weatherlink IP - how to connect on mac OS X?

[boracay]

Im stumped, i cannot get weather cat to give me access to the weatherlink IP settings.
I have mac OSX (no software supplied it seems for the mac) and the Davis 6555 weatherlink IP data logger (internally plugged into an Envoy)

I'm trying to use ANY software whatsoever to make a simple change, i want the data recorded being on-sent to either wunderground or cwos to be sent in 1 min or 5 min intervals. the default setting to those services is currently 15mins.

how to achieve?
i cannot get weather cat to recognise the Davis datalogger
regards

[Bull Winkus]

Good morning Boracay!

The WeatherCat software modifies the settings to WU by going to the WeatherCat menu, Preferences, and then in the pane, Online, Wunderground PWS. Next to WU in the subhead is CWOP.

Best wishes and happy holidays!

[Blicj11]

Welcome to the forum Borocay. Herb told you how to access the settings for how often you send data to WU and CWOP. You do not need to access your IP data logger for that purpose. However, if you are actually trying to access how often your data logger records data, you do that in WeatherCat Tools | Station Hardware Options. But changing your IP Data Logger interval has no impact on how often you send data to third party apps. It just changes how often your data logger records data in the event that your weather station is unable to connect to your computer or the Internet.

[wvdkuil]

Im stumped, i cannot get weather cat to give me access to the weatherlink IP settings.
I have mac OSX (no software supplied it seems for the mac) and the Davis 6555 weatherlink IP data logger (internally plugged into an Envoy)

I'm trying to use ANY software whatsoever to make a simple change, i want the data recorded being on-sent to either wunderground or cwos to be sent in 1 min or 5 min intervals. the default setting to those services is currently 15mins.

how to achieve?
i cannot get weather cat to recognise the Davis datalogger
regards

There are two parties involved in uploading to WU. Be carefull not to use both as this will certainly  be blocked by WU.

1. The IP logger (WLIP)
The logger uploads by default to WeatherLink.com (WL.com). It starts as soon as the device is plugged-in. Your device-id on the sticker is used to make an account at WL.com.  At WL.com you can specify the other uploads to WU and CWOP.

2. Your weather-program.
If you want to use WeatherCat to do the upload to WU and others you should switch / remove the settings in WL.Com

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cannot get weather cat to recognise the Davis datalogger

Well the only part WeatherCat has to recognise is the standard logger part. And it does that nicely.

The extra's for the IP part  can be done by yourself by using your browser and going to IP-ADRESS_of_the_WLIP.

If the WLIP is not busy (as being used by WeatherCat) you get a nice yellow box were you can switch off the upload to WL.com (do not do that), change the port WeatherCat should use (do not change) and set the IP-adress to a fixed one (do not do that).  That is all.

There is no way you can change the upload frequency to WU or CWOP on your local Mac,  other than using your browser and going to WL.com.

Wim

[Blicj11]

Note that WeatherCat users are advised not to upload to weather link.com.

For the greatest reliability it is suggested you turn off the upload to weatherlink.com via the loggers' configuration web page and turn the upload option off in WeatherCat. The reason for this is when uploading to weatherlink.com, the logger may lock-up if it can't resolve the weatherlink.com domain name and communications to WeatherCat will be lost.
WeatherCat User Manual, p. 77

[boracay]

thats all good , thanks, but....

i cannot get weather cat to recognise the Davis datalogger
in the startup sequence. it fails to communicate

is there a :port access i need to open to the router?
the data logger/envoy is simply plugged into the router. its sending data to cwos and wunderground and WC.com (i set that up at WC.com)
thats all good, but its by default 15mins (which for us is not frequent enough, we are only interested in the wind from minute to minute)

i have mac OSX 10.10
wearthercat trial expires tonight.
love weather cat, but cannot get it to communicate. hardware connection fails at startup.
cheers

regards

[Felix]

Have you positively correctly identified the Davis logger's IP?

I use the free LAN Scan (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40742/lanscan) which was pointed out in the link below. It's drop dead easy to use and clearly IDs the Davis logger's IP so you can input it into WeatherCat.

This thread is extremely helpful:

http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=329.0

[wvdkuil]

thats all good , thanks, but....

i cannot get weather cat to recognise the Davis datalogger
in the startup sequence. it fails to communicate

is there a :port access i need to open to the router?

??
I hope WeatherCat and the ip-logger are on the same LAN?
Otherwise it will not work.

The default port is 22222

Check the settings in the ip-logger (Yellow screen)  if you did not by mistake changed the ip (DHCP) or port-number

I tested it again here with my IP-logger and did not got any errors.
Go to tools => Configure Station comms... => press "Configure Comms & exit" on the pop-up.
WeatherCat restarts and the "Station communications"  pop-up is shown.
first line:  Davis Weatherlink IP selected from drop down
comms port: greyed out (= only used for usb bluetooth)
ip address: 192.168.0.251:22222


Succes, Wim

[boracay]

got it guys.
thank you.

it was a conflicting ip on the LAN
have now forced it to be an exclusive number on the plan.
great stuff.

now, onto my last day on weather cat trial, i can try to play with it before i fall asleep.
anyway ti\o extend the trial JUST a couple of days so i can test the features?

[Felix]

If it's working now, buy it.   

You won't find any better weather software for Macs. There's some issues I've documented and am still waiting on the developer to clean up but it's certainly worth the bucks if you want more than just a minimalistic data output.

[WCDev]

Boracay, I was just about to release 2.0.2 .The only way to reset your trial is in the application itself. If you wait a few hours I'll update the 2.0.2 build for that and upload it - that will reset your trial period.

Look for 2.0.2 release in the development forum later (it'll probably be build 30) - that'll give you another 14 days.

[boracay]

thats great thanks.
very interested in the integration to the new "weathercloud.com" service
would buy it for that alone if it works well.
cheers

edit. yes downloaded 2.0.2 and have 14 days now. thanks
...but im stuck, 2 services...
CWOS, and weathercloud.com

the preferences window in weathercat shows them still showing/remaining as "waiting to start"
and NO reports are being sent?

[elagache]

Dear boracay and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

edit. yes downloaded 2.0.2 and have 14 days now. thanks
...but im stuck, 2 services...
CWOS, and weathercloud.com

the preferences window in weathercat shows them still showing/remaining as "waiting to start"
and NO reports are being sent?

If the services are "waiting to start" something is wrong and that explains why data isn't being sent.  Try taking a look at the WeatherCat log window.  There might be some information there that explains the problem.  You might also try turning on Copy Log Entries to Console Log (it is under the Advanced pane of the Preferences.)  That might provide some additional information that you'll find by running the Console application (in the Utilities folder.)

Hope that get's you started on the troubleshooting path.

Cheers, Edouard 

[boracay]

7:52:05 AM 22-Dec-2014:  WeatherCloud is initialising.
 7:52:05 AM 22-Dec-2014:  WeatherCloud is running.
 7:52:05 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Running.
 7:52:05 AM 22-Dec-2014:  WeatherCat server is starting - running on port 49250
 7:52:05 AM 22-Dec-2014:  WeatherCat is running...
 7:52:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Fetching data from weather station...
 7:52:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Temperature not ready...
 7:52:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Dewpoint not ready...
 7:52:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  External rh not ready...
 7:52:46 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Fetching data from weather station...
 7:52:46 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Temperature not ready...
 7:52:46 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Dewpoint not ready...
 7:52:46 AM 22-Dec-2014:  External rh not ready...
 7:53:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Fetching data from weather station...
 7:53:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Temperature not ready...
 7:53:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Dewpoint not ready...
 7:53:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  External rh not ready...
 7:53:16 AM 22-Dec-2014:  Weather data not ready - retrying in 30 seconds.

ok, so thats the data log.

our usage of this software is specifically for monitoring WIND data only.
so we don't have all those typical weather sensors its looking for.
we simply have a Davis anonometer, a Davis ananometer transmitter kit, and a Davis envoy. (into this is plugged the weather link IP data logger)

so, the goal is to show wind gauges superimposed over a webcam (really like the weatherCat realtime gauges)
I will use FTP in the next few days to generate the weather cat gauges into a basic webpage, however i was hoping to take advantage of the upload capability by default and use the weatherCLOUD page of wind gauges (such as here... http://app.weathercloud.net/d1155884382#wind)

is weather cat not uploading perhaps because i have too few of needed data collectors?
we only need WIND.
regards

[boracay]

any clues?
all upload services still.... "waiting to start...."