Support for new Oregon Scientific WMR-89

Hi
one way would be to find out how the data is communicated via the software that comes with it, via the com port, via a com port spy program

I gave up on this and grabbed their LW301 product. It meant I could use the existing sensors from the WMR-89 which was cool and I just wrote my own software to read and store the data, which is what most of us want at the end of the day.

I have total control over the data and can post off to webservers like Weather Underground who provide a pretty good free service.

I’ve just brought one of these, did anyone get it working with WS?

As its on comport 3 will setting it as the WMR 928/968 work?

I’ve tried that but it doesn’t seem to collect the data. I’ll post anything I can find it the logs.

When the WMR100.exe runs it says “USB Port failed to open”

There are a lot of posts on the internet concerning this station’s interface, some of them from very experienced users/programmers but none of them claiming success. Like some other OS station(s) it appears to use the serial connection in a non-standard way, most likely by using the control lines for data so a regular USB or Serial port monitoring software will not yield any usable information :frowning: I have seen information that it uses the silabs USB-Serial chip so I guess it’s also possible the interface may be similar to the Davis USBxpress one :dontknow:

Sounds like I’ve got a nice new weather station that only does half of what I want it to do :angry:

Has anyone found a solution to using the WMR89 with Weather Display?

OS has never released the data protocol (which is very non standard by the looks, very low level communication type…why manufactures do this…come up with a proprietry communication system is strange…why not go with modern, proven, standards?)

Thanks for the reply as ever Brian.

Pity OS have chosen that route.

Does anybody know if I will ever be able to use the WMR-89 with Weather Display?

Hi
I have made progress finally on getting data from a WMR89 station :slight_smile:
will need some testers

I have now added direct usb support for the OS WMR89 station now , latest update of WD :slight_smile:

Hi Brian, does this also mean that WD will support the 7 day data logger too?

I have not added support for the logged data yet
Just live data
But I can look into that

That would be appreciated. I am taking receipt of the WMR-89 today and the data logger was one of the main reasons for my purchase. My station is located remotely, which I access through TeamViewer, and regularly looses data on OS updates etc. Thanks Brian.

I received the WMR this morning and apart for a problem installing the USB driver, and bypassing Windows digital signing, I have it up and running with Weather Display. There is one problem that I have come across so far. I have three temperature sensors in use with weather display. Unfortunately WD appears to be polling all of them at different times. It was a couple of hours before I realised this so I have edited the logfile and reset the maximum temperature but I do not know how to reset this graph

As a temporary measure I have taken the batteries out of sensors 2 and 3.

If I can be any help in the testing I am more than willing Brian.


Hmmmm,each temp sensor should have a sensor
Number associated with it in the data
Sensor 1 WD will use for outdoor temperature
I would need to add some debug code

A couple of weird temperature readings tonight. Strangely nothing was recorded in the log files.