I spent a couple of hours looking at this yesterday and made no progress. The right set of bits seem to be getting sent to the Envoy, yet it does not recognize the ISS. There's something I'm missing in the documentation. I'll keep plugging away at it.
-tk On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM Graham Eddy <[email protected]> wrote: > any progress on this? i have a new second ISS tracked on a different VM, > dip switch ch2, but “weectl device —set-transmitter-type=2,0” does not work > according to “weectl device —info” and weewx on the diff VM is collecting > data from the old ISS ch1 not the new one. i cannot use pannetron’s > workaround (use a PC to change it) as i don’t have a PC. happy to use > “screen” to manually type in the config change, if needs be > > On Friday, 6 June 2025 at 11:54:46 pm UTC+10 Tom Keffer wrote: > >> I've confirmed this on my own Envoy. I've created issue #1004 >> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/issues/1004> to track. >> >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM pannetron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> My setup is a Vantage Pro2 ISS transmitting to an Envoy connected to a >>> Raspberry Pi5. WeeWX 5.1.0 install went fine with the default station ID >>> (iss_id) set to 1. My neighborhood has another Vantage Pro on ID 1 so I >>> wanted to be a good neighbor and change my station's ID to 5. Using "weectl >>> device --set-transmitter-type=1,10" set the ID 1 device to inactive but >>> left it marked as ISS. Running "weectl device -set-transmitter-type=5,0" >>> returned success but failed to set the type to ISS although it did >>> "activate" ID 5. As a workaround, I connected my Envoy to a PC with Davis >>> software and configured the Envoy for ISS ID of 5. Reattaching the Envoy to >>> the Pi and running "weectl device --info", I now see device ID 5 is active >>> *and* an ISS. After configuring the Envoy with the Davis software, I'm back >>> up and running fine with the station ID set to 5. >>> >>> Perhaps there's an issue in "weectl device --set-transmitter-type" >>> commanding the Envoy? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Russ P >>> Nederland CO >>> https://panneton.net/weather >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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]. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b697f571-4774-409f-896e-62ba6313e143n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b697f571-4774-409f-896e-62ba6313e143n%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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b16780fe-23c5-4605-8915-21e0039fd199n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b16780fe-23c5-4605-8915-21e0039fd199n%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zECgvTFO%3DkFeWDTcZnJCvKWn5vN89fRJfG9xxKo4JCzGWw%40mail.gmail.com.
