Well, I sort of predicted there would be some kind of hardware failure in my future.\u00a0 The predicted failure finally occurred.\u00a0 After some diagnosis it looked like my 1-wire hub failed.\u00a0 Also, my barometer became intermittent, occasionally returning a reading of zero.\u00a0 Some research proved hat the hub was no longer available, and support for 1-wire in general wasn’t very good anymore.\u00a0 Hobby Boards, which was the source of most of my hardware was even preparing to go out of business.\u00a0 It was becoming clear to me that 1-wire was probably not the best choice to purchase as new hardware.<\/p>\n
After some investigating, I decided that my best choice was a Davis weather station, either the Vantage Pro or Vantage Vue.\u00a0 They both are solar powered and wireless, which was a big step up from my previous weather station.\u00a0 The Pro would be my preference, but cost drove me to the Vue.\u00a0 The two features I wish the Vue had are a fan aspirated solar shield and the ability to separate the anemometer from the rest of the station for better siting.\u00a0 But when I looked at the cost I realized that my current station has all the sensors mounted together, even though I could separate them.\u00a0 And I could figure out a way to add a fan if solar heating became an issue.\u00a0 So I placed my order for a Vantage Vue and the Weatherlink hardware\/software.<\/p>\n
Once the new hardware arrived, I set it up indoors for testing.\u00a0 After I verified that it was working I mounted the hardware sensors outside and made sure the console was receiving a good signal.\u00a0 I had no issues and everything worked perfectly.\u00a0 Then I installed the Weatherlink module and connected it to my computer in order to test that interface and modify my weather software to work with the Davis hardware.\u00a0 After a bit of experimentation and reading the Davis documentation I got the software talking to the Weatherlink module.<\/p>\n
At the moment the revised software is running in my development environment, which is a Windows 10 desktop computer.\u00a0 I plan to migrate everything back to the Raspberry Pi in the next few days.\u00a0 Since the Pi isn’t running my weather station software at the moment I took this opportunity to use apt-get to upgrade any software running on the Pi.\u00a0 It hadn’t been upgraded, powered down, or rebooted in well over a year, so it was long overdue.\u00a0 I plan to relocate the Pi to another room in my house, so it will take me some time to make room for everything.\u00a0 I hope to have everything running back on the Pi within the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, I sort of predicted there would be some kind of hardware failure in my future.\u00a0 The predicted failure finally occurred.\u00a0 After some diagnosis it looked like my 1-wire hub failed.\u00a0 Also, my barometer became intermittent, occasionally returning a reading … Continue reading