Thanks, Vince. I'll make sure to update it at next opportunity, hopefully tonight. Giving credit is super important to me too, I appreciate you clarifying what should be covered in the readme.
On Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 11:25:28 AM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: > Just to give credit where credit is due, I didn’t write the rtldaviis > driver…..Luc did. > > Please update the credits accordingly when you get a chance…. > > I just wrote a wrapper to install all the great upstream code a little > easier. > > Here were the upstream pieces and last commits from the various authors… > > > * librtlsdr - library to turn Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR > receiver > from https://github.com/steve-m/librtlsdr.git > > commit ae0dd6d4f09088d13500a854091b45ad281ca4f0 (HEAD -> master, > origin/master, origin/HEAD) > Author: Kacper Ludwinski <[email protected]> > Date: Sun Nov 9 21:56:53 2025 +0000 > > * gortlsdr - 'go' wrapper around librtlsdr > from https://github.com/jpoirier/gortlsdr.git > > commit 075e50ef422cf3ba193d1ba6d79a0efea89491e2 (HEAD -> master, > origin/master, origin/HEAD) > Merge: 8185285 956e97e > Author: Joseph Poirier <[email protected]> > Date: Sat May 19 12:17:06 2018 -0500 > > * rtldavis - RTL-SDR receiver for Davis weather stations > from https://github.com/lheijst/rtldavis > > commit b95d5d734e4666c90f3d7539d5e2acd9f80f7e43 (HEAD -> master, > origin/master, origin/HEAD) > Author: Luc Heijst <[email protected]> > Date: Fri Jun 5 08:43:42 2020 -0300 > > * weewx-rtldavis - the weewx extension as of 12/20/2025 > from https://github.com/lheijst/weewx-rtldavis/archive/master.zip > > commit 2f3b4b344fd70ab253aabfa837b0ffc76570c075 (HEAD -> master, > origin/master, origin/HEAD) > Author: Luc Heijst <[email protected]> > Date: Sat Jan 2 13:56:04 2021 -0300 > > On Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at 1:34:08 PM UTC-7 WeatheredScientist wrote: > >> Hi Vince (same user, new email). Thank you for doing that. I took that >> and used it as inspiration (again, lots of LLM, shameful I know, but what I >> can do is guide a somewhat amnesiac and hyperknowledgable employee) and >> managed to shrink my docker image by about the same amount you did, but >> using ubuntu 26 and python 3.14. >> >> I've been busy adding little features and what not. With a goal of >> explaining it all and making it easy, I've put together a readme and create >> a new release (2.0) of my take on weewx-rtldavis. This is now the >> main/latest release now, though I am still tweaking a few things (e.g., >> working on monitoring dropped packets for a sense of RF rx quality, helpful >> for adjusting gain). >> >> >> https://github.com/WeatheredScientist/weewx-rtldavis/releases/tag/v2.0-ubuntu26 >> >> I'd be very interested in everyone's feedback on the features, the >> explanations, the whole lot. Trying to make this the best it can be, albeit >> within my limits. >> >> Apologies if I've overstepped in using your repo as inspiration. >> >> On Friday, May 22, 2026 at 4:38:16 PM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: >> >>> Just one last update - I took your starting point and tweaked it a bit >>> to do a multistage build to drop the size by 75% and added a >>> docker-compose.yml file to bring everything up and save persistent storage >>> under /mnt/weertlsdr/{archive,log,public_html} for non-NAS users. Works >>> fine here for me on a current raspios pi4 under docker. >>> >>> https://github.com/weewx-contrib/weewx-rtldavis/tree/main/docker if you >>> wanted to take a look. >>> >>> Thanks again for posting the good starting point. >>> >>> On Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 8:40:35 AM UTC-7 WeatheredScientist wrote: >>> >>>> It is meant to be a starting point. I'm bandwidth limited at this point >>>> in life, so can't just pick up the skills necessary to do it right. AI was >>>> not just a convenience but a necessity, despite my many reservations about >>>> it. This was an acceptable use case in my book. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 11:06:34 AM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: >>>> >>>>> Interesting but risky. Having done this kind of stuff for so long my >>>>> continued fear is minimally functional unsupportable garbage. It gave you >>>>> a >>>>> working solution ‘as a starting point’ which is fine but ‘shipping the >>>>> prototype’ rarely ends well. >>>>> >>>>> And 100% of what it told you was fiction. You”ll not learn best >>>>> practices not spot security or privacy holes, nor learn what good even >>>>> looks like. If that works for you, cool. You scratched your itch, and >>>>> thanks for the github repo which is always appreciated, >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 7:13:44 AM UTC-7 WeatheredScientist wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I think it's interesting how far the LLM enabled me to go. Just >>>>>> setting up the configs was interesting, I saw it make a lot of the same >>>>>> errors I would have been likely to make (appending text strings instead >>>>>> of >>>>>> replacing, for instance). >>>>>> >>>>>> Ultimately, it's working, and I've shared it on github and docker. >>>>>> But it's fair to challenge what's up there to make it better, and make >>>>>> sure >>>>>> there isn't anything unnecessary or sloppy. If anyone is interested in >>>>>> helping, I'm open to learning and improving. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 7:38:37 AM UTC-4 Greg Troxel wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> WeatheredScientist <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > @Vince, great questions. Keeping in mind, this whole build was >>>>>>> heavily >>>>>>> > AI-assisted, i used claude to answer some of your questions, but i >>>>>>> think >>>>>>> > the responses are reasonable. Please challenge if they are slop! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Different people have different norms, but I think it's not ok to >>>>>>> ask >>>>>>> other humans to wade through and fix LLM output. It's usually overly >>>>>>> verbose, and wrong in ways that are harder to spot than an actual >>>>>>> confused human. >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3b622830-ce4d-4a53-9099-447769c810dcn%40googlegroups.com.
