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WXTide Import Not Working 5 years 9 months ago #11790

  • Jeff2231
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Hi,

I've been trying to import WXTide into Reefmaster and having no luck.

Running Windows 10, I've manually downloaded and installed WXTide which seems to be working, but when I attempt to import I don't have an option to select a tide station.

I've attached a screenshot showing what I'm looking at, with the tide station I'd like to import (Botany Bay, Australia)

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Jeff.
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WXTide Import Not Working 5 years 9 months ago #11792

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@Jeff2231

Try putting Botany Bay in the Search box. You should be able to pick it up from there.

Cheers,
Meggs
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WXTide Import Not Working 5 years 9 months ago #11793

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If wxtide isn't running at all, and you are not getting a populated list of tide stations, then there are a couple of possibilities:

1. Check the install directory for wxtide, and in particular the name of the harmonics (TCD) file. Make sure there isn't a '~' in the filename, which happened sometimes when - for some reason - wxtide adhered to the old Windows 8.3 filename convention and the longer name of the harmonics file was abbreviated. If you do a "manual" install of wxtide (just download the zip, extract to a directory of your choice), this doesn't happen.

2. ReefMaster uses a temporary file when generating the tidestation list and also when extracting tide times. The process is that RM runs wxtide and has the output sent to a temp file. This file is then read and parsed for the necessary information, before being deleted. RM uses a Windows function to get your TEMP directory, but this is not guaranteed to exist or be writeable (although it is almost always both). Ensure that your TEMP path exists and is writeable. To find the TEMP path that Windows is using, open up a command prompt (Windows Run/cmd) and type "set"/Enter. You'll see a list of environment variables, including TEMP and TMP. Windows will use TMP first or, if that is not set, TEMP. Have a look at these environment variables and make sure that the directory they point to exists, and that you have permission to write to it.

Note: if your temp paths are not set up correctly you are also going to have a bad time exporting to AT5, as temporary files are required during this process also.
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WXTide Import Not Working 5 years 9 months ago #11795

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Thank you both.

I believe it was the second issue you posted Matt. While I don't know what it was that I did, I couldn't initially find any wxtide files in my temp folder, and after making a couple of changes it was there. I tried again and all of the tide stations appeared.

Cheers!

Jeff.
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