Other packages and software out there required a dedicated Mac or PC with crazy esoteric libraries or other funky compromises that I didn’t want to make. Davis released an Ethernet version of their console sometime in that mix, trying to entice people to post data from their weather stations to a Davis-proprietary website that was ugly and too simple. It was very complex, and difficult to customize. Wview required that you compile it from source in most cases, which was a barrier to many people.
Unfortunately the last release was in 2014, and it stopped active development at that point.
I used this software for another Davis Vantage Pro station I ran at my house on Vashon Island, WA for many years. This station is a Davis Vantage Pro 2 unit and started life running wview weather, a fantastic piece of software that has a history back to 2003. I have a station I have run for ~7 years at our family cabin in Nile, WA at which I’ve documented on my Weather page. Steve has even more information about the actual installation in his article on. Recently, I had the chance to visit Steve Datawake and he had an Ambient Weather station he was setting up – I found some interesting new information about what used to be a $500+ hobby, and ways to leverage it on the boat. The most reliable have been Linux-based software packages with the Davis Vantage Pro series of stations. Over the years, I’ve tried a bunch of different hardware and software combos. I have been an avid weather geek since 1996 when I got my first crappy weather station with a mediocre outdoor sensor which ate batteries constantly, had a lame indoor LCD panel that showed a few metrics, but no long term history.