On 2008-08-22 14:42:43 +0100, John Dann said:

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:06:11 +0100, Trevor Harley
wrote:

I wonder if anyone here has experience of using Davis WeatherLink on the Mac...

That said, I would have thought that v5.0.4 ought to be a good bet at
solving the crashing problem with v5.0.3. I can't unfortunately
explain why you're experiencing problems installing v5.0.4 other than
to wonder if it's not a fully appropriate error message. Sometimes an
error is not trapped accurately in the code and a misleading error
message is displayed. There's no possibility of any permissions
needing to be set during or after the installation of the update is
there? And I presume that you did install 5.0.4 directly over 5.0.3
(ie in exactly the same folder location)?


I have made some progress.

First, I uninstalled everything and reinstalled 5.03. I then eventually
discovered that you have to run 5.03 and let it crash before the 5.04
updater will work properly. (This is an incredible design feature.)

So now WL opens my station OK, but I get the spinning blue ball for a
few seconds, and then it won't download any data. If I try to access
the Bulletin Board I get the message:

Communicatio Error: Check station configuratin and serial port connections.

I wondered if this was to do with USB driver, so I downloaded the new
driver from Silicon Labs that you pointed to. (This is v 2.0 rather
than 1.02. Note: unlike the version supplied by Davis, this doesn't
come with an uninstaller, and I haven't yet discovered where the driver
is installed; if anyone knows offhand, could they please let me know?)
But this hasn't made any difference.

Progress, of sorts. I'm running one of the most recent iMacs.

Trevor