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WeatherCat => WeatherCat General Discussion => Topic started by: Naby on January 06, 2019, 09:41:43 PM

Title: WeatherCat with Two Weather Stations?
Post by: Naby on January 06, 2019, 09:41:43 PM

I have a Vantage Pro2 and my dad just gifted me his old Vantage Vue. Can I run two instances of WeatherCat or is there a way WeatherCat supports two weather stations?

Thanks,
Chris

Title: I don't think USB driver will allow this. (Re: Two Weather Stations?)
Post by: elagache on January 06, 2019, 11:01:37 PM

Dear Chris and WeatherCat station owners who's cup runneth over,

Quote from: Naby on January 06, 2019, 09:41:43 PM

I have a Vantage Pro2 and my dad just gifted me his old Vantage Vue. Can I run two instances of WeatherCat or is there a way WeatherCat supports two weather stations?

WeatherCat wasn't designed to connect to more than one weather station at a time.  It is possible to run WeatherCat under different Apple (UNIX) users and that might work.  However, because these are two Davis stations there is a more fundamental problem.  If both have USB data loggers, the Silicon labs driver won't support more than one device.  I'm not entirely sure of this, but I do believe it to be the case  ( . . . . . . comments peanut gallery?? . . . )

If you are determined there is still one possible way, but it involves changing the data logger in one of the two stations.  If one of the Davis stations has the IP data logger instead of the USB data logger, then one WeatherCat process could run under one user connecting to the USB logger and the other WeatherCat process could run under the other user connecting to the IP data logger.  Since WeatherCat stores its data in the Library folder of a given user, each data would be completely independent.

WeatherCat wasn't designed to run in the background, but I believe some WeatherCatters have managed to make more than one WeatherCat process run on the same computer using the quick user switching feature of macOS.

If you decide to try to make 2 weather stations work on a single Mac, this please do let us know how it turns out!

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

Title: Re: WeatherCat with Two Weather Stations?
Post by: pbeaudet on January 06, 2019, 11:32:04 PM

I think it would be far easier and less trouble prone to add a headless Mac Mini to you setup. I am using an inexpensive 2012 model.

Title: Re: WeatherCat with Two Weather Stations?
Post by: Blicj11 on January 07, 2019, 06:17:19 PM

I'm running two Davis consoles, but both are connected to the same ISS and only one feeds data to WC. I'm doing this just because I can. When I bought my VP2Plus I had Davis refurb by old VP and I was just storing it for an emergency in case eejits stole my VP2 like happened to Herb. One day I pulled out the old console and connected it so I didn't have to run to my computer to look at the weather. This was pre-iOS app.

Let us know if you figure this out, Naby.

Title: Re: WeatherCat with Two Weather Stations?
Post by: Naby on January 07, 2019, 08:25:40 PM

Thanks. I have a PC also so I may just run some other software on it and be done with it.

Chris