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harbour2929:
I own a WS-3600 weather station and have been having trouble trying to use the HeavyWeather software that came with it. My laptop has no serial port so I have purchased a Serial to USB digital device adapter to connect the weather station to my computer. Whenever I connect them there appears to be data downloading but every single time I have gotten the following message and the whole thing stops. No data is recorded and the program stops.
The message is:
Program Heavyweather.exe
Assertion Failed
File.\I2CDriver.cpp
Line 102
Expression: IsOpened()
Do you have any idea what is going wrong with my machine and or the setup of the Heavyweather program? Please help me to get this working properly.........
Many thanks in advance for your help and assistance.

ryan hothersall:
Have you tried using a different Serial to USB adapter. It is hit and miss which ones work.

wuhu_software:

The most reliable USB to serial adapter that I have used is:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812107906&Tpk=guc232a

The latest drivers from the IOGear site are required.

I was able to use WUHU with that adapter to talk to a WS-3610 but I do not recall if Heavyweather Pro worked with it.

The communications scheme used on the WS-36XX stations uses the handshake lines rather than normal serial communications. That being the case, the scheme requires 10x the number of interactions with the serial port (and in turn calls by the software).

If at all possible, use a computer that has a real serial port.

harbour2929:
Many thanks for your help. I'll get my hands one of the IOGear cables and see how I go...........
Regards............

harbour2929:
Hi folks,

Got my hands on the IoGear cable and when I connect the computer to the station the activity cable light comes on and the current weather stats come up in the Heavy Weather screen, BUT even though the program is indicating that the station is communicating with the computer no history is being transferred across. What am I missing here? Can anyone help me please? Also, I don't seem to have a history.dat file from installation. Is this file generated when the data is transferred? Thanks in advance for your help.........

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