Clevedon Weather - Computer error reports

Date	Event	Comments
04/04/2007	Purchased WMR-100
06/04/2007	Found base station would not communicate with computer over the USB port.	Complete WMR-100 weather station returned to supplier for exchange.
16/04/2007	Replacement weather station collected from local CityLink depot after they messed up delivery.	Replacement weather station installed and USB comms confirmed working
06/05/2007	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.
12/05/2007	Purchased Ambient Weather - Internet version of Virtual Weather Station software.
16/05/2007	Virtual Weather Station (VWS) software up and running.	Initial web site started and data being sent to Wunderground.
09/06/2007	Had VWS crash a number of times for no identified reason.	Fault seemed to clear.
11/06/2007	VWS crashed again while being on holiday	No data collected over 10 days period
July 2007	Many more crashes of VWS resulting in more data loss. Still unable to identify cause. Investigating ways to combat problem.
14/08/2007	Found Wind speed indication stopped working intermittently.	Changed batteries in Wind/Temperature sensor and reset base station causing rainfall totals to reset.
21/08/2007	Found Wind speed indication still working intermittently.	Wind/Temperature sensor sent back to supplier for exchange
28/08/2007	Replacement Wind/Temperature arrived and installed
01/09/2008	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.
30/09/2008	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
01/01/2008	WMR-100 rainfall totals reset for the start of then New Year
05/01/2008	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer	Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals
30/01/2008	Trial with Weather Cam	Initial trial using a number of different demo versions of software.
06/02/2008	Weather Cam software finalised to Image Salsa	Found that Image Salsa seemed to offer all the option required.
14/02/2008	Fitted a USB 2.0 PCI card to enable the weather cam to be run from the weather computer
16/02/2008	Upgraded the memory in the computer from 256Mbyte to 512Mbyte
02/03/2008	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer	Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals
15/03/2008	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer	Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals
03/04/2008	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer	Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals
05/05/2008	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer	Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals
10/05/2008	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.
14/05/2008	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.
17/05/2008	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.
25/05/2008 23:52	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer
26/05/2008 08:00	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.
28/05/2008 10:21	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer, yet again	Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals.
01/06/2008 19:21	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer, yet again	Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals.
23/06/2008 21:02	WMR-100 lost USB communications with computer, yet again	Carried out reset on WMR-100 which restored USB comms, as a result this resets rainfall totals.
01/08/2008 20:16	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.
03/08/2008	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.
18/08/2008	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
25/08/2008 23:20	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.
26/08/2008 18:25	Clevedon Weather back up and running with a limited service.
06/09/2008 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
14/09/2008 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.
28/09/2008 02:00	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)
01/11/2008 12:00	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
11/11/2008 18:30	Added a solar radiation sensor purchased second-hand from eBay. Only a temporary installation, hopefully install it better at the weekend.

03/09/2008 21:17:42 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 03/09/2008 21:18:03 : vws.exe: Program restart 07/09/2008 13:47:45 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/09/2008 13:47:46 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/09/2008 13:52:28 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 07/09/2008 13:52:33 : vws.exe: Program restart 07/09/2008 20:12:58 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/09/2008 20:12:58 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/09/2008 20:18:59 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 07/09/2008 20:19:04 : vws.exe: Program restart 09/09/2008 06:50:32 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 09/09/2008 06:50:38 : vws.exe: Program restart 09/09/2008 18:12:58 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 09/09/2008 18:12:59 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 09/09/2008 18:15:14 : VWSaprs.exe : watchdog suspended. 09/09/2008 18:16:41 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 10/09/2008 03:08:09 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 10/09/2008 03:08:10 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 10/09/2008 03:08:10 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 11/09/2008 18:33:48 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 11/09/2008 18:33:48 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 11/09/2008 18:33:48 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 14/09/2008 10:04:14 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 14/09/2008 10:04:20 : vws.exe: Program restart 14/09/2008 17:37:24 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 14/09/2008 17:37:24 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 14/09/2008 17:37:24 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 15/09/2008 10:06:57 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 15/09/2008 10:06:57 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 15/09/2008 10:06:57 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 16/09/2008 08:46:00 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 16/09/2008 08:46:00 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 16/09/2008 08:46:01 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 20/09/2008 21:30:53 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 20/09/2008 21:30:58 : vws.exe: Program restart 20/09/2008 21:43:43 : vws.exe (3408): CPU threshold fault: 4 20/09/2008 21:43:48 : vws.exe: Program restart 20/09/2008 21:54:46 : vws.exe (256): CPU threshold fault: 4 20/09/2008 21:54:52 : vws.exe: Program restart 23/09/2008 23:45:20 : vws.exe (2800): Memory usage fault: 250004 KB 23/09/2008 23:45:26 : vws.exe: Program restart 26/09/2008 21:51:07 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 26/09/2008 21:51:07 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 26/09/2008 21:51:08 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 28/09/2008 21:36:54 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 28/09/2008 21:36:54 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 28/09/2008 21:36:54 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 28/09/2008 21:55:37 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 28/09/2008 21:55:37 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 28/09/2008 21:55:37 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 02/10/2008 16:30:22 : vws.exe (6420): Memory usage fault: 250144 KB 02/10/2008 16:30:27 : vws.exe: Program restart 04/10/2008 16:22:07 : vws.exe (964): not responding. 04/10/2008 16:22:12 : vws.exe: Program restart 07/10/2008 14:30:06 : vws.exe (6488): Memory usage fault: 250272 KB 07/10/2008 14:30:11 : vws.exe: Program restart 07/10/2008 21:44:16 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/10/2008 21:44:16 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/10/2008 21:44:16 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/10/2008 21:51:11 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/10/2008 21:51:11 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 07/10/2008 21:55:43 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 07/10/2008 21:55:49 : vws.exe: Program restart 08/10/2008 22:48:47 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 08/10/2008 22:48:52 : vws.exe: Program restart 09/10/2008 06:45:36 : MovieSalsaScheduler.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 09/10/2008 06:46:17 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 09/10/2008 06:46:23 : VWSaprs.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 09/10/2008 06:47:24 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 12/10/2008 09:30:20 : vws.exe (908): Memory usage fault: 250592 KB 12/10/2008 09:30:25 : vws.exe: Program restart 15/10/2008 11:40:01 : vws.exe (3500): Memory usage fault: 249864 KB 15/10/2008 11:40:07 : vws.exe: Program restart 15/10/2008 21:09:39 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 15/10/2008 21:14:35 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 15/10/2008 21:14:38 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 15/10/2008 21:14:39 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 15/10/2008 21:14:40 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 19/10/2008 14:15:17 : vws.exe (2688): Memory usage fault: 250276 KB 19/10/2008 14:15:23 : vws.exe: Program restart 22/10/2008 16:00:16 : vws.exe (4928): Memory usage fault: 249864 KB 22/10/2008 16:00:21 : vws.exe: Program restart 24/10/2008 11:22:20 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 24/10/2008 11:22:22 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 24/10/2008 11:22:22 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 24/10/2008 11:22:22 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 24/10/2008 11:28:36 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 24/10/2008 11:28:40 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 24/10/2008 11:28:41 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 24/10/2008 11:28:41 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 26/10/2008 10:39:45 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 26/10/2008 10:39:54 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 26/10/2008 10:39:54 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 26/10/2008 10:40:10 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 30/10/2008 13:00:22 : vws.exe (3432): Memory usage fault: 250044 KB 30/10/2008 13:00:28 : vws.exe: Program restart 01/11/2008 12:14:55 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 12:14:57 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 12:14:57 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 12:14:58 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:38:48 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:38:50 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:38:50 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:38:51 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:38:51 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:39:51 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 01/11/2008 14:39:57 : vws.exe: Program restart 01/11/2008 14:41:35 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:41:38 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:41:38 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 14:41:38 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 01/11/2008 21:08:07 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 01/11/2008 21:08:13 : vws.exe: Program restart 01/11/2008 22:00:06 : vws.exe (496): recoverable exception: Access Violation. The instruction at 0x684D8ACE referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be written. 01/11/2008 22:00:06 : vws.exe (496): unrecoverable exception: Access Violation. The instruction at 0x684D8ACE referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be written. 01/11/2008 22:00:12 : vws.exe: Program restart 04/11/2008 21:56:06 : vws.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 04/11/2008 21:56:11 : vws.exe: Program restart 07/11/2008 20:36:46 : vws.exe (4752): Memory usage fault: 249988 KB 07/11/2008 20:36:51 : vws.exe: Program restart 08/11/2008 09:44:24 : BMExtreme.exe: Program exit code: 0. Program terminated. Stopped watching. 08/11/2008 09:45:06 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 10/11/2008 18:26:02 : vws.exe (4356): Memory usage fault: 249868 KB 10/11/2008 18:26:08 : vws.exe: Program restart 12/11/2008 06:35:25 : XP_SystemUptime.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 12/11/2008 06:35:28 : VWSaprs.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 12/11/2008 06:35:28 : BMExtreme.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 12/11/2008 06:35:28 : vws.exe: guarded by Watchdog - O - Matic. 15/11/2008 23:09:26 : vws.exe (2064): not responding. 15/11/2008 23:09:45 : vws.exe: Program restart 19/11/2008 14:10:00 : vws.exe (3556): Memory usage fault: 262160 KB 19/11/2008 14:10:05 : vws.exe: Program restart

11/01/08,17:05:16,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Sending c:\website\htdocs\index.htm to /htdocs/index.htm 11/03/08, 7:00:15,FTP Command failed. Try passive mode.,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/03/08, 7:01:15,FTP Command failed. Try passive mode.,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 2) 11/09/08,23:40:58,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,19:55:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,20:03:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,20:25:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,20:25:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 2) 11/15/08,20:37:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,20:43:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,20:47:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,20:55:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,20:57:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,20:57:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 2) 11/15/08,21:09:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,21:09:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 2) 11/15/08,21:13:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,21:19:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,21:53:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,21:59:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:09:07,FTP Command failed. Try passive mode.,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:13:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:15:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:15:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 2) 11/15/08,22:19:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:23:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:25:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:29:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:37:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:39:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:43:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/15/08,22:43:07,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 2) 11/18/08,19:50:51,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 1) 11/18/08,19:50:51,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 2) 11/18/08,19:50:51,System socket error. Check Internet Connection,Login to ftp://ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (Attempt 3)