Tonight, I updated WD,to the latest build 58. Since then, WD was working fine. Before the upgrade, I had yesterday’s build 58 installed, with no problems.
After the update, I noticed that although both data reading square leds seem to work normally (data quality is always green and data received is flashing green), but the counter counts some packets in the beginning and then, stops counting! I also noticed that WD freezes for more time every five minutes that is programmed to update the webpage.
WD stops updating log and data files and of course the program interface. After a while, the temperature field turns blank. During program startup, it reads all the data stored in the datalogger normally.
I use Virtual Vantage Pro because I run Weatherlink simultaneously. I use this configuration for many years now without any problems so far! WL runs without any problems.
I rolled back to build 57 with no success. WD is my main program, so I 've got a serious problem!
I’ve noticed that the packets stop counting when WD completes the first minute after startup and refreshes the current conditions icon!
At this moment, WD refresh the screen and pauses for on or two seconds. I hope that this will lead you to an explanation about where the problem comes from!
I rolled back to that build (57) but the problem remains.
My last chance to recover (hopefully), is to restore my system this evening from a system backup, taken yesterday at 22:00 o’clock,
before I did the WD 58 build update, that probably caused these problems.
I’ll let you know Brian, but if you have any other tip to check, please let me know.
I am not able to duplicate any problem here with your settings and my spare VP console (USB data logger)
from watching your video, the data received light flashes but WD does not like the data that is arriving
you can set WD to show some debug info:
setup, advanced/misc , tick to log the raw data
Well Brian, here’s a file with some debug info attached.
I restored my system using yesterday’s system backup with no result! :roll:
I’m almost convinced that there’s something going wrong with the communication of WD with the datalogger through the serial port!
I changed the hardware(console and datalogger) with new one that I’ve bought lately. The problem remains the same with that too!
So, VP2 hardware is ok.
The one million question is, why WeatherLink is working all the time flawlessly together with virtual or physical COM ports while WD does not?
I am using WD for the last 12 years, in the beginning directly to a physical COM port and after some time when VVP was released, through virtual serial ports without any problems!
The usb datalogger you have, probably isn’t affected by this issue!
Brian, my system and all the work I’ve done is based on WD and now looks useless! I’m almost desperate! Only you can help! I’m willing to run any test you think it should ran!
The dedicated PC where I run all weather software, is working 24/7 for the last two years without any issues. Nothing has changed in hardware since it was built.
I see that some other users have got similar problems with the serial communication.