Meteobridge: The MB Nano (SD) is a bit costly but plugs right into the old VP2 data socket and is easy to set up, and works fine with WeeWx, plus it has pre-fab direct upload setups for nearly all the weather sites, and a whole series of its own configurable internal reports too, if you have the patience. I guess if you have the new Davis console it would not help.
I've been using two of them for years. > On May 18, 2026, at 16:19, Vince Skahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. 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