Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Datalogger files erased, feeds resume

Following the April 12th - 19th Docomo outage, some of the datalogger's data tables stopped syncing properly.  I made a few attempts to work around the problem by connecting (via the cellular modem) to the station with the LoggerNet software, but eventually I decided to cut our losses and reformat the logger's memory card to resume full data collection as soon as possible.

All available data files were downloaded from the logger on April 24th, then the memory card was formatted.  After that, all data functions (storage and retrieval) returned to normal.

The data table most affected by this problem was the "6 minute" table.  Those data are available from March 20th (reinstallation) to April 12th (Docomo outage), and from April 24th (reformatting) onwards.

With the 6-minute data table operating normally again, our data feeds to PacIOOS and NDBC have resumed.

Mike J+