Davis Vantage Pro 2 Wireless Home Weather Station Complete Review
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2017
- Here is a COMPLETE review of my new Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station.
Purchased at www.weathershack.com
Whether you are a SKYWARN storm spotter, a Citizen Weather Observer, an amateur radio operator or just a weather enthusiast, Owning a weather station like this will show you so much of what the weather is doing at your location, and can be monitored remotely with an additional data logger and software.
Check out this video to learn everything about this Davis station, and you too can join in on measuring your own backyard weather.
21 year Davis user. Love the video. Nicely done. I am sure that you helped many newbies. Thanks for sharing this video.
Great review. I am getting ready to install my unit again & jave been watching several reviews. I installed Solar at my house & am planning to add the UV & Radiation modules to my Davis Weather Station as well as upgrading to the new Rain rain cone. Will be fun to share the solar radiation data & energy received from my solar panels.
Again great job & I am glad to hear your involved with sky warn.
Take Care.
Hi, Nice review. My wife and I are both new hams (foundation license) based in Australia. We are in our 60's. We have a Davis Vantage pro2 with an Envoy connected to a computer and a console in another room. We run a wholesale plant propagation nursery, our Davis unit is over ten years old, great system. We are looking into purchasing a "Meteobridge PRO Red" router to transmit data direct from our ISS to the internet and many weather groups & organisations, without the need for a computer running 24/7 plus it can send email alerts based on our own criteria settings. There's so much technology out there now, it's an incredible world for people these day, no need to get bored hey. Thanks again - Terrific job.
Excellent video! I have a fascination with weather and I've had my eye on Davis weather stations for quite some time. The reason for Davis is the accuracy and, I want the wind speed updates every 2.5 seconds versus others which are every 15 seconds. Look forward to more videos man!
I have two of these stations, both are about 15 miles apart. But they are the Plus models with the 24 hour fan. One I’ve had for 10 years, the other for 7. Best two purchases I’ve ever made!
Great insightful video...Just purchased a DVpro2 for my beach house. Can't wait to review and see how the weather station it goes!
Excellent Video, helped me make up my mind to go ahead and get the Davis Vantage Pro2.
Thank You!
PS This is not your first video that I have enjoyed.
Excellent review!
Fantastic review! You're such a geek! :) That's okay, so am I! I am looking for something to hold up to a Maine winter and I think Davis is probably the best bet. Thanks for taking the time and hopefully we can get a QSO someday! 73, Howard W1HBO
Thank you sharing with the details. Very helpful.
Very cool I've been waiting for this one.
I have a degree in Meteorology and have installed Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Weather Stations with my students from CUNY in Mallorca, Spain and Townsville, Australia last year. I had wished I had seen this video before because it would have made the installs and the students understanding much easier. They were Chemistry and Biology majors and had never seen a weather station before in their lives. This is an AWESOME video. Great job. I am heading to Mumbai, India next Tuesday with 15 students from CUNY and we are again going to install a Davis Vantage Pro2 PLus among other activities. I shared this video as required watching for my students before we leave. Thank you for making this video and sharing it for others on UA-cam!!!
Can this device be used as a mobile station, for example, mounted on a two-wheels cart and measure temperature, wind speed and direction along a transect? Does it provide coordinate system for saved data?
It's 'awesome', huh? It inspired awe? Jaw dropping awe? pfft. Let me educate you: it's an excellent review. It's not an awesome review.
Excellent video! Thankyou.
I bet you will be getting some interesting data this weekend! Stay safe! From the Panhandle ATB - Stan
Outstanding video, Thanks !
Excellent video. Thank you sir !
Thank for the detailed high quality video.
Awesome video thanks for the info 👍👍
Goatee in this older video looks great!
great video. thanks from Guy (Edmonton , Alberta Canada)
Great video ! Thank you
Excellent video. Called Weathershack and acually spoke to Wes. You tell the truth, he spent quite a bit of time with me to answer all of my questions very thoroughly. I will be purchasing a station from Weathershack because of your video and the time Wes spent answering questions and offering input. Thanks for a great video and honest opinion.
I read that the Barometric pressure was adversely affected by moisture; humidity from outside sensors. That's why most makers have started putting the Barometric pressure sensor in the console.
Very informative review... Thanks
Very helpful - thanks!
Thank you for the video.
You make it sound so exciting......🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
The pressure sensor can be in the display vs outside on the sensor module because buildings are not air tight. A building is typically not at pressure or vacuum vs the surrounding air the building is in. Therefore, the sensor can be inside or outside, and it's more reliable and cheaper to put it inside.
The reason the barometer is inside, you develop increased accuracy if you operate a pressure transducer at its highest accuracy which is usually room temperature, also wind can induce fluctuations in pressure if the sensor was exposed to brief kicks of wind.
Just purchased a 6153 and I hope my installation goes well, not so much the hardware but the WL ip
Very nice unit! Although living in Florida, I doubt you'll need the windchill readings anytime soon!
I have owned a Davis system and its been mounted and going for 30 years now. The direction vane has just seized up so maybe its time is done and I need to look for a new model. It will be a Davis and I like the windvane and anemometer away from the system like this one. Need to look more.
Not a bad weather station for $1300 US. Nice review! 73’s NV5I
Really liked the video. I’m really interested in this stuff and would like to make a purchase in the near future and get involved with reporting the weather. What was the overall price with software included on your end? Any idea on how it measures snowfall?
i got mine from Acurite. the 5 in 1 with color monitor was only $150.00 at costco... i had a little problem... their customer service was right there... corrected the problem for free..cant beat that...
does the 5 iin 1 with color monitor hook to the internet and report weather conditions?
I've had a Pro 2 version for 10 or more years and have replaced the wind cups and van a few times as the bears were getting gummed up and measurement was showing wrong. The fan under the temp probe also died and I had to replace it. I also found some C cell buried inside the outdoor unit that I did not know was even there and are the ones the solar cell is charging. It's still a good instrument but does require maintenance.
@@briank.totten8092 Those C cells are for the aspiration unit in case you do not have one. I had my indoor control panel apart the other day and it's stamped 2005 on the inside. Its been around a while.
About the barometer sensor... I noticed that you can buy the Davis weather stations without a console and just check it on your phone. If you do that where is the barometer? I really think this is the unit that I'm going to get but a little confused about this one thing.
Great video!
Since this video is four years old and my rain sensor in the unit I received today, this must be the new revised version. It tips only to one side. The station will soon be installed at my countryside house, so with the WeatherLink I can monitor the temperature from my home in Stockholm. So far the electricity in the house has been switched off when I am not there, but as long as I have not installed any solar panels I will need to keep it on to power the station and the internet router. Just a few Watts, so that shouldn't really matter.
You mentioned mounting the wind sensor 40’ above the ground. In fact, the NWS will not recognize any wind reading which is higher than 30’ above ground. Second observation - from the looks of your display, the temperature is shown only in whole numbers. You should really have a display with shows temperature in 10ths of a degree (ie 74.2, 74.3, etc.).
Good comments, I hate to rag on the price but you are correct- temp should be in 10ths of a degree. That sort of accuracy should be expected in a unit of this quality / price. .
have you measured the turbulence effect of the raincup being in the way from that direction on the wind speed and direction sensor?
Very good video! That is a very nice weather station. I am in the market for one. Does it give the dew point?
Thank you for taking the time to do this review. Just beginning my search, and so far I have about 20 'no's on my list, and 2 'maybe's. This is one of the maybes, and for now, sits at the top of the list. Would be nice to have a unit that also detects lightning direction, strength, and distance, and shares that to a network. Kinda looking like a lightning monitor might need to be a separate system. Hitting the SUB button!
Why don't you look at the lightning products from DTN?
Would you buy this one again or is there something better out there?
wow. this is the best review I have seen in a very long time. Thank you for taking the time to do this I am now going to buy this exact one. Do you get any credit if I mention you name? If so I willing to do it.
What is brand/ model is the tripod you are showing in the video?
ok looks like youve had it awhile now, so how far back does it hold history on weather. thinking it might help on my hunting. :)
Where do you get the moisture sensors? I could not find them on teh website.
Did you upgrade to the weather link live I did and love it no more computer running 24/7
Without the "Fan Aspirated Radiation Shield" the temperature is always wrong...I would replace with the Davis model that has one.
Have the same Station. Works perfekt. Greetings from Germany.
Vy 73 de Peter DL1NER.
Can this device be used as a mobile station, for example, mounted on a two-wheels cart to measure temperature, wind speed and direction along a transect? Does it provide coordinate system for saved data?
nice review, but I didn't get whether this station can send the info via internet on your mobile phone?
Great video, my weather station is toast so time for a new one. 73 M0SWV
I got a rainwise station from weathershack. They definitely took good care of me both for the initial purchase and when the controller board went out once.
Are you going to put yours on APRS?
Eventually yes, but that's another investment and radio to have up. For now, i'm getting familiar with the software i have.
Good luck then. Putting mine on APRS was a learning experience, but I'm glad I did. By the way, the youtube channel DIGITALHEXCODE has a video about building one of these into a solar powered APRS wx station.
If i'm not mistaken you can send out aprs strait from the internet. I want to say the radio club I belong to has weather sent through the internet.
HamRadioConcepts can you tell me what mount pole you have like the brand
Only criticism I have is that the display console could be higher quality.
And that weatherlink interface looks like it hasn't changed in 25 years
Very nice weather station. One problem is though that the weather link software is hopelessly outdated and is no longer supported anymore. I don't understand they still sell this without telling people about this.
I'm a certified trained skywarn storm spotter to
So am I, and everyone else that went to the 2 hour class.
can you record every second? If so, how? I can't figure it out!
How do you hook up APRS to a weather station? Looking to get into this
how to link the console and the instruments? for wireless version what is the range
How did it handle Irma?
hey whats up? your forgetting the third component i’m a blind weatherspotter, ham radio operator call is: kc7udh in arizona
Hi there. Thank you for the informative video. I am using the Vantage Pro weather station for work and research purposes. Mine seems to be not reading when the console is inside, there is just no data. But when I put it outside closer to the station it reads perfectly. Is there a distance that I need to observe for the console to receive data from the transmitter?
It should go 1000 feet
hi Eric
when i change the battery after 2y i think i lost my data!
but after some time, the data came back from weather station and restore my data.
I have to change the battery in my Pro every year via a warning on the console. I don't know how you're getting that much time on your batteries.
there are wires on the water tank - presumably to keep birds away.
There is room on the boom with the wind speedometer to see where a bird is
may sit down ....
here are the little ones, the birds ......
I'm not sure about the software. What does it offer that wunderground doesn't? I've been very happy with my 2 Ambient 1000's. I'm curious whether I should get this one and what exactly does it give me that the Ambient doesn't? The Ambient gives a lot more sensors for a 3rd of the price. Its monitor station is better in my opinion. I've been following some Davis stations near my home, and they don't seem to be any more accurate than mine, except perhaps for the anemonetor. By the way, Ambient is the most popular of all weather stations so if the weatherman is giving reports for other locations, they are more likely giving Ambient station information.
Question: Can the weather info be automatically inputted to APRS or Packet beacons on ham radio? de KA7ZDD
Yes, with the APRS software and serial data logger.
Before i see the 10 min average but someone change the configuration now even i press the wind. I cant see anymore the 10 min wind speed please help.
Sensor array looks great but that console and software look like they're from the 1980s. Ambient Weather has an excellent TFT console but their sensor arrays are not as good (but they are much cheaper).
Wait until you see it tell you it is raining cats and dogs. BTW, the forecast on the console is very inaccurate. Mine is always saying we are going to have a storm which in Phoenix is maybe every couple if months. More often in monsoon season.
Great video, what’s the 1 year verdict?
its coming next. funny you should ask
I'm a new Technician and a new subscriber.
Can you hook this version up to an APRS digipeater?
73 KC3KFD - Bernie
Ok, after working with Davis Tech Support we finally got the console to read information from the sensor united mounted on the roof of my shed, the WIND sped indicator, and the console read 5 to 7 degrees higher inside temp. unfortunately 2 solid failures right out the box. Tech support is supposed to send a new wind speed unit for the out side unit, that has not shown up yet. I am still waiting to hear whether the console unit is going to be replaced since the inside temperature reading is way off which i indicate is totally unacceptable for the very expensive price of this weather station. I will update my comments when and if Davis gets the entire station working to my expectations. i hope any one reading this to will do their home work when considering this unit.
Just an update.. talked to Davis Tech Support... They are sending me a replacement console and the new anonometer, and hopefully that resolves the wind indicator problem, but my major concern is that the Indoor temp reads correctly when the Lamp is OFF... and about 5 to 7 degrees higher when the Lamp is on ...what kind of engineering puts out a console that you have leave the Lamp OFF and then make the console UNREADABLE and when the Lamp is on it reads 5 to 7 degrees higher...if this is a 2017 review and they have not rectified the problem by now, I am sorry paying this kind of money for a weather station that is INACCURATE...AND THE THE PROBLEM HAS NOT BEEN RESOLVED IN 5 YEARS....THIS IS NOT A UNIT I CAN RECOMMEND UNLESS THE ONLY THINK YOU WANT TO VIEW IS ALL THE OTHER READING...BUT THINK ABOUT IT... ARE THEY ACCURATE ALSO.
Can you power it via POE?
Great video man.
I use Davis stuff too.
AD5NI
73
How much did you pay for all of it. What do you suggest . And how much was it? I want to be able to record something on the computer
So the thing that annoys me about the Davis weather stations is how far behind the times they were with the control unit, I mean it looks like something I would have back in the early 90s. Yes, I was want the pretty color screen and I want it WiFi connected. Otherwise they are one of the few that work well with various APRS solutions which is what I want. I'm trying to figure out how to get a much newer unit like Ambient Weather has to work with APRS solutions, there are several out there. But I also know that Davis is considered one of the best.... Annoying. Thanks for sharing the video though.
And here we are two years later and the console looks identical to my 14 year old unit. Connecting to a cell phone still is burdensome because it requires the WeatherLink and connection to a PC
Florida has some nasty weather, better chain down that station..... great video
what is your thoughts on this unit after some time on it, I have heard some negative results from farmers about this system
I have used the Davis units for years in my science class room and also at our local storm shelter. They are solid units.
What's that "X" symbol means on your weather console?
Pheara Lim it means it is recieving wireless data from sensor suite outside
Davis user since 2004. Great equipment but poor customer service and support. My console can no longer be updated even though in 2007 I bought the expensive software updater. Now I need to spend $200-300 for replacement parts, or possibly it’s time to move to different platform.
The console is also antique technology. No color, can’t label extra sensors, b/u battery housing cumbersome, and without updates it needs resetting every few months.
Ilike..from PR..thanks...73..kp4atp
I need to get a reliable weather unit, I hav had as gifts, simple crap, now I am in the USA since1959, but. ONLY 2X it rained like the tropics, I live in ESSEX COUNTY. NJ, few years ago one day LOCALLY we had6.5” rain in 50 minutes, it did NOT MAKE THE NEWS as it was LOCAL, NO LIGHTENING just rain ! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm sitting here looking at my Davis Vantage Pro 2 and After a couple years all that comes up on the screen is time.barometer, in Temperature, Humidity in, and barometer graph.Nothing from outside comes in to the screen at all. I have ti hooked up to the internet and everything and I'm a ham also VE3VBW I can't say much good about it at all.
The Davis WS looks very impressive. The monitor, with orange background, looks awful a d less sophisticated than the cheap crap models. QUESTION: When you say that the software allows you upload your station's information to WheatherUnderground or other location, do you mean that it isn't reporting automatically? I'd want the info periodically updating. I'm considering this model but not if it has this many procedural barriers. Did I misunderstand? Thanks.
It can periodically report to wunderground at set intervals, also Davis weather network and more. Set it and forget it
im farmer i need automatic level salt water open pool wifi pump
I get the vibe this is a paid endorsement.
I honestly doubt it. Eric seems like a pretty honest dude. That, and I own an Acurite station, and it's comparable in features and I'd be providing the same level of detail if I were demo'ing the system. With that said, I still plan to upgrade to a Davis system due to the added flexibility and expand-ability that my Acurite doesn't offer.
Aren't these like $500?
Close to $900
F.Y.I. Davis Instruments does have a You Tube channel....
EORSCK
His weather station cost more than his BBQ pit.
21 year Davis user. Love the video. Nicely done. I am sure that you helped many newbies. Thanks for sharing this video.
21 year Davis user. Love the video. Nicely done. I am sure that you helped many newbies. Thanks for sharing this video.
21 year Davis user. Love the video. Nicely done. I am sure that you helped many newbies. Thanks for sharing this video.