Hello all,
I've been searching the forum to get an answer to my problem, but couldn't find it.
So, let me describe my problem. I have about 10 Davis VP2 stations separatedly installed on several locations, where there is one PC with WeatherLink for each VP2 installed, serial port communication. Now I was thinking to make a network with all these stations, so only one PC with display from all stations at once. I would also like to remove those PCs on the locations. I have an option to put each station onto fiber-optics cable, so I'd have a configuration like this: "VP2 console ---> RS232/LAN converter ---> fiberoptics cable ---> LAN/RS232 converter ---> WeatherLink". With only one VP2 installed, there in no problem, working perfectly. I just have one software before Weatherlink to simulate virtual COM ports, so WeatherLink can read from whatever I want. But as I have 10 of VP2 stations, the only option for now is to have 10 WeatherLink softwares open at the same time where WeatherLink No.1 reads the data from VP2 No.2, etc. I've seen that there in WeatherLink is possible to add several stations into one WeatherLink, but only one can be working at once. I need to get the file "downld02.txt" from each stations to be able to import data into my existing weather station system.
I was also thinking in more robust way, lets say like listening to a virtual COM port with a script program or something and then convert that signal into data. But didn't get any good answer at the end.
I am looking for some thoughs and ideas how to work on this problem, I'd really appreciate any help!
Thank you,
Marko