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.
so far it seems to be only serial data logger users affected?
I do not actually know what has changed that would cause a problem
you would think using an older version it would be OK
but that does not seem to the case for you?
in any case, the debug info does provide good clues
namely that WD is getting out of sync
so try this update http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/weatherdisplaytest.zip