Interesting. I haven't noticed this, but I probably have not that much traffic on the frequencies that WF is using... I'll investigate this. How does weewx cope with reporting out-of-order times for its LOOP data?
On Wednesday, 20 January 2021 at 23:49:47 UTC+1 Tom Keffer wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "weewx-development" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/58b42f79-b051-433c-a2ce-670300f75e9bn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/58b42f79-b051-433c-a2ce-670300f75e9bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-development" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/9760a446-9e20-4f5e-bb03-98446729383an%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/9760a446-9e20-4f5e-bb03-98446729383an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/3f116810-c6b9-4ae7-baef-53386ad975bcn%40googlegroups.com.
