Appreciate the schematics. I have had the VP2 for many years with the serial adapter as my work laptop had a docking station with a DB9 serial and was always on. But my gosh I finally disconnected the site as I was tired of rebooting my work machine due to the flakey driver crashing. Hind site is always better - I sure wish I had purchased the ethernet adapter but was suspicious as we had satellite internet and that was just as problematic as the serial adapter. Not to mention speed, quotas, etc.
We are retired now, off grid and more remote than ever and still on satellite (HughsNet G5). No internet interconnection. I've been looking into the ethernet adapter so a few questions:
1) Bandwidth with quotas. Is this a concern in the least? TX is one thing. Getting RX back of locally generated data to several devices is another multiple and frankly rather irritating. No, we can't/don't stream anything and still kill our 30GBs most months. Other than the standard use our only other IOT device is the Outback Power Mate3 console. They were supposedly looking a 3rd party integration at one time. Even if that happened it probably be cloud to cloud but I'm just guessing. But it sure would be cool to have a cloud app that displayed weather, UV, power generation, usage and warnings all on one interface. And history. Maybe I should write my elected (?) officials.
2) What is the right Davis device for the above considering the current state of things?
3) A bunch of other questions but they will arise out of inputs to the above.
Best, JRH