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WeatherLink Computer Software and updates are available for free download from WeatherLink.com. Here's how to download or update: Create your free WeatherLink account on Weat Updated 10 months ago by Davis Instruments. Download the latest version of WeatherLink for Mac - For Davis weather stations. Read 3 user reviews of WeatherLink on MacUpdate.

Davis has now made the full version of the local Weatherlink software free to download. This applies to both Windows (v6.0.5) and Mac (v6.0.3) versions of Weatherlink.

This good news. While Weatherlink has always been regarded as free software when included with a logger purchase, the only official way of getting a full new copy of the software (eg if the original CD has been lost) has been to buy a new software CD at some significant cost. There’s also been a steadily increasing problem that modern PCs and Macs often do not possess a CD drive and so there’s been a hurdle to overcome even in first installation of the Weatherlink program.

But now all these problems can be overcome with a free download of the software direct to your PC or Mac.

The downloads are available via the weatherlink.com cloud platform. To access the download, log on to weatherlink.com in the usual way (or create a new account – it’s free to do so and you do not need to be uploading to weatherlink.com) and then:

  1. Go to the tab with your personal account details
  2. The download link is then the 4th item in the right-hand sidebar
  3. Clicking this opens a screen that provides access to the various downloads – both complete downloads and also the smaller update files

This process is described in a little more detail on the Weatherlink download topic on our Davis knowledgebase.

The question of how to connect a Davis Vantage Pro or Vue station comes up time and time again.
This page is designed to answer these questions.

One of the reasons why this question is asked so often is because of the multiple ways you have to choose from to connect a Davis Vantage station to a Mac. First you need a WeatherLink cable. This cable plugs into the console and provides a connection option to the computer. There are essentially three versions is the WeatherLink cable: Serial, USB, IP. If you have a Mac get the Mac versions. The hardware is the same but the you get a licenced copy of the the WeatherLink software for Mac.

Serial WeatherLink Cable

You can order this in a PC or Mac version. But the hardware included in each box is exactly the same the only difference between the two products is the version of the WeatherLink software included in the box. But since this software is a 'free' download from Davis anyways it doesn't matter what version of the serial cable you buy. Go for the cheapest.

But, Macs don't have serial ports anymore so you need a way to connect a serial cable to the Mac. What you need is a USB-To-Serial convertor cable. My best experience has been any generic USB-Serial cable with the FTDI chipset inside if it. Here's the deal, a company called FTDI make the chips and then a ton of manufactured make cables using those chips and sell them at varying prices. So the trick is to find a cheap one (I've found them for ~$10) using the FTDI chip. But from web sites it can be tough to impossible to figure out if they are using the FTDI chip. Once you have such a cable in hand it is easy to figure out since the information shows in 'System Profiler' utility (in your Utilities folder).

Why use FTDI? Because they support and update their drivers that make these cables show up a regular serial ports on the Macintosh and that is important since WeatherTracker can only connect to 'regular' serial ports.

If you have a USB to Serial adapter that isn't and FTDI let me know via email and I'll see if I can help you get it working on a Mac.

USB WeatherLink Cable

It used to be that the USB WeatherLink Cables were a bad buy. It was difficult to get drivers for them and the chipset they were using was different from Windows to Macintosh.

But over the years both issues seem to be fixed. So, a WeatherLink USB cable is ok now.

Here is the web page where you can get the driver for the WeatherLink USB cable for Windows or Macintosh.

IP WeatherLink

The last option for a WeatherLink cable if the IP version. Using this cable you connect the Vantage console to your home network using an ethernet cable. Davis has built in software into the cable itself to upload weather data to a Davis hosted website.

Weatherlink

But a program like WeatherTracker can talk to the cable over the network and grab the data just as if the cable was connected directly to the computer. The most recent version of WeatherTracker does not yet support the IP WeatherLink but the next version will. I'll update this section when that happens.