Can't you set transmitter IDs manually via the console?

Gary

On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 18:18:36 UTC+10 Graham Eddy wrote:

> QC is filtering out the bad values, but weewx server is currently 
> resetting after 4 failed retries on regular basis while the phantom station 
> haunts the vp2. there is no radio signal being transmitted to provide the 
> extraTemp1 values, it is just a figment of data logger’s imagination. the 
> phantom battery-low apparently from the ex-station stopped yesterday, but 
> the data logger is still reporting the extraTemp1 despite my (failed) 
> wee_device instruction just now to desist
>
> i do ‘wee_device —set-transmitter-type=2,10’ and it gives ’no <ack>’ error.
> then i do ‘wee_device —info’ and it reports ch2 still enabled
> so it is not just a case of resetting memory/power
>
> weewx v4.5.1 using python3.7 on RPi 4B running buster with usb/serial
> (vp2 firmware is from 2004. lately weewx has been resetting whenever the 
> (now ex-) extra station reported low battery, so this bogus extraTemp1 
> value upsetting weewx is kinda understandable → i need to turn all vestiges 
> of the (ex-) extra station off)
>
> On 25 May 2022, at 5:53 pm, Stephen Hocking <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Given such a whacko figure, perhaps under the [[Corrections]] section 
> under [StdCalibrate], or more suitably, something under [StdQC].
>
> On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 17:45, Graham Eddy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> my old vantage pro2’s additional wireless temp station at ch2 (iss is at 
>> ch1) has carked it (crushed in tree fall). it exists no more; it is not 
>> transmitting. my vp2 data logger is faithfully reporting a phantom value of 
>> about 150 C (not bad for a river!) every few seconds, how do i disable this 
>> phantom?
>>
>> i tried (*with weewx not running*) ‘wee_device 
>> --set-transmitter-type=2,10’ to set ch2 to none, but all i get is an 
>> error ‘No <ACK> received from Vantage console’, and it continues 
>> reporting the phantom when i start weewx again. how can i stop this phantom?
>> cheers
>>
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