Case study

DavisRFM69: receiving the reverse-engineered Davis ISS radio protocol

DavisRFM69 receives weather packets from the Davis Instruments Integrated Sensor Suite over its reverse-engineered radio link. The Arduino library adapts RFM69 hardware to the ISS transmissions and includes a Vantage Pro2 console emulation example for Cumulus weather software.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 97
Last commit: 2023-04-19
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: The library was developed on a Moteino R3 with an RFM69W transceiver.
Prerequisites: The VP2 example requires an RTC library for the DS3231 chip.
Limits: The ISSRx example may be broken.
License: The README names a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{davisrfm69-case,
  title = {{DavisRFM69: receiving the reverse-engineered Davis ISS radio protocol}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/dekay/DavisRFM69}},
  url = {https://github.com/dekay/DavisRFM69},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/davisrfm69-case/}}
}

Plain text

DavisRFM69: receiving the reverse-engineered Davis ISS radio protocol. https://github.com/dekay/DavisRFM69 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/davisrfm69-case/

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README.md GitHub · dekay/DavisRFM69 · Revision f8d78ad