" ionizing_radiation " would be an obvious and unambiguous choice. I'd be reluctant to rely on the uSv/hour value, unless you know the source. The Geiger-Muller tube electronics looks like it is just reporting ionisation events per second, with no measure of the energy. Any "calibration factor" used will be assuming a specific source of radiation, which is unlikely to be appropriate to this situation. So long as you keep his in mind I guess you can use whichever unit you prefer - it's the change that would be important.
On Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 11:26:41 pm UTC+10 Greg Troxel wrote: > > Clay Jackson <[email protected]> writes: > > > Here's one a bit "off the wall" - I happen to live near Hanford, WA (2nd > > largest radiation cleanup site in the world, behind Chernobyl) and I'm > also > > interested in "Space Weather". So, when mightyohm (www.mightyohm.com) > put > > their Geiger counter on sale last year, I snapped one up. I have it > > connected to a pi and reporting microSieverts/hour to MQTT and on the > > weewx. > > > > Right now, I'm using signal1 as the "bucket" to hold the data; but, I > got > > to thinking about adding it as a data type with units. Looks pretty > > straightforward and I'll certainly share. I was wondering if anyone else > > has thought about this, or perhaps has already done it. > > Great to hear this. I have a mightyohm kit I need to build. > > > One "interesting side effect" is that right now there's already a > database > > field named "Radiation", which might be more accurately named > > "Insolation". Not sure yet what I'm going to do about that. > > Or it should be called "Solar Radiation". But that and your uSv/h data > are both radiation; one is EM and one is ionizing. And then there's > radiative heat transfer. > > However, 1) the name is already in use and changing it seems out of the > question and 2) weewx is a *weather* program that can also do other > things, so it makes sense that terms are interpreted in a "weather > first" way. > > > Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions? > > So the question is what to call it. I would call the field > ionizing_radiation and add uSv/h as a unit, unless somebody has a better > idea. > -- 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/e580f327-3332-4e4f-9b38-ad312556a8abn%40googlegroups.com.
