Re: [weewx-development] Pressure resolution and BMP280

2017-04-01 Thread Craig Thom
Thanks. In the MySQL database it's a double, so the resolution is there. My weewx is using American measures and putting inHg in the database. Do i need to convert from Pascals before handing the data back?

Re: [weewx-development] Pressure resolution and BMP280

2017-04-06 Thread Craig Thom
, 2017 at 5:38:31 PM UTC-4, mwall wrote: > > On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 5:29:16 PM UTC-4, Craig Thom wrote: >> >> My goal is to use the existing SDR driver and to use a service to read >> the pressure from the BMP280 and add it to the data the SDR driver is &g

[weewx-development] Pressure resolution and BMP280

2017-04-01 Thread Craig Thom
I'm working an a RPi SPI service to read a BMP280. The BMP280 can produce 16 to 20 bit values for pressure, depending on how it's configured. With the default 16 bits it says it is accurate to within 2.62 Pa. That's a lot finer resolution than anything I've seen reported. Is weewx going to

[weewx-development] Re: Pressure resolution and BMP280

2017-04-06 Thread Craig Thom
I have given up on trying to use the SPI interface with my own code. It works using code I found using pigpio, but, ultimately, I decided to just use the i2c interface and branch the i2c pins to allow my RTC to keep working. It works using i2c and the Adafruit software. This weekends