Yeah,... that is WAY over my head. I appreciate all of your help, though! On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 4:03:29 AM UTC-5, mwall wrote: > > > > On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 6:00:47 PM UTC-4, Derek Tombrello wrote: >> >> Let me ask you something... the Acurite 01525 has it's own built in >> weather forecaster. Is it possible for weewx to retrieve this data directly >> from the PWS rather than calculating it on it's own? I'm guessing no based >> on http://www.weewx.com/docs/hardware.htm#acurite ? >> > > possible: yes > > however, the weewx database can contain only numeric values. so you'd > have to map the forecast states to some kind of index if you want to store > them in the weewx database. > > or just track them in the 'current' packet, not in the database > > and of course you'd want to generalize it so it works with any weather > station hardware that provides a forecast > > some years ago i started doing that in the forecast extension, with the > intent of collecting forecast states from *any* type of hardware that has > them. then use those to compare the quality of hardware-based > forecasters. i'm guessing that most use some variant of the zambretti, and > it would be interesting to log them all with the corresponding > temperatures, pressures, and other indicators to find out for sure. > > m >
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