hamw wrote:Thanks for everyone's advice. I emailed OS a few times re the issue; apparently there is no way to upgrade the firmware in the field. However, I was advised to go thru a reset procedure for the rain gauge, which I wouldn't have minded doing except that the warranty on the unit was about to expire July 8. I finally called, and fortunately the service agent understood that I didn't have time to work this out unless she could guarantee they would extend my warranty period, so she told me about the RMA process. Eventually..... I got a new one.
As it turns out it was just in time. The original rain gauge has now completely pooped out. Batteries good, reset performed, no signal. Doesn't register at all with RFXRec. Fortunately I had the new one.
Any one else heard of short lived rain gauges, or is this the exception?
midd wrote:Well actually we were referring to the firmware of the Rfxrec, not the rain gauge. I had some problems this spring with my OS rain gauge. I was getting sporadic readings. I ordered a new one as well. I also went with the Radio Shack external antenna for the RFX receiver and that seemed to clear things up.
I even sold my old OS rain gauge about a month ago. The buyer has not complained about it at all. He said it works good. So it led me to believe that it was crappy reception using the stock RFXrec antenna.
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