[Weather] My apologies for my redundancy

[Tim Bitson]

Scott,

Since you're reading a '7', your weather station is most likely OK,  
and you have a coding error. If this was due to a reed switch being  
broken, you would be reading 16 (the error value) for some of your  
directions.

Look in SimpleWeather.java where the wind speed and direction is  
displayed:
...
// get wind speed & direction
    windSpeed = ws1.getWindSpeed();
    windDir = ws1.getWindDirection();
    System.out.println("Wind Speed = " + windSpeed + " MPH " +  "from  
the " + ws1.getWindDirStr(windDir));
...

the call the ws1.getWindStr(windDir) is what converts the numeric  
value ( windDir  is 7 in your case) to the string ("SSE").

Note that there was a typo in the book here. The downloaded code used  
the method getWindDirStr() while the code in the book used  
getWindDirString(). Since your project compiles, you must have  
figured this one out.

If you code is correct, look through the method getWindSpeedStr() in  
the WindSensor class for typos.

Let me know if this helps.

Tim Bitson
http://weathertoys.net



On May 12, 2007, at 6:02 AM, R. Scott Runnion wrote:

> correction: the 7 should pull 'SSE' from the array....
>
> R. Scott Runnion wrote:
>> Well, having publicly embarrassed myself with the below admission,  
>> let
>> me now ask the subscriber community for the help I was originally  
>> seeking:
>>
>> I've got the Hobby-Boards Weather Station, barometer, temp/humidity
>> running through their 6-port hub under Tim Bitson's SimpleWeather.  
>> All
>> is working well, with the exception of the wind direction  
>> indicator. No
>> matter how the vane is oriented, the display says "Wind Speed =  
>> xxxxxxx
>> MPH from the 7" (the xxxxx reflect accurately the wind speed, but  
>> the 7
>> (the value that should pull 'WSW' from the array for display) never
>> varies. Any ideas? I'm concerned this may be due to a bad reed  
>> switch,
>> but am not sure how to verify, or rectify if it is.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> R. Scott Runnion wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, tried to subscribe a second time in error.
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