Topic: vp2 and weather display

[DFranklin58]

Hey ll again I am asking for advise I just got a new vp2 and serial logger from davis and I can auto check in weather link and it  sees it at com1 19200 but it still will not connect to wd both com lights are red .

Any ideas?

[jmcmurry]

Make sure you have quit WeatherLink when you try to connect with WD.  Only one can use that port at a time.  Otherwise, hopefully someone else will have an idea.

- Jim

[George Richardson]

"Any ideas?"

VirtualVP would have been the answer in the Good old days, but now you probably need to give more information about your various software packages. (I'm running WeatherLink 5.8.1 with VirtualVP 1.2.5.74 , Virtual Weather Station V14.00 p45 etc. on a WindowsXP machine.)

FWIW

George

[Beaudog]

Try connecting in tcp mode

[Garth Bock]

You might need to shutdown WL and reboot before running WD. I have had WL not release the comport properly. You can only have 1 program communicating with the serial port at a time. If you want to run more than one weather program then you need Virtual Vantage Pro. Currently I am running WD, WL, VWS, Aprs, and Cumulus on a Windows 7 box (Dell Optiplex 960) and the computer hardly runs hard at all.

[dalecoy]

.... serial logger from davis ..... both com lights are red ....

Are you sure it's a serial logger?  Where are those lights?

[jmcmurry]

Are you sure it's a serial logger?  Where are those lights?

I believe he's referring to the data quality and received lights in WD.

- Jim

[DFranklin58]

 data quality and received lights in WD yes what he said

[dalecoy]

data quality and received lights in WD yes what he said

Oh.  So, did you understand that you can only run ONE weather software program at a time? 

[DFranklin58]

Yes I can only run one item at  tat time on the com port

[dalecoy]

Yes I can only run one item at  tat time on the com port

So, did that solve your problem?

[DFranklin58]

No still broke . ok I have wd  10.37r build 260. vp2 weather station  davis . win 7 64bit ,weather link version 6.0.3. have changed every setting in the book and to no avail

[Aardvark]

Have you looked at this program? "http://www.softwx.com/weather/virtualvp.html"

I used it a while ago when I had an old computer in the basement and I had only the one console (I have fixed that adding 3 Envoys), but I was able to share one com port between Weatherlink and Weather Display.

It might be a solution for you and then again perhaps not. Something go consider.

[dalecoy]

No still broke . ok I have wd  10.37r build 260. vp2 weather station  davis . win 7 64bit ,weather link version 6.0.3. have changed every setting in the book and to no avail

Perhaps visiting the official WD forum would help - but if you get help, please come back here and post the result for future reference.

http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php

[DFranklin58]

Finally got it the problem was the wd version I installed the latest beta build 260 and it didn't install properly. reinstalled version 60 and then 260 worked fine

thanks for all the info

Don