WD with Davis VP2 & Weatherflow together and importing historical data

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I’m attempting to set up Weather Display for the first time with my Davis VP2 (including UV, solar, soil temperature, soil moisture, and leaf wetness sensors with a USB datalogger) as the primary station and I’d like to add a Weatherflow for lightning detection.

  1. Is there a way to tell WD that the VP2 is primary and Weatherflow is secondary? Using the setup wizard, I first selected the weather station as Davis and checked the appropriate boxes for the baud rate, etc… After saving, I went to Control Panel > Station Type & Settings, and selected the Weatherflow/Tempest tab, added the Device ID# for the station, and set the ‘Enabled’ radio button. I can’t tell from this which data is primary and what data from the Weatherflow cron job would be included in WD.

  2. Is there a means to have WD only use the lightning sensor from the Weatherflow? I do not want the other weather data from Weatherflow overwriting the Davis data (temp, wind, rain, etc.)

  3. I have historical data that I will be importing from files created by Cumulus 1.9.4. I see how I can import this by month. Is there a way to import a batch file? (I’d prefer to load several months at once and not have to manually import each month.)

Thanks,
Brian

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It’s been a long time since I tried it but I think it worked. I setup WD to use the Davis station as primary and then in Setup/Advanced input the settings for the Tempest and selected to use Solar/UV/Lightning,

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Menu
Goto SetUp/Advanced/misc settings
Tab WMR968 Modified sensors…WeatherFlow

You can check the lightning section.

I think that will work.

You can also install a second instance of weatherdisplay for your weatherflow.
But first you have to create a file called 2wd.txt in the install folder of your secundary station.

How can one run 2 instances of WD concurrently on one computer? - Archive / Archived Weather Display Usage Questions - Weather-Watch.com

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Yes, this is exactly how I’m set up and also pulling in the lightning data.

Screenshot of settings below:

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Thank you. That’s very helpful!

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Thank you and the option on how to use two instances of WD.

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Thank you! I’m assuming that’s the only place I need to add it for just adding the lightning sensor. In other words, I do not also go to the Station Setup and ‘enable’ Weatherflow, too. I would expect if I did that it would override the previous selection of making the VP2 primary.

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That would overwrite it yes.
My apologies, I have given you incorrect info and I have edited my post.
You should create a file called 2wd.txt in the install folder of your second weatherstation.

I have installed WD for my VantageVue in a folder called wdisplay.
For my WeatherFlow Sky/Air in wdisplaywf.
Create 2wd.txt in the wdisplaywf folder.

Personally I always start up WD for my VantageVue first, making sure everythings loads up fine.
Then I start the second instance of WD.

And I always keep the same versions of WD running.