Sounds good. Just a reality check: if your instrument emits altimeter pressure, then there must be a way of setting altitude in the instrument. Hope that's true.
On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 7:23 AM pannetron <pannet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Update on a revised twi.py. Changing the genLoopPacket "tags" from > "pressure" to "altimeter" from values parsed from the station reports did > the trick. After some previous changes from strings to binary strings, > there was a bug with how wind_dir values were parsed so I fixed that, too. > After a few more days of testing, I'll submit a PR. > > On Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 10:45:43 AM UTC-7 pannetron wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 4:51 AM Tom Keffer <tke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It sounds like the TWI instrument is emitting "altimeter" or >>> "barometer", but the driver is labelling it "pressure" (i.e., gauge >>> pressure). So, weewx feels the need to "correct" it to SLP, resulting in >>> your enormous pressures. >>> >>> I would recommend filing an issue at the TWI repository >>> <https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-twi>. Expect it to take a while. >>> Matthew is swamped. >>> >>> Or, better yet, do a fork and submit a PR. >>> >>> Cloned weewx-twi, working on a revised driver. The current driver is >> populating loop packets with "pressure" while the station reports >> "altitude"... >> > -- > 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/98794c13-7fe5-4475-b164-439a4c2e08a4n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/98794c13-7fe5-4475-b164-439a4c2e08a4n%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/CAPq0zEDJvgZSYothF5%3D8_6RH63CE0YZuek-GBDdsEL052vuf%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com.
