Please help me set up Hobby Board Sensors with WMR200

It’s as late in Dorking as it is in Scotland. :lol:

Anyway, if changing the COM port to #1 doesn’t work then I think it’s best we go back to the begining, get you to run through what we’ve done so far just to make sure we’ve not missed anything and then start looking at other drivers to see if we can get it working in WD.
How’s that sound? :wink:

Once you change to Com Port 1 then it should all flow - as you have copied drivers to the Wdisplay folder and everything else works. Here’s hoping!!

TokKiwi

Hi every one
Back agian.
No one hold your breath but its MAY be working.
I will run it for an and see what happens.

Copied these file to WD dirrectory

ds2490winusb_x86.cat
ds2490winusb_x86.inf
WdfCoInstaller01005.dll
WinUSBCoInstaller.dll

was that correct?

Wood Ant

That’s what I have in my Wdisplay folder. :smiley:

Hi All,

Thought it may be to good to be true.
After about a 0.5hr the program locked up.
Then had to reboot, now no solar.

Wood Ant

Go into the Dallas setup from the control panel and click on the Save/Reset button and see if that gets it going again.

Hi All,
Please have look at the main screen capture, I did not start WD until after 12:20, but there has been something plotted at 11:30.

So I think it may never have been working.

So its back to the drivers, are you people all using the the same as I am ?

If not which do you use?

Thanks for your hard work and patients

Wood Ant


Don’t get bogged down with what’s showing on the graphs just now, is there anything from the solar sensor in the Dallas setup window?

Driver wise I’m using v4.00 but there’s a few we can get you to try.
v4.01 is the correct one for running Vista but there are two types, do you have the 32 or 64 bit drivers installed and is that compatable to your PC? ie; are you running Vista x32 or x64?

Having tried both Com 1 & 4 nothing is showing up

I have Vista home premium 32bit

Driver used are Version 4.01 (Supports Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows Vista


Have you tried the COM Port Number set to 4 and the “Dallas 1-Wire / with station settings” set to 1, then click on the Save/Reset button and restart WD?

When you’ve done this, if nothing is showing in the right hand window of the Dallas Setup, then check in the OneWireViewer to make sure this is still seeing the adaptor and sensor.
If the OneWireViewer is seeing them but WD isn’t then it time to start looking at the other drivers to see if we can get this going. :wink:

Brain,
Do you know of anyone else that’s managed to get 1-Wire sensor working in WD, using Vista, and if so, any idea which drivers they used?

Hello Budgie,
Thanks for you time.

Yes I did that nothing changed.

One Wire Viewer does find something that I hope is the Solar Sensor, See Copy of txt from Screen:

Device Address: 67000000B6489B26 (26 9B 48 B6 00 00 00 67)

Name: DS2438

Alternate Names: Smart Battery Monitor

Description: 1-Wire device that integrates the total current charging or discharging through a battery and stores it in a register. It also returns the temperature (accurate to 2 degrees celcius), as well as the instantaneous current and voltage and also provides 40 bytes of EEPROM storage.

That what I see, if I disconnect the sensor it does not show up

Regards Wood Ant

i could try installing the 1 wire drivers on my vista laptop…

Brain,
If you’re not busy wth other things, that would be good, do you have any sensors to try with it?

Wood Ant,

That’s alright, as long as the sensors are still be seen then that’s fine.
What I think we’ll try is drivers v4.00 and see what that does.
Go into WD > COM Port and untick that you want to use a 1-Wire device with your WS.
Then you need to uninstall the current drivers and then download v4.00 from HERE, they are about half way down the page under the heading “Alternate 1-Wire Driver Packages”.
V4.01 Beta is on top, with V4.00 under it.
Install v4.00 and follow the onscreen instructions, test the adaptor and sensor connections with the OneWireViewer again to make sure that they are being seen.
Now check that the drivers are in the Wdisplay program, they maybe the same as in v4.01 and don’t need to be changed.

Then fire up WD and reselect the “I want to use a 1-Wire device…”, go into the Dallas Setup screen and click the Save/Reset button and see if there is anything detected.

do you have any sensors to try with it?
yes, see my post above that my 1 wire solar sensor is working with a wmr200 station on my XP system

Oh ya. #-o :oops:

Hi All

Bad News Can not get V400 to install on Vista

Wood Ant

i got it to work under Vista
i downloaded and installed the first install at the top of this page:

and that installed succesfully

then I deleted the 1 wire drivers in the folder where you have WD installed (so that the updated drivers are used instead from the c:\windows\system32 folder),
i.e the
Ib10e32.dll
Ib97e32.dll
IB97U32.DLL
IBFS32.DLL

files

and then restarted WD

Thanks for doing that Brian, just one thing to make it clear though; Did you copy the four .dll/.DLL driver files from system32 into wdisplay or just delete the old files from wdisplay?

Thanks Windy,

We moved forward and this is now scean in the Dalas righthand window.

**Searching for Weather station sensors
Humidity i-button found, ID 67000000B6489B26
Humidity i-button found, ID 67000000B6489B26
Humidity i-button found, ID 67000000B6489B26

What should I do next ?

Thanks Wood Ant

I just deleted those files, so that the latest driver files in the windows\system32 foler were used

you are nearly there now woodend

now make sure that the solar ROM id is set to
67000000B6489B26
and you have ticked to use that as solar

and then click on save/reset