DeKay:
I've owned a Vantage Pro 2 since early 2005. Several years ago, I bought and tried the WeatherLink Data Logger. I wasn't impressed -- over priced, over promised, under delivered and clunky. I returned it and told them why, but got no response other than my money back.
I've gotten that itch to have my own real-time weather database again, so thought Davis must have improved on their data logger and software by now. Not ! Unfortunately, Davis is just milking the same old product with only minor adjustments over the intervening years since I last tried it.
For the rest of the world, technology has marched forward at warp speed. I'm a bit of a geek and a hardcore DIYer. I learned how to hack my DirecTivo and my cell phone, so thought maybe I'd see if there was info on the web to do something similar with my weather station. I've been searching to see if some enterprising soul had finally figured out how to build and set up a link from a Vantage Pro 2 console to a PC without using a WeatherLink Data Logger. This led me to this forum and your blog.
I've been reading your posts on this topic and have learned a lot from them. Thank you for sharing your technical knowledge and being such a clear and entertaining writer on a subject that would normally put people to sleep ! As I'm working my way through your posts from the beginning, I've noticed that some of the document links you provide, especially those to davisnet.com, now return "Page Not Found" errors. I couldn't find where anyone else had noted this, but thought you might want to know.