Hi all, I am running the driver airmar version 028 connected to an Airmar PB100 weather station with big success, thank you for a great driver. But I can't see any Barometer values in the report. I am very thankful for all help to solve it.
Regards Thomas 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......." >
