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Hello, There are a couple ways to view precipitable water in McIDAS-V. Satellite Data Note that there are a variety of satellites that have some type of precipitable water product. The steps below describe how you can display this product from Level 2 GOES-R series data: From the Satellite -> Imager...

Hi Ghansham,

That page looks great and all of the functionality seems to be working well for me. Thanks for keeping us updated on the progress of this work!

Bob

Hello, That looks like the standard output I would expect to see when running a background script. It essentially returns all of your settings from the advanced preferences. A couple things: Can you specify the full path to your script in your runMcV command? for example: runMcV -script /Users/brian...

Hello, Your script is running fine on my Windows 10 machine. To get the Jython Shell to multi-line input mode you can either use Ctrl+/ or click the blue arrow button (circled in red in the image below): shell.png Let me know if you're able to run the script in the Shell and if there are any errors ...

Hello, A few questions and things to try: What version of McIDAS-V are you running? You can find this out in a foreground session by going to "Help > About McIDAS-V" in the Main Display window. It's been a few years since the last release of McIDAS-V (version 1.8), though we are planning t...

Hi Henry,

Great! I'm glad that you were able to get McIDAS-V running correctly.

Thanks for following up,
Bob

Hi Henry, I don't have a Ubuntu machine to test on my end, so I can't reproduce the problem here. Here are a few quick things you can try: I would make sure that your video/graphics drivers are up to date. This is generally the issue when there are display problems. Try starting McIDAS-V with the -t...

Hello, I believe the reason you're seeing the errors from mcservl (the local server process) is that you have McIDAS-V installed in the /root directory. We recommend that users install in their own user directory (as their own user, not an admin) so that there are no read/write permissions. However,...

Hello, There are a couple things I see wrong with your script when writing all of the rows to the CSV file. You should make a couple changes to line 100 in your script: with open('/home/conrado/mosaic/sat_data1.csv', 'w') as csv_out: You want to write to the same file that the header was written to ...

Hello, No worries. You specify your directory paths in lines 2 and 3 of the script. Note that this just points to a directory, not the actual filename. Here is how I have it set: # specify data and output directories dataDir = 'C:/Users/rcarp/conrado/data' outDir = 'C:/Users/rcarp/conrado/output' I'...