WeatherLink IP logger/Weathercat vs. Mac OS Monterey

[elagache]

Dear Peter and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

Well, the hardware options now report transmitter battery status all good, but the log shows repeated ‘DavisWLIPdriver-comms have stopped responding.
. . . . .

That definitely defines where the problem is.  It is between your console and your Mac.  Try connecting to your console via your web browser as suggested in the configuration page of the WeatherCat Wiki:

https://wiki.trixology.com/index.php?title=How_to_setup_the_Davis_WeatherLinkIP%E2%84%A2_data_logger

If you cannot reach your console using a browser, that suggests that you might have something out of whack with your home network.  Have you checked to make your your Ethernet hub or Ethernet router is working properly?  Perhaps the problem is literally in the hardware between your Davis IP DataLogger and your Mac.

Please do keep us posted on your continued investigations.

Edouard

[peterjenningsmd@gmail.com]

The IP logger seems to be correctly located on the network, in that I can access it at its IP address on my iPad and I see the standard configuration page, with the IP address displayed correctly.

However when I tried to logon with my MacBook Pro I can’t see it even though the MacBook is on the same network
So I am wondering whether the fault lies within the MacBook Pro.

I have an old (2010) iMac, currently running El Capitan, which hasn’t been fired up for awhile. So I thought I would try installing Weathercat on this and see what happens. Do you think the current version of WeatherCat will be happy with El Capitan ( 10.11.6).

If Weathercat is okay on this then at least we will know the fault lies with MacBook Pro, although we will not have worked out whether it is a hardware or software fault. The iMac has also the advantage of a network socket so I can plug the datalogger directly into it; If this is a scenario that would work? Sorry to be so ignorant!!!

[peterjenningsmd@gmail.com]

Slight correction to above, the MBP does find the data logger page, but takes about 10-15 minutes. The page is found instantaneously on the iMac running El Capitan.

[elagache]

Dear Peter and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

Slight correction to above, the MBP does find the data logger page, but takes about 10-15 minutes. The page is found instantaneously on the iMac running El Capitan.

I'm scratching my head here.  So all these problems started with the upgrade to macOS Monterey?  Your MBP had no problems connecting to your IP data-logger before - correct?

Are you experiencing any other sort of network issues with your MBP?  Can you retrieve email, surf the web, etc.?  Everything else on your home network is working as before?  What sort of home network "hub" do you have?  Is this an all-in-one Ethernet router or something more complex?

Perhaps you could take a screenshot of network pane of the macOS system preferences on your MBP.  For comparison, it would extremely helpful to take a screenshot of the iMac network pane as well.  I'm definitely groping in the dark, but I cannot imagine any scenario that would it to take 15 minutes to find your Davis data-logger unless you were experiencing all sorts of other network problems with that computer.

Do let us know what you uncover,

Edouard

[peterjenningsmd@gmail.com]

Thanks, I think you’ve nailed it, and it looks like it was a network issue on the MBP,  I will wait to see how it runs for the next day or so and report back, but it seems at the moment  that the temporal connection with the Monterey upgrade was coincidental.

[peterjenningsmd@gmail.com]

Hi All
Yes, weathercat has been running fine on my iMac now, for several days, and it seems that network problems on the MBP were the cause. It seems that it was just bad luck that they cropped up at the time of the Monterey upgrade, and I don’t think now that Monterey was the problem.

I am however having trouble finding the weathercat data files such as ~/Library/WeatherCatData/ in order to migrate historical data over to the iMac; I have looked at the wiki article about this but I cannot see these files, even after the suggested terminal commands, to reveal hidden files, are run. Any ideas? I know that the data is still on the MBP, as I can access it all on the old weather cat installation.

Thanks in advance!

[Blicj11]

Open Finder
Click on Go
Select Go to Folder
Enter ~/Library/ and press enter
In alphabetical order, you will see the WeatherCatData folder

[xairbusdriver]

Can you see the WeatherCatBackups directory? Please check Tools->Backups... menu and show us what the Path to them is.

After using the method described by Blicj11, drag that directory/window into another open Finder Side Bar and it will be there for the rest of your machines life. Leave it to Apple can come up with ways to hide things from their users.

I can also highly recommend a little app called "Find Any File". You can try it out for free, but it's only 6 bucks and well worth it.

By the way. you can tell Finder to always show file name extensions. Finder Prefs->Advanced, check the "Show all filename extensions. I think the default is un-checked because Apple doesn't think we should be trusted with knowing that kind of information.

[peterjenningsmd@gmail.com]

Thanks very much both, folders now located :-). And great tips re apple OS, why does apple hide stuff…?

[xairbusdriver]

 "It's a feature, not a bug!"