On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 8:10:20 PM UTC-4, Alec Bennett wrote: > > I adapted the Arduino code for easy reading from weeWX and made a weeWX > driver, posted here along with the Arduino code: > > https://github.com/wrybread/ArduinoWeatherStation >
very nicely done! > Some questions and issues: > > - the driver currently gets the wind speed about every 17 seconds even > though the Arduino is reporting it much more often that that. When using a > Vantage I get the wind about every 2 seconds. Any thoughts on how to make > the updates more frequent? > make genLoopPacket return every time data is emitted from the arduino. instead of polling the hardware, open the serial port once in the driver __init__. then do a non-blocking read instead (a read with timeout) instead of read-then-close. > - I named the driver "aws", as in "Arduino Weather Station". I'm a bit > worried that might get confusing and hard to search for because of Amazon > Web Services. Agreed? Idea for other name? > i usually prefix any exension with 'weewx-' for packaging. for example, the 'aws' driver would be in a package called 'weewx-aws-x.y.z.tgz' that expands to a directory weewx-aws, that contains the actual driver weewx-aws/bin/user/aws.py but weewx does not care - you can call it whatever you want. > - where to place the driver file? Currently in > /home/weewx/bin/weewx/drivers/aws.py. > you should put it in user/aws.py if you install in weewx/drivers/aws.py then it will be removed when you upgrade weewx. things in the user directory do not get moved/touched during an upgrade. > - should I make any changes to how it's packaged? Would this be something > useful for the main fork of weewx? > if you package it using the instructions in the weewx customization guide: http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#How_to_package_an_extension then it will be a bit easier for people to install/update. the wee_extension utility will be able to install it, and wee_config will recognize it when someone tries to (re)configure their installation. see the other drivers on the weewx wiki for examples, such as weewx-twi or weewx-sdr or weewx-wh23xx: https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki and please add your driver to the weewx wiki! m -- 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.
