Tom,Since I took a can of canned air and blew the dust out of the console, it now appears to be working again.
I thought of that after seeing the dust on top of the console when I took it down from the wall.
I have seen cases in my career in IT where dust accumulation caused heat problems and where the dust was conductive enough to cause spurious currents among the leads of ICs and that was enough to cause problems.
I try to look for the simpler explanations first.Since taking the canned air and blowing the console clean through all ventilation holes and inside the battery compartment, the console is functioning perfectly.
I would recommend this as a first step--and a lot less expensive than replacing a console--in troubleshooting the issues that I was getting.
In my experience when memory goes bad, it stays bad, and does not come back to life after a good dust removal.
On 11/9/2025 8:15 PM, Tom Keffer wrote:
I don't know why you're getting the LOOP errors, but the memory in your console is definitely corrupted. See the wiki article /Corrupt station memory <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Troubleshooting-the-Davis-Vantage-station#corrupt-station-memory>/.On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:I'm only seeing console lines standing out, both succeeding and failing... So it's not a networking problem as far as I can see... Corrupt memory issue maybe? ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: send_data: no <ACK> received from Vantage console ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: LOOP batch try #1; error: No <ACK> received from Vantage console DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: Successfully woke up Vantage console On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 07:30, Greg Guldenschuh <[email protected]> wrote: John, Set debug=1 and restarted weewx. I have attached a file where I extracted all the weewx lines from syslog. Hopefully this helps you. BTW, I checked Davis's weatherlink and it is getting data from my site. Thanks, Greg G On 11/9/2025 3:00 AM, John Smith wrote:-- You received this message because you are subscribed to theI don't think that's it or it would have complained about not being able to connect and would have spat out the IP and port.... On Sun, 9 Nov 2025 at 18:19, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: in your log, I see "NOPERMISSION3: Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL __main__: **** Exiting... Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 systemd[1]: weewx.service: Main process exited, code=exited, *status=4/NOPERMISSION* You may have to read this weewx wiki article about network permissions : https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Understanding-permissions#how-to-fix-network-permissions Le dimanche 9 novembre 2025 à 04:39:37 UTC+1, Greg Guldenschuh a écrit : I will have to look up how to do that. I have to replace 2 thermostats in my water heater tomorrow, that will take most of the day. I may have to do this on Monday. Thanks, I will respond after I get the water heater fixed tomorrow. Greg G. On 11/8/2025 10:36 PM, John Smith wrote:Might need to factory reset it somehow then. On Sun, 9 Nov 2025 at 14:33, Greg Guldenschuh <[email protected]> wrote: Console has no batteries in it, it is on UPS power all the time. Have powered down waited for over a minute, the powered back up more than 5 times already save exact response, or lack thereof each time. I did already mention that the 5.1 version of weewx was working up to and until the 5.2 version was installed. Greg G. On 11/8/2025 10:30 PM, John Smith wrote:-- You received this message because you areThat would seem to indicate that weeWX connected to the IP since there is no mention of it, but the console wouldn't respond, or not as it's expecting anyway... Tried taking out batteries from the console and disconnecting from power until it goes flat and then putting them back in etc? On Sun, 9 Nov 2025 at 14:13, Greg Guldenschuh <[email protected]> wrote: I saw these after I filed the issue, but decided to save them and would upload them as I got the chance. These were shown in the weewx.log file the service them exited with errors. Nov 08 14:29:07 VE1 weewxd[2360]: ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: ip-read error: timed out Nov 08 14:29:14 VE1 weewxd[2360]: ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: ip-read error: timed out Nov 08 14:29:20 VE1 weewxd[2360]: ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: ip-read error: timed out Nov 08 14:29:27 VE1 weewxd[2360]: ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: ip-read error: timed out Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: Unable to wake up Vantage console Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: ERROR weewx.engine: Import of driver failed: Unable to wake up Vantage console (<class 'weewx.WakeupError'>) Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** Traceback (most recent call last): Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 115, in setupStation Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self.console = loader_function(config_dict, self) Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 32, in loader Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** return VantageService(engine, config_dict) Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 2046, in __init__ Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** Vantage.__init__(self, **config_dict[DRIVER_NAME]) Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 539, in __init__ Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self._setup() Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** ~~~~~~~~~~~^^ Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 1440, in _setup Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** self.port.wakeup_console(max_tries=self.max_tries) Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/drivers/vantage.py", line 113, in wakeup_console Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** raise weewx.WakeupError("Unable to wake up Vantage console") Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL weewx.engine: **** weewx.WakeupError: Unable to wake up Vantage console Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL __main__: Unable to load driver: Unable to wake up Vantage console Nov 08 14:29:28 VE1 weewxd[2360]: CRITICAL __main__: **** Exiting... 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