...and if Davis made it easier to upgrade their firmware, I'd love to get in to their .bin file. Alas.
Thank you for taking a look to see if you can modify the LOOP mode. I'd be thrilled to use this as a test bed! \ Granted, it's a problem that exactly one other person might ever have, but for experimental purposes, it's interesting. Cheers, -Chris On Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 2:39:06 PM UTC-4, Tom Keffer wrote: > > Good to know that it's a Davis firmware problem. > > I guess one option would be to modify the driver so it takes it out of > LOOP mode every 20 seconds or so to give the VP a chance to do whatever it > needs to do. > > Let me see if that's an easy patch. > > -tk > > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:31 AM, RedShoeRider <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> Hey Tom: >>> >> >> Having a day off makes this sort of stuff go a lot faster. >> >> I just got off the phone with Davis tech support. Their answer: Yes, the >> original VantagePro does support continuous LOOP queries. >> They have heard of this particular problem, though not with Weewx, but >> with their software. It's, apparently, a problem with the I/O in the >> VantagePro itself when the logger is reporting data, and they used to >> repair that problem. But, because it's an original Vantage, they don't >> service them anymore, so I'm stuck. >> Looks like an eBay unit is the path forward, though there's no guarantee >> that it will work any better than the one that I have. >> >> My sincere thanks for your help! >> -Chris >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
