- #DAVIS VANTAGE PRO RASPBERRY PI USB LOGGER HOW TO#
- #DAVIS VANTAGE PRO RASPBERRY PI USB LOGGER SOFTWARE#
#DAVIS VANTAGE PRO RASPBERRY PI USB LOGGER SOFTWARE#
Firstly I installed the WeatherLink software that had been supplied with the data logger onto my PC which enabled me to test that I was able to download data from the console. The next stage was to link the Vantage Vue to my Raspberry Pi and upload the data to a web site. At present I've only scratched the surface of the information it is possible to display. Once complete the latest data from the ISS is displayed together with astronomical events - I was pretty impressed to see it show that the Taurid meteor shower was due.īy pressing one of the buttons on the console it's possible to obtain more information about, say, the wind as well as displaying the data in the graph in the bottom left of the display. I lost count after about the twelfth beep and was becoming somewhat concerned at the random messages on the screen and constant reboots.Įventually the console settled down and I was able to start the setup process which, apart from finding elevation, latitude and longitude (Google Earth is your friend here), was pretty much a case of accepting the defaults.
Once procured and inserted I switched on the console which was meant to run through a self test and beep four times. These weren't available in either of the shops in the village and so I had to trek into the nearby town. To my chagrin I realised that although it had been supplied with a mains adapter it also required three 'C' size batteries. The hard part done I turned to the console. A nice touch was the spirit level built into the top of the ISS to help ensure it is level. Prior to mounting it I tested that it was communicating with the console and then attached it to the mast and the whole lot to the bracket that had formerly held the WH-1080. The ISS has to be mounted on a pole, so I bought an aerial mast which, at 3cms was about the recommended diameter.
#DAVIS VANTAGE PRO RASPBERRY PI USB LOGGER HOW TO#
The instruction booklet was well presented and clearly explained how to insert the rain tipping spoon (their word), attach the wind cups and wind vane. Depressing, though, that the software and Data Logger hardware hadn't had the difficulties designed out.Īssembling the ISS was trivial. Presumably they had had plenty of questions from users about it in the past. Prodata had thoughtfully attached detailed instructions regarding installation and preparation of the software. This is an extra - the Weather Vue will function happily without it - but I wanted to export the data to my Raspberry Pi and a Data Logger was required to do this. There was also a plastic bag that contained a mounting kit, battery and a teeny tiny Allen wrench so small I thought it was something you could use to poke into the Reset holes present on some consumer electronic equipment.Īlong with the Weather Vue I had ordered a USB Data Logger, which was supplied with Davis' WeatherLink software. Inside the box was the console (a small unit with an LCD display and some buttons) and what Davis calls the Integrated Sensor Suite, or ISS (a single white and black plastic unit housing rain gauge, anemometer, wind vane and thermometer). Shortly after I wrote the last post the Davis Weather Vue weather station I had ordered was delivered.
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