WeatherCat with MBP

[meteo]

I currently use WeatherCat with a Meteobridge and it is fantastic! I just purchased the Meteobridge Pro, however, and cannot get WeatheCat to see/use it.

I only use ethernet and static LAN IP addresses. What works is to tell WeatherCat to use the Meteobridge IP of 10.0.5.160 and all is well. Telling WeatherCat to use the Meteobridge Pro IP of 10.0.5.161 fails. If I can't get it to work, I'll have to return it to the AmbientWeather store, but I really don't want to do that! Please let me know of any fixes or work arounds. Many thanks!

[admin]

Pass through does only work when a Davis Logger is connected to MB or MB PRO.
When you use internal RF of the MB PRO, then you can use your
Davis logger to connect directly to your PC running Weathercat.

You can also disable internal RF of MB PRO (switch on station tab),
connect Davis USB logger to MB PRO and read from it via USB.
This time Weathercat can grab the signals from MB PRO as with the
regular MBs via TCP/IP pass through.

[meteo]

Ok, thank you for clearing that up. A data logger is required with the MBP just like the MB. That makes sense, I was just hoping the data logger wasn't necessary with the MBP + Ethernet Lan.

Thank you.

[admin]

Reason is that the MB PRO does not simulate the Davis data logger protocol, which would be very difficult to do.
Instead of that MB PRO tunnels your WeatherCat requests directly to the data logger and returns the result. MB PRO
also sniffs the data stream and makes use of this to get its own data logging updated.

This is the reason, why it needs the Davis data logger, when you want to use "pass through" option.

[meteo]

Many thanks!