On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 9:02:35 AM UTC-8, Joe Percival wrote: > > Many years ago I wrote a custom service which retrieved power data from > and APC UPS and stored it in the leaf wetness field (and another that I > don't recall). I then used a custom skin and report to generate statistics > and graphs using that data (don't recall how but will figure it out). > My question is, in the current incarnation of weewx is this approach still > valid or do I need to go through all the steps to modify the schema to add > the new parameter etc? > > In v3 weewx the preferred way is to put these things in a custom db of your own so you don't have to use unused fields in the default db. You'd then reference the secondary db in your skin. Works 'great'.
I have one example that does some memory usage statistics into a separate db at https://github.com/vinceskahan/vds-weewx-v3-mem-extension as one way to do it. But the old hack-on-it way should still work I'd think... -- 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.
