Topic: USb to Serial

[tonyva]

Hi

I have upgraded to a HP computer running Windows 7 32 bit. The HP does not have a serial port so I purchased a USB to Serial cable which uses the FTDI driver.

Windows installs the driver fine and assigns com 3, but when I run weatherlink it will not detect the port. I have changed the port to 8 through to 12 but is still not detected by weatherlink.

I have a Davis Vantage Pro 6162c cabled station.

I upgraded the computer to Windows 10 but had the same result.

Has anyone had similar problems and managed to solve it?

Thanks

[dalecoy]

Have you considered that there might be a problem with the adapter?  What's the brand name, and where did you purchase it?

[tonyva]

The brand is Sabrent and I purchased it from a reputable online supplier.

Thanks

[ValentineWeather]

I would say call Davis directly, but see you're international. Try emails and also search the forum about windows 10 connection issues.

[Bushman]

Sabrent stuff has always worked for me.  I'd bet the Win10 driver is behind this.

[tonyva]

Hi

It did not work for Windows 7 either, the driver loads fine, there are no errors but weatherlink cannot find the com port. 

I will email Davis as suggested.

Thanks

[dalecoy]

Have you tried it with the loopback connector (instead of the logger)?