Davis Vantage mystery

[jsnell]

Hi folks, I'm curious if you have any suggestions for me.

I have a Davis Vantage Pro (not 2) station, a console in my bedroom, and a wireless envoy with data logger attached to a Mac in the living room. The bedroom console is set to relay to the data logger, because the data logger (on the opposite site of the house from the station) could never hold a connection.

Now the data logger can't get a connection at all--it's still showing its internal sensor data, but nothing from the outside. The console sees the station fine, but the station's range is poor and has always been.

When I put the console out on the lawn with line of sight of both the station and the logger, WeatherCat claims it can get a valid outside temperature sporadically, but still shows outside humidity as invalid. All the data looks just fine on the console.

Of course all this hardware is 10 years old.

So... what do you think? Something bad on the Envoy?

[elagache]

Dear jsnell and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

Hi folks, I'm curious if you have any suggestions for me.

I have a Davis Vantage Pro (not 2) station, a console in my bedroom, and a wireless envoy with data logger attached to a Mac in the living room. The bedroom console is set to relay to the data logger, because the data logger (on the opposite site of the house from the station) could never hold a connection.

Now the data logger can't get a connection at all--it's still showing its internal sensor data, but nothing from the outside. The console sees the station fine, but the station's range is poor and has always been.

When I put the console out on the lawn with line of sight of both the station and the logger, WeatherCat claims it can get a valid outside temperature sporadically, but still shows outside humidity as invalid. All the data looks just fine on the console.

Of course all this hardware is 10 years old.

So... what do you think? Something bad on the Envoy?

Well you seem to have a reasonable case that the Envoy is the source of the trouble.  If the console is working fine, that seems to eliminate any other possibilities.  Alas, I think you'll have a terrible time finding an Envoy for the original Vantage Pro line.  Davis might be willing to repair, but that will take your station down for that duration of time.  The alternative is to try to either hunt for an old Envoy on places like eBay, or give yourself a Christmas present of a new station.

Sorry, you're in a tough spot.

Cheers, Edouard   

[jsnell]

Since my console works, I'm thinking of buying the Davis IP data logger and installing that in the console...

[elagache]

Dear jsnell and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

Since my console works, I'm thinking of buying the Davis IP data logger and installing that in the console...

That sounds like a reasonable idea if you have ethernet available near the console.  Can you fit the IP data logger into a Vantage Pro-1 console?

Good luck getting yourself unstuck!

Cheers, Edouard