Ok, I've read the customization guide on adding a new observation, but it's not clear to me for my situation if I need to do it that way or if in my scenario it's much simpler. My sensor front end is a Particle P1 (basically a wifi enabled arduino) and continuously monitors the sensors. Every 2 minutes it dumps it's data to my Phant server. The front end does quite a bit of calculations like dew point/avg wind speed/dir over the last 2 minutes/highest gust in the last 10 minutes.....etc. Then I have a cron job on my raspberry pi (my weewx device) to do a jsonp query every 2 min to build a list pair that fileparse likes. Then fileparse polls the file and weewx archives the data every 2 minutes. I also use the timestamp that is generated from the phant server to have a more accurate time of when the readings were taken, or at least their average over 2 minutes.
So that's the setup of my system. The front end also sends the voltage and soc (state of charge) of the 8000 mAh battery that is in the unit which is also charged by a solar panel with an Adafruit solar charger. What I would like to do it take the voltage and soc that I already dump into the fileparse file that it reads from and label map it into weewx. My confusion is do I need to write a whole new service for this, or will the existing fileparse extension structure handle that and all I need to do it build the new values into the database? My eventual goal is to have a nice steelseries gauge that displays the voltage and soc on a single dial, or maybe just the soc, depends on how frustrated I get trying to build that new gauge...lol. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
