OK, so for the low value maybe I need to add a "low" accumulator type to
accum.py, and then I can use
[Accumulator]
[[distance]]
extractor = low
But it won't be any time soon. I need to get my eclipse hardware and
software sorted first. Only three months to go.
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 6:34:27 AM UTC-4, Craig Thom wrote:
>
> It appears that the "distance" value archived is the average of the values
> from each loop packet. Since that value appears to be whatever the last
> distance was, even if that was a month ago, I don't think this is a useful
> number. Here's an example:
>
> The value reported at the start of the archive interval is 15.
> There are, just for example, twenty packet loops in this interval.
> There is a strike with a distance of 1 just before the loop packet.
> The archive would then show 1 strike at a distance if 14.3.
>
> I would rather see "distance" be the minimum value for the interval.
>
> An alternative would be to make "distance" be the average for the strikes
> in the interval, but this would require two things:
> Only counting the packets in which strikes_total changes, and
> weighting the values by the number of strikes per loop packet
> (strikes_total delta).
>
> So, I think I see how to do the minimum. I could add a column
> "distanceMinimum", add self._mimimums, and write functions
> _calculate_minimum(self, pkt) and _calculate_minimums(label, newtotal,
> oldtotal).
>
> Would that be the best way?
>
> Average distance per strike looks a lot trickier, since the values in some
> look packets wouldn't count, and the values of some would count more than
> others, and the distance value need not change for it to be useful.
>
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