This is great information Gary regarding the battery status for the GW1000. Do you think it makes sense to add this information to your readme.md file? I can just see many people asking for this information.
On Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 1:45:41 AM UTC-4, gjr80 wrote: > > Hi, > > You are correct in that sensors.inc needs to be modified and you probably > want to add a few entries to the Seasons skin.conf or weewx.conf as well. > I have included a modified sensors.inc > <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/tree/master/supplementary/skins/Seasons> > > in the GW100 driver repo on GitHub. To modify Seasons to display GW100 > sensor battery states: > > 1. move aside your existing skins/Seasons/sensor.inc by renaming it to > sensors_orig.inc. For setup.py installs: > > $ sudo mv /home/weewx/skins/Seasons/sensors.inc /home/weewx/skins/Seasons/ > sensors_orig.inc > > or for package installs: > > $ sudo mv /etc/weewx/skins/Seasons/sensors.inc /home/weewx/skins/Seasons/ > sensors_orig.inc > > 2. download sensors.inc from the GW1000 driver GitHub repo, for setup.py > installs: > > $ wget -P /home/weewx/skins/Seasons https:// > raw.githubusercontent.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/master/supplementary/skins/Seasons/sensors.inc > > or for package installs: > > $ wget -P /etc/weewx/skins/Seasons https:// > raw.githubusercontent.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/master/supplementary/skins/Seasons/sensors.inc > > 3. edit sensors.inc and make the necessary changes to $sensor_batt_data > to reflect the sensors connected to your GW1000. There are comments towards > the top of the file that describe how to make the changes. > > 4. edit Seasons/skin.conf and if required add suitable descriptive names > for each sensor state field under the [Labels] [[Generic]] stanza. These > labels are the text that will appear for each sensor battery state entry in > the Sensor Status panel. For example: > > [Labels] > > # Override some labels. No need to identify these as a "Battery" > # or "Voltage", because that is included in the template. > [[Generic]] > .... > wh31_ch1_batt = Garage (WH31) > wh31_ch2_batt = Kitche (WH31) > wh41_ch1_batt = Dining (WH41) > wh51_ch1_batt = Front Garden (WH51) > wh51_ch3_batt = Flower Bed (WH51) > wh57_batt = Lightning (WH57) > > You could also place these entries in weewx.conf under [StdReport] > [[SeasonsReport]] [[Labels]]] [[[[Generic]]]]. The choice is yours, arguably > weewx.conf is upgrade safe but it is highly unlikely that a WeeWX upgrade > will make destructive changes to Seasons skin.conf. > > 5. On the next report cycle provided you have sensor battery state data in > your archive record it should be included in the Seasons main page Sensor > Status panel. Note you may have to refresh the page. > > Gary > > > > > On Wednesday, 12 August 2020 00:15:33 UTC+10, Blaze wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> How do I show the battery status for my Ecowitt weather sensors? This is >> a default install running on "Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS". I installed WeeWx using >> the setup.py, with Apache2, WeeWx v4.1.1 and the new GW1000 driver >> (gw1000-0.1.0b10.tar.gz). As you can see below I am getting the data, but >> I don't understand how to get battery status to show on my page. I assume I >> need to modify the "/home/weewx/skins/Seasons/sensors.inc" file, but I'm >> not sure what I would need to add or change. Can someone give me pointers? >> >> Aug 10 03:05:25 myweewx weewx[14186] DEBUG gw1000: user.gw1000: Filtered >> parsed data: {'intemp': 21.5, 'inhumid': 54, 'absbarometer': 985.8, >> 'relbarometer': 985.8, 'outtemp': 24.0, 'outhumid': 80, 'soilmoist1': 53, >> 'soilmoist2': 37, 'soilmoist3': 47, 'soilmoist4': 59, 'temp1': 19.3, >> 'humid1': 59, 'wh26_batt': 0, 'wh31_ch1_batt': 0, 'wh51_ch1_batt': 0, >> 'wh51_ch2_batt': 0, 'wh51_ch3_batt': 0, 'wh51_ch4_batt': 0, >> 'wh51_ch5_batt': 0, 'datetime': 1597028725} >> Aug 10 03:05:25 myweewx weewx[14186] DEBUG gw1000: user.gw1000: Next >> update in 60 seconds >> Aug 10 03:05:25 myweewx weewx[14186] DEBUG gw1000: user.gw1000: Augmented >> packet: {'dateTime': 1597028725, 'usUnits': 17, 'inTemp': 21.5, 'outTemp': >> 24.0, 'inHumidity': 54, 'outHumidity': 80, 'pressure': 985.8, >> 'relbarometer': 985.8, 'extraTemp1': 19.3, 'extraHumid1': 59, 'soilMoist1': >> 53, 'soilMoist2': 37, 'soilMoist3': 47, 'soilMoist4': 59, 'wh26_batt': 0, >> 'wh31_ch1_batt': 0, 'wh51_ch1_batt': 0, 'wh51_ch2_batt': 0, >> 'wh51_ch3_batt': 0, 'wh51_ch4_batt': 0, 'wh51_ch5_batt': 0} >> >> Thanks! >> Rob >> > -- 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/009fa91e-74a2-4763-a17d-f9015435c65bo%40googlegroups.com.
