Hi all !
Just a few words first to
thank all of you guys' who did a fantastic job helping screwed customers circumvent the Davis "green dot" data logger problem/scandal ! I read this forum since several weeks, in fact since I got my Vantage Vue.
I'm new in the weather stations hobby, except for some basic Oregon stuff, and recently decided that I wanted a "real" weather station capable of sharing it's data to wunderground.com (etc).
A good friend of mine, a real pro tech head, also purchased a wired Vantage pro ISS without even buying the console (on purpose)
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He needs weather data for a heating system management software that he's currently developing/writing (from scratch). He may join the discussion here soon, so I'll let him tell you more about his system if he wants/can/has time left... So, for now consider me as his authorized "spokesman"
The new approachNow, about the "green dot" problem : He decided to take another approach : I told you that he purchased a wired Vantage pro "ISS", and now he has successfully managed to "listen" to the wired ISS data "stream", without having a console, and "decode" and log (etc) the not so raw data that's transmitted by it !
The idea was to "simply" hack the wired raw data (wireless is next step), and feed it to a Raspberry PI that will easily be able to make good use of it, probably much better than any crazy expensive so called logger sold by Davis (log, publish, analyze, graph etc).
He, and one of his techs employees, are now at work to get their hands on the same data from the wireless radio output from another ISS (868 - 868.6 MHz), a wireless one, apparently this "stream" is not encrypted in any way (they may also try with my Vue ISS). He will gladly accept any suggestions from you guys' !
Why bother to hack the "green dot" console if we can get, log and use the weather data from the ISS ?
Even better, if the radio feed is successfully hacked and fed to a Raspberry, those who own a wireless console would still be able to use both the Raspberry and the console at the same time. Isn't it a good approach that could solve the green dot problem for many of us ?
If successful he will use the system for his commercial heating management software but he's also absolutely 100% positive about sharing/posting the code, methods and hardware components he used to hack the ISS to the open source community.
Any thoughts ? Anyone interested ? Should I open an new thread about his approach ?