"Scott W" wrote in message
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I have been asked if I can get an abandoned cabled Davis Vantage Pro weather
station in my local park up in running to start uploading data to the web.
The station is about 600 yards from my house - there are obviously trees and
shrubs in the way - so it is not in direct line of sight. This is obviously
too far to connect to my router but I was wondering if there is a device
that can plug in to the Davis console to upload via 3G? The console is in a
garage though there is no telephone line - just a power supply.
Is there a reliable 'repeater' that could work with this method.
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Needs more information to answer fully. But you say 'Vantage Pro'. Is that
correct or could it be a Vantage Pro 2? An original VP will be a minimum of
10 years old now and unlikely to be worth spending more money on unless you
really fancy a project! (And even then if the T/H sensor goes then that
would be bad news - that particular spare is extremely hard to source now.)
But if it is a VP2 rather than a VP1:
Well, as George rightly points out, there's no practical way of converting
cabled VP2 stations to wireless operation. Strictly speaking, you could swap
the cabled SIM board on the sensor transmitter for a wireless one (at some
significant cost) but the console can't be converted so a new one would need
to be bought (or use a Vue console).
If it was converted to wireless operation - hardly likely to be
cost-effective, but if... - then 600 yards is too far for a single hop. Yes
you could install a VP2 repeater midway if that was practicable, but more
cost (£295) and two 300 yard hops is still not going to yield a very strong
signal at the console.
The other angle is what currently happens at the console end? Where is the
console? Is it inside a building (I'm guessing it probably is) though it
could be in some sort of weatherproof shelter? But if it were in a building
with power and an Internet connection AND the console is fitted with a
Weatherlink logger then other options for a data link are possible such as a
MeteoBridge unit see eg our main website at:
http://www.weatherstations.co.uk/meteo.htm
John Dann
www.weatherstations.co.uk