Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 Weather Station with Sonic Anemometer and WeatherLink Live Bundle

The Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 bundle combined a sensor suite with a Sonic Anemometer and the WeatherLink Live hub. There was no standard cup anemometer and no console in the box. WeatherLink Live sent the data over Wi-Fi to the WeatherLink Cloud, so you read your weather in the WeatherLink app or on WeatherLink.com instead of on a console screen. You got outside temperature and humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, rainfall, dew point, wind chill and more.

What was in the Davis Vantage Pro2 sonic bundle?

According to Davis's listing at the time, the bundle had these features:

• Sonic Anemometer: measures wind direction and speed with no moving parts. Wind speeds from 0 to 89 mph (144 km/h). A 40 ft (12 m) cable let you mount the anemometer away from the sensor suite for better siting.
• Transmission range of up to 1,000 ft (300 m) from the sensor suite to WeatherLink Live.
• Solar-powered sensor suite with battery backup.
• Data updates every 2.5 seconds.
• Weather-proof sensor suite housing.

Common Vantage Pro2 questions

Davis's own support pages answer the usual owner questions in full: console beeping (alarms), the "Low battery on station 1" message, bad reception, calibrating temperature and humidity, and setting the wind direction when the arm cannot point north. A quick tip from that list that is worth knowing: very cold drops or heavy rain can briefly disturb a sonic anemometer reading, because the sensor measures wind with sound pulses through the air.

For spare parts such as the tipping spoon, the transmitter box or a new anemometer, see our Vantage Pro2 replacement parts page.

Davis Vantage Pro2 manuals and firmware

Davis publishes the manuals and firmware updates for the Vantage Pro2 and WeatherLink Live on its support site. You can find them here.