Author: Alberniweather Blog (Chris)

  • Convert Units with new Menu!

    It’s Done! You can now convert all the text (no images yet) data into a variety of different units! Use the new menu to the right of the “About” menu to do this… there are settings for US, Nautical, and a variety of national and International Metric standards. I tried to create options that would…

  • Unit Conversion being implemented

    I’ve got the basics down for the Unit Conversion mechanism… so now it’s just a matter of applying all the math. 🙂 The first change you will notice is the Barometer measurements since, in Canada, we generally use kiloPascals (kPa)… that is the first change I’ve made. It is simply one decimal off of hPa…

  • Data is back online!

    Hooray. I wish I was strong enough to wield our 40ft ladder all by myself, cuz I’m getting pretty good at swapping these silly parts in and out. Data is all back online. Thank you for your patience. I’ll let y’all know when I get the “extreme weather” hardened replacement part from Davis. Looks like…

  • Partial Data back – Units coming…

    Hey everyone. A minor breakthrough.. I restarted the weather software on my server a couple times… and now it seems to be sending everything through again except for temperature, rain, and humidity related readings. The Wview software is definitely freaking out from the oddball values the sensor is sending, I’ll put a bug report into…

  • Davis Fights Back

    OK, so I spent a good 2 hours talking to Davis (actually, my wife did… she’s the customer service guru in the family… I was there for technical background 🙂 ). In the end, one of the managers admitted that there was no hope of us ever getting a “new” in the box station. We’re…