Loop interval depends on your station type AFAIK. Is 10 minutes your archive interval?
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:11:09 UTC+2, A.J. Burnett wrote: > UPDATE: > > I stumbled across SteelSeries Gauges and saw that it produced a great JSON > file (and has some cool gauges to go along with it too!). So I have a JSON > file now, but I want SteelSeries to update every 2.5 seconds (near > real-time). I can't find that interval anywhere...right now, it appears to > be every 10 minutes. > > Any ideas on how to get the 2.5-second interval going? > > A.J. > > > > On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 5:23:13 PM UTC-5, A.J. Burnett wrote: >> >> Hi Gary, >> >> Thanks so much for your response! I'll admit, I'm very lost. >> >> I have done some minor customization to templates and have some basic >> Python knowledge, but I'm not understanding the steps in your very detailed >> message (thanks again!) >> >> Perhaps harnessing the loop packets is the way to go, since I'd love to >> display the data in a "rapid-fire" manner, similar to Wunderground's very >> frequent updates. >> >> How do I go about accessing those and spitting it into JSON format? >> >> A.J. >> >> On Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 2:33:26 AM UTC-5, gjr80 wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> WeeWX reports can be run at multiples of your archive interval but they >>> cannot be run any more frequent than the archive interval. If you want >>> weeWX to do something more frequent than the archive interval then you need >>> write a custom service to do what you want (in your case generate some >>> output). >>> >>> I am not sure of your understanding of weeWX' inner workings or your >>> python knowledge so my apologies if I am explaining what you already know. >>> It is fairly trivial to create a custom service that is tied to the 'loop >>> interval' of your station (refer to Loop packets >>> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#LOOP_packets> in the >>> Customization Guide if you don't know about loop packets and their >>> interval). When you write a custom service you lose a lot of the >>> conveneince functions that come with the weeWX report engine (the ability >>> to use tags and the associated aggregation, formatting and conversion >>> abilities) so you need to do a lot of the data gathering, processing, >>> formatting and output yourself. If you have a basic understanding of python >>> you should be able to work your way through some examples and ultimately >>> create your own. A lot of the functions you need to access data within >>> weeWX already exist in the weeWX API, its mainly the working out what you >>> want, producing your output and handling the corner cases (ie dealing with >>> None values) that take up your time. >>> >>> If you are still keen, Customizing the weeWX service engine >>> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#service_engine> in the >>> Customization Guide has some basic examples. One you get a feel for things >>> you can dive into some more advanced services that do a similar thing to >>> what you want to do. The crt extension >>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/crt> implements a loop based >>> service that does something similar to what you want to do. Also the >>> realtime >>> gauge-data extension >>> <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-realtime_gauge-data> does a similar >>> thing to the crt extension but it produces a JSON format file to drive the >>> SteelSeries weather gauges. >>> >>> Hope that helps and don't be afraid to ask if you don't understand. >>> >>> Gary >>> >>> On Saturday, 10 February 2018 13:35:33 UTC+10, A.J. Burnett wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi everyone! >>>> >>>> I'm producing a simple JSON report using weeWX, in addition to all my >>>> other reports. I'd like to keep the interval I'm currently using for >>>> everything, but I want to fire off the JSON report every 5-10 seconds, if >>>> possible. Can anyone recommend where I can achieve this, if it's even >>>> possible? >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> >>> -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
