[wxqc] WeatherLink for Windows v 5.7.1 Update Available...YTD consequences??

[Dennis Maier]

Hello,

FYI, I also updated my WeatherLink software to version 5.7.1 about 8:32 p.m.
Monday evening 03/05/07, with no apparent problems (and also no
precipitation). I have also contacted Davis tech. supt. to request the
rental ($20.00 + $9.00 S&H) of a Vantage Pro-1 firmware updater to apply the
following update...

Firmware version Nov 20, 2006
1. Now supports new daylight savings time dates.
2. External software can now detect if the console is on daylight savings
time or not when in "auto detect" mode.
3. Fixed non flashing graph point. (last dot)
 
UPS delivery of the updater is scheduled for Tuesday 03/13/07.

Dennis
dennis at sandpointweather.com
http://www.sandpointweather.com
CW4869

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To: Discussion of weather data quality issues;
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Subject: Re: [wxqc] WeatherLink for Windows v 5.7.1 Update Available...YTD
consequences??

Hi All:

DST issues will affect everything that is scheduled to occur in local time,
which I assume implies your daily, monthly, and yearly climate statistics.
As for CWOP, I would not think that DST is an issue since we insert a UTC
time stamp on all received (real-time) reports (the reason we only accept
real-time, and no retrospective, observations).  

As for application and PC stability, not being on the actual local time
should not be a problem.  However, everyone should be downloading the latest
Windows OS (and Mac and Linux/Unix) patches so your operating system
automatically switches to the correct local time and more importantly, has
the latest security patches.

I think WeatherLink 5.7.1 is a great upgrade in support for CWOP, including
the additional precip parameters (1hr and 24 hr accumulated rainfall) and
the server upload default, rotate.aprs.net.  The rainfall parameters will
allow MADIS and MesoWest to use WeatherLink reported precip for the first
time (they could not use the  "since midnight" type rainfall parameter).

If a couple brave WeatherLink users could do a 1 week stability burn-in test
for the group and report back to us on your experience, that would be
greatly appreciated.


Cheers,

Dave
CW0351


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Thomas Hybiske <t_biskit at yahoo.com>
> I've been running 5.6 for a couple of years as it was working well, 
> and I didn't want to mess with success.  Now, I would like to take 
> advantage of the additional features of 5.7.1.  What I'm wondering is 
> what if any affect does upgrading do to the YTD rainfall, Hi/Lo 
> records, and monthly reports?  Tom Hybiske K3GM (AR824).
> 
>  
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