I would ask Davis about your upgrade options. Their support is very good. As far as WeeWX is concerned, it's compatible with firmware much older than yours.
-tk On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 10:32 AM 'Chris Schram' via weewx-user < [email protected]> wrote: > I have an 11-year-old Davis Vantage Vue with a USB data-logger plugged > into a Raspberry Pi3B. Everything works well except... > > The sensor suite, which has been out in years of all kinds of weather, > besides being pretty filthy, is crapping out in its temperature/humidity > readings when it starts getting hot during the day. It recovers when the > temperature drops sufficiently. > > In a perfect world I could swap in a brand new sensor suite, and be up > and running pretty quick. What I'm not so sure of is whether I could run > into compatibility problems with my 11-year-old console and data-logger. > > I have observed that the console/data-logger have received firmware > updates over the years, none of which I am capable of applying. These > updates require Windows, and all I have on hand are Macs and Raspberry > Pis. > > As an alternative, since Davis weather stations are at the pricey end of > the scale, and I might not care to replace the entire hardware, what > choices in new hardware would be in the more affordable zone. I'd prefer > an out-of-box solution rather than having to roll my own weather > station. > > Thanks. > > -- > [email protected] is a filtered spam magnet. Email replies may be lost. > You're better off replying to this newsgroup. > > -- > 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 on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/rl916h%24sdu%241%40ciao.gmane.io > . > -- 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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEAiB3jcMP2qnMHhA3Hoh6XE%2B%3D42PM0%2BdWcdM5DFcb8TWg%40mail.gmail.com.
