[Weather] My apologies for my redundancy

[R. Scott Runnion]

No surprise, but you nailed it, Tim! I'd identified the method to be 
called, but was trying to figure out the syntax and where to use it. 
After teaching C programming at the University level for a few years, 
Java is certainly humbling me! Thanks for the assist!

Scott

Tim Bitson wrote:
> 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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