As far as I can tell it’s the only way to do so if you are reading the sensor RF directly. There are a number of drivers that query the Davis servers if you have the new tablet-like console. Look in the wiki in the drivers section for WeatherLink.
On Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 10:39:53 PM UTC-8 Danny Ciarniello wrote: > Seems that I spoke too soon that it's only the wind that's problematic as > I got a high rain rate of 204.8mm/hr with an amount of 51.2mm over an > archive interval today. That definitely did *not* happen and was not > recorded by the weatherlink console. I'm starting to wonder about the > reliability of rtl-sdr for reading Davis weather station data. I did not > notice any problems with reading acurite 5in1 data using rtl_433 for a week > or so before I got my Vantage Vue so I wasn't expecting this. > > Are there any more reliable methods for reading Vantage Vue data > transmissions? > On Friday, December 5, 2025 at 6:35:10 PM UTC-8 Danny Ciarniello wrote: > >> I have just set up weex with a Vantage Vue using weewx-rtldavis >> <https://github.com/lheijst/weewx-rtldavis>. At first everything looked >> good but then I noticed that the WeatherLink Console that I have was >> displaying wind speeds but weewx was getting mostly zeros. From the logs, >> most of the windspeed readings that the driver is producing are zero. The >> occasional non-zero readings are mostly multiples of 1mph. Why would this >> be happening and what can be done to fix the issue. >> >> Here's the RtlDavis section of weewx.conf. >> >> [Rtldavis] >> cmd = /etc/weewx/bin/user/rtldavis >> transceiver_frequency = US >> iss_channel = 4 >> anemometer_channel = 0 >> leaf_soil_channel = 0 >> temp_hum_1_channel = 0 >> temp_hum_2_channel = 0 >> rain_bucket_type = 1 >> debug_parse = 0 >> debug_rain = 0 >> debug_rtld = 2 >> save_pct_good_per_transmitter = False >> driver = user.rtldavis >> >> This is with weewx 5.2. The Vantage Vue is the US metric version. >> >> >> > -- 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/84a513d4-9234-49c9-9b4c-d6128d75a904n%40googlegroups.com.
