Dear Blick and fellow WeatherCatters,   

As this forum becomes read only this weekend, I want to thank all of you, fellow WeatherCatters, for your questions, answers, and contributions on the forum. I appreciate all I have learned here over the years. I am especially grateful for the "old timers" who came here from LWC. Specifically, Stu, Edouard, Steve, and Reinhard have bailed me out many times. Thanks to a all of you.

Thank you very much for your heartfelt words!

I too would like to very much thank Stu for all his labors!  What was very much a labor of love has increasingly become a herculean task as a result of a myopic attitude to be found in so many places.  Let us all hope for a brighter future even there doesn't seem to be anything but dark clouds at the moment.

Edouard

Sure, I'm assuming your smorris id is the one on WXForum.net.

Oh, yea, sorry. That used to be my username here, too, so I forgot it was changed. Thanks!

Sure, I'm assuming your smorris id is the one on WXForum.net.

Just after I updated my Mac several months ago to 15.3.1 my 24" Mac stopped receiving console data. I didn't really equate it with the update happening until about eight hours of trying to resolve the issue. I went through all the steps to numerous to recount here and even purchased a newer logger on eBay - still NADA. I have two other Macs and I installed the software/and files on them and NADA on those computer too no data transfer – BTW all were at 15.3.1. I  I called Davis and told them what I went through and all the steps they mentioned that  I had done. I said could it be just a problem with the console and the rep agreed ultimately had to be the console - although my console was receiving data. So I purchased new console on eBay which looked almost new. But last night before the console was due to arrive today I updated my Mac to 15.3.2 and went to bed. Today, the new console came and I went to hook it up and what do I find – WeatherCat is up and running on my computer from my old console (with a eBay logger in it. I happened to look at the WeatherCat gauges yesterday morning, and they were allshoing no data. Now they are all showing data. My conclusion is has to be something that the update fixed. But I'm just curious if anybody else had this issue. I'm still not 100% sure that the update was the fix it but that's what I'm going with for now

The other thing I noticed about the new console when I installed my old logger in it and powered it up was that on the screen was the message INCOMPAT LOG at the bottom of the screen. I assume it must mean "incompatible logger". I think I read in another posting that the newer made consoles didn't  support the old loggers – even though the logger was exactly what Davis said I should purchase and there was the same connector in it for a logger.  Maybe I got the story wrong but I'm also curious about console/logger compatibility if this happens again.

Thankfully Problem. Solved.

Dear WeatherCat faithful,

Time is starting to run short, so I am paraphrasing a posting I made on the new WeatherCatter's refuge:

https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=48252.msg486663#msg486663

I am sure all of us who are loyal to WeatherCat continue to be in shock.  Alas, the legal climate has changed, forcing Stu's hand.  I assume that there is more to the story than what has been publicly said about the UK’s 2023 online safety act.  Stu has always been extremely careful to protect his legal position and preserve his own privacy.  He should have absolutely every right to do so.  WeatherCat is simply a business conducted in Stu's free time and he has every right to charge a fair price for his labors.

Alas, that's the trouble comes in.  The only reason Stu would take such a drastic step is to protect his legal position.  All we can do is stand by Stu and WeatherCat, and hope somehow, that the legal situation is reverted to something sane.  This isn't the first time this software has faced what appeared to be essential extinction.  What saved it is this community standing by something we use and deeply enjoy having.

I'm calling all WeatherCatters to hang tough with Stu during these difficult times.  Our new provisional home is here:

https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=146.0

It is undeniably a huge step down from having a forum of our own.  Nonetheless, it is still much better than losing all means of keeping in contact of each other.

If we truly want WeatherCat to continue, there isn't much else we can do.

Edouard