Good news

trying to also get OSX installed into a virtual box on my windows pc
not easy
but I think I will get there
then will be much easier to suppport the Mac version of WD :wink:

I got OSX running in virtual box and I was able to deploy WD mac to that, so really cool
having trouble getting OSX to grab the davis USB though (I have added it as a filter)

I’m curious how you installed the OSX into a VirtualBox… :wink:

google :slight_smile:

OK, have made progress with the usb on osx on virtual box (OSX 10.11)
it turned out it was wincap
I un installed that
now the hardware (the Davis USB Uart bridge) shows up in OSX hardware
but the davis silicon labs driver (latest version) is not picking it up

googling, there might be a problem with OSX 10.11
I cant seem to update to 10.16 (problem with identifying the mac, probably because its running in virtual box)

I have been able to compile consolewd for linux or 64 bit now (using my virtual box)
one problem is that I cant seem to get the usb for the davis station driver mounted
(similar problem to on OSX I have)

so though need someone with a proper linux 64 box to test

actually it is working, the usb port, on linux
I forgot i needed to run consolewd as sudo :slight_smile:


64 bit version of consoledwd now available
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/consolewd64desktop.tar.gz

Now I want to create a new gui version of WD for linux (64 bit) :slight_smile:

and I have been able to get data from my Davis station into a simple GUI program running on the virtual box in linux via the updated compiler :slight_smile:

This is great news! :slight_smile:

Excellent work Brian.

Super work as always Brian :smiley:
Keep up the good spirit, cant live without WD :lol:
Any aprox time this or next year weather display and all its uploads/dowloads programs will be availible in 64 bit Windows version ?

the problem with 64 bit windows is I would need to remove any references to asm (machine code compiled code)
which means no more WDL built into WD and issues with animated gifs etc

there is no real advantage for 64 bit
only usefull for heavy graphics use
some of the cron programs I could try compile though as 64 bit, e.g that use alot of graphics/memory
e.g moviemaker

Hi Brian,

Whats the advantage of 64 bit cron programs?
(Im running x64 Windows 10)

I thought I had already explained that
also the programs I can only compile to 64 bit if there is also a 64 bit version of any dll that is used (not always the case)

Ok thanks for the reply.

Am making progress to being able to have a
Version like the Mac version for Linux desktop 64 bit

I now have the WD Mac version running on linux
still some things to sort out


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Sounds good Brian. Thanks for the effort to keep improving the mac and linux versions!

by working on the new Linux version, have been able to also improve the Mac version
I have the linux version updating to wunderground in testing now :slight_smile:
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IAUCKLAN550#history

screen shot of linux version :slight_smile:
big improvement over original linux version