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Yep, that's why I don't support the Davis weather stations directly. They claim their protocols are well-supported; yes, if you pay extra for the adapter device (especially the amateur-specific one that they discontinued), they are. And, like almost everyone else (excepts hams), they assume the Internet will always be up, functional, and accessible from where you are, and that delayed or throttled data is acceptable to you. My local ARES/RACES group is dealing with just such an issue for our county Department of Emergency Services, as they need wind monitoring for a specific potential hazardous materials incident (specifically, a natural gas pipeline) at more places than we have ham radio operators to host APRS weather stations.

This is why I didn't add Davis-specific support to YAAC, since some adapter was going to have to be used anyway. The WXNOW.TXT port type in YAAC is for one of the most common formats for generic weather station data access.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Richard Beggs <richard.n0eb@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:49 PM
To: Andrew Pavlin
Subject: [yaac-users] Davis Reply from using YAAC on Linux


Andrew

Here is the response I received from Davis Weather. I would also like to draw you attention to a new product I am trying to acquire. I have HRO trying to get one of these so we can see how it works.

Thank You and God Bless [¡`]
Richard

Richard Beggs N0EB 145.295
1220 H Street
Salida, Co. 81201
Email: Richard.N0EB@...

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Bruce Johnson (Davis Instruments)

Mar 10, 2021, 3:08 PM PST

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!








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Davis Instruments

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JenniferA

Mar 8, 2021, 2:05 PM PST

-----Original Message-----
From: Davis Instruments <noreply@...<mailto:noreply@...>>
Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 10:02 AM
To: Sales <sales@...<mailto:sales@...>>
Subject: Get in touch. From Richard Beggs

Name: Richard Beggs
Email: richard.n0eb@...<mailto:richard.n0eb@...>
Industry: Weather
Address: 1220 H St
Business:
Call: 719-539-5435
Message: Well I a just about ready to put my Davis Vantage Pro 2 on Ebay and sell it. Your data is impossible to work with. I Have your weather station and I need the data to go to APRS-IS and I am using YAAC for that purpose. But your data is impossible to format or use with YAAC. To quote the man that wrote YAAC "The Serial_Weather port type in YAAC only supports Peet Bros weather stations (or any other brand that uses one or more of the protocols Peet Bros uses for their serial weather data). Davis explicitly does not use that protocol, and does not document their protocols at all, and requires that you buy one of their WeatherLink adapters to be able to get the weather data out of one of their consoles; depending on the adapter type you buy, the weather data may or may not go to where you want it to go." I now have the USB and serial interface and I am working with a Linux professional that is trying to figure out a solution. WXNOW.TXT looked like It might be a solution but this soft ware is unsupported and very out dated. As one of the Ham radio people that report weather I am and use Linux I am about to tell everyone one face book and Eham to stay away from your products for lack of support.
Thank you and God Bless
Richard

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