Vue Console with Vantage Pro?

[Bushman]

I know you can use the new Vue console with the vantage pro, but will the Vue display all the extra data?  Like "This Day Last Year" that the Vue has?

[SLOweather]

I'll know more this weekend about this. Yesterday, I ordered a VP2 Plus and a Vue as a second console for the Condor Lookout site. I spent some time on the phone with Davis tech support regarding the use of a Vue with a VP2+.

The Vue apparently uses a different RF protocol of some sort, because the console has to be told to listen for a Vue or a VP2.

OTOH, The Vue CAN receive and display VP2+ solar and UV and ET info, even though those sensors are not available on the Vue.

It can also use a remote anemometer, but apparently not any other extra sensors. 

[Bushman]

Thanks condor man!  WIll look forward to your report.  I think the Vue console might be nice to have as a second one (don't tell wife...)

[blackjack52]

I'll know more this weekend about this. Yesterday, I ordered a VP2 Plus and a Vue as a second console for the Condor Lookout site. I spent some time on the phone with Davis tech support regarding the use of a Vue with a VP2+.

The Vue apparently uses a different RF protocol of some sort, because the console has to be told to listen for a Vue or a VP2.

OTOH, The Vue CAN receive and display VP2+ solar and UV and ET info, even though those sensors are not available on the Vue.

It can also use a remote anemometer, but apparently not any other extra sensors. 

That's cool. I'd like to be able to see solar and ET.

[DaculaWeather]

That's what I was planning on doing with my VUE.

Funds limited what I could get (my old station died and I wasn't prepared to spend $1K to get another one) so I bought the VUE knowing I could add an VP2 console and other sensors later. Glad to hear you talked to them and they said everything would work.

One step at a time...!

[d_l]

That's what I was planning on doing with my VUE.

Steve, if you have $200-250 to spend a year and really want a VP2, you could basically piece meal your way to a mostly VP2 system.  Add a basic VP2 ISS for about $210 one year and the next year add a daytime FARS, a sensor shelf, and a solar sensor for about $250, etc. It's not the cheapest way to get a VP2 system, but it would work.

Dave

[DaculaWeather]

That is the plan!

[WeatherGoose]

I'm considering picking up a VUE console for the back of the house.  Since I can easily take a laptop back there and get the data off the internet, this is PURELY a TOY purchase.