[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

Hi Vince, I was trying to work with the weatherflowudp driver I'd seen posted almost everywhere, but it seems that this one: https://github.com/jjvdgeer/weatherflow-udp actually works better for what I wanted to try with the tempest. The errors I get are mostly related to the lightning values

Re: [weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

Benedict, Just to add a bit of clarity to the debate. The handling of WF API in weather34 skin is part of the legacy code that I inherited from the original author. It is currently handled by PHP. In the next update which is nearing completion, this will be moved into the Python code using the

[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

On Friday, August 27, 2021 at 2:26:12 PM UTC-7 Benedict wrote: > The wf.txt is generated by the weather34 skin/extension, and apparently > *that* uses "brightness" instead of "illuminance", but that seems to just > be their preference for the obs_st value output though the online api. > > ok

[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

The wf.txt is generated by the weather34 skin/extension, and apparently *that* uses "brightness" instead of "illuminance", but that seems to just be their preference for the obs_st value output though the online api. On Friday, August 27, 2021 at 8:02:56 PM UTC+2 vince wrote: > On Friday,

[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

On Friday, August 27, 2021 at 5:57:06 AM UTC-7 pa...@luxthijssen.nl wrote: > If the "illuminance" value is actually called "brightness", this explains > why I only got errors from it thus far. Means the weatherflowudp.py > driver-file is incorrect. > I'll have to check what the tempest

[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

Thanks Benedict! Lots of valuable info there. Looks to me like these are then output from the Tempest, or at least as they come from WeatherFlow's api directly from their servers: brightness":60272," lightning_strike_last_epoch":1629633834," lightning_strike_last_distance":41,"

[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

Just an FYI for you all looking for Lightning output from WeatherFlow as it's shown on the tempestwx site. I checked both https://pwsdashboard.com/ and https://github.com/steepleian/weewx-Weather34/ and from there succeeded in creating a 'live' jsondata/wf.txt file (using API Data token from

[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

Please post your weewx.conf sensor map section so we can take a look at what you have. Also, what driver are you using ? There are at least two out there for WeatherFlow that I'm aware of. On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 5:29:27 AM UTC-7 pa...@luxthijssen.nl wrote: > Actually no, I had done

[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

Actually no, I had done extensive searching beforehand, but none of the "many threads" show any actual progress in this area. And furthermore, none show an example working weewx.conf for the tempest. The only example one can find out there is the one I have in use, and as I stated in my

[weewx-user] Re: New Tempest owner, how to show Lightning output in weewx ?

There are many threads here and in the WeatherFlow forums for how to do this. Please do a little searching there. WF has never published any units for energy that I've ever seen in their API documentation for UDP (link) and their example