Playing Nice with WeatherLinkIP

[wvdkuil]

Please check here
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2026.0
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=10205&hilit=pass+through
and here at the two Davis stations http://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Stations

When you connect a Davis logger (IP or USB, does not matter which) to the Meteobridge your Meteobridge becomes also a full IP logger.
It can be accessed by one other weather-program at its IP-address port 22222

It passes all request from the weather-program to the Davis logger and listens to all communication to get the needed data.

That is the proper way to go as a lot of users are doing.
Essentially with a Meteobridge you get another logger for free and can continue to use your original weather-program when you start using a Meteobridge.

WARNING:
You should NOT connect two weather programs directly to a Davis IP logger as you try to do now.
Internally an IP logger is only an USB logger with an USB to IP converter added. So it can only listen to one program at the same time.

Hope this is clear, but use Google to find more postings about this feature of Meteobridge.

Wim

[wvdkuil]

Wim,

Thank you for your reply and the links. I have read them all.

To summarize my original long post:

1. Meteobridge operates correctly, and I am able to get WeatherCat or WeatherSnoop running concurrently as my "1 additional" program accessing the WeatherLinkIP to use current data from my Davis ISS.

2. The issue is, neither application running by itself (not concurrently with the other), is able to get to the historical data in the WeatherLinkIP archive as long as Meteobridge is connected. As soon as Meteobridge is disconnected from my network and it's access to the WeatherLinkIP is lost, either Mac application is able to access the archive data as well as continue receiving current data from the ISS. It appears this is a restriction with the use of Meteobridge/WeatherLinkIP I have to live with.

For others reading this thread, wondering what my solution is: I have ordered a second WeatherLinkIP to connect to a second Davis Console I have, and will just point Meteobridge at one WeatherLinkIP, and have my Mac applications use the other. A single Davis ISS can send data to multiple consoles (and Envoy) to be picked-up and distributed by separate WeatherLinks. Problem solved, albeit it cost several hundred dollars to do it.

It is probably a google-translate problem as English is not my native language.

But when you use Meteobridge connected to the logger-ip, the other program should connect to the IP-address of the Metobridge.
Example:
IP-logger 192.168.0.100 => used by Meteobridge
Meteobridge IP 192.168.0.150 => should be used by your weather-program

In this example, you should instruct your weather-program to use 192.168.0.150 not the original address of the logger.
Only one device can talk to the logger and that is what Meteobridge should do. It will pass-thruogh the logger at its own ip-adress:port 22222

Wim