I wrote you a private mail, I hope you have received it? I can give you a SSH access to my instattion, which might be easier in terms of time (although I won't learn sth)... Just let me know....
Salut, Markus -- Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2017 15:23:09 UTC+1 schrieb mwall: > > scott and markus (and other wmr300 users), > > as of dec2017, there are two versions of the wmr300 driver: > > 1) wmr300 version 0.18 (in the weewx distribution) > > 2) wmr300x version 0.18nolegacy.05.01a > > of course we would like to bring these into a single driver. the > difficult part of that is being able to test all of the permutations. > > these are the outstanding issues: > > - how to get the initial startup to work with all libusb versions? the > timeouts you see are when the driver cannot get the station to start > communication. > > - need to incorporate the rain counter changes from 0.18nolegacy. that > version has code that will automatically reset the rain counter - without > that reset, one must manually reset the counter since the hardware does not > wrap automatically. > > - figure out which libusb versions are truly broken. for example, i > experienced problems with libusb 1.0.11 that disappeared when i changed to > libusb 1.0.20 > > - the pyusb version should not matter; the libusb version seems to be the > problem > > i developed the driver some years ago using a raspberry pi and the legacy > libusb. unfortunately the more recent libusb behave differently. > > i no longer have access to that computer or the weather station, so right > now i cannot test any changes. > > what can you do right now? > > - for each configuration you try, be sure to record: > - the wmr300 driver version > - the weewx version > - the libusb version > - the pyusb version > > - try using libusb 0.1 instead of libusb 1.x > > - try using the 'nolegacy' driver with libusb 1.x > > if we can get a few people with wmr300 stations to do some testing (or > give me access to their systems so i can do the testing), then we could > consolidate the driver variants. > > 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.
