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DSI-01 Serial Interface for Davis VP, VP2, Vue and Envoy availability
johnd:
OK, sorry I misunderstood. You were actually wondering whether the non-'Direct PC' firmware version might install (but presumably only to a console with recent enough firmware to support the Direct PC update)?
How would this work? You'd surely need some analogue of the 'Direct PC' packaging to feed the F/W to the console wouldn't you? But maybe I don't understand well enough how the F/W update process runs?
meteo.quimper:
Yes, i want to update a console with recent firmware (1.90) without the direct-pc firmware, because i can only translate the forecast (english -> french) in the FLASH.BIN file (direct modification inside the VP2_1_90.exe don't work)...
Ginny:
I just want to give a shout out that this DSI-01 Serial Interface is great. Works, easy, and saved me a ton of money.
I really wanted the Davis Vue for Christmas, but buying the data logger just put it over my husband's budget. I got this from SLOweather and it worked like a charm. Got the system up and running yesterday. Used an old laptop running XP and had a serial port. I can't say how pleased I am. Thanks SLOweather.
Ginny
JACK10562:
For those of you without a serial port, unless I'm mistaken, you should be able to incorporate an inexpensive serial to USB adapter for under $10(US)that will more than likely allow this solution to work very nicely with a 32 bit virtual serial port driver such as N8VB vCOM. For 32 or (64 bit unsigned) you could try com0com.
dogdad:
Ditto what Ginny and Jack10562 (and others) have said about the DS-01 itself, and it working with serial/USB converters.
My DS-01 worked perfectly right out of the box, and also thru a generic serial/USB converter. Sorry, but I can't find any info/name anywhere on the converter, and it just shows up as a 'Prolific" device in Device Manager. IIRC, the Prolific chip series seemed to be better than some other configurations, but don't quote me on that.
Kudos Chris!
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