Hello Richard,
Our protocol are very well established and we cannot change them for someone else's needs. We have literally thousands of developers that are using our protocols and changing the protocol for 1 designer will break things for all of the other designers. We do have our protocols well documented.
We do have multiple ways to push data to the CWOP and or APRS. We do combine the terms as for MOST people, they are considered the same, although they are not.
If you are pushing though a APRS modem, we used to have a special data logger designed for this. It would very well however, there was not enough interest in it any longer, so this has been discontinued.
Then next popular method is to use our software. The WeatherLink soft can push out to APRS if you are using WINDOWS.
It looks like this in not a viable option as it looks like you are using Linux.
Another option is to use our WEBSITE to push. Here it pushed to CWOP, but get pushed to APRS from them. This is great of most people, however the push upload is anywhere from 15 - 60 min depending on the hardware. With the latest hardware, there are subscription you can push as fast as once a minute.
These are the most common. Then there are other software packages. that work fine.
I am NOT familiar with the one you mention "YAAC". It sounds like they are using some format that is for PEET BROS only. They have there formats and we have our formats and both are proprietary. They would not let us use their format, and we would not allow them to use our format. It is not our issue that YAAC only uses their standard. It is not a very well promoted standard as it is only used by PEET.?
We have made out data available for developers (as I said earlier, we have thousands of developers writing software) We have data APIs that use the WEB (this is the easiest, but it would require you to push data to the web, and has limits as to the age of the data.
Then the most flexible way is to use our serial reference guide. This will allow any data logger to communicate through to get access to the data.
This data is provided in in binary block and is does require some programming skills, but it is well documented and used for many years.
You can find this located here:
We do require the purchase of a data logger as there are so many different options people want, and to include them all would add to the cost of the device.
I really hope this helps you to become a loyal Davis fan, as this is something that should be able to be resolved!
Although you are in to fairly niche groups (HAM and Linux) we should still be able to assist!
Bruce Johnson
Technical Support
Davis Instruments