See page 6-7 (Section VII.1 -- Command Summary - Testing commands) of the serial communications manual.
There are two commands VER and NVER (Vantage Pro 2 only). I tried VER on my home Vantage Pro and get the response: OK Oct 25 2001 Which gives you an idea how long I have had this weather station. I tried the NVER command which is supposed to work only on a Vantage Pro 2 and the response to this command on a Vantage Pro is either "no response" or a newline / LF response. No text string. I will let you know the responses from a Vantage Pro 2 console when back at work tomorrow. Paul KF4TTB --- In [email protected], Scott Miller <sc...@...> wrote: > > I'm mostly concerned with figuring out whether or not I can detect the > version automatically. Making it a configuration option will make it > more confusing and require more code space. > > Scott > > Paul Meyer wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Scott. It doesn't appear that it is something "difficult" to > > implement. Note the double quotes. Note that I did get the rare > > occasional weather packet reporting -- As the Davis documentation > > states, it may work intermittently. > > > > I'm more than willing to test as needed on the cabled Vantage Pro 2 > > standard weatherlink serial module. I also have the wireless Davis VP2 > > with the APRS Streaming module. Perhaps I could not get it to work > > before due to this serial modification and it had nothing to do with it > > being an APRS version of the weatherlink. > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:tracker2%40yahoogroups.com>, > > Scott Miller <scott@> wrote: > > > > > > Good to know! I've got it on my to-do list now and I'll get back to you > > > with updated firmware when I've got something ready to test. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > Paul Meyer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I recently tested an Argent T2-301 radio with integrated TNC with a > > > > Davis Vantage Pro with the serial weatherlink module on my home > > weather > > > > station and got it to work with Scott's help. > > > > > > > > I have been testing the same at work now with a brand new cabled Davis > > > > Vantage Pro 2 unit and the serial weatherlink module (not the APRS > > > > streaming module). It has mainly been transmitting status packets and > > > > only three weather packets, only one of which was correct. After > > > > scratching head many times today, I finally consulted the Davis > > website > > > > to discover that the Vantage Pro and the Vantage Pro2 units utilize > > > > slightly different serial protocols. The Pro2 expects only one line > > feed > > > > / carriage return not both according to Davis and timing changes on > > the > > > > Vantage Pro2. > > > > > > > > I'm including the link to Davis' comm manual that describes these > > > > differences. Perhaps there needs to be two Davis modes in the > > Argent code. > > > > > > > > http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/software_dllsdk.asp > > > > > > > > Choose the Vantage Pro and Pro2 Serial Communications Reference, 2.3.0 > > > > to see the differences. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
