Ok then. Thanks for your help and ideas. I have boxed up the Wx station and it will be returned tomorrow. I will probably set this project aside until next March or April (unless I come across a killer deal on a station that is on the list of tested stations).
Thanks for the advice. Kevin On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 1:36:11 PM UTC-8, mwall wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 4:13:29 PM UTC-5, Kevin Hedgepeth wrote: >> >> I came across an OS WMR89. I contacted Oregon Scientific prior to >> getting the 89 and I was told that the 88 and 89 are identical in >> operation; the 89 is the current model on the market. >> > > you were given incorrect information. > > the 88 and 89 may be able to talk to the same sensors, but their computer > interfaces are completely different and incompatible. > > weewx works with the wmr88, but it does not work with the wmr89. > > as of january 2018, no one has been able to reverse engineer the serial > communications on the wmr89 (or, if they have, they have not published it). > > you could purchase a 20$US sdr-usb dongle then use the weewx-sdr driver to > capture the transmissions from the sensors. > > or you could build an arduino that does the same thing as the sdr-usb > dongle. > > then you could add a pressure sensor to the rpi so that you get pressure > (and inside temperature and humidity if the pressure sensor includes t/h as > well) > > as daunting as these might sound, none is terribly difficult - many other > people have done it. there are recipes available to make it happen, and > plenty of people on this forum who are willing to help. > > m > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
