Den lördag 4 juli 2015 kl. 13:03:25 UTC+2 skrev Aleksandar Tsankov:
>
> Hi Rob,
> I'm glad that someone else has an interest about Airmar driver.
> As a matter of fact I use a slightly updated driver version from a month
> (at least) without any hassle.
> About warnings: they are generated in situations where there are no valid
> data in the Airmar sentences.
> Initially I thought that the sentence won't be generated at all if there
> are no valid data in it but obviously it's not the case. Since these
> messages greatly rose log-file's size I decided to not throwing it in the
> last driver's version.
> I saw your modification of validate_string() subroutine - obviously I
> missed condition with space in the beginning of the string instead of "0" -
> thank you.
> However I cannot get the point of other changes you've made. May be I'm
> wrong but I think your version just throws error messages without returning
> an empty string in case of missmatched checksum or garbled message.
>
> Nevermind, I'm very glad that someone (you, Rob) opened a github
> repository for the Airmar driver. Since I do not have enough time, I'll be
> thankful if you keep maintaining it.
>
> And yes, one more thing to mention - since the idea for getting
> lat/lon/alt from devices which are capable to send them is already
> discussed (https://github.com/weewx/weewx/issues/32), it's probably time
> to add processing of GPS-related sentences in the driver.
>
> I'm attaching the driver version with suppressed messages for "Wrong data
> format......."
>
