I think I've understood the point of your posting but stll need a little bit of an input, since I don't really understand what a REC event is, how to configure one an how to bind it. Is this all pointed out in the user/customisation guide? Where can I find further explanation?
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2019 15:22:24 UTC+1 schrieb Andrew Milner: > > You could have your task create a text file and have a service that binds > to a REC event, reads the text file and adds the radiation to the archive > record. Weewx would then take care of the daily stats in > archive_day_radiation for you. > Alternatively your service could still bind to the REC, but instead of > reading the text file it could retrieve via the API the current radiation > value and thus do away with the cron task altogether. > > > > On Monday, 4 February 2019 13:27:27 UTC+2, Michi Kaa wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I run weewx on a raspberryPi with a WS28xx station. I also have a 3kW >> peak solar panel on the roof of my house. The solar power inverter logs a >> lot of data which can be read over a JSON API. So what I am doing right now >> is running a cron job every 5min that looks into the weewx database for >> archive entries without a radiation value, then asks the inverter for the >> values for that particular time window and stores it into weewx database >> and calculate archive_day_radiation also (is this calculation needed or is >> it made automatically, when "radiation" column in "archive" table has >> values?). >> >> This works. But is there an "official" way to do things like that? >> >> >> -- 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.
