You're trying to blaze a new trail here in so many ways it's hard to even list them. Mac for starters. The new Davis console for a bigger hurdle.
The longstanding weewx-rtldavis driver is the only known somewhat straightforward solution that handles the frequency hopping and is known to work ok for US users, although it is (as far as I know) raspberry pi only. At this time a raspi is unfortunately absurdly expensive even for used ones on eBay. Maybe you know somebody with an extra pi4 you can borrow. If you can find one you'd be up in an hour or two max. Perhaps you could query Davis servers for 'your' data and get there the long way, but I don't know. I avoid those kinds of kludges. Glad I have an ancient VP2 with the old console and serial dataloader directly attached to my raspi. Another way to toss hardware at the problem the meteobridge pro2 for $500 but you'd still need to figure out how to integrate that with weewx. The meteobridge documentation is so skeletal I can't even guess at how to do so, but I'm guessing some folks might have thoughts. In an ideal world you would have that emit MQTT which weewx can subscribe to, but I can't see mention of MQTT in the (to me, awful) documentation online for anything meteobridge. A $500 box that is limited to me is lunacy if you can throw $150 at the problem even if a pi is crazy expensive these days, but some folks just spend the money. On Monday, May 18, 2026 at 10:53:18 AM UTC-7 WeatheredScientist wrote: > I am trying to get weewx 5.3.1 up and running on my mac. I am not super > fluent with github and the like so it is difficult for me to parse my > struggles into language that is more easily understood by people > well-versed. I haven't had a real reason to work in a terminal setting in > over 25 years minus some cmd line programming in an environment that no one > here has heard of (shout out to any scientists who have used Igor Pro!), so > it is not something I do for my job or hobby. But I am not unfamiliar with > terminals. > > I am using a Davis 6263 system, which means the full set ISS plus their > dinky ecosystem-locked console. I hate the console. I want to bypass it so > i can have my data. to do that i need to intercept the RF signal. I have an > RTL-SDR v3 dongle and a 915MHz antenna to do that. I will need to frequency > hop around that center freq b/c I'm in the US and Davis likes to be > difficult. > > The idea is to run weewx in a container on my NAS. But I am setting that > aside. Right now, I am just trying to get it running at all on this > macbook, which has the nice terminal vs Windows where everything is a > problem. Plus I can move right under the ISS to eliminate SNR as a root > cause. > > So far, I have realized I need weewx to read in data from a .json file > that rtldavis will generate. The problem I have is getting rtldavis to > actually spit out anything meaningful. I am just seeing a bunch of > simualtor data. > > I don't really know where else to start: it's a bit of unknowns unknowns > for me. > > On Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 8:48:11 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: > >> Well not being clairvoyant it is impossible in the absence of any >> information for anyone to guess what you actually installed, nor how, nor >> what you see... so it is equally impossible for anybody to help. >> >> I would suggest you start with >> https://www.ministryoftesting.com/articles/11b82aee?s_id=15060040 as a >> random ‘how to report an issue’ howto… >> >> On Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 5:34:57 PM UTC-7 WeatheredScientist wrote: >> >>> I feel like I am getting close but not quite seeing the big picture. I'm >>> able to see the transmitter, but am having trouble decoding its output, let >>> alone parsing it into a database file of some kind. Github is not my >>> strength, but I am willing to learn. What's the best way for me to pick up >>> what I need to know without being too much of a pain on other community >>> members? >>> >>> On Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 8:30:22 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: >>> >>>> Moved a few months ago to >>>> https://github.com/weewx-contrib/weewx-rtldavis >>>> >>>> On Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 3:31:38 PM UTC-7 WeatheredScientist wrote: >>>> >>>>> The github link above is dead: does anyone know where to find this >>>>> today? >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, February 10, 2025 at 4:29:18 PM UTC-5 Wayne wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I think I have answered my own question in that weewx-rtldavis IS the >>>>>> correct weewx driver for me to use. Additionally, the following install >>>>>> script should make the task even easier as it describes how to use an >>>>>> earlier golang version which builds a working rtldavis binary (the >>>>>> actual >>>>>> SDR software for the Davis protocol). >>>>>> >>>>>> https://github.com/vinceskahan/weewx-rtldavis >>>>>> >>>>>> My sincere thanks to Vince for the above assist. Thanks for the >>>>>> bandwidth... >>>>>> >>>>>> Wayne >>>>>> >>>>> -- 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/c9fd121d-cf46-4534-ab33-dc13e8c74786n%40googlegroups.com.
