On Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 4:41:58 PM UTC-4, Bruce Huddleston wrote: > > Before I start purchasing this equipment I would like to know if what I am > proposing is possible. Any information group members might have would be > appreciated, especially someone that might have already interfaced the > mentioned hardware to weewx. >
bruce, if you have the nmea sentences for the maretron, you should be able to write a driver for the wso100. the nm150wx uses nmea, so you could probably use that driver as a starting point. does the maretron have gps and compass? if so, then you can make the driver self-configuring, so that you don't have to worry about position or orientation when you deploy it. you will probably be able to read from usb as if you were reading from serial, then use a python nmea library to do the decoding/parsing of nmea sentences from raw serial data to strings/variables. if you need help with driver development, post on the weewx development forum and we'll help you through it. the screens are super easy to implement - a single weewx template file will do it. also, you can have it automatically switch from daytime to nighttime based on the time of day (you could even have it gradually transition, if you wanted). you could save a copy of the weewx database after each event (for archival purposes, or to correlate conditions with photographs or videos, etc). it is trivial to start a new event from scratch - just move aside any existing weewx database before you start up weewx. sounds like a fun project! 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.
