On Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 11:54:20 AM UTC-4, Sam Roza wrote: > > > Can weewx or the interceptor read from a file? I'm guessing this can be piped > to a file, and the offending line could be removed or ignored by weewx. > Otherwise I will work on seeing if there is another step that can be > introduced intermediately that will essentially do the same thing every > getting sent off to nc. > > if you cannot find an option to ngrep, try filtering the piped output from ngrep with an egrep or grep. perhaps something like this:
ngrep ... | sed -e 's/T.*//;/^\s*$/d' | curl -s -d @- http://localhost:9999 > /dev/null > I guess there aren't too many/any others who are using this > network-capture-to-interceptor arrangement, eh? > > most of the examples for doing this kind of thing are for the acurite bridge - it seems to be more common than the LW30x, and has been around longer than the observer. saving output to file is one approach, and the fileparse driver can read name-value pairs from file. but then you need something to convert the captures to name-value pairs in the right format. from a distance, the GW1000U, LW30x, AcuriteBridge, Observer, netatmo, weatherflow, and other 'bridge' hardware look the same, thus the single 'interceptor' driver. in fact, they differ just enough that they cannot use a single common implementation (especially the GW1000U). the other complicating factor for this type of hardware is integrating it into your network. a dns redirect is the easiest approach, but as you know that is not always possible, so its nice to have alternatives. also, some platforms have tcpdump, while others have ngrep. what we learn from the interceptor driver will be used to create 'official' standalone drivers for GW1000U, LW30x, AcuriteBridge, and Observer hardware. at that point i expect that there will be a few base classes that get pushed up into the weewx drivers module. thank you for being patient and working through this! m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
