Thank you Tom for your answer. After replacing the battery, it took until midnight for the txBatteryStatus to return to 0. That confused me. This is also documented here.
https://support.davisinstruments.com/article/g3npg40jj0-i-m-getting-a-low-battery-on-station-1-error-on-my-console Tom Keffer schrieb am Montag, 6. November 2023 um 23:40:48 UTC+1: > The status is the binary number made by the turned on status bits. Bit 0 > corresponds to channel 1, Bit 1 to channel 2, etc. > > So, if only bit 0 is turned on, you get txBatteryStatus=1; > If only bit 1 is turned on, txBatteryStatus = 2. > If only bit 2 is on, txBatteryStatus=4. > And so on. > > Short version: bit 1 is turned on meaning you have a bad battery on the > channel 2 sensor. > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 8:47 AM Hannes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> my DAVIS Vantage Pro 2 has been running for 8 years without any failures. >> I read out the data via weewx and Raspi. Since a few days I get the value 2 >> in the field txBatteryStatus. Until now the value was always 0. >> >> *What does txBatteryStatus = 2 mean?* >> >> I have already replaced the lithium battery CR123 3V, unfortunately the >> txBatteryStatus remained at the value 2. >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> -- >> 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/8fb797fc-35d6-48a7-b921-5fb038caf50dn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8fb797fc-35d6-48a7-b921-5fb038caf50dn%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/f0dc774b-3af4-4e90-a67a-d1d234becd3an%40googlegroups.com.
