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Console firmware for the original Vantage Pro (VP1) stations is
distinct from that used in the current VP2 series of stations. It is
essential to use VP1-specific firmware when updating VP1 consoles.
The same general considerations apply in deciding whether to
upgrade VP1 console firmware as are described on the
VP2 firmware page. However, there are
some differences as follows:
Firmware revision details
Below is a listing of firmware release notes for the original
(VP1) Vantage
Pro Console. Note that the Envoy console requires different firmware
code and may be at a different revision date. Use only the correct
firmware code for your console type - the main console should not be
updated with Envoy code or vice versa.
REV B March 30, 2004 (CRC 753Ch)
Corrected
Fixes RF range and performance issues in a small percentage of
consoles manufactured between March 2003 and March 2004. This was
caused by different wakeup characteristics of the newer
microprocessor and a variance in receiver chips.
REV B January 8, 2003
Corrected
Elevation entered in meters was not converted correctly. 3.048
ft/meter was used instead of the correct 3.281 ft/meter.
The transmitter reception diagnostics did not account for missed
packets when the console was in the “L” state.
Average solar rad and average uv at 1 minute intervals dashed
occasionally if no packets were received in that interval. Now, if
no packets are received in the 1 minute interval for one or both of
those two variables the current value of that variable is used for
the average.
The high rain rate value for an archive interval would sometimes be
0 if no packets were received in the interval (generally at 1 minute
intervals). Now the current rain rate is used for the high in this
case.
Changes
When setting the transmitter type in the setup screen users where
accidentally changing the transmitter period by pushing the Hi/Low
key. Now, the transmitter interval changes on the Hi/Low key press
only if the Temp key is down also.
The reality filter for rain rate was changed from .09 in/hr to .35
in/hr to improve our ability to capture the high rain rate.
REV B August 12, 2002
Corrections in this release:
UV index values from 0.1 to
0.4 are masked ( not displayed ) to eliminate anomalous UV reading
during the nighttime.
Fixed problem that would not
display leaf wetness, temperature and soil moisture values properly
IF you used two #6343 Wireless Leaf & Soil Moisture stations with
one configured to be solely a Leaf Wetness station and the other as
solely a Soil Moisture station.
REV B April 24, 2002
Corrections in this release:
The user could enter up to .25" for rising and falling barometer
alarms, but only worked up to .12". The alarms now norks up to .25".
Fixed problem entering altitude in meters. Can now set altitude up
to 4572 meters (15,000').
Old code did not correctly handle rain packets coming from a Soil
station. The packets are used to communicate low battery but should
not of been processed as rain packets. Now they are not.
Display of outside temps between 0 and .9 in tenths was changed from
.0 to .9 to 0.0 to 0.9.
The legend for the 15 minute rain graph in mm was off by 10. For
example, it would show .01 when it should of shown .1.
The "low battery on station" message would not show up for a Temp or
Temp Hum station run as an ISS in the setup.
The low battery on station" message could be cleared inadvertently
for an ISS run as a Temp or Temp Hum in the setup.
In the High/Low screens the flashing graph point sometimes did not
change to the new position right away when you switched to a new
graph.
Changes in this release:
• Added support for the new leaf/soil board. You can pick
leaf/soil for a transmitter type in the setup.
• Leaf and soil packets will not be recognized if a leaf, soil,
or leaf/soil station is not defined in the setup.
• Rain alarms are checked every hour in addition to every click.
Previously, the user had to clear the rain day alarm, but now it
will clear when the last 24 hour total is less than the alarm
threshold.
• REV B firmware uses a new Weatherlink record. Added high UV and
high Solar Rad in the period. Number of leaf wetness sensors logged
is 2. Increased extra temps by 1 to 3 with 52nd byte that wasn't
being used. Added record type which will be 0 now - old record was
Oxff. Now only measured rain rate is logged.
• Bar trend is now stored where "P* was stored in loop record.
• If no rain was recorded in the archive period, the hiRainRate
logged is the rainRate at the end of the period.
This should more accurately reflect the decaying rain rate.
REV A Oct 25, 2001
Corrections
The low dew point graph for the month did not draw the points in
the correct horizontal position. You could still view the low dew
point values for past months in the high low screen however.
The high monthly and yearly dew point, heat index, and thsw index
will be dashed unless the user does an "all clear" when he first
sets up the station or clears them manually from the high low
screen.
Temperature correction for soil moisture was backwards. The
tempco is negative with a magnitude of 1 % for every degree away
from 75'F. The reading is too high at low temps and too low at high
temps without correction. Our correction accentuated the error
instead of reducing it.
REV A Oct 11, 2001
Corrections
The 2 hour archive interval archived data every minute every
other hour.
REV A Oct 8, 2001
Corrections
The graph legend for bar in mm was 10x what it should have been.
The 15 minute bar graph in mm,hpa or mb incorrectly showed the inch
legend too. You could see more than one "1" sometimes or an extra
".". Note, the default graph is 1 hour so people have to zoom in to
find this problem.
We discovered not all consoles could detect a power adapter missing
(every try) when the lamps were on. The new code requires over 750
counts to detect a power adapter is present. Also, we will change
the EXTV voltage divider network to 1Ok's instead of 1M on future
console boards which will also fix the problem.
Added
Interpolation for wind speeds of 4, 9, and 15 on large cups. For
example, when speed goes from 3 to 5 we show a
4 first and vice versa. Note, small cups have same problem and will
not show 3, 5, 12, 19 for speeds less than 20.
No code space left to help out small cups.
REV A Sep 7, 2001
Corrections
You can now enter negative numbers for elevation.
First download after buffer wrap required a second download to get
most recent data.
High heat index times for the day were not saved correctly. If you
had solar rad the times displayed were for THSWI and if not, they
were dashed.
The THSWI high times for the day were not saved at all.
If power was removed after entering the Setup screen you could still
lose up to 4 of your most recent Weatherlink records. The most
recent 0 to 4 records in the Weatherlink are stored in FLASH RAM
which is volatile. These records are now saved to FLASH every time
you enter the Setup screen so no data is lost when power is removed.
The code version with a single digit day scrolled with a hitch on
boot up because more than one space separated two words (ie. Sep 9).
Now strings with more than one space between words will scroll
correctly although i don't think we had any other than that code
revision string.
Added
New NWS wind chill calc.
THSWI modified to take into account the new wind chill formula.
Removed
A receive debug mode that you could go into when in the first
Setup screen by pressing the RAIN key. No longer
needed or used.
REV A July 18, 2001
Corrections
Archive record for dominant direction would always choose North
if there was no wind speed in the period. Now a 255 is written to
the record indicating dashes to the software.
Added
User now has a choice of logging average inside and outside temp,
or there value at the time of the archive. Setting EEPROM byte 4092
to 0 will cause the temps to be averaged. A nonzero value will
sample them at the time of the archive.
REV A June 19, 2001
Corrections
A small number of the longest forecast strings would not scroll
correctly.
REV A May 31, 2001
Corrections
If you remove the power adapter, the lamps still operated as if
the power adapter was plugged in.
The Hum Cal did not work properly. Although it works for humidity,
the calculated values of dew point, heat index, and thswi do not use
the corrected value.
When scrolling back days the UV med totals were 1/2 of what they
should be.
Forecast improvement for hot weather and for California. If the
current temp is greater than 87, it will never forecast rain.
Comments in the status area which can stay a long time now only come
up when the appropriate weather variable(s) are selected. The new
conditions for each message are shown below.
if (wind10Min >= 25 && wind10Min < 40 && currentGraph == 0) //
HOLD ONTO YOUR HAT
PushCommentNo (10);
if (wind10Min >= 8 && wind-10Min < 18 && currentGraph == 0 &&
windChill < 80 && windChill > 60 && GetRainStorm (CURRENT, 0)== 0
&& LightOutside ())
PushCommentNo (9); // KITE FLYING WEATHER
tmp = GetCurrentVar ();
if (windChill <= -30 && windChill > -50 && wind10Min >=10
&& (tmp == WIND-SPEED-VAR 11 tmp == CHILL-VAR 11 tmp== TEMP_OUT-VAR))
PushCommentNo (1); // LOW CHILL ADVISORY
if ( heatindex >= 105 && heatindex < 115 && (tmp == TEMP-OUT-VAR 11
tmp == HUM-OUT-VAR 11 tmp == HEAT-VAR 11 tmp== THSW-VAR))
PushCommentNo (5); // HEAT ADVISORY
May 15 code always returned 33% for inside hum. (1 unit shipped
and has been recalled)
REV A May 15, 2001
For Manufacturing
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You can now turn on all segments in the first Setup screen and
the receive diagnostic screen by pressing 2nd and
then the "+" key.
REV A May 4, 2001
Corrections
LOOP command at lower baud rates gave CRC errors when used with
Windows Weatherlink software.
Kite flying weather message now only comes up during daylight hours.
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