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...The booting screen has TWR  the R is red...is that for Radio?...the comled is always on as well regardless of whether the TX board is transmitting or not. I changed the radio receiver out with a new one and the comled is still on solid. i cant remember but did it flash when it gets data from the TX unit?

H Mark,

The best suggestion I can give you is for trying to spend some time trying to fully understand how the WeatherDuino works, otherwise a lot of things may seem like an issue.
Having the transmitter working does not mean that it is sending all the data the receiver needs to initialize properly. At least it need to receive three types of data packets: Temp / Hum, Wind and Rain.
What is happen is that the receiver isn't receiving Rain data, thus the letter R being red. Have you configured the TX to send at least T, W and R data? I talked about that some posts above. For testing purposes, there is no need to have the Wind and Rain sensors attached to the TX interface, but the TX software must be configured to send data from these sensors. See example bellow.

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//   Define which data this unit will send. 0 = Not send this data, 1= Send this data
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define ID0  1   // Temp/Hum Data
#define ID1  0   // Not Used
#define ID2  1   // Wind data
#define ID3  1   // Rain data
#define ID4  0   // SolRad / UV data
#define ID5  0   // Hardware Status - System Temp, Battery Voltage etc
#define ID7  0   // Send Soil & Leaf Temperature Data
#define ID9  0   // Send Soil & Leaf Moisture / Wetness Data

The mean of the TWR letters and the initialization sequence is explained in lots of topics on the forum, and it is now also explained on the WeatherDuino Wiki too! Please give a look to it.

Until the receiver finish the initializing sequence properly, the COM Led always be on. By the way, this leds only blinks when the receiver is communicating with Cumulus or other weather software, when used in stand alone mode, after the initialization it will remains always off.