Thanks for the comments and the votes. Paul you are correct, I never looked at my os console, maybe its the new car smell effect, but I do check out the vp2 console quite a bit, it was helpfull in determining that a wind spike i noticed was not the unit. I have been poking around, and for the $65 difference, not sure its worth nothing being able to "see" what's going on with envoy issues.
So I put a new console on my xmas list. It was near the bottom, one of those, if you really need to spend another $300 ones....
Thanks,
Andrew