | Building work on our new extension nearly completed, it will be nice to get our home back. |
| 13 Jan 2018 15:15 | - | Soil Temperature and Moisture station taken out of service due to building work being carried out. | Soil temperature/moisture will be offline until the spring |
| 8 Jan 2018 13:00 | 28 Feb 2018 18:00 | East Facing Weather Camera taken out of service due to building working carried and the power connection needed to be disconnected | |
| 29 Dec 2017 18:32 | - | Menu for Monthly and Yearly Reports updated to include 2018 dates | |
| 29 Dec 2017 18:14 | - | Menu for "All time Records" page update to include 2018 dates | |
| 2 Dec 2017 10:00 | 2 Dec 2017 20:00 | Updated and added photos of old postcards of Swiss Valley Clevedon in the photos section. | |
| 2 Dec 2017 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version (10.37S61) | |
| 27 Oct 2017 16:40 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version 10.37S59 | |
| 15 Oct 2017 16:00 | - | Cleaned the rain gauge funnel before it got blocked up with bits of leaves etc. | |
| 13 Oct 2017 18:00 | - | Added a new page to the site showing which pages have been accessed durint eh current day. "Site Information > Site Statistics" | |
| 29 Sep 2017 18:00 | 29 Sep 2017 18:30 | Moved my weather station and computer/server to another room in perparation from some home improvments. | Over the next week or two there could be time when the website is unavailable |
| 27 Sep 2017 22:40 | - | Finally managed to connect my MySQL database to a MS Access 2010 Front End | Found I required both 32bit and 64bit ODBC drivers as I using a 32bit version MS Access, Windows 7 64bit and MySQL 64bit |
| 24 Sep 2017 18:11 | - | Station Diagnostic webpage updated to remove some redundant content and add some new | |
| 23 Sep 2017 09:00 | 24 Sep 2017 17:30 | Had a few problems with a loss of supply to my computer which caused some loss of data within Weather Display. This has caused some of the graphs and table to be a bit mixed up. Graphs produced by Virtual Weather Station and Cumulus are not effected. | Tried to restore weather display data from data logger, this has improved the table a little. |
| 18 Sep 2017 08:03 | - | Updated Weather Display to the latest version 10.37S57 | |
| 4 Sep 2017 14:21 | 4 Sep 2017 16:35 | Computer went into a go-slow and all programs were non-responsive. | Had to power down computer which corrupted Weather Display. Updated Weather Display to latest version (Version 10.37S56) and used backup wdisplay.ini file. |
| 9 Aug 2017 20:00 | 10 Aug 2017 20:30 | I was having problems with Weather Display not generating thumbnail images correctly so looked into alternative method for producing thumbnal images | I found "Imageresizer" php script and used that to produce the thumbnail images. Seems to work well but may slightly slower at loading those pages. |
| 16 Jul 2017 16:30 | - | Decided not to re-instate 1-Wire lightning detector due to noisy signal problem. | |
| 16 Jul 2017 15:09 | 17 Jul 2017 13:00 | Started developing a MySQL events/comments database and webpage | Replaced the original events/comments page |
| 16 Jul 2017 08:00 | - | Updated to Weather Display 10.37S55 | Version dated 16th July 2017 |
| 9 Jul 2017 14:10 | 16 Jul 2017 15:13 | Weather Station computer and website crashed after being infected with a ransomware virus. | Rebuild computer and recovered all weather data pre 08th July 2017 16:00 when last routine backup was completed. Thank goodness for automatic daily backups |
| 23 Jun 2017 10:00 | 9 Jul 2017 | Relocated 1-Wire Lightning Detector in loft space | Been getting lots noise/false signals |
| 12 Jun 2017 | - | Upgraded computer to a HP Compaq Elite 8300, I5-3570 running Windows 7 PRO 64bit with 8Gb RAM | Upgraded to latest version of Wampserver 3 64bit Updated to Weather Display 10.37S53 Updated to Virtual Weather Station to Version 15.00p05 Updated to Cumulus Version 1.9.4 / 1099 |
| 16 Jun 2016 | - | Ordered a replacement UPS - APC -Back-UPS 1400 after the last one failed | Ordered a replacement UPS - APC -Back-UPS 1400 after the last one failed |
| 28 Apr 2016 | - | Virgin Media closes it web space therefore the mirror of my website will no longer be available. | |
| 19 Apr 2016 | 23 Apr 2016 | Website down due to UPS failure while on holiday | By-passed UPS on return from holiday, website back up and running |
| 25 Oct 2015 | - | Failure of the Temperature / Humidity Sensor in ISS | Ordered a replacement from Red Onion |
| 17 May 2015 | - | Station 1 Low Battery warning message received | Replaced ISS battery and reset alarm on console. |
| 25 Oct 2014 | - | Station 1 Low Battery warning message received | Replaced ISS battery and reset alarm on console. |
| 24 Feb 2013 | - | Some more page updated into using php / CSS common headers and footers. These pages are also validated XHTML on the W3C site | |
| 21 Feb 2013 17:40 | - | Installed the latest version of Weather Display ( Version WD10.37R b51 ) | Version released on 20th February 2013 |
| 15 Feb 2013 | - | Page header now reflect an indication of the time of day/ weather conditions | PHP script available to download |
| 26 Dec 2012 | - | Station 1 Low Battery warning message received | Replaced ISS battery and reset alarm on console. |
| 1 Jun 2012 | - | Added a new Regional Weather Page which used php to download the clientraw.txt file from surrounding weather stations to display in a table. This php script has proved popular and I have made it available to everyone. | Anyone wishing to download this script can via the following link on the webpage |
| 1 Jun 2012 | - | Started to update some of the pages on my site to made comply with XHTML strict. The pages now make use of CSS and more use of PHP. This should made it easier to update pages in the long term. Pages will include common headings and footers | On going process |
| 1 May 2012 | - | Started using a trial version of Microsoft Expression Web 4. I seem to get on with this program and consider buying the full version | Purchased a couple of books from amazon.co.uk, one "Expression Web 4 in 24 Hours" and the other on CSS |
| 6 Feb 2012 | - | Station 1 Low Battery warning message received | Replaced ISS battery and reset alarm on console. |
| 15 Jan 2012 19:30 | 15 Jan 2012 20:30 | The spare hard drive turned out to be noisy so purchased new 500GB WD Caviar Green from PC World. Website down for installation of new hard drive and restoring data. | Rebuilt computer on to new WD Caviar Green 500GB hard drive using the backup from 19:22 16th Jan 2012 from my Windows Home Server 2011. Approx 1 hour weather data lost. |
| 15 Jan 2012 15:30 | 15 Jan 2012 17:30 | Website down due to a hard drive failure | Rebuilt computer on to spare hard drive using the backup from 14th Jan 2012 from my Windows Home Server 2011. Approx 20hour of weather data lost. |
| 22 Aug 2011 | - | Replaced all the Weather Display monthly pages with one custom php page. This should now be nearly maintenance free | |
| 5 Aug 2011 | - | Transferred Weather station over to new HP DC7900 computer running Windows XP Pro. However there was some data loss | |
| 2 Aug 2011 | - | The computer running my weather station software and web site started to go wrong. Programs would crash and could not be restart. | I found that if I restarted the computer and disable some of the programs the computer would run for between four and six hour before going wrong again. Tried restoring the computer to a backup from a day few day previous but no improvement. Purchased a replacement computer off eBay, a HP DC7900 with E8500 processor. |
| 23 Jul 2011 23:00 | - | Blueyonder web site closed down (www.kennaway.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk) and replaced with a new Virginmedia website www.clevedonwx.webspace.virginmedia.com | |
| 11 Jul 2011 11:30 | 11 Jul 2011 23:15 | Web site intermittently offline throughout the day due loss of connectivity. | Reported to Virgin Media who told me there was a fault in my area and is being worked on |
| 11 Jul 2011 06:40 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 55 | |
| 13 Jun 2011 06:40 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 46 | Version released on 13th June 2011 |
| 3 Jun 2011 17:00 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 44 | Version released on 3rd June 2011 Added feature to allow uploads to http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/ |
| 3 Jun 2011 10:14 | 3 Jun 2011 16:00 | Web site offline due loss of connectivity. | Reported to Virgin Media who told me there was a fault in my area and is being worked on |
| 2 Jun 2011 12:15 | 2 Jun 2011 15:45 | Web site offline due loss of connectivity. | |
| 30 May 2011 | - | Add a Hobby board Lightning strike counter to my weather station | Installation needs to be improved to reduce spurious counts |
| 10 May 2011 20:40 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 42 | Version released on 5th May 2011 |
| 25 Apr 2011 13:15 | 25 Apr 2011 15:20 | Web site offline due loss of connectivity. | Reported to Virgin Media who told me there was a fault in my area. Estimated time for repair to be completed by 21:50 |
| 23 Apr 2011 12:00 | 23 Apr 2011 15:40 | Web site offline due loss of connectivity | Reported to Virgin Media who told me there was unplanned maintenance being carried out in my area. Was unable to tell me when my service would be restored. |
| 22 Apr 2011 14:00 | 22 Apr 2011 14:40 | Web site offline due loss of connectivity | |
| 21 Apr 2011 13:30 | 21 Apr 2011 15:15 | Web site offline due loss of connectivity | Low signal level ?? -1.0dBmV Downstream, 53.9dbmV upstream |
| 18 Apr 2011 06:55 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 41 | Version released on 17th April 2011 |
| 1 Apr 2011 16:25 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 37 | Version released on 1st April 2011 |
| 20 Mar 2011 18:25 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 37 | Version released on 20th March 2011 |
| 17 Mar 2011 18:00 | 17 Mar 2011 18:30 | The web site was offline for about 30 minutes while I was upgrading my internet connection from 20Mbps to 30Mbps | Installed new Virgin Media Super Hub which provides me 30Mbps download and 3Mbps upload. This should improve the web site performance. |
| 9 Mar 2011 21:35 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 34 | Version released on 9th March 2011 |
| 5 Mar 2011 07:45 | - | Installed second weather camera in the garden facing east. | The camera is a Panasonic BL C140 mounted outside. The camera is a wired IP camera and is connected to my network a pair of PowerLine units |
| 4 Mar 2011 07:45 | - | Battery failure in the Davis ISS at about 04:00 which stopped most of the measurement parameters being recorded. | Battery replaced |
| 3 Mar 2011 20:35 | - | Re-installed full Weather Display main program version 10.37q build 34 | Version released on 3rd March 2011 |
| 28 Feb 2011 20:49 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 34 | Version released on 28th Feb 2011 |
| 18 Feb 2011 08:45 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 33 | Version released on 16th Feb 2011 |
| 28 Jan 2011 | - | Updated VWSaprs to VWSaprs2 - Program that updates CWOP from VWS | See http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=10220.0 for more details |
| 25 Jan 2011 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 28 | |
| 20 Jan 2011 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 25 | |
| 17 Jan 2011 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 22 | |
| 11 Jan 2011 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 16 | |
| 26 Dec 2010 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 10 | |
| 12 Dec 2010 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 06 | |
| 19 Nov 2010 | - | Web site intermittent due to internet connection problems | |
| 17 Nov 2010 18:00 | 17 Nov 2010 20:15 | Web site and computer intermittently offline due to 4 power cuts | |
| 16 Nov 2010 17:00 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 02 | |
| 10 Nov 2010 21:24 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 01 | |
| 24 Oct 2010 15:50 | 24 Oct 2010 16:20 | Web site offline for 30 minutes for routine maintenance. | |
| 19 Oct 2010 21:24 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37q build 00 | |
| 17 Oct 2010 | - | Edited the "Alltime Record" page and added an extra drop down menu to improved navigation | |
| 9 Oct 2010 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37p build 93 | Fixed bug with all time records gif |
| 2 Oct 2010 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37p build 88 | |
| 29 Sep 2010 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37p build 87 | |
| 25 Sep 2010 | - | Split the logs files page into four new pages as they were getting too long to manage. Also moved them all to a new directory. | New pages: Event / Change Log, Internet Usage, VWS Errors and Watchdog errors |
| 23 Sep 2010 11:15 | 24 Sep 2010 03:28 | Web site offline for 16 hours. I was not here at the time and could not determine the reason for the loss of internet connection. | |
| 12 Sep 2010 11:30 | 12 Sep 2010 15:15 | Web site offline due to no Internet connection for about 3.75 hours. Ready light on cable modem flashing. | Contacted ISP, Engineer visit booked |
| 8 Sep 2010 | - | Adding Javascript menus to web page. This will allow me to update the menus with editing every single page in the site. | Using Ultra Menu Javascript menu by AntsSoft |
| 22 Aug 2010 12:36 | 22 Aug 2010 15:54 | Web site offline due to no Internet connection for about 3.5 hours. External fault or iffy cable modem. | Contacted ISP and was told that it looks like my cable modem had failed. Internet service returned at 15:54 still do not know if it was a cable modem or external network fault. |
| 4 Aug 2010 | - | Updated Weather Display software to version 10.37p build 43 | This fixed a fault with thumbnail icon not being rescaled. |
| 30 Jul 2010 17:15 | 30 Jul 2010 23:10 | Found web site offline, rebooted router which cleared fault!! | |
| 14 Jul 2010 | - | Found that I was not getting the correct rainfall measurements. Check rain gauge found the small hole at the bottom of the funnel blocked with a died insect or spider. | Cleared just in time as the following day was the wettest day to date of 2010. I think this blocking of the Davis rain gauge may be quite common as Thornbury Weather recently had a blocked Davis rain gauge. |
| 27 Jun 2010 18:10 | - | Updated Virtual Weather Station software to version 14.01p25 from 14.00p42 | Installation went ok but needed to to reset 5 day forecast and a few other internet setting. |
| 19 Oct 2009 | - | Installed a Davis Wireless Leaf and Soil moisture/Temperature Station to my Weather Station. I currently have a Grass level temperature sensor mounted about 75mm above the ground. I have also got a soil temperature sensor inserted to a depth of 75mm. | |
| 19 Aug 2009 | 20 Aug 2009 | No Internet connection for about 10 hours. External fault | |
| 19 Apr 2009 | - | Started adding additional web pages using data from Weather Display. | |
| 18 Apr 2009 | - | Purchased the full version of both Weather Display and VirtualVP after finding both programs could benefit my web site | |
| 10 Apr 2009 | - | Installed a trial version of VirtualVP by SoftWx to allow up to 4 programs to communicate via virtual serial ports to the Davis console. Installed a trial version of Weather Display | I should be able record and display extra weather information. |
| 26 Feb 2009 07:00 | 26 Feb 2009 18:55 | www.clevedonweather.co.uk unavailable during the daytime due to Apache server being offline, unknown reason. | Server put back online at around 18:55 |
| 29 Dec 2008 | - | I am working through the web pages one at a time editing the "html" to try and validate them with W3C. I can't guarantee all the pages will be validated. These are likely to be the web page that VWS generate from .htx templates | Initially I was validating them to HTML 4 but I am now trying to validate them to XHTML 1.0 |
| 24 Nov 2008 | - | Added another 2GByte of DDR2 RAM to my weather computer purchased from Crucial UK . I have found in the past that it does not pay to buy cheaper generic memory. | |
| 11 Nov 2008 18:30 | 15 Nov 2008 12:00 | Added a solar radiation sensor purchased second-hand from eBay. Only a temporary installation, hopefully install it better at the weekend. | Completed a more permanent installation of the solar radiation sensor. It is now mounted an a handmade bracket at the top of the mast. This hopefully limit the time the sensor is in the shade during the winter months. |
| 1 Nov 2008 | - | Changed weather station equipment to Davis Vantage Pro 2 from Skyview . Some of the web pages edited to suit. No longer measuring UV index, may consider a solar radiation detector when funds allow. | I really hope this works better than the WMR 100 |
| 28 Sep 2008 02:00 | 28 Sep 2008 11:30 | The outside temperature sensor went wrong. Indicated temperature rose to 50C. I have removed the outside sensor to see if will recover as it may be due to damp. | Outside temperature sensor is working again but for how long, who knows. (28/09/2008 11:30) |
| 14 Sep 2008 16:23 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer, first time in nearly three months | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 6 Sep 2008 13:00 | - | Purchased a HP DC 7700 SFF computer to replaced the HP Compaq D530. This new computer has a E2160 Dual Core processor with 1GByte of DDR2 RAM and 80GByte SATA HDD | Full web site service returned including weather movie. Now running Virtual Weather Station version 14.nn and Apache Server version 2.2.9 |
| 25 Aug 2008 23:20 | 26 Aug 2008 18:25 | My HP Compaq D530 died after making a made a funny bang. On removing the lid I found that the main chipset heatsink had fallen off due to one of the lags on the motherboard that anchor the heatsink failed. | The web site has been down for about 17 hours and is now running on my original Compaq EN866 SFF. It will take time to recover all the web pages. Clevedon Weather back up and running with a limited service. |
| 18 Aug 2008 | - | Became a member of Citizen Weather Observer Program and now upload weather data every 10 minutes to them. I needed to install a small free add-on program to VWS called VWSAPRS. My user call sign is DW1143 | |
| 3 Aug 2008 | - | Added a new page to the site which displays a .wmv movie of the last 8 hours footage from my weather cam. | Uses ImageSalsa to save sequential files every 20 seconds and then uses MovieSalsa every 15 minutes to make AVI and converts it to a wmv using windows media encoder 9. |
| 1 Aug 2008 20:16 | 1 Aug 2008 21:16 | Memory failure in HP Compaq D530. One of the DDR RAM modules failed. Replaced with two Corsair 512Mbyte modules doubling the amount of memory. | Failure caused about one hour interruption in weather station and web server. |
| 23 Jun 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 1 Jun 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 28 May 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 26 May 2008 08:00 | 26 May 2008 08:30 | Attempted to re-start WMR-100 | Carried out reset on WMR-100, this time it did not restore USB comms, Re-booted computer, computer can see weather station but still no comms. Removed batteries and power supply, left for a few minutes, replace batteries and power and after a while started comms again (08:30). As a result this resets rainfall totals again. |
| 25 May 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 17 May 2008 | - | Transferred the installations Virtual Weather Station and ImageSalsa to the new computer. Installed The Apache HTTP Server Project for Windows and clevedonweather.co.uk/ was up and running | The www.kennaway.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk web site currently remains operational but the frequency of the updates to the page has been reduced. However the weather data on clevedonweather.co.uk web site page is updated as often as once a minute and the WeatherCam every 20 seconds. |
| 14 May 2008 | - | Purchased a second-hand HP Compaq D530 SFF 2.8GHz computer off eBay | Like the EN866 the D530 is a very quiet computer. It also only consumes about 40 watts of electricity, which makes it ideal 24 hour operation. |
| 10 May 2008 | - | Registered clevedonweather.co.uk/ domain main with the intension of hosting my own web site using my weather computer. | Not un-expectantly found that the computer running Virtual Weather Station and ImageSalsa was not fast enough to run a web server as well. |
| 5 May 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 3 Apr 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 15 Mar 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 2 Mar 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 16 Feb 2008 | - | Upgraded the memory in the computer from 256Mbyte to 512Mbyte | |
| 14 Feb 2008 | - | Fitted a USB 2.0 PCI card to enable the weather cam to be run from the weather computer | |
| 6 Feb 2008 | - | Weather Cam software finalised to Image Salsa | Found that Image Salsa seemed to offer all the options I required. |
| 30 Jan 2008 | - | Trial with Weather Cam | Initial trial using a number of different demo versions of software. |
| 5 Jan 2008 | - | WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer | Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals |
| 1 Jan 2008 | - | WMR-100 rainfall totals reset for the start of then New Year | |
| 30 Sep 2007 | - | Purchased Watchdog - O - Matic Pro from Kwakkelflap after a successful 30 day trial version proved that it could recover from the intermittent crashes of VWS | |
| 1 Sep 2007 | 30 Sep 2007 | Still getting the odd random crash from VWS, looking at ways to combat this. | Download trial version of Watchdog - O - Matic Pro from Kwakkelflap a program that claimed it could restart crashed programs. |
| 21 Aug 2007 | 28 Aug 2007 | Found Wind speed indication still working intermittently. Wind/Temperature sensor sent back to supplier for exchange | Replacement Wind/Temperature arrived and installed |
| 14 Aug 2007 | - | Found Wind speed indication stopped working intermittently. | Changed batteries in Wind/Temperature sensor and reset base station causing rainfall totals to reset. |
| 1 Jul 2007 | 1 Sep 2007 | Many more crashes of VWS resulting in more data loss. Still unable to identify cause. Investigating ways to combat problem. | |
| 11 Jun 2007 | 21 Jun 2007 | VWS crashed again while being on holiday | No data collected over 10 days period |
| 9 Jun 2007 | - | Had VWS crash a number of times for no identified reason. | Fault seemed to clear. |
| 16 May 2007 | - | Virtual Weather Station (VWS) software up and running. | Initial web site started and data being sent to Wunderground. |
| 12 May 2007 | - | Purchased Ambient Weather - Internet version of Virtual Weather Station software. | |
| 6 May 2007 | - | Purchased a second-hand Compaq EN866 SFF 256Mbyte computer off eBay to enable 24 hour a day weather logging and web site updates | The Compaq EN866 SFF while being quite old is a very quiet computer. It also only consumes about 40 watts of electricity, which makes it ideal 24 hour operation. |
| 16 Apr 2007 | - | Replacement weather station collected from local CityLink depot after they messed up delivery. | Replacement weather station installed and USB comms confirmed working |
| 6 Apr 2007 | - | Found base station would not communicate with computer over the USB port. | Complete WMR-100 weather station returned to supplier for exchange. |
| 4 Apr 2007 | - | Purchased WMR-100 |
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