Hello Andrew, On Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 10:29:11 PM UTC-5, Andrew Billits wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > Yeah, from looking at the Columbia Weather offerings, it seems all (or at > least most) of their products are just rebranded units. For example, taking > a closer look I can see that *all* of their weather station hardware is > from other manufactures. Lufft, Vaisala, Texas, etc. >
Okay. The thing is (and my point with this)... I seriously doubt Columbia is > developing custom firmware for this many devices from this many > manufacturers. So the odds are high that your station is just a Lufft > WS-600 and it's their server device that's been developed to talk the > various protocols. > Right. You would likely be able to connect your station to a Windows machine > running the Lufft configuration software and set it to the Lufft UMB > protocol (heck, it may already be configured that way). You would then have > the documented lufft protocol to work with. There's already python project > on GitHub for the Lufft UMB protocol. > This station is a few hours drive away from me. When I am in the area from time to time, I still have to arrange to get physical access to it. As it's an operational unit, I can't go unplugging it and running experiments as that will interfere with logging current weather conditions not to mention that I have no way to plug an RS-485 interface into a computer. However, writing a driver that works at the Columbia MicroServer level is something I can do remotely and doesn't interfere with the hardware while I run tests on the driver. Such a driver will also work with many of the stations Columbia sells as they also use the MicroServer computer. Thank you and best regards, -Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/dca40f91-e1d9-4d95-b7dd-827bc87481bf%40googlegroups.com.
