WH1081 Is it feasible to run a second touch screen display?

[KarenP]

I've been running one of the Maplin systems for the last year, along side Cumulus.

I also had a separate system in my kitchen showing the temperature outside - handy to know what the temperature is before heading outside with the dog! This second sensor has stopped working and since I have a spare Maplin touch screen display I'm wondering if I can utilise that to receive and just display info from the WH1081?

I have a feeling (but I can't find the details at the moment) that as the touch screen receives info from the transmitter, it then erases that info from the transmitter. Is that is right? I don't want to jepodise my nicely running existing system.

[daj]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

I can assure you that running two consoles with one set of sensors offers no problems. I having been doing it for about a year. Both consoles will quite happily receive data from the same transmitter (every 48 seconds).

[mcrossley]

That should work no problem, nothing is sent back to the transmitter. Several people on the forum also run two consoles from the same transmitter.

[Gina]

That should work no problem, nothing is sent back to the transmitter. Several people on the forum also run two consoles from the same transmitter.

Yes, I'm doing that ATM - running two versions of my software on separate computers.

On a separate note, it's also perfectly possible to run two complete weather stations independently, though it's a bit tricky to persuade the second console to lock on to the right transmission. But once locked it works separately from the first station with no problem.

[KarenP]

Fantastic! Glad that I was mistaken, I will get the spare display out of the box and get it set up.

Thank you.