[strada916]

Sorry strada916, I didn't know.
Congratulations for the new baby, and to family too.
Enjoy the time with him.

Only now rx board shows only seconds of time. Hours and minutes is blank

Hours and minutes disappear after a few seconds? And the other info is there?
Maybe the RX LCD contrast is too low.

Thank you all good. Now summer is coming I want to get things going. However baby and family demands are priority at the moment.
I need to spend some time fault finding, debugging. Hoping some time later this week.
Nick

[Shred]

Earlier this week, I upgraded from v1.4 to v1.5 and experienced the "WD Board Rebooting" thing. I'm not sure how long it was between reboots, but it was not long enough for the board to obtain the current time and date. I'd guess it was every minute or so, which coincides with the observation of one of the other contributors to this thread.

On the day I did the upgrade, there had been no rain, yet after the upgrade the Rx display showed a crazy number for mm of rain - like 10s of thousands of mm. This did not get uploaded to Cumulus MX.

A bit over 24 hours later: the WD board now works perfectly. I'm not using inHg for the pressure units. Is it possible that the insane figure for rainfall was causing the WD board to crash each time it received the rain data packet? I didn't time the reboots, but the packet is supposed to be sent every 31 seconds, which sounds a bit too frequent to explain the behaviour I observed.

[werk_ag]

Earlier this week, I upgraded from v1.4 to v1.5 and experienced the "WD Board Rebooting" thing. I'm not sure how long it was between reboots, but it was not long enough for the board to obtain the current time and date. I'd guess it was every minute or so, which coincides with the observation of one of the other contributors to this thread.

Could it be that you have experienced the "WD Board Rebooting" thing, after you have upgraded your TX / RX units to v1.5 and the WD unit was still with v1.4?
In these circumstances this will happen for sure.
All units should have the same software version number.

On the day I did the upgrade, there had been no rain, yet after the upgrade the Rx display showed a crazy number for mm of rain - like 10s of thousands of mm. This did not get uploaded to Cumulus MX.

This is certainly the most posted or reported issue, that is not properly an issue.
Most of the times after a software upgrade, especially when the upgrade is from a earlier software version number, a factory reset is required (press the Push button for 5 seconds).
Usually this prevents those strange accumulated rain values (that , as you mentioned, are not passed to Cumulus) to be shown at the display. Anyway, as you observed, those values in the display, disappear after the first start of your defined meteorological day. (usually 00h00, or 09h00am for AU or NZ)

With software v1.5, this should not happen again in future upgrades, even if you don't do a factory reset after upgrading. The software will try to do it automatically when it "think" is necessary.

Thank you Shred, for reporting your experience.

[zitoune]

Hello,

I have observed the same symptoms on my WD unit, but I did not upgrade yet any of my boards to the 1.5v.
That day it's been raining a lot and the RX displayed....19800mm of water!! Obviously it was wrong so I suspected the length of this field sent to the WD was too long (out of bounds).
Even after rebooting all boards the WD kept rebooting by itself.
One day later, no rain, the behaviour was back to normal. The next day it rained about 13.2mm and it showed it properly.
So I believe something to do with the fact the WD goes haywire if it receive data out of it's storage/display range?

Thanks.

[Shred]

Could it be that you have experienced the "WD Board Rebooting" thing, after you have upgraded your TX / RX units to v1.5 and the WD unit was still with v1.4?

Hi Werk_AG. Thanks for your thoughts on this. I had been following the experiences of others in upgrading to v1.5, so I took the whole system offline for the upgrade. I brought the TX online first, then the RX (having noted that the RX won't fully initialise until it receives data from the TX). The WD was the last one powered up after the upgrade and all were running v1.5.

[werk_ag]

So I believe something to do with the fact the WD goes haywire if it receive data out of it's storage/display range?

Hello,

I don't touch in the v1.4 software since last August, but it's possible that the v1.4 WD software has the described problem.
I really recommend you to upgrade to v1.5, it have very significant improvements over v1.4 software.
Follow the upgrade sequence as described by Shred on the post above, and all should goes well.

Power off all units, always upgrade the TX unit in first place, then power on the RX unit and upgrade, and for last the WD unit.
TX unit should be already working with v1.5 when upgrading RX software to v1.5

Any problem, please report. Users feedback is the best way to solve eventual bugs or problems.

Thank you

[zitoune]

Upgraded the 3 boards yesterday, works well.

[werk_ag]

Upgraded the 3 boards yesterday, works well.

Thank you. Every report is important.
I hope everybody will upgrade to v1.5 as soon as possible.