Saturday, November 12, 2016

Vantage Pro2 Console Failure

 Things had been running well for 20 months or so. Then on around Oct. 11, 2016, the weather station stopped updating. The Vantage Pro2 console was frozen at whatever time it failed. Repeated attempts to reset, power-off/on failed. Eventually the display went completely blank. A call to Davis confirmed it needed to be repaired. $82 and a couple weeks later I had the console up and running, but the weather wasn't updating. Searching the Weewx forum, it appeared my datalogger likely had some corupted data, and probably not surprising since the console went thru many power resets. Weewx has a utilty to clear data from the datalogger, which solved the problem.

Back from the Brink

I have my weather website running again.  It was a major PITA to get things going.  I am partially to blame for not having a good backup sys...