Mike, I would be very interested to see that code you have written to insert data into the database. I am currently using FilePile but always interested in looking at alternative ways. Ian
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 09:56, Mike Revitt <m...@cougar.eu.com> wrote: > Thank you both for your advice and input. > > In the end I have taken a bit of advice from both you you and some other > information I found online, and in the interests of keeping things simple > have managed to get my Ecowitt uploading data files to a directory on the > raspberry Pi and have written a small python script that reads these and > inserts them into the database, and this is run as a service very similar > to the way I insert the CPU temperature > > One thing I am keen to try is using the config file to define the > directory as you show above Vince, but that will have to wait till I have > time to experiment on my "spare" raspberry Pi. Not trying that on my live > system. So for the time being the directory is defined as a constant > > > On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 6:45:37 PM UTC vince wrote: > >> On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 3:09:29 AM UTC-8 mi...@cougar.eu.com >> wrote: >> >>> That sounds interesting, is there some documentation that shows how to >>> control where the data goes when running it as a service? >>> >>> >> There is - see >> https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/wiki/Available-config-options >> >> Here's the mapping I use as a driver, FWIW. Works great. You'd >> probably want to also override the inside temp and inside humidity items to >> extraTempN and extraHumidN for your scenario where you want the Ecowitt >> items to add to your Davis measurements. Maybe more items such as the >> battery status as I did below. >> >> I'd lean toward disagree with Ian's suggestion to use a secondary db, as >> it's not really needed, but there are lots of ways to get there. >> >> I specify the gateway ip address since it's on a different subnet than >> the weewx pi. >> >> # Options for 'GW1000' >> [GW1000] >> driver = user.gw1000 >> ip_address = 192.168.2.20 >> port = 45000 >> poll_interval = 20 >> >> #--- the defaults map inTemp, inHumidity, outTemp, outHumidity >> #--- and the extraTemp1-8 and soilMostN items automagically >> #--- but we need to add the battery status mappings >> [[field_map_extensions]] >> # outTemp >> outTempBatteryStatus = wh26_batt >> # extraTemp1-8 >> batteryStatus1 = wh31_ch1_batt >> batteryStatus2 = wh31_ch2_batt >> # soilMost1 = channel autoselects on first use >> batteryStatus8 = wh51_ch1_batt >> >> >> >> -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/31fa642d-b923-4acc-a8d1-8fafad463493n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/31fa642d-b923-4acc-a8d1-8fafad463493n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CADASSaSwfoVQ6DmzOmhEZZL9w%2Bh%3D9i9%3DuWd1zuJUqL01M198Og%40mail.gmail.com.
