Sierra for Mac - seems to break weathercat :-(

[tizza]

Sorry Edouard,

I just re-read my reply  to you and it sounded RUDE! I just want you to know it was not meant to be at all,

Cheers
Paul

[elagache]

Dear Paul and WeatherCat victims of our excessively harried livestyles

I just re-read my reply  to you and it sounded RUDE! I just want you to know it was not meant to be at all,

No worries, these days we are lucky to communicate anything clearly.

By the way, it appears that the Silicon lab drivers "live" in this folder on your Mac:

/Library/Extensions/

If you see more than one file that looks similar to this:

/Library/Extensions/SiLabsUSBDriver.kext

That might be good reason to be concerned.  If one is a lot older than the other, . . . . it might be good idea to delete both of them and install a "fresh" copy of the driver from the installer.

Cheers, Edouard

[TechnoMonkey]

Well, I reinstalled a fresh copy of Sierra server.  I had nothing but trouble with the server aspect of it and WC would occasionally take a dump.  It took about two weeks of screwing with it, but I finally got all the bugs fixed.  I went back to Snow Leopard server.

[ETA51]

Greetings all, I am new here, and have been seeing some odd behavior since I recently upgraded to Sierra.  I am using a mid-2011 iMac, and recently leapt over El Capitain and upgraded the OS from Yosemite directly to Sierra.  Now running Sierra 10.12.2, and Weathercat 2.1.0 Build 1306.  Weax station is a Davis Vantage Pro 2, and it is connected via the Davis Weatherlink IP dongle to my local network.  Everything worked without fail for at least two years prior to the OS upgrade.

The behavior I am seeing is that Weathercat quits.  I often know this via an email notice from Weather Underground, which says my station has stopped reporting.  75% of the time, this seems to happen between 0300 and 0400 in the morning local; otherwise it seems to happen randomly, generally after greater than 24 hours of runtime.  Weathercat starts back up fine, and displays no other issues.  A reboot of the OS has had no effect.  I recognize that the version of Weathercat I am running is out of date, but thought I'd post here first before updating that as a fix attempt.  I did notice after reading this thread this morning that the energy portion of the OS preferences had "put hard drives to sleep") checked, I've just unchecked it now, so not aware yet if that will affect this problem.

Grateful for any insight any of you may be able to provide.

Cheers from Maryland!     

[WCDev]

Greetings all, I am new here, and have been seeing some odd behavior since I recently upgraded to Sierra.  I am using a mid-2011 iMac, and recently leapt over El Capitain and upgraded the OS from Yosemite directly to Sierra.  Now running Sierra 10.12.2, and Weathercat 2.1.0 Build 1306.  Weax station is a Davis Vantage Pro 2, and it is connected via the Davis Weatherlink IP dongle to my local network.  Everything worked without fail for at least two years prior to the OS upgrade.

The behavior I am seeing is that Weathercat quits.  I often know this via an email notice from Weather Underground, which says my station has stopped reporting.  75% of the time, this seems to happen between 0300 and 0400 in the morning local; otherwise it seems to happen randomly, generally after greater than 24 hours of runtime.  Weathercat starts back up fine, and displays no other issues.  A reboot of the OS has had no effect.  I recognize that the version of Weathercat I am running is out of date, but thought I'd post here first before updating that as a fix attempt.  I did notice after reading this thread this morning that the energy portion of the OS preferences had "put hard drives to sleep") checked, I've just unchecked it now, so not aware yet if that will affect this problem.

Grateful for any insight any of you may be able to provide.

Cheers from Maryland!     

I would strongly suggest updating to the latest WeatherCat release. Some work arounds were needed for 10.11 and the version of WeatherCat you are running pre-dates 10.11 (and so doesn't contain those work-arounds).

Cheers.

[xairbusdriver]

You don't always need to update an OS, (many of us never do that until the second corrected version, anyway) but you usually should always update your apps. I highly recommend making a compressed back up of any important app before updating it. That way, you can almost immediately return to a working version.

[elagache]

Dear ETA51, Stu, X-Air, and WeatherCat welcome wagon, . . . .

Since that was your first post ETA51, let me welcome you to the WeatherCat forum!

If you feel up to it, please do give us a bit of an introduction on this topic:

http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?board=8.0

You don't always need to update an OS . . . 

That wouldn't have anything to do with the observation . . . . . .

If debugging is the way to take out bugs from a piece of software, isn't programming the way to put bugs in? . . .

. . . . 

Cheers, Edouard