Sandaysoft

Following some interest I have created a wireless interface for the Vantage system (vp1, vp2, Vue and envoy). It works in the same way as the clone logger detailed in this thread and has been tested with weatherlink and Cumulus. It also supports direct from PC firmware updating.

The reason for creating this means that you can easily connect to your console without being tethered by wires, a great advantage for those with a laptop. it also means that you can locate your console in one area of the house that is most convenient for accessing the ISS and view data from another location, giving you a bit more flexibility.

So far I have had it working through several brick walls at a range of about 30m. It is powered from the console, and uses a USB (using the FTDI chipset) interface at the computer end.

I shall upload some photos as soon as I get a chance.

pm for details

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Here is a photo of the first one.

Untitled by belfryboy, on Flickr

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That looks very interesting, how much memory will it have, any more than the USB logger? I log at 1 min intervals, so have to remember to download every day to Weatherlink, as I run it and Cumulus- which has to be shut down to do it.
Virtual VP is proving too unreliable, it often hangs in the middle of the night (23:30-0:00), it's more hassle than its worth to recover the data in Cumulus each time, and I lose data when not home to catch it, so am running Cumulus full time with daily shut-downs to update Weatherlink.

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Unfortunately the amount of records stored is controlled by the firmware of the console. I have no control over that. I have tried fitting larger memory but it simply will not log anymore records.

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