Inconclusive result. TxID 1 never changes from "iss" and although it shows as "inactive", packets keep showing up. Similarly, TxID 2 is always "active", but shows as "(N/A)". TxID 3 (the spare I chose), did change to and from "iss".
I'll be on site again in a couple of weeks. I'll see if I can upgrade to the current weewx version (and Vantage driver). I'll also be able to bang on the console with fingers to see if I can change it manually (I'll stop the weewx process while doing that). On Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 1:26:34 PM UTC-7 John Kline wrote: > This has come up before. The straightforward approach doesn’t work, so > you’ll have to use the workaround here: > > > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Troubleshooting-the-Davis-Vantage-station#changing-the-iss-channel-using-weectl-device > > Note: the above is written with the weewx 5 command weectl. You’ll have > to substitute wee_device for weectl. > > > > On Sep 13, 2025, at 1:19 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I'm having trouble getting my system (Vue sensor package, regular Davis > console, weewx on a Raspberry Pi) to use transmitter channel 2. > > My station, installed several years ago, has some new neighbors. To avoid > all of us using the default channel 1, I changed mine to use channel 2. I > changed the channel on the sensor package and the ISS channel in the > weewx.conf file. From the console I verified that it was receiving from > channel 2 (though I only waited long enough to see the channel show up for > one packet). > > Somewhere along the way the console seemed to be taking data from someone > using channel 1 instead of channel 2. I know because that sensor package > runs out of (solar) battery shortly before dawn every day, and comes up > again shortly after dawn. This can't be my station as I just inserted a new > CR123 battery in the sensor package this week. The station is at a vacation > home so I'm only there sporadically. > > I login to the Pi remotely and have tried several commands to force the > console to pay attention to channel 2 instead of 1. You can see the whole > session in the attached log. I seem to have succeeded in deactivating > channel 1, but it still shows as an ISS station, and nothing for channel 2. > I've restarted the weewx server a couple of times but I seem to only get > data from channel 1, which I believe is not my station. > > Any thoughts on how to go about debugging this further or fixing it would > be very much appreciated. > > > > > -- > 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/1e270f49-a3ac-4bcf-a161-f500284b8772n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/1e270f49-a3ac-4bcf-a161-f500284b8772n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > <weewx_logs.txt> > > -- 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/c117a5c5-f41b-44fd-9f98-8a4ceef24993n%40googlegroups.com.
