Configuring Virtual Vp with cumulus and weatherlinkip

[sarahh]

What a nightmare! I absolutely love cumulus and have a really nice website from it. That was all really easy to set up. This bit is so frustrating!

[steve]

You could always just run Cumulus and not Weatherlink

[sarahh]

I'm considering it, except I've got a years worth of data in weatherlink and I'd like a complete archive, so I was planning to keep using weatherlink as my archive and use cumulus purely for my weather station and for the nice looking output.

[steve]

Yes, understood. If you definitely have the same IP address and TCP port configured in VVP and in Cumulus, then in theory there's nothing stopping it working and I don't know what else to suggest, other than closing Cumulus and VVP down, start VVP up again, wait a few minutes and then start Cumulus. If that doesn't help, someone else is sure to turn up here before long with more clue than me.

[sarahh]

I will wait in hope Thank you!

[duke]

I think you'll find (by searching) most people have problems using WL with VVP and any other software. WL causes the problems not VVP or CU. Try a search WXForum. You'll find issues with VVP & WL going back along way.
I'm sure somebody will jump in now and say they have WL working fine with VVP etc but this is not the norm. Ask me how I know?

[RayProudfoot]

Not sure if I can help but I run VPP, WeatherLink, VPLive and Cumulus all on the one XP SP3 netbook.

The difference is I use COM Ports and not IP addresses. That side has always been a mystery to me.

I'm not sure if you can mix 'n match IP and COM port settings for different software. Here are my settings. Please note I have used the N8vBCom driver to configure COM port pairing to permit multiple instances of weather software to run.

VPP_Settings.jpg

CumulusSettings.jpg

If you want to switch to COM port settings I hope this helps. I've never had a problem with any of the 3 packages I run using this method.

[gemini06720]

As Mark indicated, the WeatherLink software does not 'play' nice (matter of writing) with any other software - the WeatherLink software has been designed to be the only one to communicate with the console - it was never designed to share its communication link - thus, after a few hours of running the WeatherLink software through Virtual VP (and any other weather software), Virtual VP will simply stop (frozen by the WeatherLink software). It appears that problem is more 'pronounced' on computers running the latest operating system, such as Windows 7.

For years, I have been running Virtual VP on two different types of computers (one with Windows XP Pro and one with Windows 7) with similar unreliable results whenever the WeatherLink software is activated.

For the past two years, I have been running both Cumulus and Weather Display through Virtual VP without problem - Cumulus is connected via a virtual serial port and Weather Display is connected via a virtual TCP/IP port. At times, for testing purposes, I have even activate the VWS (virtual weather station) software without problem.

[RayProudfoot]

Ray,

Did you ever have problems with WL and VPP when using virtual COM ports? I only ask because my own setup has run perfectly for over 3 years using that system.