Thanks Thomas. debug shows: May 13 10:21:22 raspi-server-misc weewx[6626] DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: Opened up ethernet host 10.0.6.22 on port 22222. timeout=4.0, tcp_send_delay=0.5 May 13 10:21:22 raspi-server-misc weewx[6626] DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: Gentle wake up of console successful May 13 10:21:23 raspi-server-misc weewx[6626] DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: Hardware type is 16 May 13 10:21:25 raspi-server-misc weewx[6626] DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: ISS ID is 1 May 13 10:21:25 raspi-server-misc weewx[6626] DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: Hardware name: Vantage Pro2
So confirmed there. =/ I've inquired with the MB dev to see if we can be more specific. I think the MB emulates the LOOP protocol. Any chance we could get some (possibly hidden) option to force the station type in the Vantage driver? the biggest issue right now is weewx is expecting ET data since it's a Vantage Pro2, but not getting it. For 2. I had the MB set, and therefore the console, set to 60 second record time. Which was overriding the 300 sec in weewx, so the "noise" was just 60 second record times vs the standard 300. Got that fixed by setting MB to set the console to 5 mins. For 3. That makes sense. I set those to hardware rather than prefer. It is still set to use both, I guess I'm curious one over the other. Should I just use 2? 2 doesn't seem to include battery info. I do notice that with it set to "3" (both) sometimes when weewx does it's web render it doesn't have battery data (just Unknown) until the next time around when it apparently gets that info and fills it in. What's best practice here? Just use 2 and change the settings back to prefer_hardware and let weewx fill in the blanks? Thanks! On Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 9:09:17 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > 1. The hardware type is determined by the WRD command. You can check what > it's returning by setting debug=1, then restarting. Look at the log. The > hardware type will be listed and look something like: > > May 12 15:22:59 nuc weewx[91691] DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: Hardware > type is 16 > > For whatever reason, yours must be returning 16, the code for the > VantagePro series. > > The option "model_type" is used only to differentiate between the original > VantagePro, and the current VantagePro2. It is always set to 2 for a Vue. > > 2. Not sure what you mean by 'noise'. Your plots look pretty normal to me. > Perhaps your Vue has better resolution than your old station? > > 3. WeeWX will calculate various derived variables if they are not supplied > by your hardware. LOOP and LOOP2 include different types in their packets, > most notably 'pressure' and 'altimeter', so it is possible you would be > switching between hardware and software origins. Personally, I would pick > one or the other. > > -tk > > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 9:33 AM Ryan Stasel <[email protected]> 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. 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