Here's the discussion:
https://community.weatherflow.com/t/backdated-udp-obs-st-messages/7873

Maybe they've made some changes since then and my comments are no longer
relevant. I don't know.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:13 PM 'Jan-Jaap van der Geer' via
weewx-development <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Yes, that's the idea. Use REST for archive data and UDP for the LOOP data.
> OK, so I understand that this is not a supported scenario. I'll have to
> decide if I want to bother doing something with that or not. The wind
> vector graph looks rather different for  1 minute and 5 minute intervals :)
> Thanks for the info.
>
> What is so bad about the UDP interface of the Tempest? I don't have much
> experience with either weather stations or UDP interfaces for them. It
> seems to do the job. The problem for me is that you cannot fetch historical
> data, for example if the system has been down for a period. But that's
> where the REST API comes in, at least that's the plan :)
> On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 1:32:35 AM UTC+1 Tom Keffer wrote:
>
>> I'm confused by what you're doing.
>>
>> So, you are using UDP data for the LOOP data, but the REST data for the
>> archive data? I suppose that could work, but you're going to have to decide
>> whether to honor the 1 minute archive interval of the REST data, or the 5
>> minutes you hope for.
>>
>> If you really want to do the latter, then as you say, you will have to
>> accumulate the 5 records and aggregate them into a single record somehow.
>> This record is what would get emitted by genArchiveRecords().
>>
>> Frankly, I gave up on my Tempest and sent it back last August. The UDP
>> interface was so bad, that I couldn't get it to work reliably.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 1:29 PM 'Jan-Jaap van der Geer' via
>> weewx-development <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm new to python and new to weewx drivers, but I've had a weewx
>>> installation for several years. I recently acquired a WeatherFlow Tempest
>>> and I created a new weewx installation with the based on the
>>> https://github.com/captain-coredump/weatherflow-udp driver. I later
>>> switched to the Tom Keffer fork.
>>>
>>> I didn't much like that the UDP-based driver doesn't fetch data if it's
>>> down. Since there's a REST interface I thought I'd implement
>>> genArchiveRecords() based on the REST API. This seems to work.
>>>
>>> The REST interface has a record for every minute (if everything is
>>> working). So I set the archive_interval to 1. However the old installation
>>> accumulated for 300 seconds and since that works well, I don't see a reason
>>> to change that. So archive_interval is set to 300. I've tried
>>> record_generation to 'software' but when fetching data from the REST API I
>>> see it records every record, i.e. every minute instead of a record for
>>> every 5 minutes.
>>>
>>> Do I need to do the accumulation myself in the driver? Or is this
>>> something in the settings? Or is this a scenario that is not supported? I'm
>>> confused! :)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jan-Jaap
>>>
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