Reading information from Weather Link onto Labview

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I am fairly new to labview but I want to read information from davis weather onto labview using a 3rd party software called weatherlink. I think that is what is going on--and I have read some information on the forums but I am still confused.

So far I have installed weather link and have gotten davis vantage vue to display weather readings onto weather link software GUI. The software comes with a read me file that I have been through over and over. I think I have downloaded the .dll files correctly. I am using a serial connection with a serial to usb adapter since my cpu doesn't have a serial port. My original plan is to run the serial connector through a cRIO and into a cpu. Anyways, when I open the sample VI given by davis I'm using the serial sample but I get a Load Current Vantage data error. This seems to be the only problem that is preventing this code from running.

Does anyone have any experience in this area that can help me out? In the mean time I'll continue looking around in the forums for more help. It's possible I don't have a good understanding of what I'm doing.

Thank you

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Nevermind, the path was set to an older version of labview. Everything is working.

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So my next question is how to send this information through a cRIO and then to labview, any suggestions?

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What's the purpose of the cRIO in this setup? Do you have some plans to deploy this system into the field? If so, how do you plan to communicate with the cRIO?

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I believe deploy in the field is a correct erm to use. Our goal is to transmit everything through WiFi from the cRIO to a computer and read it with labview. We are using the Chassis modle SD6 from NI and want to take weather reading autonomously. Let me know if I am unclear or vague.

[_Tim]

From your description, it sounds like you're trying to read and buffer the serial information on the cRIO and then send it back to the main host computer for processing; is this correct? If you're working with code structured similarly to the sensor example in the link below, you could add a serial read section to the onboard data acquisition code. You'd then need to send the information back to the host computer to be processed by weatherlink.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-18528

Here are some additional links for setting up the cRIO and configuring it on a wireless network.

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/320E6D748361351A8625704A000D68CF

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-18529

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I just read your post but havn't looked into the links yet. It sounds like you know what you are talking about and understand what I want but why would I want the information to be processed by weather link at the end? Wouldn't I want it to be processed by labview instead? I'll dive into the links, and thank you for your time.

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By the way the modle SD6 is in que so we are using NI cRIO-9022 for testing since we have this in our possession. We are also connecting it to the computer by ethernet.

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I was under the impression that you were looking to perform your data processing in weatherlink. If you'd prefer, you can certainly keep the data within LabVIEW.