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WeatherCat => WeatherCat General Discussion => Topic started by: rcnz on December 09, 2012, 11:34:53 PM

Title: LaCrosse 2813 and Mac OS X 10.8.2: cannot "see" USB wireless dongle
Post by: rcnz on December 09, 2012, 11:34:53 PM
Greetings, All.

My first visit (nine days to go on WeatherCat trial, but can't get it to see data from my 2813).

I love what I see of WeatherCat (V1.0.2), and I'm keen to get it working properly on my MBP.

I'm running OS X 10.8.2 on a MacBook Pro.

I've downloaded the drivers I (think I) need, and (I hope) installed them via Terminal.

My USB device is not being seen in a WC Port Scan.

Here's the latest log (time gap due to restart after latest driver install attempt):


 10:26:38 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WeatherCat V1.02 Build 3. 19:44:09 Jul 11 2012 loading...
 10:26:38 PM 09-Dec-2012:  ***Unregistered Version**** 9 days of evaluation period left.
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Initialising data sub-system...
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Starting Stats...
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Initialising algorithms...
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Station Driver Manager loading...
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Loading station drivers.
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Loaded Davis Monitor/Wizard.
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Loaded Davis Vantage/Pro/Pro2/Vue/Envoy.
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Loaded WeatherHawk (Web).
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Loaded Davis WeatherLink I.P..
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Loaded WMR 928/968.
 10:26:40 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Loaded La Crosse WS23xx.
 10:26:41 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Finished loading station drivers.
 10:26:41 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Trying to connect to La Crosse WS23xx...
 10:27:03 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Davis Monitor driver initialising.
 10:27:03 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Davis Vantage driver initialising.
 10:27:03 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WeatherHawk driver initialising.
 10:27:03 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Davis WLIP driver initialising.
 10:27:03 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WMR968 driver initialising.
 10:27:03 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WS23xx driver initialising.
 10:56:38 PM 09-Dec-2012:  ***************************
 10:56:38 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Wunderground driver appears to have stopped. Restarting it.
 10:56:38 PM 09-Dec-2012:  ***Running with no weather station - data will not update but WeatherCat will otherwise run normally***
 10:56:38 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WeatherCat is running...
 10:56:48 PM 09-Dec-2012: 
 10:58:36 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Wunderground restarted.
 10:58:36 PM 09-Dec-2012:  ***************************
 11:00:29 PM 09-Dec-2012: 
 11:10:29 PM 09-Dec-2012: 
 11:14:20 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Looking for Davis Monitor/Wizard...
 11:14:22 PM 09-Dec-2012:  StationPlugInManager: Trying to connect to Davis Monitor/Wizard...
 11:14:28 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WeatherCat Plug-in Manager loading...
 11:14:29 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WeatherCatPlugInManager: Starting updates for Live Data View.
 11:14:29 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WeatherCatPlugInManager: Starting updates for Banner Generator.
 11:14:29 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Initialising custom graphs...
 11:14:29 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Launching imagery threads...
 11:14:29 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Current Conditions Calculator initialising.
 11:14:29 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Live Data plug-in initialising.
 11:14:29 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Banner Generator initialising.
 11:14:29 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WeatherCat server is starting - running on port 49251
 11:14:30 PM 09-Dec-2012:  ***Running with no weather station - data will not update but WeatherCat will otherwise run normally***
 11:14:30 PM 09-Dec-2012:  WeatherCat is running...
 11:14:37 PM 09-Dec-2012:  Checking for application updates...
 11:14:37 PM 09-Dec-2012:  No application updates found.
 11:14:40 PM 09-Dec-2012: 

Here's the /usr/local/lib ls:

$ ls
libcom.dylib         liblunar.dylib
libftd2xx.0.1.7.dylib      libusb-0.1.4.4.4.dylib
libftd2xx.dylib         libusb-0.1.4.dylib
libhid.0.0.0.dylib      libusb.a
libhid.0.dylib         libusb.dylib
libhid.0.dylib copy      libusb.la
libhid.a         libusbdll.dylib
libhid.dylib         libusbpp-0.1.4.4.4.dylib
libhid.la         libusbpp-0.1.4.dylib
libhid.la.0         libusbpp.a
libhid.so         libusbpp.dylib
libhid.so.0         libusbpp.la
libjack.dylib

and Desktop/D2XX/Samples:

$ ls
BitMode      LargeRead   Simple      WinTypes.h
EEPROM      Rules.make   Timeouts   ftd2xx.h
Events      SetVIDPID   W32      makefile

AKAIK, all files are where they're meant to be.

I'd be delighted if there is a more elegant set-up, but I couldn't find one, and this attempt has also failed.

I'm sure someone has conquered this issue, and would welcome any advice!

Thanks,

Robin..

Title: Re: LaCrosse 2813 and Mac OS X 10.8.2: cannot "see" USB wireless dongle
Post by: Randall75 on December 10, 2012, 12:53:25 AM
Hi Robin
 I believe your problem is that WC is not compatible  with 2800 series of the LaCrosse it is only compatible with e 2300 series I could be wrong but I don't know anyone running the 2800 series of the LaCrosse

Title: Re: LaCrosse 2813 and Mac OS X 10.8.2: cannot "see" USB wireless dongle
Post by: rcnz on December 10, 2012, 12:59:03 AM
Thanks, Randall.

I must have misread the model numbers: D'Oh!

I might examine the horror of trying the HW software via Fusion.

The 2813 is getting very bad press for impenetrable comms via their dongle - darn.

Appreciate the rapid reply!