Using Aux Temp Sensors

[kp3]

I have a Davis 6132, and 2 external temperature sensors. An Envoy with a USB Datalogger is connected to a PPC Mac Mini running 10.5. The Davis Console sees the ISS and the external sensors.

WeatherCat's Station Comms is set to 'Davis Vantage/Pro/Pro2/Vue/Envoy' and sees the com port '/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART'. However, Live Data View reports all Aux. Temp sensors as 'invalid'

Shouldn't this work?

[WCDev]

Welcome to the forum kp3!

What we need here is an Envoy owner to chime in 

[Steve]

Hi kp3, and welcome to the WeatherCat forum!

What we need here is an Envoy owner to chime in 

I've got an Envoy, but not running any auxiliary sensors. Sorry I can't offer a suggestion.

[kp3]

Thanks guys!
Thinking about a plan B if no one chimes in. WCDev, it looks like you have aux temp sensors. Are you seeing them in WeatherCat via a logger in the console? ...and do they log?

[WCDev]

Yes, they'll work fine; Envoys are also known to work with extra sensors. It might be the case you have to set up the Envoy using WeatherLink for PC first - a quick check with Davis would confirm this.

[elagache]

Hi kp3,

I have a Davis 6132, and 2 external temperature sensors. An Envoy with a USB Datalogger is connected to a PPC Mac Mini running 10.5. The Davis Console sees the ISS and the external sensors.

Just to agree with everyone else, I have an aux temperature sensor and a Weather Envoy.  The data comes in just fine.  So indeed it might be a configuration issue.  Another possibility is that your console is close enough to get the data from the transmitter but your Weather Envoy isn't.  You might try moving the Envoy closer just to test.

Cheers, Edouard

[kp3]

I figured it out. Stu was right. It appears once the Envoy was set up using the windows version of Weatherlink Software (with the external sensors reselected), I was able to plug the Envoy back into the mac under WeatherCat and the sensors showed up valid. All working, I'm good for now.

Some notes:
Weatherlink for mac setup pref pages provided the same setup pages for the 8 channels that Weatherlink for windows did, however WL for mac did not ever log them or show current conditions for them. Davis said it wouldn't.
WL for windows didn't show current conditions for them but DID allow for graphing them. WL for windows allows 3 ext temps, or 2 ext temps and one temp/hum, or 1 ext temp and 2 temp/hums. (and solar, UV, lots of leaf moisture & soil, etc which I'm not concerned with now)
Beyond that it appears one would have to move up to a Envoy8X to log as many as 8 temp externals (well maybe 7 and an ISS), but the method to graph them with WL is still clunky with that Transfer Utility method. I saw in the WL menus a selection for 'Import from Envoy8X', but if WL is only able to graph 3 anyway without exporting to another app each time....

It is likely WC can handle 8 ext temps but it is not known. If all I have to do is set up an Envoy8X in WL and then plug it into a mac under WC, I'm interested. An expensive 'maybe' but I might try sometime.... A fresh separate post if I do.

Thanks for all your help and posts I really feel welcome.

[WCDev]

Thanks for the update - good info there for future reference.

I think it's unlikely an Envoy8X would work - I'm guessing it'd need a different station driver in WeatherCat (I haven't been able to find any protocol documentation for it after a quick look at Davis's site).