I'm aware of the WeatherLink driver but that driver only downloads archive data once very five minutes (by default). What I'm looking for is something that gets the instantaneous values so that I can get a live stream for the Belchertown skin. I was looking at meteostick but it looks like the weewx-rtldavis <https://github.com/lheijst/weewx-rtldavis/blob/master/bin/user/rtldavis.py> driver and the meteostick <https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-meteostick/blob/master/bin/user/meteostick.py> driver have the same roots so I'm wondering whether I would encounter the same problem with the meteostick. I guess it would depend on the underlying sdr driver that the meteostick uses compared to rtldavis <https://github.com/lheijst/rtldavis>.
Ultimately, what I would really like is to figure out why the wind speeds that I'm getting aren't in keeping with what the WeatherLink Console is displaying. The wind has picked up a bit at my place in the last few days and I'm now seeing more non-zero wind speeds but it's still mostly zeroes. Wind gust is always a multiple of 1mph which is obviously not realistic. Am I the only one that is seeing this or are others as well? If I'm the only one, how do I figure out why and how to fix it? While I'm not particularly familiar with Python and not at all with golang, I am willing to do whatever it takes, with the help of the experts in this group, to figure it out. On Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 9:11:31 AM UTC-8 vince wrote: > As far as I can tell it’s the only way to do so if you are reading the > sensor RF directly. There are a number of drivers that query the Davis > servers if you have the new tablet-like console. Look in the wiki in the > drivers section for WeatherLink. > > On Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 10:39:53 PM UTC-8 Danny Ciarniello wrote: > >> Seems that I spoke too soon that it's only the wind that's problematic as >> I got a high rain rate of 204.8mm/hr with an amount of 51.2mm over an >> archive interval today. That definitely did *not* happen and was not >> recorded by the weatherlink console. I'm starting to wonder about the >> reliability of rtl-sdr for reading Davis weather station data. I did not >> notice any problems with reading acurite 5in1 data using rtl_433 for a week >> or so before I got my Vantage Vue so I wasn't expecting this. >> >> Are there any more reliable methods for reading Vantage Vue data >> transmissions? >> On Friday, December 5, 2025 at 6:35:10 PM UTC-8 Danny Ciarniello wrote: >> >>> I have just set up weex with a Vantage Vue using weewx-rtldavis >>> <https://github.com/lheijst/weewx-rtldavis>. At first everything >>> looked good but then I noticed that the WeatherLink Console that I have was >>> displaying wind speeds but weewx was getting mostly zeros. From the logs, >>> most of the windspeed readings that the driver is producing are zero. The >>> occasional non-zero readings are mostly multiples of 1mph. Why would this >>> be happening and what can be done to fix the issue. >>> >>> Here's the RtlDavis section of weewx.conf. >>> >>> [Rtldavis] >>> cmd = /etc/weewx/bin/user/rtldavis >>> transceiver_frequency = US >>> iss_channel = 4 >>> anemometer_channel = 0 >>> leaf_soil_channel = 0 >>> temp_hum_1_channel = 0 >>> temp_hum_2_channel = 0 >>> rain_bucket_type = 1 >>> debug_parse = 0 >>> debug_rain = 0 >>> debug_rtld = 2 >>> save_pct_good_per_transmitter = False >>> driver = user.rtldavis >>> >>> This is with weewx 5.2. The Vantage Vue is the US metric version. >>> >>> >>> >> -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/420640e0-865b-4b20-8223-dec65e397c2dn%40googlegroups.com.
