Hi all. All week has now gone by since installing the serial data logger without one glitch let alone a crash. So to anyone out there contemplating buying a Davis VP system, follow Brian’s advise and order a serial data logger. It will save an awful lot of time & head scratching.
I must be one of the lucky ones. I have and use a USB logger. For two years now it has been running without a single lockup. And it has been on two different computers.
I went with a USB logger and its been running since about 12/25. My machine randomly looses connection (2x today). I ordered WL-IP so I hope I am able to stay connected once I set it up.
Just to make it clear because this is a long thread now, you previously had problems with the USB and swapped to Serial - is that right?
Yes, I had all sorts of problems with the USB data logger (see earlier on in this thread) but since swapping to a serial data logger I have not had any problems of any type. :lol:
I’m running a Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus wireless system with a USB Weather Envoy data logger. The fix I found was to use the VirtualVP software from SoftWx (http://www.softwx.com/) it will monitor the Davis USB port and reset it if it stops responding. I’m not sure why Davis can’t do the same with their software but Steve at SoftWx can and has. I also run a “WxPC G” microcomputer, from SoftWx, as the weather station computer (WinXP Home). It runs an 8-gig CF card as the main hard drive. I’ve been live (24/7 unattended) for a week or two and the system is still on line and running. The log indicates that the USB has been reset once or twice, but the station is as solid as a rock and uses only a few watts of power to operate. Stuart DW0581
I have used the USB logger on a winxp64 and server 2008 64bit system it worked fine, the problem I ran into was other software is not compatible. Specifically, the N8VBvCOM driver so that made VirtualVP and VPlive unusable.
But if your just using Weather Display it should be fine just grab the latest drivers from Silabs. This version also supports windows 7.
P210x Windows Driver v5.4.24 Release Notes
Copyright (C) 2009 Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
If one is using VPlive with WeatherDisplay, do they interface together as in WeatherLink or does VPlive just monitor the port independantly of WeatherDisplay?
I haven’t got my Davis yet, but am trying to figure out how to set it up when it arrives if I am stuck with the USB data logger I’ve received.
VirtualVP allows you to run WD and WeatherLink at the same time.
Normally the datalogger will only allow you download the data into one program, otherwise you get conflicts with two programs asking for the same data at the same time. VVP downloads the data from the Davis and then distributes it to the other software like WD and Weatherlink.
I know VirtualVP does that. I’m not interested in running the WeatherLink software, only VPlive which solves the USB dropping out problem. I was asking about the interaction between VPlive and WD and whether they need to be linked. In the instructions of VPlive it makes reference to linking it to Weatherlink.