Clay Jackson <cl...@n7qnm.net> writes: > Here's one a bit "off the wall" - I happen to live near Hanford, WA (2nd > largest radiation cleanup site in the world, behind Chernobyl) and I'm also > interested in "Space Weather". So, when mightyohm (www.mightyohm.com) put > their Geiger counter on sale last year, I snapped one up. I have it > connected to a pi and reporting microSieverts/hour to MQTT and on the > weewx. > > Right now, I'm using signal1 as the "bucket" to hold the data; but, I got > to thinking about adding it as a data type with units. Looks pretty > straightforward and I'll certainly share. I was wondering if anyone else > has thought about this, or perhaps has already done it.
Great to hear this. I have a mightyohm kit I need to build. > One "interesting side effect" is that right now there's already a database > field named "Radiation", which might be more accurately named > "Insolation". Not sure yet what I'm going to do about that. Or it should be called "Solar Radiation". But that and your uSv/h data are both radiation; one is EM and one is ionizing. And then there's radiative heat transfer. However, 1) the name is already in use and changing it seems out of the question and 2) weewx is a *weather* program that can also do other things, so it makes sense that terms are interpreted in a "weather first" way. > Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions? So the question is what to call it. I would call the field ionizing_radiation and add uSv/h as a unit, unless somebody has a better idea. -- 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 weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/rmitubyowog.fsf%40s1.lexort.com.
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