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General Category => General Computing/Macintosh => Topic started by: wurzelmac on June 04, 2018, 01:42:07 PM

Title: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: wurzelmac on June 04, 2018, 01:42:07 PM
Hello all,
just want to tell you that I have brave done the update to 10.13.5 and do have no (NO) problems to report about the latest update of macOS and WeatherCat V301B5. By the way, have I ever told you folks that I am really loving WeatherCat?  ;D ;D ;D

(https://www.unterwurzacher.at/downloads/gauges.png)

Cheers, [biggrin]
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Blicj11 on June 04, 2018, 09:06:52 PM
Nicely done, sir. Thanks for the report.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Blicj11 on June 04, 2018, 09:10:05 PM
Is there a WeatherCatter out there who has a Fusion Drive that has upgraded to High Sierra? I would just like some assurance that doing so will not impose the new file format on my Fusion Drive before I make the move.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Felix on June 04, 2018, 11:12:46 PM
I'd been using the beta for quite some time as my profile indicated and had no problems directly attributable to 10.13.5. As Reinhard indicated, it's solid.


Can't help with your other question, Blick, I have an SSD and back-up to an SSD, both running APFS.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Blicj11 on June 05, 2018, 01:44:31 AM
Inspired by Reinhard (it used to be Steve who was the first WeatherCatter in the world to upgrade his hardware with new software, but he is now deep into retirement, camping, road trips across America, having fun, talking to his wife, etc.), I took the plunge about 3 hours ago and upgraded to macOS 10.13.5 from 10.12.6. It went flawlessly, my fusion drive is still happy, and so am I. Apple announced today in the Keynote that APFS will be supported on fusion drives beginning with Mojave, coming this fall.

By the way, WeatherCat 3.01 ran 38 days without interruption until I shut it down for the os upgrade. It has now been purring like a cat for 90 minutes on the new setup.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Weatheraardvark on June 05, 2018, 04:29:21 AM
Is there a WeatherCatter out there who has a Fusion Drive that has upgraded to High Sierra? I would just like some assurance that doing so will not impose the new file format on my Fusion Drive before I make the move.

I have a fusion drive and no problems.  I am still waiting for the AFS to come out for the fusion drives.  Right now they  are not.  So if you do update to High Sierra and have a fusion drive like  I do, it works fine. Kind of anti-climatic.     I have WC among other things and it works fine.

Do be aware, however.. that you need to know that 32 bit apps /programs are not going to necessarily work.  Apple is going the way of the 64 bit programs.  Yeah, a pain in the tush.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: tizza on June 05, 2018, 07:27:48 AM
Another 10.13.5 success, I'm beta testing at the moment so have been on it for a few weeks! Not one single problem.
WeatherCat 3.1
15? MBPr MID 2012, SSD 750GB, 16GB RAM, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7

SilLabs Driver Information: Version:5.0.4   Last Modified: 20/1/18, 4:43 am
Bundle ID:   com.silabs.driver.CP210xVCPDriver

What I have been having major problems with and have been meaning to ask about. Is this happening to anyone else with custom graphs? Have a quick look I don?t think this bit belongs in here
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: wurzelmac on June 05, 2018, 06:44:59 PM
Inspired by Reinhard ...

 ;D  [rockon]

Cheers,
Title: macOS 10.13.6
Post by: wurzelmac on July 18, 2018, 02:54:50 PM
Update: I am up on 10.13.6 - no problems to report about the latest OS and WeatherCat V302B20!  [tup]
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Blicj11 on July 18, 2018, 03:19:28 PM
Same here.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: cjp on July 18, 2018, 10:58:21 PM
Same here.

I, on the other hand, am having problems with MacOS 10.13.6 and Weathercat 2.4.4: Weathercat has frozen twice now.  Watchdog tries to restart, and I end up with two Weathercat icons in the taskbar, but no open windows; force quit indicates one active Weathercat "not responding".  I can kill it and restart, and it sticks again.  Kill it a second time and it restarts, opens the windows in "safe" mode, lets me shut down gracefully, at which point I can restart cleanly.   Other application running is Yummy FTP watcher (used to transfer images to (Wunderground), which also appears to be locking up.  Not sure which is cause and which is effect or if an interaction is the issue.  I will leave Weathercat running and Yummy off and see if Weathercat locks up on its own to try to answer that question.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Blicj11 on July 19, 2018, 02:12:53 AM
Welcome to the forum cjp. Not quite sure what is happening with you there, but WeatherCat 3 is a 64-bit application and has loads of improvements from 2.x.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: cjp on July 19, 2018, 02:53:13 AM
There is a new version?  Will investigate.  Thanks for the tip.  App said there is no new version.  Checked it carefully every time it restarted,  Probably an email in a junk folder somewhere...
Title: WeatherCat 2.x obsolete (Re: macOS 10.13.5)
Post by: elagache on July 19, 2018, 03:20:42 AM
Dear cjp, Blick and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

Let me also welcome you to the WeatherCat forum!  :)

I, on the other hand, am having problems with MacOS 10.13.6 and Weathercat 2.4.4: Weathercat has frozen twice now. 
. . . .

Unfortunately, you are pressing your luck trying to continue with WeatherCat 2.x and the latest version of macOS.  WeatherCat 2.x is no longer being actively supported and macOS is changing rapidly.  I think you need to choose between WeatherCat 3 or rolling back to an older version of macOS.

WeatherCat 3 is a paid upgrade, but has a 30 day demo mode.  You can learn more about it at this description page on the Trixology website:

https://trixology.com/weathercat/ (https://trixology.com/weathercat/)

Cheers, Edouard
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: cjp on July 19, 2018, 11:35:13 AM
So I upgraded last night to 3.0.1.  The new version also locked up under MacOS 10.3.6, running on its own.  Came to it this morning, and all the windows were gone, the icon was just the cat, not the temp, no network activity.  Force Quit and restarted.  Uploading historical right now, but I need some help here.  Where do I start?   Is there a log hiding somewhere I can ship someone?
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Randall75 on July 19, 2018, 11:04:14 PM
Hi cjp
 if you paid to up grade to WC3 download this it should help with the lock ups:https://trixology-eng.com/resources/downloads/WeatherCat302B20.zip (https://trixology-eng.com/resources/downloads/WeatherCat302B20.zip)

cheers
Title: 3.0.2 should also work in demo mode (Re: macOS 10.13.5)
Post by: elagache on July 20, 2018, 12:13:41 AM
Dear Randall, cjp, and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

if you paid to up grade to WC3 download this it should help with the lock ups:https://trixology-eng.com/resources/downloads/WeatherCat302B20.zip (https://trixology-eng.com/resources/downloads/WeatherCat302B20.zip)

The WeatherCat 3.0.2 beta should also work in demo mode, so you can try it out to see if that solves your problem.

If it does, then you are suffering from the same problem described in this thread:

http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2754.0 (http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2754.0)

Unfortunately, it doesn't effect all Mac models which makes it that much more difficult to troubleshoot.

Let us know what you discover.

Cheers, Edouard
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: cjp on July 22, 2018, 06:41:05 PM
I am running on an elderly MacBook Air - Late 2010, but with latest version of High Sierra, which is when all this kerfuffle started.

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:   MacBook Air
  Model Identifier:   MacBookAir3,2
  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:   2.13 GHz
  Number of Processors:   1
  Total Number of Cores:   2
  L2 Cache:   6 MB
  Memory:   4 GB
  Boot ROM Version:   MBA31.0069.B00
  SMC Version (system):   1.66f61

Per hints from everyone (for which many thanks), I confirmed AppNap is disabled in system prreferences, I have installed and subscribed to 3.0.1, I entered codes and WeatherCat ran fine from Thursday after I did all that until this morning at 8:46 EST when it had another seizure.   I had logged in at that time to check for updates from Microsoft as I have Office installed and another Mac needed some updates (this one did not need updates), so I moved on to the next one.  I generally lock my machines with Ctrl/Cmd/Q when I walk away and am sure I did that around 8:46 AM.  Just now, I noticed there were no updates to my station, so I logged back in at 1:00 pm and that act seems to have woken it up without a force quit this time around.  I was able to grab the log file from the UI which I happened to have open and have attached that.  There was no activity from 8:46 am until 1 pm when it seems to have retried ftp multiple times and then stabilized itself and come back to life.

Should I try the 3.0.2 beta?  Where would I find that?

  cjp
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: wurzelmac on July 22, 2018, 07:43:38 PM
Should I try the 3.0.2 beta?  Where would I find that?

Randall - two posts above - did show show you the way!  :)
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: cjp on July 22, 2018, 08:58:46 PM
Forgive me: I see it now...  thanks. 
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: Blicj11 on July 23, 2018, 04:15:58 PM
Not locking the screen (disabling requiring for a password to unlock) is the workaround for what you are experiencing cjp. Or, if that is not acceptable, download and install from the link provided by Randall. I have done both when I am home. When I have to travel, I go back to locking the screen, and then remote in once a day.
Title: Re: macOS 10.13.5
Post by: wurzelmac on July 23, 2018, 04:39:46 PM
Forgive me: I see it now...  thanks.

Forgiven...   [cheers1]

 ThU5:-)