this sounds great. for the record, eliminating the davis console and its need for a serial/usb port also eliminates what it provides: various indoor sensors (including barometer i think) and -crucially- the hardware data logger ⊣GE⊢
> On 25 Mar 2024, at 3:46 AM, vince <vinceska...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Short answer is 'yes it takes care of things just fine'... > > Loosely related - I recently updated my repo containing a script to set up v5 > weewx/nginx with rtldavis (link) > <https://github.com/vinceskahan/weewx-rtldavis> if anybody is having issues > following Luc's ancient documentation for his driver. The issue if you > follow Luc's old docs as written these days is that the go language folks > induced breaking changes in golang-1.16 and later. Simply specifying an older > version of golang does the trick in preventing getting bitten by that > upstream breaking change. > > (I noticed this workaround buried in an attachment in an old thread (link) > <https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/bGiQPuOljqs/m/Mrvwe50UCQAJ> from > last year from another user here....) > > Some disclaimers on my script linked above: > it assumes you are on a pi running as user 'pi' > it only supports v5 pip installations of weewx > and I have 'no' plans be able to handle dpkg installs, running as other > users, docker, whatever. > (but it should be a good starting point for how to install librtlsdr and > rtldavis nowadays) > > On Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 8:05:22 AM UTC-7 bgra...@umw.edu > <http://umw.edu/> wrote: >> Vince, >> According to Davis for the Vantage Pro 2: >> Operates on frequency-hopping spread spectrum of 902 to 928 MHz. Vantage Pro >> units operated at 916.5 MHz >> >> Does the rtldavis take care of this? Is it able to scan for spread spectrum >> data? I don’t know a lot about this. >> Thanks. >> Bob >> >> On Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 3:09:10 PM UTC-4 vince wrote: >>> Sorry - late reply. I don't understand the frequency hopping question. >>> The rtldavis just kinda works and hears the ISS just fine. I didn't do an >>> exhaustive test but I did run it for a couple three days and it was nice >>> and stable here. >>> >>> On Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 6:56:07 AM UTC-7 bgra...@umw.edu <> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I need some help setting up a VantagePro2 with this. Vince’s How To was >>>> helpful but doesn’t address the VP2 and its frequency hopping. Could >>>> someone running a successful setup post details? I’m running Bookworm on >>>> an RPI5. Thanks in advance. >>>> Bob >>>> >>>> On Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3:12:55 AM UTC-4 mihec wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I need help setting up the rtldavis as well. Currently I'm using >>>>> Ubuntu22.04 (as a test polygon) and latest weewx version (5.0x). I did >>>>> follow up instructions from the github link but got stuck at step 4) >>>>> where I should reconfigure the driver. The new "weectl" binary does not >>>>> seem to have this option but I was assuming it might do it with "weectl >>>>> extension install" already? >>>>> The next issue is with the build. I don't understand 5b): Since I am >>>>> supposed to "cd" into a directory, it should have already exist. But when >>>>> was the "$GOPATH/src/github.com/lheijst/rtldavis >>>>> <http://github.com/lheijst/rtldavis>" created? >>>>> I managed to compile some code (honestly don't know how :-) ), I have a >>>>> rtldavis binary which seems to recognize my Realtek RTLSDR dongle. I then >>>>> try step 7) but it fails with >>>>> File "/etc/weewx/bin/user/rtldavis.py", line 93, in <module> >>>>> import weewx.drivers >>>>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'weewx' >>>>> >>>>> Can you please help with this? >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> torek, 23. avgust 2022 ob 05:56:50 UTC+2 je oseba storm...@gmail.com <> >>>>> napisala: >>>>>> Take a look here: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://github.com/lheijst/weewx-rtldavis >>>>>> >>>>>> On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 11:42:38 PM UTC-4 f4n...@gmail.com <> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, does anyone have the installation files for rtldavis? It seems to >>>>>>> be archived (https://github.com/bemasher/rtldavis) and not longer >>>>>>> available in the repository if I try to install it with golang. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is anyone having long term experience and still running it? How stable >>>>>>> is the signal with a R820T/T2 chip? Does it get every 2.5s wind packet? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for any advice, >>>>>>> fankyy > > > -- > 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 > <mailto:weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2505d1fe-4ea0-4cae-9730-159e1c907ab7n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2505d1fe-4ea0-4cae-9730-159e1c907ab7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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. 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