Knocking the baud down to 9600 seems to have resolved whatever was causing 
those CRC issues.  Looks like it's adding records.

Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: vantage: Getting all archive packets
Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: vantage: gentle wake up of console 
successful
Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: vantage: Retrieving 11 page(s); 
starting index= 0
Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: manager: added record 2016-01-07 
16:30:00 EST (1452202200) to database 'weewx.sdb'
Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: manager: added record 2016-01-07 
16:30:00 EST (1452202200) to daily summary in 'weewx
.sdb'
Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: manager: added record 2016-01-07 
17:00:00 EST (1452204000) to database 'weewx.sdb'
Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: manager: added record 2016-01-07 
17:00:00 EST (1452204000) to daily summary in 'weewx
.sdb'
Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: manager: added record 2016-01-07 
17:30:00 EST (1452205800) to database 'weewx.sdb'
Jan  8 17:54:07 MYSERVER weewx[1155]: manager: added record 2016-01-07 
17:30:00 EST (1452205800) to daily summary in 'weewx
.sdb'

and so on.

Well, interesting I suppose!  Glad it's working!  :)

On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 11:30:16 AM UTC-5, Jared wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Just curious if anyone else has a similar setup and could offer some 
> pointers.
>
> My first weather station was an Acurite 5-in-1 hooked into the 
> WeatherDisplay software.  Both pieces had their issues, and the Acurite 
> kept breaking, so now I've got a new Davis Vantage Vue with USB WeatherLink 
> device and I want to try out WeeWX.  I don't have a dedicated server for 
> this, but I do have an Ubuntu VM which is up full time.  The host is 
> running Windows 10 x64 version 1607, and it has correctly identified the 
> USB device as a "Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM3)".  The 
> console is set to output at 19200 baud, and the Davis WeatherLink software 
> on the host sees the Vantage Vue console in serial mode on COM3 at 19200 
> baud.  So it's communicating on the Windows 10 host and serial seems to be 
> working.
>
> The VM is running Ubuntu Server 14.04.4 on VirtualBox.  I have the Serial 
> Port specified as a "Host Device" on COM3, IRQ 4, I/O Port 0x3E8.  The port 
> seems to be there and configured correctly, but I'm not sure data is 
> flowing.
>
> *setserial -a /dev/ttyS2*
> returns:
>
> /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
>   Baud_base: 19200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>   closing_wait: 3000
>   Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
> weewx.conf is configured to use /dev/ttyS2 at 19200, but /var/log/syslog 
> shows (this is with debug =1 in weewx.conf):
>
> Jan  8 10:44:18 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: vantage: driver version is 3.0.9
> Jan  8 10:44:18 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: vantage: Opened up serial port 
> /dev/ttyS2; baud 19200; timeout 4.00
> Jan  8 10:44:22 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: vantage: retry  #0 failed
> Jan  8 10:44:26 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: vantage: retry  #1 failed
> Jan  8 10:44:30 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: vantage: retry  #2 failed
> Jan  8 10:44:34 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: vantage: retry  #3 failed
> Jan  8 10:44:34 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: vantage: Unable to wake up console
> Jan  8 10:44:34 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: import of driver failed: Unable to 
> wake up Vantage console (<class 'weewx.WakeupError'>)
> Jan  8 10:44:34 MYSERVER weewx[1128]: engine: Unable to load driver: 
> Unable to wake up Vantage console
> Jan  8 10:44:34 MYSERVER weewx[1128]:     ****  Exiting...
>
> Articles I've read said you should be able to use a command like *minicom 
> -b 19200 -D /dev/ttyS2* or *screen /dev/ttyS2 19200* and send a TEST 
> string to the serial port and it should return TEST back.  That's not 
> happening in my case, so I think either the port is not configured 
> correctly, or this test is invalid for some reason (i.e., maybe that's not 
> how the Vue console connection works?).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>

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