[weewx-user] Hope nobody here is doing this...

2024-03-11 Thread Stephen Hocking
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-ranchers-patrick-esch-ed-dean-jager-sentenced-rain-gauges-tampering-federal-crop-subsidies-nws-fcic/ -- "I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return"W.H. Auden, "September 1, 19

Re: [weewx-user] Is it possibe to use 1 console for 2 weewx systems?

2023-10-10 Thread Stephen Hocking
I'd suggest sending the Vue's data to something like MQTT, then have both the dev & prod boxes pick data up off it. On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 03:35, WindnFog wrote: > Given the somewhat erratic behaviour of the Raspberry Pi's 4's USB ports > and the handshaking between weewx and the data console, I

Re: [weewx-user] Time and date format in Weewx database

2022-11-04 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Phillip, It's in Unix Epoch time - this website will help you on how to convert it to a sensible date & time. https://www.epochconverter.com/#:~:text=The%20Unix%20epoch%20(or%20Unix,01T00%3A00%3A00Z) . On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 at 19:38, Phillip Fischer wrote: > I hope that someone would be able t

Re: [weewx-user] Re: GW2000 driver and additional sensors

2022-06-15 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, Thank you for you clear and complete explanation, I now have the plots being generated as I like in Seasons (haven't dared venture into Belchertown), and am quite happy. On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 14:07, gjr80 wrote: > The first requirement for plotting observation data from a driver/statio

[weewx-user] GW2000 driver and additional sensors

2022-06-05 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi all, I have the WH90, WH40 (bucket-style rainfall) WH41 (outdoor PM2.5 sensor) WH45 (indoor PM2.5/PM10/CO2/Temp/Humidity) WH57 (lightning). On the GW2000's webpage on my ecowitt.net webpages, I can see all of these. Running the weewx driver in debug mode (0.50b4) I see all of the sensors (outp

Re: [weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-25 Thread Stephen Hocking
p1 > value upsetting weewx is kinda understandable → i need to turn all vestiges > of the (ex-) extra station off) > > On 25 May 2022, at 5:53 pm, Stephen Hocking > wrote: > > Given such a whacko figure, perhaps under the [[Corrections]] section > under [StdCalibrate], o

Re: [weewx-user] vp2 - how to disable ch2?

2022-05-25 Thread Stephen Hocking
Given such a whacko figure, perhaps under the [[Corrections]] section under [StdCalibrate], or more suitably, something under [StdQC]. On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 17:45, Graham Eddy wrote: > my old vantage pro2’s additional wireless temp station at ch2 (iss is at > ch1) has carked it (crushed in tree

Re: [weewx-user] GW2000 & WH90 rain rate vs WH80 rain rate.

2022-05-23 Thread Stephen Hocking
2022 at 00:02, Tom Keffer wrote: > That's very cool! > > I'll be eager to see how your regression algorithms fare on future rainy > days. > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:04 PM Stephen Hocking < > stephen.hock...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, &g

Re: [weewx-user] Logging

2022-05-23 Thread Stephen Hocking
Check what debug is set to. On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 18:02, Mark Fraser wrote: > I'm running version 4.8 of weewx and although I've got > log_success = False > In all places in weewx.conf, I still see lines like: > May 23 09:00:56 weathercam /weewxd: bme280: BME280 data > compensated_reading(id=a4

Re: [weewx-user] How to set up a non-supported weather station on Weewx?

2022-05-17 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Angelo, If the SDR driver can be told to pick them up (and that depends if rtl_433 can decode their packets) you can have multiple sensors. I did it with an AcuRite Atlas and another company's indoor temperature & humidity sensors. On Sun, 15 May 2022 at 04:18, Ángel Alonso Tubía < angelalonso

[weewx-user] GW2000 & WH90 rain rate vs WH80 rain rate.

2022-05-11 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi all, Thanks to Gary's patience in explaining how the Seasons skin works, I was able to graph Piezo rain rate (WH90) vs the traditional tipping bucket rain rate measure (WH80) and get an idea where they start to diverge. The GW2000 offers a 5 band sort of graphic equaliser for correcting the rai

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Graphing GW2000 Piezo rain

2022-05-05 Thread Stephen Hocking
Turns out there was an error (which I still haven't quite tracked down) in the skins.conf for Seasons, where a lot of extra sensors that hardly anyone has were listed. This was stopping the images for windspeed, wind direction and quite a few others from being generated. When I moved their stanzas

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Graphing GW2000 Piezo rain

2022-05-04 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, That seems to have worked - thank you very much! Now to find why the Seasons skin isn't plotting a lot of its stuff... On Wed, 4 May 2022 at 19:03, gjr80 wrote: > First thing to check is does your archive have a field p_rain? If you > want plot the observation p_rain it needs to be sav

[weewx-user] Graphing GW2000 Piezo rain

2022-05-04 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi all, I've obviously missed something here, but I thought adding a stanza of the form [[[dayprain]]] # Make sure the y-axis increment is at least 0.02 for the rain plot yscale = None, None, 0.02 plot_type = bar p_rain

Re: [weewx-user] Ecowitt Gateway (formerly GW1000) driver v0.5.0b2 release

2022-05-01 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, Thanks for this - it's just after 10pm here, so I'll attend to the upgrade tomorrow. I'm one of those people with both types of rainfall gauges, so this will be interesting. On Sun, 1 May 2022 at 21:50, gjr80 wrote: > I've released v0.5.0b2 of the Ecowitt Gateway driver (formerly the G

[weewx-user] WH90 piezo vs WH40 bucket rain

2022-04-29 Thread Stephen Hocking
So far tonight: [image: image.png] -- "I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return"W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsu

Re: [weewx-user] Request for assistance - GW2000/WS90

2022-04-29 Thread Stephen Hocking
I got mine through the kickstarter, but a quick google says that Ecowitt ships to Oz. On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 15:23, Graham Eddy wrote: > anyone in australia know how i can order a GW2000 from here at present? > i want the ethernet port and sane power supply > > -- > You received this message bec

Re: [weewx-user] Request for assistance - GW2000/WS90

2022-04-28 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, My WH40 has turned up, and is reporting along with the piezo rain sensor on my WittBoy. We're expecting a fair amount of rain this weekend, so it'll be interesting to see what each one reports. On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 14:58, gjr80 wrote: > I'm presently working on adding support for th

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Acurite 5-in-1 dead?

2022-04-27 Thread Stephen Hocking
Getting the pressure off the AcuRite when using SDR is a matter of scraping it off the Atlas unit (which is what sends the data off to Wunderground and AcurRite). I'm not sure what the 5-in-1 does in that regard, but I do have code kicking around that might help. On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 at 02:55, Dou

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Request for assistance - GW2000/WS90

2022-04-21 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, Mine is connected via ethernet only. I should also add that I've been messing with the gain over various rainfall rates, as found in the rain totals webpage for the unit as so: [image: image.png] On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 at 19:09, gjr80 wrote: > Thanks Jon and Stephen, exactly what I was l

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Request for assistance - GW2000/WS90

2022-04-20 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, I get pi@weather:~ $ PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/weewx/ python3 -m user.api_data --run --ip-address=202.12.111.10 CMD_BROADCAST (12): Sending broadcast packet 'FF FF 12 03 15' to '255.255.255.255:46000' Received broadcast response 'FF FF 12 00 27 E8 68 E7 12 9D 87 CA 0C 6F 0A AF C8

Re: [weewx-user] Re: EcoWitt GW2000 - anyone working on a driver?

2022-04-19 Thread Stephen Hocking
When I compare the rainfall to other close by weather station on wunderground, they've got 21mm to my 32mm. On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 20:09, Stephen Hocking wrote: > The phone app & web page is picking up the piezo rain just fine, but weewx > doesn't seem to have any rain logg

Re: [weewx-user] Re: EcoWitt GW2000 - anyone working on a driver?

2022-04-19 Thread Stephen Hocking
hailrate = rrain_piezo >> stephen...@gmail.com schrieb am Sonntag, 17. April 2022 um 06:46:23 >> UTC+2: >> >>> Hi Gary, >>> >>> I have abused my credit card and ordered a WH40 rainfall sensor (along >>> with the AQ & lightning sensior), so

[weewx-user] Rainfall rate simulators

2022-04-19 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi all, Does anyone know of a device that given the appropriate amount of water, can shower what lies below at known rain rates? The piezo rainfall sensor on the WittBoy has what looks like a 5-band graphic equaliser, where at differing bands of rain rates, you can multiply the rate by a constant

Re: [weewx-user] Re: EcoWitt GW2000 - anyone working on a driver?

2022-04-16 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, I have abused my credit card and ordered a WH40 rainfall sensor (along with the AQ & lightning sensior), so that readings from both it & the piezo sensor can be compared. Will let you know when it turns up and is installed. On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 at 13:52, Stephen Hocking wrot

Re: [weewx-user] Re: EcoWitt GW2000 - anyone working on a driver?

2022-04-16 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, I've just set up weewx with the gw1000 driver, and it appears to have picked up the gw2000 just fine - I'm getting observations coming in. I'm reassured, as a recent git pull of the rtl_433 code doesn't decode anything from the sensors at all, and while going down that rabbit hole of bang

[weewx-user] EcoWitt GW2000 - anyone working on a driver?

2022-04-15 Thread Stephen Hocking
>From the web page the device serves up, it appears you can tell it to upload data in ecowitt or wunderground format to your own server/port. [image: image.png] -- "I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return"W.H. Auden,

Re: [weewx-user] Weewx Messages going to Gmails Spam Folder

2022-01-24 Thread Stephen Hocking
Same here - quite irritating. Used to have it with FreeBSD cvs-commits as well, but that's stopped. On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 14:58, Kevin Davis wrote: > I’m having the same issue. Even marking them as Not Spam doesn’t help. I > have this problem with another google group as well. Very frustrati

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weatherflow UDP driver, Tempest battery reports 'LOW'

2021-12-03 Thread Stephen Hocking
I feel your pain... On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 20:28, John Pierce wrote: > k, answering own question after some googling and guessing *gawd* > I remember why I spent the last 10-15 years of my engineering career > disliking Python > > #set $y = "{:.2f}".format($x) > > and using $y

Re: [weewx-user] Hardware that "Connects to the Internet vi WiFi..."

2021-11-22 Thread Stephen Hocking
Something that transmits using the 433MHz can be done using the SDR driver, but for most of the devices, the pressure is measured in the base station, which doesn't need to broadcast. For the acurite stuff, I use my user.py to scrape the pressure off the device's web page. On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 0

Re: [weewx-user] Acurite Atlas (status?)

2021-11-15 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi, I have a working setup with an Atlas using SDR, and some user code to scrape the pressure off the Atlas. It was a bit of an adventure (I'm about to get the lightning strike stuff working when I have a bit of spare time), but it is doable. The nooelect stuff should be fine. On Tue, 16 Nov 2021

Re: [weewx-user] error after update

2021-11-13 Thread Stephen Hocking
You're missing a paho package for python, and need to install it. if you installation is using python3, "sudo apt-get install python3-paho-mqtt" should do the trick. On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 at 05:17, miso k wrote: > Hello together, > I have installed latest OS to my raspberry - Bullseye. > during th

Re: [weewx-user] How to remove spikes from data?

2021-10-12 Thread Stephen Hocking
It does seem like an ideal use-case for a Kalman filter. https://medium.com/@jaems33/understanding-kalman-filters-with-python-2310e87b8f48 On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 09:54, Richard Horobin wrote: > I accept that you want to remove spikes. > > Do you think this process could be used to detect "warni

Re: [weewx-user] Interceptor drive help

2021-09-20 Thread Stephen Hocking
nything about SDR. what is that? > > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> > -- > *From:* weewx-user@googlegroups.com on > behalf of Stephen Hocking > *Sent:* Sunday, September 19, 2021 6:06:42 PM > *To:* weewx-user@googlegroups.com &

Re: [weewx-user] Interceptor drive help

2021-09-19 Thread Stephen Hocking
sing. I was hoping > that it would have talked to each other through the switch but I guess I > will go down that route later tonight. > > Dave > > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> > -- > *From:* weewx-user@googlegroups.com o

Re: [weewx-user] Interceptor drive help

2021-09-19 Thread Stephen Hocking
Are you running the ethernet cable directly from the Access into the Pi? THat would be necessary. If you have them both plugged into a switch, they're not going to see packets that aren't addressed to them. With the AcurIte, I've had some success with the SDR driver, although it doesn't capture t

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx SDR - Can anyone tell me what I'd put in the [[sensor_map]] section for this packet?

2021-09-02 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi Gary, Thanks for this. It looks as if the device I have is either a knock-off of the original Prologue or a later version. I reckon creating an extra function will sort it, as there are a few irritating small differences between the messages that each pushes out. I'll have to familiarise mysel

[weewx-user] Weewx SDR - Can anyone tell me what I'd put in the [[sensor_map]] section for this packet?

2021-09-01 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi all, I'm attempting to pull data off two sources at once via the SDR driver - an Acurite (which works) and an el-cheapo device for the inside temperature & humidity which puts out packets that look like this: out:[u'{"time" : "2021-09-02 02:57:42", "model" : "Prologue-TH", "subtype" : 5, "i