Author Topic: Help with testtag please (Read 14987 times)

JennyLeez · « **on:** March 05, 2012, 08:39:19 PM »

Could one of the WD users please tell me what this is.
Thanks

$currentwdet

Mark · « **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2012, 08:46:18 PM »

$currentwdet = 0.016. The current evapotranspiration rate calculated by WD every minute

JennyLeez · « **Reply #2 on:** March 05, 2012, 09:16:07 PM »

ahh so the same as this then?
$yesterdaydaviset

JennyLeez · « **Reply #3 on:** March 05, 2012, 09:47:30 PM »

I'm stuck.
Yesterdays high gust is:
$maxgustyest
Why would WD be processing this incorrectly.
It should be processed as 40 instead we have 1.6
This is happening repeatedly with this testtag.
Any ideas please.

kaimaikid · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2012, 09:17:02 PM »

Prob best asked in the WD forums as many experts their to help you.

JennyLeez · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2012, 09:22:04 PM »

Yes thinking that also cept its just a crazy error.
Some days its fine and some days WD throws random digits in testtags but only seems to be for that tag. I have been ignoring it hoping it would go away...lol

Weather Display · « **Reply #6 on:** March 24, 2012, 08:38:35 PM »

make sure WD is running at the daily reset time, for that custom tag to work correctly

JennyLeez · « **Reply #7 on:** March 24, 2012, 08:46:24 PM »

Weather Display is running 24/7

Thank you for answering, appreciated

Weather Display · « **Reply #8 on:** March 26, 2012, 09:54:34 AM »

that tag gets its value from
view, daily hi/low readings, yesterday daily hi gust
what shows there?

JennyLeez · « **Reply #9 on:** March 26, 2012, 05:30:31 PM »

Toko can you do me a favour and put a screen shot of this here so I may know what that should look like.
Also will help others having this a same problem.
Thanks Toko and thanks Weather Display

TokWW · « **Reply #10 on:** March 26, 2012, 06:00:18 PM »

That is the formal "dailyhighlowbaroetc.gif"

And is found exactly as Weather Display said:

Main Screen:

[View] - [Daily high low readings] - image as in the below image.

Yesterday Column and Daily High gust line showing the value the tag is supposed to reflect.

If it does not, then there may be an issue somewhere.

ie:
How powerful/modern is the PC? Ram? cpu type & speed
What else is running on the PC - eg webcam? wxsim? What AV?
What version and Build of Weather-Display?

Is it used for internet browsing, video viewing etc...

Hopefully we can move forward on this one with some more details

JennyLeez · « **Reply #11 on:** March 26, 2012, 06:51:10 PM »

Thanks Toko, this will be a good screenshot also to keep for anyone starting out out on Highs and Lows for the day.
Ok so thats what weather display means.
I will monitor gif against yesterday page.
Naturally when I dont want it to be right it is today.
Thanks you 2

JennyLeez · « **Reply #12 on:** March 27, 2012, 01:32:02 AM »

Yesterdays data 26th march.
WD
The attached is showing high gust 4.8
Daily high average speed 11.4

PWS data which appears more correct
gust 16.1 Gust average 4.8 High wind 8.5

WU
High Gust 25.9 Wind Speed Average 5.5

The High Gust appears to be reporting the average.
Now this does not happen every day. It is random.
Some days it is correct and all three avenues for data collection are much the same.
Any ideas please and thanks.

Weather Display · « **Reply #13 on:** March 27, 2012, 07:39:56 AM »

what weather station type?
with such a late time stamp on the gust value, it looks like the max gust was reset at some stage
it looks also like you are not using the NZ standard of 9am reset time

TokWW · « **Reply #14 on:** March 27, 2012, 07:48:16 AM »

Can you share the 48hourgraph.gif as well so we can see when the time should be for yesterday and today's max winds.

It looks like an 00:00 end of day, but that the current day did not register a change after midnight - it still had a yesterday high which may have been an error in itself - ie a low value, not the max gust for the day as should have been reported from another time.

The time of viewing was 1:00am in the morning of the new day.

I repeat my question - is this a dedicated weather PC or is it used as an internet PC or other as well?
And what speed is the cpu etc.

JennyLeez · « **Reply #15 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:53:44 AM »

Good morning.

It is a Davis Pro 6162.
Change over time is midnight.
As at 8.30am the gif looks the same.
Most if the day this PC is not used.
Used for short time at at night for other uses. One would not expect this to have any affect.
PC relatively new. Specs definitely adequate. Running Win7.
The Daily summary page for month ( wzhistory ) also incorrect.
However the Trends Summary ( wxtrend ) is correct and is 2 days behind.
48hr below.
Thanks

Weather Display · « **Reply #16 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:26:32 AM »

try keeping an eye on the values under view, daily hi/low
during the day, and especialy closer to the reset time, if you can
to see if you can find some pattern

iomkiwi · « **Reply #17 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:53:08 AM »

Don't know if this is same problem or not - but if you look at our new map (current conditions in menu up top) you will often see that the windspeed value is higher than the gust value from the WD stations

Weather Display · « **Reply #18 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:02:45 PM »

thats fine
because the windspeed is the average speed and the gust speed is the current speed
(ie when the current speed is lower than the average speed there is a lull in the wind)

iomkiwi · « **Reply #19 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:18:32 PM »

OK I just thought the gust speed was the highest gust for the last x minutes.

( I must stop assuming things

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