I think we can say with some confidence that there is something wrong with the UART chip on your new computer. Can you take it back?
Alternatively, as Vince says, a serial-to-usb converter. They seem to be more reliable these days. -tk On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 8:47 PM kiwigander <[email protected]> wrote: > Ta. The prevalent RS232<=>USB chipset around these parts seems to be an > FTDI. I'll look around. > > On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 4:19:32 PM UTC+13 vince wrote: > >> I was hoping to avoid USB<=>RS232 converters, as I understood they were >>> problematic (in the past) and would add another thing-to-go-wrong. I have >>> one other old device to monitor and it too has only an RS232 interface. >>> Thought I'd be clever and get a low power box with two RS232 ports. >>> >> >> FWIW, i've been running a VP2 with serial datalogger and a serial2usb >> dongle for something like 10 years now. I started with a Shuttle mini-pc >> that had serial ports and switched to a little arm box that just has USB. >> Never had an issue with the serial2usb from day one. Works great. >> >> You basically just want to make sure you get the right chipset in the >> adaptor. Anything with the PL2303 definitely works. Both mine have that >> chipset, and they were picked up years apart from different suppliers, so >> they used to be pretty much what you always got. I haven't looked in years >> to know if that's still the case. >> >> I'm running on a Seagate Dockstar (a 128MB RAM version of the original >> PogoPlug) with a Seagate laptop drive plugged in, and you can see the >> serial adaptor available in the lsusb output below. >> >> root@debian:~# lsusb >> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB >> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub >> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bc2:2120 Seagate RSS LLC >> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial >> Port >> >> > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d7e49691-043f-4f6c-a998-dd91c3eaa34an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d7e49691-043f-4f6c-a998-dd91c3eaa34an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zED0avzG%2Bjhcgxw7iaSooFYukHj85HN%3DFKAZoiHs0SYtwg%40mail.gmail.com.
