Re: [weewx-user] Ecowitt lightning sensor WH57

2024-03-14 Thread Colin Larsen
Sometimes a piezo device will do the trick. A BBQ lighter or such like. On Fri, 15 Mar 2024, 06:50 Joachim Puttkammer, wrote: > How can I simulate lightning for the WH57 sensor? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To

Re: [weewx-user] Slow Report Generation after Upgrade from 4.10.2 to 5..0

2024-01-20 Thread Colin Larsen
I guess he means this "feels like" which as far as I know is a derived/calculated field in the skin [image: image.png] On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 at 03:13, Tom Keffer wrote: > Richard, you're going to have to give us more information than this. The > only reference to "feels like" that I can find in

Re: [weewx-user] V5.0.0 available

2024-01-14 Thread Colin Larsen
Congratulations on the release of V5 team. Now I just have to remember how I did my original install  Colin On Mon, 15 Jan 2024, 11:25 Tom Keffer, wrote: > A year in the making, V5 is finally available! Some minor new features, > but most of the work has been to keep up with the changing

Re: [weewx-user] want to use lux value to calculate value for 'radiation'

2023-09-27 Thread Colin Larsen
My graph is almost perfect with that calculation Colin 41south.nz On Thu, 28 Sept 2023, 11:53 Kevin Crivelli, wrote: > I have the same problem but this didn't work for me. any ideas? > > On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 6:04:08 PM UTC-4 Greg Troxel wrote: > >> >> Eric K writes: >> >> > The

Re: [weewx-user] a followup on light measurement

2023-09-01 Thread Colin Larsen
This may or may not be pertinent from the Ecowitt driver wiki https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/wiki/Understanding-Ecowitt-LAN-Wi-Fi-Gateway-API-radiation-fields Colin On Sat, 2 Sept 2023, 12:18 Greg Troxel, wrote: > I'm writing a new message since the list is wackily rejecting mail. > >

Re: [weewx-user] StdCalibrate/corrections for radiation reading

2023-08-12 Thread Colin Larsen
Thanks Dale - appreciate your thoughts and agree with you. It's always great to have your thought process tested occasionally :) Colin On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 at 12:31, Dale wrote: > Just chiming in: I have had some luck over the years calibrating my > solar sensor and having it track pretty

Re: [weewx-user] StdCalibrate/corrections for radiation reading

2023-08-12 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi Greg Many thanks for your reply, you raise some very valid points about data in the real world. Maybe I'll just leave it as it is :) Cheers Colin On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 at 11:16, Greg Troxel wrote: > "colin@gmail.com" writes: > > > Hi all > > I have a situation whereby (I think) I have

Re: [weewx-user] Connecting to new Davis Console model 6313

2023-08-08 Thread Colin Larsen
Strangely enough I just replaced all my DIY hardware (weatherduino) with an Ecowitt setup and it's excellent for the money Colin On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 14:35, vince wrote: > rtl_davis driver can help somewhat at a higher complexity level FWIW > > -- > You received this message because you are

Re: [weewx-user] Re: "maxSolarRad" - what is it exactly, and how is it translated?

2023-07-23 Thread Colin Larsen
Karen Is there a detailed explanation of those adjustments anywhere? I graph the maxsolarrad "under" my actual at 41south.nz (currently under reconstruction) Thanks Colin On Mon, 24 Jul 2023, 05:56 Karen K, wrote: > Please remember that there are parameters in weewx.conf to adjust the >

[weewx-user] Announcement: AerisWeather Acquired by Vaisala

2022-01-27 Thread Colin Larsen
For all those using Aeris Weather We are writing the next chapter of our company history – together with Vaisala ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Getting LoRa data from server into weewx

2021-11-30 Thread Colin Larsen
Good work Bob, well done getting it sorted :) Cheers Colin On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 09:21, bgra...@umw.edu wrote: > I'm very happy to say that I have three successful (hourly) readings of > CO2 in the weewx db, thanks to everyone who has been patient and helpful > with an 81-year-old retired

Re: [weewx-user] WeeWX-MQTTSubscribe - use of - sanity check

2021-04-08 Thread Colin Larsen
gateway as the interface between weewx and mqtt world. > > i expect there is a lot of overlap with the excellent MQTTSubscribe. but > my requirement was for a generic gateway outside of weewx, and the weewx > interface is just one of the apps built on it > > On 9 Apr 2021, at 5

[weewx-user] WeeWX-MQTTSubscribe - use of - sanity check

2021-04-08 Thread Colin Larsen
Learned WeeWX folk I'm thinking about rewriting my current weather station code to solely use MQTT to deliver data to WeeWX. At present the station runs on WeatherDuino which transmits data (via wifi) to a console which then emulates the Davis protocol via usb to a Pi running WeeWX. I really

Re: [weewx-user] It never rains, but apparently it pours .....

2021-03-31 Thread Colin Larsen
; 0.0 >> >> 279.980998292116 >> >> 247.545269518011 >> >> 19.3118544276522 >> >> 13.7807155122679 >> >> 5.58392519958292 >> >> 0.957907401564173 >> >> 4.75823850308484 >> >> 5.67484207064662 >> >> 0.84

Re: [weewx-user] It never rains, but apparently it pours .....

2021-03-30 Thread Colin Larsen
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 *pi@wduino*:*~ $* On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 18:05, Colin Larsen wrote: > I'm thinking that the easiest road here is to delete (or null??) all of > todays rain data. So that would be 'rain' and 'rainRate'? > > Thanks > Colin > > On Wed, 31 Mar

Re: [weewx-user] It never rains, but apparently it pours .....

2021-03-30 Thread Colin Larsen
I'm thinking that the easiest road here is to delete (or null??) all of todays rain data. So that would be 'rain' and 'rainRate'? Thanks Colin On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 17:44, colin@gmail.com wrote: > It's not my week lol! > > Now that I've rebuilt Weewx my weather station decided to go rogue

Re: [weewx-user] Problem with upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi Vince Well when I started the process I didn't actually think that the sdcard was bad, I just needed more space to do the OS and Weewx upgrade. And then .. your second suggestion is exactly what ended up happening :) But certainly a valuable lesson in the vital things to have backed up

Re: [weewx-user] Problem with upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread Colin Larsen
with a nice big sd card. It was a nice exercise but not one to repeat too often :) Thanks Colin On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 15:03, Colin Larsen wrote: > OK, we're gonna need a bigger SD card! Lol, ran out of space on the 8 gig > card, might as well just do a rebuild and then restore by backed up

Re: [weewx-user] Problem with upgrade

2021-03-29 Thread Colin Larsen
OK, we're gonna need a bigger SD card! Lol, ran out of space on the 8 gig card, might as well just do a rebuild and then restore by backed up files :) Colin On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 13:24, Colin Larsen wrote: > Thanks John, underway now, will post results when it finishes > > On Tue, 30

Re: [weewx-user] Problem with upgrade

2021-03-29 Thread Colin Larsen
Thanks John, underway now, will post results when it finishes On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 13:11, John Kline wrote: > Please run: > sudo apt update > sudo apt full-upgrade > > Then try your install. > > On Mar 29, 2021, at 4:52 PM, colin@gmail.com > wrote: > > Hi Team > > I'm attempting to

Re: [weewx-user] How to change weewx service from python2 to python3 on Debian

2021-01-26 Thread Colin Larsen
I remember I had to change /etc/default/weewx it to tell Weewx to start with Python3 WEEWX_PYTHON=python2<== change to python3 WEEWX_BINDIR=/usr/share/weewx WEEWX_BIN=/usr/bin/weewxd WEEWX_CFG=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf Colin On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 11:04, Tom Keffer wrote: > Easiest is to

Re: [weewx-user] Re: skin Belchertown " earth Quake"

2021-01-10 Thread Colin Larsen
I just looked at your site and the distance is in miles as I would expect for the US. What part do you think is buggy? Colin On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 03:48, John Mora wrote: > I am following these threads with interest as my Belchertown "Earthquake" > is working but not as I desire it to work.

Re: [weewx-user] Re: skin Belchertown " earth Quake"

2021-01-09 Thread Colin Larsen
My simple fix for this was to make sure that in weewx.conf (or skin.conf if you prefer) you have under the stanza [[belchertown]] [[[units]]] groups An entry that says group_distance = km On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 11:12, Greg from Oz wrote: > Run the command: locale > > See if

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown - suppressing graph=homepage >

2021-01-07 Thread Colin Larsen
Nice detective work, well done sorting it! On Fri, 8 Jan 2021, 11:40 David Levine, wrote: > I wanted to close this out as I identified the cause of my trials and > tribulations but you have to read a bit to get to it. As a recap, I wanted > to remove Homepage and have Day, Yesterday, Week and

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown - suppressing graph=homepage >

2021-01-05 Thread Colin Larsen
Why do you wish to remove it, what are you trying to achieve? I'm a little confused sorry Colin On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 16:25, David wrote: > Thanks but that does not seem to be the situation I’m encountering. > > I can’t seem to remove/rename [homepage] in graphs.conf > > > > On Tue, Jan 5,

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown: earthquake miles vs km's

2020-12-26 Thread Colin Larsen
Arend Great call sir! In fact even though I use all metric units with my station that unit was not set at all. Added group_distance = km to the Belchertown skin and that has solved the problem Many thanks! Regards and best to you. Colin On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 01:07, Arend wrote: > Hi Colin,

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown: earthquake miles vs km's

2020-12-25 Thread Colin Larsen
With the GeoNet problem I had now fixed I am also getting distances to earthquake locations in miles, when the rest of my site is km Thanks Colin On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, 23:35 moth...@gmail.com, wrote: > yes, it works, thanks for the adjustment. > Ton > http://weerstationnibbixwoud.nl/ > > Op

Re: [weewx-user] AQI with Belchertown ??

2020-09-22 Thread Colin Larsen
I modified the code on this AQI unit to send the data via UDP packets to my Weewx server https://wiki.weatherduino.com/air_quality_monitor_ii I also use the complete WeatherDuino suite as my station, so it made sense to head this direction Cheers Colin On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, 04:07 Daniel Rich,

Re: [weewx-user] AQI with Belchertown ??

2020-09-22 Thread Colin Larsen
hat looks good, what sensors are you using for that ? > > Are you using the AQI extension or doing something else ? > > cheers > > Tim > On 22/9/20 8:39 pm, Colin Larsen wrote: > > http://41south.nz/graphs/?graph=AQM > > Does this help? > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020,

Re: [weewx-user] AQI with Belchertown ??

2020-09-22 Thread Colin Larsen
http://41south.nz/graphs/?graph=AQM Does this help? On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, 22:37 Tim Tuck, wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if anyone is displaying AQI with their Belchertown skin ? > > I'm using the AQI extension > > https://github.com/jonathankoren/weewx-aqi > > It appears to be working but

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown Skin 1.2 (finally) released!

2020-09-11 Thread Colin Larsen
Great work Pat, thanks! Cheers Colin On Sat, 12 Sep 2020, 06:46 Pat, wrote: > Belchertown Skin 1.2 is out of beta and released! You can download it here > > . > > Thanks to everyone who helped test all the new

Re: [weewx-user] Unicode/UTF-8 characters no longer translating

2020-06-20 Thread Colin Larsen
d into > unicode. > > -tk > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:00 PM Colin Larsen > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> As part of my installation I have FilePile grabbing some air quality >> data. To get the proper unit formatting for micrograms per cub

Re: [weewx-user] Unicode/UTF-8 characters no longer translating

2020-06-17 Thread Colin Larsen
Or it would help if I edited the right version of the file! My bad, time to tidy up the file system a bit. Cheers On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 16:02, Colin Larsen wrote: > Whew! > > So interestingly that hasn't changed the results published on the web > page, so I wonder if this is a

Re: [weewx-user] Unicode/UTF-8 characters no longer translating

2020-06-17 Thread Colin Larsen
Whew! So interestingly that hasn't changed the results published on the web page, so I wonder if this is a skin problem not a Weewx one? I'm using the Belchertown skin (it's the latest beta but the latest production release also displayed the same) The 'about.inc' file has the following line in

Re: [weewx-user] Unicode/UTF-8 characters no longer translating

2020-06-17 Thread Colin Larsen
Thanks gery I've edited my FilePile.py to change all of my microgramm_per_meter_cubic to microgram_per_meter_cubed and removed the other line, will see how that goes. Cheers Colin On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 15:28, gjr80 wrote: > Hi, > > If you are using WeeWX 4.x you should be able to do away

Re: [weewx-user] Unicode/UTF-8 characters no longer translating

2020-06-17 Thread Colin Larsen
Sorry, typo -- Gary :) On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 15:37, Colin Larsen wrote: > Thanks gery > > I've edited my FilePile.py to change all of my microgramm_per_meter_cubic > to microgram_per_meter_cubed and removed the other line, will see how > that goes. > > Cheers > Colin

[weewx-user] Unicode/UTF-8 characters no longer translating

2020-06-17 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi all As part of my installation I have FilePile grabbing some air quality data. To get the proper unit formatting for micrograms per cubic meter I use the units line below - weewx.units.default_unit_label_dict[*'microgramm_per_meter_cubic'*] = *' \xce\xbcg/m\xc2\xb3'* which was working fine

Re: [weewx-user] Looking for somewhat 'open' weather station to use with Raspberry based projects

2020-05-17 Thread Colin Larsen
https://wiki.weatherduino.com/ On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 12:34, Tom Keffer wrote: > Just to correct the record, the Vantage protocol was not reverse > engineered. They are one of the few vendors who have published their > protocol >

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-09 Thread Colin Larsen
Perfect, thank you sir, case closed :) And again many thanks for all the work that goes into this project. On Sun, 10 May 2020, 08:55 gjr80, wrote: > A couple of things happened in WeeWX 4, a fair amount of code was moved > from engine.py to weewxd, this included the code that adds the stack

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-09 Thread Colin Larsen
Thanks Gary, does that mean that it's just peculiar to my setup? I haven't heard of any others reporting it. Good to know it's nothing serious :) Colin On Sun, 10 May 2020, 08:25 gjr80, wrote: > There is no error. It is an informational stack trace on WeeWX exit and it > cannot be turned off

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-09 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi gents Is there anything I can do for the error I posted above that only seems to happen on Weewx service stop? Thanks Colin On Fri, 8 May 2020, 11:00 gjr80, wrote: > Good, I have submitted a PR for the change to the repo owner. > > Gary > > On Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:32:49 UTC+10, Greg

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.1 released!

2020-05-09 Thread Colin Larsen
I have logged an issue in GitHub for the update error. On Sun, 10 May 2020, 03:01 Maarten van der Hoeven, wrote: > Hi, > > I have a general question about the skin. I calculate myself (using a > php-script that reads mysql-data and write the output to a txt-file) the > amount of lack of rain.

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-06 Thread Colin Larsen
at 15:02, Tom Keffer wrote: > Missed that. > > Give it another try: > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tkeffer/weewx-owm/master/bin/user/owm.py > > -tk > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:57 PM Colin Larsen > wrote: > >> Whoops - nope, now getting this error from owm.py >&

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-06 Thread Colin Larsen
of bytes. It cannot be of type str. May 7 11:55:15 raspberrypi weewx[4010] CRITICAL weewx.restx: OWM: Thread terminating. Reason: POST data should be bytes or an iterable of bytes. It cannot be of type str. On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 11:55, Colin Larsen wrote: > That seems to have fixed owm - tha

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-06 Thread Colin Larsen
t;> >> -tk >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:17 PM Greg from Oz wrote: >> >>> I have run a program called 2to3 python converter program on some of the >>> python2 scripts and it fixed most of the problems and did the conversion to >>> the python3

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-06 Thread Colin Larsen
Righto, back to Python2 it is, apologies for asking but hadn't seen this one before. Cheers and thanks Colin On Thu, 7 May 2020, 02:32 vince, wrote: > On Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 7:31:23 PM UTC-7, Colin Larsen wrote: >> >> >> May 6 14:29:07 raspberrypi weewx[68

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-05 Thread Colin Larsen
CAL __main__: SyntaxError: invalid syntax May 6 14:29:07 raspberrypi weewx[6896] CRITICAL __main__: Exiting. On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 14:19, Colin Larsen wrote: > Still going .. > > Installed the new mqtt and now get this error > > May 6 14:16:47 raspberryp

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-05 Thread Colin Larsen
Still going .. Installed the new mqtt and now get this error May 6 14:16:47 raspberrypi weewx[6432] CRITICAL __main__: Caught unrecoverable exception: May 6 14:16:47 raspberrypi weewx[6432] CRITICAL __main__: No module named 'paho' May 6 14:16:47 raspberrypi weewx[6432]

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-03 Thread Colin Larsen
Perfect will do that tonight, thanks Tom On Mon, 4 May 2020, 07:28 Tom Keffer, wrote: > Colin, yes, your version of mqtt.py needs to be updated. You can the link > on the MQTT wiki page <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/mqtt>. > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 12:21 PM Col

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-03 Thread Colin Larsen
ithub.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/mqtt ? > <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/mqtt> > > > Op zondag 3 mei 2020 06:29:34 UTC+2 schreef Colin Larsen: >> >> This may be a problem? After changing to python3 .. >> >> May 3 16:28:06 raspberrypi weewx[5437] C

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Larsen
16:28:06 raspberrypi weewx[5437] CRITICAL __main__: Exiting. On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 15:45, Colin Larsen wrote: > Ah .. that will be the missing piece of the puzzle! Off to sort that > now, will report back. > > Thanks! > > On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 15:30, mwall wrote: &

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Larsen
Ah .. that will be the missing piece of the puzzle! Off to sort that now, will report back. Thanks! On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 15:30, mwall wrote: > On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 9:11:51 PM UTC-4, Colin Larsen wrote: >> >> I found this /etc/default >> >> WEEWX_PYTHON

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Larsen
Whoops sorry /etc/default/weewx that should have been On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 13:11, Colin Larsen wrote: > I found this /etc/default > > WEEWX_PYTHON=python2 > > WEEWX_BINDIR=/usr/share/weewx > > WEEWX_BIN=/usr/bin/weewxd > > WEEWX_CFG=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf > >

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Larsen
I found this /etc/default WEEWX_PYTHON=python2 WEEWX_BINDIR=/usr/share/weewx WEEWX_BIN=/usr/bin/weewxd WEEWX_CFG=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf Changing it to python3 breaks weewx so I'll just leave well enough alone Colin On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 12:54, Colin Larsen wrote: > Hi Graham > &g

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Larsen
macports puts python3 > > On 3 May 2020, at 10:30 am, Colin Larsen wrote: > > Thanks Tom > > Well /etc/init.d/weewx is there and the other one isn't so I'll go with > that but to be honest the innards of that file is out of my depth. > > On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 12:20, To

Re: [weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Larsen
k in /etc/init.d/weewx. If not there, then > /etc/systemd/system/weewx.service. > > -tk > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:13 PM Colin Larsen > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> I know that this is buried somewhere in the threads of information, sorry >> apologies for not

[weewx-user] Python versions

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi all I know that this is buried somewhere in the threads of information, sorry apologies for not being able to find it. I've just upgraded my Pi based station to Weewx 4.0 using the apt-get method. Ihas Python3 installed but is still using Python2 as can be seen here. I thought I had read that

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Version 4.0 is (finally) here!

2020-04-30 Thread Colin Larsen
I've just updated from 3.9 to 4.0 on my RPi using Belchertown skins. Easy update - many thanks for all the work that's gone into this! Cheers Colin 41south.nz On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 16:34, Greg from Oz wrote: > I just upgraded mine from 3.9.2 to 4 and it was OK. > I had Steel series skin and

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown skin 1.1 released!

2020-04-08 Thread Colin Larsen
8, 2020 at 7:40:52 PM UTC-4, Colin Larsen wrote: >> >> Whoops sorry - 41south.nz >> >> Colin >> >> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 11:40, Colin Larsen wrote: >> >>> Update done at 41south.net, as far as I can tell nothing broke and I >>> hav

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown skin 1.1 released!

2020-04-08 Thread Colin Larsen
Whoops sorry - 41south.nz Colin On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 11:40, Colin Larsen wrote: > Update done at 41south.net, as far as I can tell nothing broke and I > haven't had to make any changes to graphs.conf - possibly I'm not using any > of the changed options? > > Colin > > On

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown skin 1.1 released!

2020-04-08 Thread Colin Larsen
Update done at 41south.net, as far as I can tell nothing broke and I haven't had to make any changes to graphs.conf - possibly I'm not using any of the changed options? Colin On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 08:18, Colin Larsen wrote: > Thanks Pat, I'll tackle this sometime in the next few days afte

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Changes with Belchertown skin & DarkSky

2020-04-08 Thread Colin Larsen
in my face! (we need that >>> good humor spirit nowadays...) >>> >>> Either one is fine... >>> >>> BTW, Pat can not have a good night sleep he has a newborn... : >>> >>> X >>> >>> >>> On Tuesd

Re: [weewx-user] Belchertown skin 1.1 released!

2020-04-08 Thread Colin Larsen
Thanks Pat, I'll tackle this sometime in the next few days after I have a good read of the breaks ;) Cheers Colin On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, 06:26 Pat, wrote: > As mentioned in this thread > , I've > released Belchertown skin 1.1. This

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Changes with Belchertown skin & DarkSky

2020-04-07 Thread Colin Larsen
If there is a vote going I like OWM :) Good luck with that sleep thing pat! Cheers Colin On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 13:32, G Hammer wrote: > 3AM is a great time to introduce them to coding  > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020, 9:30 PM Pat wrote: > >> Right. OWM is more of a drop in replacement so I'm leaning

Re: [weewx-user] Changes with Belchertown skin & DarkSky

2020-03-31 Thread Colin Larsen
Congratulations Pat, trying times, hope you and are your family stay well Colin On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, 07:10 steeple ian, wrote: > Congratulations Pat > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:03 PM Pat wrote: > >> Hi everyone, I'm a bit tied up and offline with the birth of my new >> daughter, but I got

Re: [weewx-user] WeatherDuino - "trouble or fun"?

2019-08-21 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi Xant If you like to build your own weather station equipment and tinker lots then Weatherduino is a great system. It is Arduino based as the name implies so a little experience in that area is good but not 100% necessary. W'Duino is very very flexible but definitely not plug and play, if you

Re: [weewx-user] WeatherDuino - "trouble or fun"?

2019-08-21 Thread Colin Larsen
That's my site, what would you like to know :) Colin On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, 05:18 Xant, wrote: > > Does somebody went through WeatherDuino path?! (as in > http://www.41south.net.nz/) > > https://wiki.weatherduino.com/ > > Can share experience? > > Xant > > -- > You received this message because

Re: [weewx-user] UV Index and radiation calculated by software

2019-06-28 Thread Colin Larsen
Weewx will calculate the maximum theoretical solar radiation value, but this of course will bear no relation to your actual conditions. I'm not sure about UV, but once again any such calculation would not relate to your observed conditions. Colin On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, 20:47 Rolf Zanchettin,

Re: [weewx-user] Error after upgrading to Belchertown skin 1.0.1

2019-06-26 Thread Colin Larsen
I'm not sure you have followed the upgrade instructions properly. Certainly Highcharts_Belchertown is no longer required. What version did you upgrade from? Colin On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, 07:46 G400, wrote: > After upgaring Belchertown 1.0.1 skin I'm struggeling with errors: > > I followed the

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-14 Thread Colin Larsen
Great news :) On Sat, 15 Jun 2019, 08:08 Maarten van der Hoeven, wrote: > Back home, and now with full focus. All is working now! I have put > everything in weewx.conf, nothing left in skin.conf > > Very cool > > Op vrijdag 14 juni 2019 11:03:11 UTC+2 schreef Colin Larsen:

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-14 Thread Colin Larsen
I did a test on my system and that label definitely works :) On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 8:19 PM Colin Larsen wrote: > I think it would need a Weewx restart, again hopefully Pat can confirm I > have the right spot. > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, 20:17 Maarten van der Hoeven, > wrote: &g

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-14 Thread Colin Larsen
wrong, as being in a > hurry, work is calling. Will check this evening, and will also read the > wiki... As I understand correctly, there's pretty much howto's written down > how about howto's :) Will follow up later today. > > Op vrijdag 14 juni 2019 09:36:28 UTC+2 schreef Colin Larsen

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-14 Thread Colin Larsen
Probably just extraTemp1 = Grass Temperature or whatever you need On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:33 PM Colin Larsen wrote: > This is it I think, add your desired label in here > > [Labels] > # Labels used in this skin > [[Generic]] > # Generic labels, keyed by an observation t

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-14 Thread Colin Larsen
cloudbase = Cloud Base visibility = Visibility windrun = Wind Run On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:30 PM Colin Larsen wrote: > Excellent! And yes I'm 99% sure that Temperature1 can be changed in either > skin.conf or Weewx.conf. Don't forget to get all of your config settings > into weew

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-14 Thread Colin Larsen
Point 13.8 °C > > Humidity 88% > > Rain 0.0 mm 0.0 mm/hr > > Temperature116.1 °C > > > > Amazing  Now to find out where to change the label Temperature1 into > something else (Temp grass or something alike). > > > Thanks for

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-14 Thread Colin Larsen
Sorry, that formatted horribly I think - it's actually just on 2 lines of code On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 6:59 PM Colin Larsen wrote: > Maarten > > I think you may be able to add your extraTemp1 into this section below in > skin.conf/weewx.conf (depending on where you have the [Ex

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-14 Thread Colin Larsen
Maarten I think you may be able to add your extraTemp1 into this section below in skin.conf/weewx.conf (depending on where you have the [Extras] stanza). Give it a try, I'm sure Pat will jump in and correct me if I'm wrong. Otherwise you may need to use one of the custom content areas as

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-07 Thread Colin Larsen
Happy to help - it's pretty warm there! On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, 17:32 Adnan Mumtaz, wrote: > Thanks a lot Colin, it worked. > > On Saturday, 8 June 2019 08:08:12 UTC+3, Colin Larsen wrote: >> >> Adnan, look for a line in your skin.conf/weewx.conf (depending on where >>

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 1.0 released!

2019-06-07 Thread Colin Larsen
Adnan, look for a line in your skin.conf/weewx.conf (depending on where you have things specified) like this one. Add observations in the order that you like to see them station_observations = barometer, dewpoint, outHumidity, cloudbase, rainWithRainRate, UV, radiation On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Is There an Alternative to Windy for Embed in Belchertown Skin

2019-05-17 Thread Colin Larsen
gt; a different radar display they like. > > > > On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 2:23:48 PM UTC-4, Colin Larsen wrote: >> >> As was pointed out this map is highly configurable via Windy.com, just >> decide what you information you want and paste the link into the >> appropriate co

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Is There an Alternative to Windy for Embed in Belchertown Skin

2019-05-17 Thread Colin Larsen
Are these Windy problems? Yes. Which is why I wanted to know if anyone had > a different radar display they like. > > > > On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 2:23:48 PM UTC-4, Colin Larsen wrote: >> >> As was pointed out this map is highly configurable via Windy.com,

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Is There an Alternative to Windy for Embed in Belchertown Skin

2019-05-17 Thread Colin Larsen
cking the label" On Sat, 18 May 2019, 06:17 G Hammer, wrote: > The radar map. > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:16 PM Colin Larsen > wrote: > >> Are you wanting to change the map picture or the 8 day forecast? >> >> On Sat, 18 May 2019, 02:34 G Hammer, wrote: >>

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Is There an Alternative to Windy for Embed in Belchertown Skin

2019-05-17 Thread Colin Larsen
Are you wanting to change the map picture or the 8 day forecast? On Sat, 18 May 2019, 02:34 G Hammer, wrote: > Except that doesn’t work. > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:33 AM HoracioDos wrote: > >> Hello. >> Windy iframe designer allows to change wind and temperature units to F >> and mph. This

[weewx-user] Re: Another FilePile question

2019-05-12 Thread Colin Larsen
'*] = *'group_dust'* weewx.units.obs_group_dict[*'AQI100'*] = *'group_dust'* weewx.units.obs_group_dict[*'AQICO2'*] = *'group_gas_concentration'* On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:15 AM Colin Larsen wrote: > Hi all > > I am successfully using FilePile to gather some air quality data and add > it

[weewx-user] Another FilePile question

2019-05-12 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi all I am successfully using FilePile to gather some air quality data and add it to my Weewx database. Upon using the tag $current.AQICO2 it returns the value in the database with 6 decimal points after it, in the database it is just a whole number of 672. I know I've something in the

Re: [weewx-user] FilePile help please

2019-05-07 Thread Colin Larsen
) # buffer size is 1024 bytes > print "Received message:", data > with open(fname, 'w') as f: > for ds in data.split(','): > f.write(ds + "\n") > > -tk > > > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:35 AM Colin Larsen > wrote: >

Re: [weewx-user] FilePile help please

2019-05-07 Thread Colin Larsen
an if you like: > > ... > for line in fd: > data = line.split("=") > if len(data) != 2: > continue > new_record_data[self.label_map.get(data[0], data[0])] = > to_float(data

Re: [weewx-user] FilePile help please

2019-05-06 Thread Colin Larsen
newlines ('\n') as line delineators? Perhaps it is > using the MS-DOS standard of '\n\r'? Examine the file carefully and make > sure it contains what you think it contains. > > -tk > > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 8:05 PM Colin Larsen > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >&g

[weewx-user] FilePile help please

2019-05-06 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi all I'm trying to get Filepile working but have come across an error that I don't understand. Any help appreciated. The database has been extended with fields to match those below in the data file - am I just missing spaces in the layout? Should it be AQI25 = 1.60 etc etc Many thanks This is

Re: [weewx-user] Help creating a service to import data from file

2019-04-23 Thread Colin Larsen
With help from a friend I've got the data txt file sorted into the right format so hopefully this will be easy from here. I assume I still need some 'units' detail somewhere along the line in the [FilePile] stanza? Cheers Colin On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 7:48 AM Colin Larsen wrote: > This is

Re: [weewx-user] Help creating a service to import data from file

2019-04-23 Thread Colin Larsen
udp1.write((const uint8_t*)Data.c_str(), strlen(Data.c_str())); udp1.endPacket(); udp1.stop(); So I'm unsure how to get line feeds in there instead of the comma delimiter. Seems it would be easier to look for the comma in the txt file :) Cheers Colin On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 7:31 AM Co

Re: [weewx-user] Help creating a service to import data from file

2019-04-23 Thread Colin Larsen
Ok that sure looks like it would do the job but with my file format I would need to use "," as a delimiter between records rather than a new line something like (borrowed from another similar utility). I have never done Python so I'm a little lost on how to change this sorry with

[weewx-user] Help creating a service to import data from file

2019-04-22 Thread colin . larsen
Hi all I have devised a method to export my Air Quality Data (AQI) from my Arduino based weather station to Weewx (it can't be sent via the usb port with the rest of the data). It involves sending the data via a UDP broadcast packet from the station, this is then captured by a small Python

Re: [weewx-user] Upgrade issue 3.8.2 to 3.9.1

2019-04-07 Thread Colin Larsen
wx/commit/8929d365ab5f878671bec8ca3a62c77f2e156f99>, > I changed the strategy so there is now an option to prevent hardware catch > ups. > > Under [StdArchive], add option no_catchup and set it to True: > > [StdArchive] > ... > no_catchup = True > > -tk > > On S

Re: [weewx-user] Upgrade issue 3.8.2 to 3.9.1

2019-04-06 Thread Colin Larsen
Hi Thomas, that's what I thought but my install of 3.9.1 still required the engine.py file to be updated, so I'm not sure what happened there. I'm up and running so I guess I'm just passing this on for the devs info, perhaps something hasn't been updated or included :) I'll make sure I have that

[weewx-user] Upgrade issue 3.8.2 to 3.9.1

2019-04-06 Thread colin . larsen
Hi all Just upgraded my installation as above. The hardware is WeatherDuino emulating the Davis comms protocol. On a previous occasion I had an issue which I think was similar to the errors below and was asked to use an updated engine.py file - which fixed the problem. After the upgrade I had

Re: [weewx-user] Display UV as graph in Belchertown skin

2019-03-20 Thread Colin Larsen
Version sounds like it's going to be awesome! Not that it isn't fabulous now :) On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, 08:57 Pat, wrote: > Very true. Version 1.0 allows more custom control over the charts. Hoping > to get that out in the next few weeks > > On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 2:17:33 PM

Re: [weewx-user] Display UV as graph in Belchertown skin

2019-03-19 Thread Colin Larsen
Not currently, but keep an eye out for version 1.0. I think the enhancements scheduled to roll out may make that possible, but I'm not 100% sure so don't guote me :) Colin On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, 04:55 G400, wrote: > I have tried to find information about displaying UV measurements as a > graph

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 0.9 now available

2019-03-01 Thread Colin Larsen
Yep, all good as far as I can tell, no errors. I see that the Darksky date format is correct for me now too, not sure when you sorted that but thanks! I may use that for a while again. On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 3:36 PM Colin Larsen wrote: > Done, will let you know in under 5 minutes :) > &g

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Belchertown skin 0.9 now available

2019-03-01 Thread Colin Larsen
Done, will let you know in under 5 minutes :) On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 3:33 PM Pat wrote: > Colin, Yes. Scroll back a bit in this thread there's 2 links I sent Rich > to update to. Try that. > > Johannes, I'm working on a fix for your report too > > -- > You received this message because you are

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