Author Topic: Weather Link 5.91 may be needed if you use USB datalogger and Virtual Com Ports  (Read 15235 times)

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Offline Mark / Ohio

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I haven't tried the latest Virtual VP or the NEW WeatherLink beta but I couldn't get the original 5.90 or 5.91 to run worth a darn here!

Same here.  I tried it again with the latest VirtualVP on my laptop as a test before doing it on the weather computer.  Still had a ton of "Error reading data from the station" messages compared to before.  With 5.83 I was getting maybe 1-2 of the errors every 24 downloads (22-23 successful out of 24 attempts) .  But with 5.90 no downloads would work and with 5.91 I would get around 18 errors per 24 downloads (6 successful out of 24 attempts).
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Offline Weather Display

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seems davis made some big changes with comm time outs or similar, for the worse?
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Leaves one wondering what their objective was for making the changes.  If it was in attempt to make USB loggers more stable they in the end just shuffled around the problems in some cases to those that were not having problem.
Mark 
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Offline Cienega32

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I didn't try it as a stand-alone so it really makes you wonder... if you're using VVP. My USB logger has never had a comm problem to the extent that others have had.

I wouldn't have noticed the problem if I wasn't busy trying to get WD to reflect the METAR conditions during my snowfall event. I happened to notice my WLink profiles that update every minute were lagging for 5 minutes or so and things weren't updating normally on that site. I rarely check the logs as long as the site updates. Seeing that WD raised my error counts thru the roof got me real curious but even running Wlink alone with VVP gave me a few errors.

I used to roll the WLink updates right into use but not anymore and I doubt I'll ever get rid of either WLink or WD so 5.8.3 it'll be for me.

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We just had our first significant rain event in my area, southern California, and I noticed that the APRS data was not sending rain for the last hour - only daily accumulating rain amounts. This used to work. You can see the plot here:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?CW7445 It is the red line on the plot. The blue line is the accumulated. If anyone knows why the 5.91 upgrade of WL or firmware upgrade to 1.82 would cause this, please let me know.  Thanks!
Tom Halderman

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I tried WL 5.9.0 and had the same problem (UNABLE TO READ STATION DATA) for about 50% of the uploads. Then I tried the WL 5.9.1 Beta and it seemed to solve that problem but was not uploading the 1 hour and 24 hour rainfall. Went back to WL 5.8.3 and have had no Problems.

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Does anybody know where I can get the 5.8 version so I can stop pulling my hair out  ](*,)  I don't have a lot to lose  :-P
Bobby M.
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Here Ya go:  http://toolbox.davisnet.com/downloads/Weather/software/Weatherlink%205.8.3a_install/

There's an upgrade and full install available here.

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Big D!

Thank you VERY much !!  =D> I'll give it a try as soon as I get home.

Bobby M.
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Offline Colgarv

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Found a link to Weather Link 5.91 full executable and update at http://toolbox.davisnet.com/downloads/Weather/software/wl_5_9_1_beta/

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That's the one I mentioned that I overwrote with 5.8.3

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