bbuzzone Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 I have purchased a Davis Intruments Vantage Pro2 weather station and would like to integrate it's available ground moister sensors to control my sprinkler system across multiple zones. Davis does have Weatherlinc software for PC's but it seems to have logging only capability and Weatherbug isn't close to what I am looking for. I want to trigger irrigation zones differently as as north facing (screened by house and fences) plants do not dry out nearly as quick as my south facing plants. I realize that there are challenges with the EZ series of insteon devices, but I'd gladly install 6 I/O Lincs to make this happen and protect my landscape investment (yes, my thumb is brown not green).
Michel Kohanim Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 Hello bbuzzone, I do very much appreciate it the feedback. The problem is not EZxxx since we are starting to work on a fix for them. The problem is getting information from Davis Instruments: currently, we have no way of communicating with your weatherstation. With kind regards, Michel I have purchased a Davis Intruments Vantage Pro2 weather station and would like to integrate it's available ground moister sensors to control my sprinkler system across multiple zones. Davis does have Weatherlinc software for PC's but it seems to have logging only capability and Weatherbug isn't close to what I am looking for. I want to trigger irrigation zones differently as as north facing (screened by house and fences) plants do not dry out nearly as quick as my south facing plants. I realize that there are challenges with the EZ series of insteon devices, but I'd gladly install 6 I/O Lincs to make this happen and protect my landscape investment (yes, my thumb is brown not green).
automateit Posted January 1, 2010 Posted January 1, 2010 Hello bbuzzone, I do very much appreciate it the feedback. The problem is not EZxxx since we are starting to work on a fix for them. The problem is getting information from Davis Instruments: currently, we have no way of communicating with your weatherstation. With kind regards, Michel Hi Michel, anything new with the David Weather instruments? I was thinking buying one and already have the EZ-Rain setup. Of course I would like to have communication between ISY/EZ-Rain and Davis. Thanks Paul
Michel Kohanim Posted January 1, 2010 Posted January 1, 2010 Hi automateit, Unfortunately we have no plans for supporting Davis Weatherstations. We do offer WeatherBug module. You might be able to have your Davis Weather Station send its data to WeatherBug and thus a) help others and use it with ISY! With kind regards, Michel
jweek Posted September 13, 2010 Posted September 13, 2010 Hi automateit, Unfortunately we have no plans for supporting Davis Weatherstations. We do offer WeatherBug module. You might be able to have your Davis Weather Station send its data to WeatherBug and thus a) help others and use it with ISY! With kind regards, Michel Hi Michel - sorry to bring up this old thread, but it is exactly what I am trying to do. I have a Davis Vantage Pro 2 with a Meteohub uploading my weather data to Weatherbug. My station data is available on weatherbug. Here is a link....http://weather.weatherbug.com/NV/Reno-weather.html?zcode=z6286 I have purchased and installed the weatherbug module on my isy-99i. The problem I am having is that my station does not show up on the list of stations for my area in the climate tab, choose area, choose station section of the module. Also, the meteohub offers the data from any supported weather station on port 5500. It would be nice if the weatherbug module could read the weather data directly from the meteohub as well. Documentation for the meteohub is here. http://wiki.meteohub.de/Documentation Please advise on getting my weather data into my isy-99i. And, as always, thanks for your hard work and wonderful support! John
Michel Kohanim Posted September 14, 2010 Posted September 14, 2010 Hi John, You do have the ability to type the station ID if you know what it is (you do not have to go through search/locate me). I just tried the link you sent and unfortunately Peavine ES is NOT a station ID that WB understands!!! We do have a lot of customers who do have their own weather stations and they do use WB but, in order for ISY to work, you do need the station ID. Do you know what's your station ID? With kind regards, Michel
jweek Posted September 14, 2010 Posted September 14, 2010 Hi John, You do have the ability to type the station ID if you know what it is (you do not have to go through search/locate me). I just tried the link you sent and unfortunately Peavine ES is NOT a station ID that WB understands!!! We do have a lot of customers who do have their own weather stations and they do use WB but, in order for ISY to work, you do need the station ID. Do you know what's your station ID? With kind regards, Michel Hi Michel - Sorry, I put the wrong link in my previous post. The correct link is: http://weather.weatherbug.com/NV/Reno-w ... tat=p08933 When I put my station number in, everything works correctly. It does appear that the module only searches for WB stations and not backyard stations. Thanks! John
killervette Posted October 10, 2010 Posted October 10, 2010 i would also love davis weather station integration!
87squirrels Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 I'm using a VantagePro2 also, and run an open source package called wview on my Linux system. One of the features of wview is that it can fire "alarms" when thresholds are reached... I'm using one that fires anytime the outside temperature is above -40 (which effectively runs a script every minute, passing it the current temp). I'm using this script and the ISY's REST interface to turn devices on and off based on the outside temp. If the ISY had variables, I would have the wview script just update the variables and move most of the logic into ISY programs, but I've found this approach to work pretty well so far. -tom
titan Posted March 6, 2011 Posted March 6, 2011 I'm another customer using a Davis Vantage pro II weather station. It sure would be nice to have it interface with my ISY
wrj0 Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Here’s another request for Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station support in the ISY. After using Weatherbug data from the nearest “local†station that is about 12 miles away, I decided to put in my own backyard weather station, primarily to have valid data for light levels. It’s great to have the ISY turn lights on and off based on local light levels but sometimes a cloud “over there†turns on my lights here. And, the remote station does go off line from time to time. So, I purchased a David VP2 and a Sheevaplug to support the meteohub web server to push weather data to Weatherbug. After getting the weather station and the web server up and running, I found that even though I am pushing Solar and UV Index data to Weatherbug, that data is not made available on the Weatherbug web site for my station. Temperature, humidity, wind, and rain all show up just fine using my Weatherbug station ID in the ISY as the Location ID, but no light data is available. Inquiring today about why the Solar & UV data that is being sent is not available on the site for my station, Weatherbug reported: “stations are not pushing that data at this time.†Until the ISY gods smile down upon us with support for the Davis VP2, it looks like I’ll have to continue to use the remote weather data rather than what is available from my backyard station. Any consideration for VP2 support will be greatly appreciated.
Michel Kohanim Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Hello wrj0, Can you tell me more about meteohub? Does it have any APIs? Can it act as a Weatherbug station in and of itself? If so, then the problem is not that difficult to solve. With kind regards, Michel
wrj0 Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Hi Michel, Thanks for your response. Meteohub is a linux-based web server that records and pushes weather data to other web servers, such as Weatherbug. It's probably best for the developer to provide his own introduction to the product: http://wiki.meteohub.de/Introduction The Meteohub manual (available at: http://wiki.meteohub.de/Documentation) describes the API as follows: "Actual Weather Data via Socket Communication: Meteohub's weather data logging daemon provides actual weather data by means of socket communication." The manual provides complete details on obtaining data from the Meteohub. And the developer is much like you - always helpful with responses.
Michel Kohanim Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 Hello wrj0, Thanks for the links. It's a little more complicated than I had anticipated but still not that difficult. The fact that we can issue HTTP requests and get data is quite useful. Once we are ready to start working on this, we may need you to port forward your meteohub so that we can have access to it remotely. Thanks again and with kind regards, Michel
wrj0 Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 Thanks again, Michel. My Meteohub is already port forwarded and accessible remotely - I check it out often from work. Just let me know when you would to access it, and I'll (privately) send you the link.
exMike Posted July 8, 2011 Posted July 8, 2011 I also have a Meteohub and would like to see more direct integration between it and my ISY. I've used the Weatherbug integration but a direct link between Meteohub and ISY would remove an inconvenient dependence on the internet for communication between these two devices as well as add a ton of additional options. I'd also be happy to make my system available for tests. Best, ...Mike
Michel Kohanim Posted July 8, 2011 Posted July 8, 2011 Hi Guys, Thanks so very much. Is there a simple XML/Web Services version of the API that we can use? With kind regards, Michel
wrj0 Posted July 8, 2011 Posted July 8, 2011 Michel, The Meteohub documentation indicates that XML data can indeed be read from the Meteohub. Please refer to pages 65-67 of the following file: http://www.meteohub.de/files/meteohub-v4.7en.pdf Looking forward with great anticipation to having local weather data from my Davis VP2. Thanks for the consideration. [edit] There's also a document, "HTTP Data Logging Protocol" available at: http://www.meteohub.de/files/HTTP-Data- ... l-v1.2.pdf
Michel Kohanim Posted July 9, 2011 Posted July 9, 2011 Hello wrj0, Thanks so very much. I cannot guarantee how soon we'll get to it but it's on our list. It should not be difficult. With kind regards, Michel
DSCoe Posted August 1, 2011 Posted August 1, 2011 Greetings all, I have recently run into the same weather data "wall" as others on this forum topic. I own an ISY-99i and a Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station with the Weatherlink/IP option. I would like very much to access the data from my weather station and use it in garden/lawn irrigation and pool pump control schemes. I have read through the forums last few years worth of discussion on this topic and thought I would weigh-in with the following observations/questions: The currently favored MeteoHub server (e.g. WeatherPlug or WeatherHub2) approach seems OK as a work-around, but it is a bit costly and it requires yet another device to manage. Direct IP access of the Davis Weatherlink/IP module seems to me (and others on this forum I believe) to be the most efficient approach. Davis seems to provide an API/SDK for accessing the Vantage Pro console (see http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/software_dllsdk.asp) that might be used within the ISY. What are the difficulties with this approach? I am also curious to know, since MeteoHub is actually a software product that is designed to run on miniature Linux platforms (similar to the ISY), has UDI considered contacting the author of the MeteoHub software (http://wiki.meteohub.de/Contact) to find out if a collaboration to produce an ISY weather station module is possible? Does the ISY have the resources to do something like this? Thanks in advance for any light anyone can shed on my questions. Regards, Dave Coe
Michel Kohanim Posted August 2, 2011 Posted August 2, 2011 Hello Mr. Coe, There are really no difficulties except lack of resources and time. This requirement is on our list of things to do and hopefully we will get to it soon. With kind regards, Michel
wrj0 Posted August 6, 2011 Posted August 6, 2011 Michel, Please keep Davis weather station integration in your list of features to be supported. Today, Weatherbug is experiencing a problem publishing weather data for stations in the WeatherBug Backyard Network, at least for the dozen or so stations that I checked in my area. Pro Weatherbug stations are still publishing, just us Backyard WB folks are having the problem, perhaps due to some local heavy thunderstorms. This prevents my ISY from obtaining data from my Davis VP2 station that has to be sent to and published by Weatherbug for the ISY to access. Sure would be nice to have that data (that is already available on my local network) loaded directly from the Davis VP2 to the ISY. Thanks for any consideration and for your suport.
Michel Kohanim Posted August 7, 2011 Posted August 7, 2011 Hello wrj0, It has not been forgotten! With kind regards, Michel
KevinT Posted August 11, 2011 Posted August 11, 2011 Is there any new updates or news about integrating the Davis weather station? I'd love to be able to connect some type of backyard weather station into my system to control the lights, sprinkler system and thermostat. The Weatherbug is OK but not a perfect solution because of how weather can be different just a few miles away.
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