I recently picked up a 2nd hand Weatherlink IP for my Davis VP2 console and have been running it on a test weewx instance. I'm now facing this same challenge where I don't like the way Davis archives wind direction, but I lose rxCheckPercent when switching to software record generation.
I agree with you that it would be nice to be able to choose where each datum comes from (like windDir = [hardware|software|prefer_hardware]), but since that's not possible I'll look into forking the vantage driver and adding in the rxCheckPercent method from the Meteostick driver and see if that helps bridge the gap in this specific use case. On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 10:02:27 PM UTC-4, Thomas Keffer wrote: > > Looking through the Meteostick driver, it seems to emit rxCheckPercent > data on a running basis in its LOOP packets (not archive packets). These > would then get stored in the WeeWX accumulators, then extracted as part of > the software record generation. > > That is certainly a reasonable approach: modify the Vantage driver to > keep track of dropped packets, and emit the results in the LOOP packets. > > I'm not going to do it, but, as always, pull requests are welcome! :-) > > -tk > > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:49 PM Pat <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I'm not sure how the Davis driver works, but with the Meteostick driver >> it's able to calculate rxCheckPercent >> <https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-meteostick/blob/master/bin/user/meteostick.py#L404-L413> >> >> based on number of RF packets received over a known interval >> <https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-meteostick/blob/master/bin/user/meteostick.py#L356-L373> >> >> and doing that math. Since I use the Meteostick driver for my Davis >> station, I'm set to software generation and I get the rxCheckPercent. I >> wonder if there's a way to incorporate this bit of code into a Davis driver >> fork? >> >> Could be a large project (which I'm not volunteering for) but thought I'd >> at least mention it and link to the code. >> >> >> On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 5:47:02 PM UTC-4, Thomas Keffer wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, but the value of rxCheckPercent comes only from the console, and >>> then only in archive records (not LOOP packets). If you disable hardware >>> record generation, you lose it. >>> >>> It would be a nice feature to be able to pick and chose where each datum >>> in the archive record comes from, but, unfortunately, that's not the way >>> WeeWX works now. >>> >>> -tk >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 9:46 AM Erick Dorsett <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I recently installed weewx on a Pi to use with my ancient Davis Vantage >>>> Pro. In order to get the winds to report actual degrees instead of >>>> quantized to the cardinals, I had to set "record_generation = software" >>>> in >>>> the weewx.conf file. However, after I did that, the data point for signal >>>> quality (rxCheckPercent) is no longer archived in weewx.sdb. >>>> >>>> I use rxCheckPercent data for a bunch of reasons. How do I get it back? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e564d660-ec57-4887-a74b-a28969ebf374%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e564d660-ec57-4887-a74b-a28969ebf374%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/09aa1d9c-1e40-4dbd-bcb0-9e4184ecd255%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/09aa1d9c-1e40-4dbd-bcb0-9e4184ecd255%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/66ffe7f2-1755-4328-a390-025f8a82aff1%40googlegroups.com.
