* On 2023 29 Nov 18:29 -0600, Tom Keffer wrote: > If you have the necessary hardware, your VP2 should be able to emit the > soil measurements.
I think that is the problem. After rereading, carefully, the manual of the Wireless Leaf & Soil Moisture/Temperature Station I've reached the conclusion that its reporting of temperature as "soil temperature" requires a companion soil moisture probe which I do not have. I only have a temp probe so the VP2 console must be set for that transmitter to be a "temp" station and nothing more. That results in the reading being shown as "Temp 2" on the console. > The Vantage configuration utility has had some issues. The version to be > included with V5 is much better. Fortunately, the new driver is compatible > with V4, so all you have to do is replace the old one with the new one. You > can find it here > <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weewx/weewx/V5/src/weewx/drivers/vantage.py> > . > > If that doesn't work any better, we'll take a second look. I had tried setting that station to "soil" directly in the console setup and received no temperature reading in the LOOP packets. Only by setting it as "temp" did any second temperature reading appear. I don't have leaf wetness or soil moisture sensors nor do I plan to add them so all is good on my end now that I understand things unique to my station. I use a label assignment to make sure the value is displayed as Soil Temperature on the generated reports. Thanks for a fine piece of software that keeps me learning. :-D - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/20231201013909.bgj4u6hujbn6bvb7%40n0nb.us.
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