[aprssig] Davis Vantage Vue and RF APRS

[Aaron Thomas]

 From what I remember that was one of the selling points of a Peet 
Brothers Weather station over Davis. They claim it at #5 ( APRS Ready) 
of their Ten Best Reasons to own a Peet Brothers.

Guess if you already have a Davis it might not help, however if someone 
is still looking for hardware that could be a huge selling point.

On 2/22/23 16:27, David Rogers wrote:
> I had a friend who made an adapter to connect in the back of the 
> display console. There was some kind of authentication or handshaking 
> that required adding an EEPROM to the adapter and getting the correct 
> contents loaded into the EEPROM.
>
> I initially attempted a similar project, but ended up giving up and 
> using a WeatherLink Live to get the data to the internet, then pulling 
> the data down to my APRS node to send over RF.
>
> David
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, at 12:09 PM, Jason Rausch wrote:
>> Well, maybe I should have researched JUST a little more.  I found out 
>> that the adapter plugs into a multi-pin expansion port on the Davis 
>> display console.  I found a pinout for the port and there is TTL 
>> level serial, along with ground and +VCC to power the adapter.  Looks 
>> like an easy ST3232 TTL-Serial adapter mod job using a PCB.  I'm 
>> curious to see what format the serial data is coming from the port.
>>
>> Jason Rausch K4APR
>> www.ke4nyv.com
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 03:06:23 PM EST, Jason Rausch 
>> <jason at ke4nyv.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Does anyone on the list have any experience with getting a Davis 
>> Vantage Vue weather station on RF APRS?  I am trying to help another 
>> guy get this going.  From what I have found out so far, it looks like 
>> Davis makes an (RS232 Datalogger) that looks like some kind of TTL to 
>> RS232 adapter going from an RJ45 to a terminal block that I guess is 
>> putting out RS232 levels and still needs a cut off serial cable or 
>> something similar to complete the wiring job. The major problem with 
>> this is, the adapter is another $225.
>>
>> Has anyone found a better (lower cost) option.  I see that WeeWX 
>> running on a Pi has native USB support for the Davis and even feeds 
>> to the CWOP servers, but I can't find any support for APRS whether 
>> through a direct TCP/IP feed to APRS-IS and/or a way to reformat the 
>> data to a Peet Bros or other similar format and then spit it back out 
>> at serial (TTL or RS232) levels that I can then feed to an 
>> OpenTracker or similar APRS device to get the data to the actual RF 
>> network.
>>
>> Any guidance would be great!
>>
>> Jason Rausch K4APR
>> www.ke4nyv.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> aprssig mailing list
>> aprssig at lists.tapr.org
>> http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org
>> _______________________________________________
>> aprssig mailing list
>> aprssig at lists.tapr.org
>> http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> aprssig mailing list
> aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig_lists.tapr.org/attachments/20230222/426a8f9b/attachment.html>