To be clear, I have "model_type" set to 2 rather than 1. But neither are the Vue, so I'm not sure if that matters or not. If I just comment that line out, will it try to figure it out on it's own? There's no documentation on that parameter in the docs that I can find.
On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 9:33:38 AM UTC-7 Ryan Stasel wrote: > Thanks Thomas. I was looking through the Vantage driver, and was curious > if there was a way to just "force" Vue. Saw something about setting the > value to 17, but not sure that is accurate. Does it read that value out of > the Envoy EEPROM? I can inquire with the MB developer and see if they have > any thoughts. Since you tell the MB what station you have, seems like it > should be able to report that back to Weewx. > > One thing I do notice is there's a significant amount of "noise" in the > graphs since switching over. If you take a look here: > https://www.staze.org/weewx/ before about 2pm PDT when it'll roll off the > graphs... maybe that's just the expected behavior with the LOOP data. > > Also, random, I set it to use both LOOP and LOOP2, and there's a note > about setting to hardware for the values weewx would otherwise calculate. > Those are currently set to "prefer_hardware". I assume that means it's > still going to calculate on every packet that doesn't contain that data, so > I should hard set to "hardware"? Maybe that'll remove the noise? Or is this > also an MB side effect? > > On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 6:18:38 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> 1. I'm afraid I can't offer an opinion on this, because your arrangement >> is so non-standard. Normally, the station type is read out of EEPROM. >> 2. After 30 days, the logic in the skin gives up and figures the sensors >> are gone. So, you can either wait that long, or pare down the list of >> sensors in skin.conf. Look under stanza [DisplayOptions]. >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 12:52 PM Ryan Stasel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I just flipped drivers to the Vantage driver (having previously used the >>> ambientweatherapi driver). I have two questions. >>> >>> 1. My page now thinks I have a Vantage Pro 2 rather than a Vue. I'm >>> interfacing over "ethernet" to a Meteobridge Nano SD in an Envoy. Is there >>> a different value I should put in for "model_type" to reflect Vantage Vue? >>> >>> 2. The ambientweatherapi driver reported battery level, and the Vantage >>> one does not. But now I just have two "Unknown" values where those go. I >>> assume just clear out those DB entires so the template doesn't render them? >>> Will have to figure out what field it used for this so I can null it out... >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> 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/cb9428de-0583-4b64-bc94-a86a65702922n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/cb9428de-0583-4b64-bc94-a86a65702922n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- 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/25fc0552-4911-4cb8-9ab8-21fd2ebc7008n%40googlegroups.com.
