Cumulus, Oregon Scientific WMR200 lost connection
Posted: Sun 15 Nov 2020 10:06 pm
For many years now I have been running an Oregon Scientific WMR200 with Cumulus on my Windows 10 Pro system - this is always kept up to date with the latest Win 10 updates (so now, Nov 2020, running 20H2) - for the past week or so I've been having problems with the station apparently losing contact with the Win 10 PC. I see the Cumulus red Error light flashing and if I look in Windows Task Manager it shows Cumulus as "not responding" and I cannot get Cumulus to respond to clicks on any menu item.
I have to "end task" Cumulus and then pull out the USB connection from the back of the WMR200, reinsert it and then restart Cumulus whereupon it catches up with the data that has stacked up and continues for an indeterminate period of time. Initially this was a day or so but more recently we're getting down to an hour or so. The recovery action works every time without fail.
The WMR200 is powered from the mains although it also has batteries in it, so in theory power should not be an issue. But what could cause such an intermittent problem? Does anyone think it could be that the batteries are running down and maybe they are the cause of the problem, even though mains power is on constantly - although the WMR200 continues to show all readings on the console face and they are constantly updated? I can't think of any reason why the USB connection should keep failing at random and yet reconnect each time I take out the end attached to the WMR200 and plug it straight back in.
I have to "end task" Cumulus and then pull out the USB connection from the back of the WMR200, reinsert it and then restart Cumulus whereupon it catches up with the data that has stacked up and continues for an indeterminate period of time. Initially this was a day or so but more recently we're getting down to an hour or so. The recovery action works every time without fail.
The WMR200 is powered from the mains although it also has batteries in it, so in theory power should not be an issue. But what could cause such an intermittent problem? Does anyone think it could be that the batteries are running down and maybe they are the cause of the problem, even though mains power is on constantly - although the WMR200 continues to show all readings on the console face and they are constantly updated? I can't think of any reason why the USB connection should keep failing at random and yet reconnect each time I take out the end attached to the WMR200 and plug it straight back in.