On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 12:38:57 PM UTC-8, mwall wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 3:23:58 PM UTC-5, Vince Skahan wrote: >> >> Before going too far down that path, I was wondering if there a generic >> '*query >> a URL that returns JSON*' driver to start with ? >> > > someone should implement that :) > > in fact, it would be nice if that were a base class in weewx core that > other drivers could use. when i started weewx-interceptor i thought it > would be that easy. but it turns out that each hardware vendor does things > just a little bit different than any other. > > doing the http GET, receiving JSON data, parsing JSON data, and even doing > it on a separate thread so you don't block the weewx engine - those are all > pretty easy with python. > > mapping the JSON fields to database fields, and sorting out the units - > those are still squarely in the land of weewx. the sensor_map and > sensor_map_extensions patterns seem to work fairly well. > >
ok - let me fiddle on it a bit. You guys are having far too much fun with 4.0 packaging :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/f4a04ede-775a-49e8-bbc8-7ee78435a5a0%40googlegroups.com.
