Dear Wrongway,
Sorry, I just wrote a fairly detailed reply to your previous posting here:
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=406.msg3573;topicseen#msg3573. You have answered my key question about stations. Yes, WeatherCat supports all Davis hardware, so that is definitely an option.
As I have been a keen Mac user for the past 9 years and seeing WeatherCat I am interested in moving over. I have a Mac Mini sat doing nothing which I don't think would cost any more to run than the Zotac. I suppose it's a bit unfair asking, but I can't find any comparisons between Weather Display and WeatherCat.
There are not many folks here who have used Weather Display. However, we had one user from New Zealand try the Mac version of Weather Display. However, it appears that the Mac port of Weather Display wasn't well done - he was very disappointed with the performance. I don't know how the PC version of Weather Display would compare to WeatherCat. Perhaps someone else on the forum can comment on this.
I would like to hear any opinions preferably if anyone has experience of both. The WDL page gives a live view of my station that updates about every 15 seconds and is one of the features I like. I am not sure if I could do this with WeatherCat. Also can data I have collected over the last 18 months be imported.
There is a number of data import tools for WeatherCat, but I don't know if there is a path from Weather Display to WeatherCat. Again, perhaps another member of the forum can answer this one for you.
There's a possibility I could run both systems in parallel until I am sure as I also have a Vantage Vue console I use as a sort of slave display. I would need to buy another Davis interface for it unless anyone knows how to split the Vantage Pro output 2 ways!
That is correct. You would need a second data-logger. There is no way that I know about to split a data feed.
Hope this is helpful
cheers, Edouard