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Table of Contents
I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 4
II. Differences from WeatherLink for Monitor II........................................................................... 4
III. Differences from Vantage Pro to Vantage Pro 2 ...................................................................... 5
IV. Waking up the Console............................................................................................................. 5
V. Blackout Periods ........................................................................................................................ 6
VI. Command Formats.................................................................................................................... 6
VII. Command Summary................................................................................................................ 6
1. Testing commands .................................................................................................................. 6
2. Current Data commands ......................................................................................................... 7
3. Download Commands............................................................................................................. 7
4. EEPROM Commands ............................................................................................................. 7
5. Calibration Commands ........................................................................................................... 7
6. Clearing Commands................................................................................................................ 8
7. Configuration Commands....................................................................................................... 8
VIII. Command Details................................................................................................................... 8
1. Testing commands .................................................................................................................. 9
2. Current Data commands ....................................................................................................... 12
3. Download Commands........................................................................................................... 13
4. EEPROM Commands ........................................................................................................... 13
5. Calibration Commands ......................................................................................................... 14
6. Clearing Commands.............................................................................................................. 16
7. Configuration Commands..................................................................................................... 18
IX. Data Formats........................................................................................................................... 20
1. LOOP data format................................................................................................................. 20
2. HILOW data format.............................................................................................................. 24
3. DMP and DMPAFT data format........................................................................................... 26
4. Alarm thresholds data format................................................................................................ 29
5. CALED and CALFIX data format........................................................................................ 30
X. Download Protocol .................................................................................................................. 31
XI. CRC calculation...................................................................................................................... 32
XII. EEPROM configuration settings ........................................................................................... 34
XIII. Common Tasks .................................................................................................................... 38
1. Setting Temperature and Humidity Calibration Values........................................................ 38
2. Setting the Time, Time Zone, and Daylight savings ............................................................ 39
3. Setting the Rain Collector type ............................................................................................. 40
4. Setting up transmitter station ID's and retransmit function. ................................................. 41
5. Setting Alarm Thresholds ..................................................................................................... 43
6. Calculating ISS reception ..................................................................................................... 45
XIV. EEPROM Graph data locations for Vantage Pro................................................................. 47
XV. EEPROM Graph data locations for VP2............................................................................... 50
