Tom: the reason I am considering the 6163 with the 24 hour aspiration fan is because where I am going to mount the ISS.
On my property, I really have 2 locations to mount the ISS (minus the anemometer), on my TV Tower that is mounted to the side of my house, or on a post in the front yard. The front yard would be ideal, but I was worried someone would steal/damage the unit as it would be sticking out from the street. The location would be perfect on a meterological prespective, but a $1000+ station unprotected is asking for trouble where I live. Plus mounting this device out there would require me to get a solar wireless transmitter device ($149) for the anemometer that is going up the TV tower. So if I go with mounting the station on my tv tower, I will be putting it up 4 feet above the roof line. With the florida sun, I expect the temp readings to be considerably off, so I figured a aspirating fan would tamper that effect. Again i could be wrong on this approach, so if anyone has run into this as an issue, please let me know. for the rest of the sensors, I want the UV/Radiation sensors so I can know the UV index at my location. Again thanks for the great information, it is helping me plan and design this setup out. :) On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 10:30 AM Tom Hogland <tom.hogl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Only other thing might be, why the 6163? If you need 24-hour fans and the > solar/UV then that's what you need, but it's a hefty price increase to get > those. I think the 6162 loses the fan, and the 6152 (that I have) loses the > solar/UV. Otherwise, the wireless is all the same, as are the basic weather > sensors (the "ISS" to Davis). Note that the 6152C/6162C/etc are the cabled > versions - all the ones without the C in the model are wireless, and all of > the anemometers are wired to the ISS regardless of model (although Davis > has a wireless anemometer adapter, either AC powered or solar). > > If the WL Live will integrate both devices then that's probably the way to > go - the Envoy pre-dates the Airlink by quite a few years and I can't see > any docs that say it will see the Airlink. (In fact none of the Envoy docs > mention the Airlink...) The Envoy + Weatherlink datalogger mostly > duplicates the WL Live functionality, so you don't need both. The Envoy > *may* be more reliable, depending on a LOT of variables, just because it's > a dedicated ISS receiver that's hard-wired to your weather PC, while the WL > Live depends on your weewx sniffing network packets for data. > > I have a *real* Dell/Ubuntu server in the basement, so weewx happily runs > on it. If I was to duplicate it today I'd probably go get a Dell/HP/Lenovo > micro-form factor PC instead. Models with 6-8th gen i5 CPUs, 16GB memory > and decent drives are under $300 and that lets them run generic Linux on > them - very easy to support, troubleshoot etc. A "spinny" drive would be my > choice - I'm too old-school to trust any form of SSD for the constant > writes that these systems do, and a 250GB-500GB drive is cheap. I've still > got 20+ year old drives in the basement that function perfectly, although > they're worthless when it comes to capacity - too easy to fill up a 4GB > drive these days :-) > > On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 5:19:37 AM UTC-8 do...@dougjenkins.com > wrote: > >> Thank you Greg and Tom for the advice and insight! I do appreciate it! >> >> The reason I am considering the 6163 (VP2+ Wireless) model is that it >> would be a very long cable run through my attic (which has poor access) to >> get to my utility closet where I keep my telco equipment and my dedicated >> machine for the weather station. Plus I might get a soil/leaf module in the >> future to monitor my garden once I recover from the sticker shock of buying >> the initial Davis hardware :) >> >> For the weatherlink data logger, I will need to consider that in the >> future. Right now I was thinking of just getting the WeatherLink Live 6100 >> as according to the user guides, it will allow me to pull the raw data for >> both the airlink and the VP2+ via its API directly from the local device. I >> see that there are a number of weatherlink weewx drivers on the wiki page >> from others who are pulling this data today. The weatherlink 6100 will be >> on a battery backup and directly connected to my home network in a closet >> that is close to the weather station. I will see if that is enough to go >> through some of our regular thunderstorms here in West Florida (we lose >> power on a regular basis). >> >> Based on Toms' feedback, I am not going to go with the sonic anemometer. >> It is very expensive ($540 today) and what I read is that it is good for up >> to 90mph. I will use the included anemometer with the VP2+ and see how that >> goes. I read those cups can go through a cat5 hurricane, just hope I do not >> have to experience that to test that theory out at home! >> >> I am going to use a dedicated NUC PC for this station as they are >> currently cheaper than a RPI4 (8GB) and will have a M.2 SSD. That should be >> more than enough hardware to run the website and weewx with no issues. >> >> anything else I am missing? >> >> On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 10:37:13 AM UTC-4 tom.h...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> I'm using a VP2 - about 12 years worth now. My connection is via a >>> serial Weatherlink in a Weather Envoy, as my weewx install is in the >>> basement and my console is upstairs in the living room. Since the WL Live >>> came out the Envoy is more affordable than it used to be, and works great. >>> If you can put your console next to (or close to) the weewx PC then you can >>> just use the serial/USB module, otherwise you'll need the Envoy. >>> >>> I use the standard anemometer on my roof; I also have a Tempest with >>> sonic anemometer, and it doesn't seem to be quite as accurate or sensitive >>> as the old-school version. (It's also $500 extra, and I'm cheap...) My >>> anemometer has needed absolutely no maintenance in that 12 years. I'm also >>> thinking about using the AirLink if I can get it's data pulled into weewx >>> and integrated, but haven't seen any discussion about it in here. >>> >>> Next plan is to start using the Tempest to report into a weewx instance >>> and see how it compares to the VP2, If it's accurate and reliable it'll go >>> up on the roof pole with the VP2 anemometer and do it's thing. >>> >>> >>> On Monday, March 14, 2022 at 4:33:20 AM UTC-8 do...@dougjenkins.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> 1. Should I use the WeatherLink or a direct connection module? >>>> Pros/Cons? >>>> 2. Has anyone used the Air Quality module from Davis on their weather >>>> station and reported the data using WeeWX? >>>> 3. Has anyone used the Davis Sonic Anemometer? I am thinking of putting >>>> the anemometer high up on the tower (33ft/10m), but maintaining that will >>>> be a big chore. 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