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Wview running on my station in Fountain Hills, AZ I recently installed wview (version 5.20.2) to monitor my Davis Vantage VUE weather station ( weather station unboxing and hardware review ). This station runs on a 24/7 headless 10.04 Ubuntu LTS server in my basement. I've finished getting it set up and running. I really like the software. The only thing I haven't seen addressed is the verbosity of the logging. Wview has great capabilities to enable a disable logging from the GUI (see online manual http://www.wviewweather.com/release-notes/wview-User-Manual.html#Configuration-wviewmgmt-services ). I found this invaluable when originally setting up my Ubuntu system, but have turned all the configurable logging off. I'm currently getting a few to many logcheck alerts each day from the server. I run logcheck at the "server" level (sudo nano /etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf configuration line set to REPORTLEVEL="server") to keep track of anything out of t...

This is the second part of the article about selecting, unboxing, and reviewing a Davis USB data logger (6510USB) and Vantage Pro2 Weather Envoy (6316) ( Part one of the review is here ). Vantage Vue Wireless ISS (Integrated Sensor Suite)  - 6357 Vantage Pro2 Weather Envoy - 6316  USB data logger with WeatherLink software - 6510USB In this part of the review we look at items 2 and 3 of the  system   Both of these units can work with other sensors, but the ISS  wireless  sensors met my needs. It also allows me to move the sensor  assembly  around as I find the perfect location for it. USB 2.0 datalogger and WeatherLink software box - front USB 2.0 datalogger and WeatherLink software box - back     Software manual, DVD, USB data logger, and 8 foot USB extension cable Very happy with the design of the USB logger and the USB extension cable qualit...

I decided to take the plunge and buy a Davis Vantage VUE weather station for my house. I wanted a quality unit that I wouldn't have to mess around with that reported reliable results. I also didn't want to pay a fortune for what is really a hobby. I planned this to be the perfect compliment to the McHenry Illinois radar weather that shows on my family website. ISS Sensors (big brown box - back), Weather Envoy (white box - left), and USB datalogger and software After talking with application specialist at Davis Instruments  I came to the conclusion that to meet my needs I needed: Vantage Vue Wireless ISS (Integrated Sensor Suite)  -6357 Vantage Pro2 Weather Envoy    - 6316  USB data logger with WeatherLink software  - 6510USB For me this made sense, since I wanted: To measure a variety of  outside  parameters Publish frequent measurements to the web (always available anywher...