I have a couple of strange things -
1. It appears that my local IP address for WiFiLogger has changed. Now when I use 192.168.0.25 (which has been the IP) it asks for user name and password and is for a different device on my network. I have tried all IPs from 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.40 and have not found the correct one for WiFiLogger.
Any suggestion on how I can connect to the WiFiLogger settings, etc?
Paul
There are two possibilities. One is that you have assigned a fixed IP address to the Logger in its own setup, but the network's DHCP server (which, of course, has no way of knowing this!) has now assigned that address to another device. Alternatively, you may simply be allowing the DHCP server, which is usually associated with the router, to assign the WiFiLogger's address 'at random' rather than specifying (preferably in the router's control panel rather than on the Logger itself!) a fixed address.
Assuming the latter, if you login to the router's control panel (usually at 192.168.n.1, where n is zero for your network), you should be able to see what address is assigned to the Logger and to specify an address for it to use in future. If you then reboot the router and the Logger (in that order), it should continue to use the address you have set for the future.
If you originally set the fixed address 'locally' on the Logger, and the router now has something else at that address, as well, the easiest solution is likely to be to disconnect the 'interfering' device, and reboot the router and Logger, when you should be able to access it again. When you can do this, set the logger back to its default of getting its IP address from the router and proceed as above to specify a fixed address for it in the router's control panel.
Thats right. You can have two devices with same IP address. That makes a lot of problems. When you trying to log to this IP, then once you have luck to log to first one, then after a few sec. you are connected to second.
Example. You have log to WFL web page, but when you trying to save some settings those can be send to second device with same IP address.
Routers have very nice feature called DHCP. This service server IP addresses to devices when those are being connected.
Without that you should write all network settings manually. IP, netmask, gateway, dns.
You have to check DHCP range and for static IP you should use addresses beyond range.
I have a couple of strange things -
1. It appears that my local IP address for WiFiLogger has changed. Now when I use 192.168.0.25 (which has been the IP) it asks for user name and password and is for a different device on my network. I have tried all IPs from 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.40 and have not found the correct one for WiFiLogger.
Any suggestion on how I can connect to the WiFiLogger settings, etc?
Paul
There are two possibilities. One is that you have assigned a fixed IP address to the Logger in its own setup, but the network's DHCP server (which, of course, has no way of knowing this!) has now assigned that address to another device. Alternatively, you may simply be allowing the DHCP server, which is usually associated with the router, to assign the WiFiLogger's address 'at random' rather than specifying (preferably in the router's control panel rather than on the Logger itself!) a fixed address.
Assuming the latter, if you login to the router's control panel (usually at 192.168.n.1, where n is zero for your network), you should be able to see what address is assigned to the Logger and to specify an address for it to use in future. If you then reboot the router and the Logger (in that order), it should continue to use the address you have set for the future.
If you originally set the fixed address 'locally' on the Logger, and the router now has something else at that address, as well, the easiest solution is likely to be to disconnect the 'interfering' device, and reboot the router and Logger, when you should be able to access it again. When you can do this, set the logger back to its default of getting its IP address from the router and proceed as above to specify a fixed address for it in the router's control panel.
Thats right. You can have two devices with same IP address. That makes a lot of problems. When you trying to log to this IP, then once you have luck to log to first one, then after a few sec. you are connected to second.
Example. You have log to WFL web page, but when you trying to save some settings those can be send to second device with same IP address.
Routers have very nice feature called DHCP. This service server IP addresses to devices when those are being connected.
Without that you should write all network settings manually. IP, netmask, gateway, dns.
You have to check DHCP range and for static IP you should use addresses beyond range.
Back to the same problem. I had pressed WiFiLogger red button and no change. I did a complete shut down and power off of the Modem/Router and then got WiFiLigger back to 192.168.0.25 so all was good then.
During the time that I could not find WiFiLogger IP the WU updates were occurring mostly at the 5 min interval and occasionally at a bit longer. However all the other uploads, PWS, WL, CWOP were only updating with most times hours in between. When it was back at 192.168.0.25 all the updates were occurring again at the 5 min interval.
Then yesterday, as Wojtek had cautioned, the IP address changed again and can't find/access WiFiLogger and the uploads are again hours apart except WU updates which continue at the 5 min interval or close to it.
I really don't understand DHCP and static or fixed or other IP setting, nor most of the Hitron modem setting options. WiFiLogger had just been working perfect for months until this started over the past week. I have periodically gone in the modem/router settings and looked at the IP address for the various devices and have seen MAC address to be usually consistent but the IP addresses, at least the ones that show, to vary often except two: my weather computer is always at .13 and my Blitzortung is at .16. I think I had some guidance in the past from somewhere where to set the computer fixed IP and also from the Blitzortung assistance.
I likely can get WiFiLogger back to a known IP by re-powering the modem/router but expect it would change later on. So exactly how/where could I set a fixed IP for WiFiLogger? I have looked in settings but can't see where/how to do that.
Also what could be the reason that WU
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IMIDDLES37 continues to be updated but others like PWS
http://www.pwsweather.com/obs/KOMOKA2.html and CWOP
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=FW2530 only occasionally.
Thanks for any further help,
Paul