I’ve extended the database and filled in all the calculations for the past 14 
years. Very nice to have all that extra data!

I’ll see if I can figure out how to add the kPa but if someone smarter than me 
gets to it first, I won’t complain. :) Thank you Tom for your blessing! 

Thank you all for your quick help and advice.
Cheers
Chris
> On Aug 25, 2020, at 5:00 PM, gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> StdWXCalculate knows how to calculate humidex, in fact if you are running 
> WeeWX 3.2.0 or later chances are humidex is already appearing in your loop 
> packets and archive records (provided its pre-reqs outTemp and outHumidity 
> exist in the loop packet/archive record) it's just not saved to database due 
> to humidex not being in your database schema. However, field humidex (and 
> humidex1) exist in the wview_extended schema which was introduced in WeeWX 
> v4.0.0 and this has been  the default schema for new installs since WeeWX 
> 4.0.0 (note upgrades continue to use the schema that was in use before the 
> upgrade so if upgrading WeeWX 3.x to WeeWX 4.x you will not be changed to the 
> wview_extended schema). In terms of units I understand that humidex is 
> technically a unitless number but it is effectively interpreted as a 
> temperature, humidex was added to group_temperature as of WeeWX 3.5.0 so 
> normal WeeWX unit conversions/formatting of humidex is available.
> 
> In summary, if you are using WeeWX 4.x and the wview_extended schema chances 
> are you will see humidex appear in your database and it can then be used in 
> reports/plots just as any other observation.
> 
> Gary
> On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 04:59:04 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote:
> Look here:
> 
> http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#customizing_units 
> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#customizing_units>
> 
> I did check the great resource in the sky (Wikipedia), and indeed Canada is 
> an exception in that they use kPa.  It might be reasonable to add kPa to the 
> weewx.units file itself, but Tom would be the decider on that.
> 
> Humidex might best be done with xtypes as it is derived from temperature and 
> dew point.  I found xtypes less well documented, but I am using xtypes to 
> derive aqi from pm2.5.  It’s fairly straightforward.
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Chris Alemany <[email protected] 
>> <applewebdata://9FE1B36E-F22D-4AEC-B5DB-6B4E9A27FA10>> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, thanks for that. I do change the units for some reports, unfortunately 
>> kilopascal does not exist as a selectable unit which is the crux of the 
>> issue, so I was looking at different ways of adding that unit and possibly 
>> Humidex as an available value as well. 
> 
>> 
>> I’m going to take a peak at the aqi extension to see if I can use it as an 
>> example for what I need to do.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Chris
>>> On Aug 25, 2020, at 11:08 AM, John Kline <[email protected] 
>>> <applewebdata://9FE1B36E-F22D-4AEC-B5DB-6B4E9A27FA10>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You weren’t almost there as you were attempting to change the units stored 
>>> in the database.
>>> 
>>> Have a look at the following for changing your reports.  You don’t have to 
>>> change every report as you can set defaults for all reports.
>>> http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#how_to_change_units 
>>> <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#how_to_change_units>
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 25, 2020, at 10:39 AM, Chris Alemany <[email protected] 
>>>> <applewebdata://9FE1B36E-F22D-4AEC-B5DB-6B4E9A27FA10>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, I noticed last night when I was rooting around in all the various 
>>>> weewx files (I guess I was creating a “fork” as I was modifying the weewx 
>>>> bin files themselves, _ini_.py, units.py etc to add in the new system) for 
>>>> mentions of units, that many extensions seemed to make the same 3-way 
>>>> assumption on units. So perhaps that method is not worth the effort.
>>>> 
>>>> I’m not interested in having the database itself use Canadian Units 
>>>> (though extending it for Humidex readings would be useful), only that I’d 
>>>> be able to set the units as simply and widely as I can across all skins 
>>>> and extensions as I have multiple going at once.  Thought I was almost 
>>>> there. :)
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers for the suggestions,
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 25, 2020, at 8:54 AM, John Kline <[email protected] 
>>>>> <applewebdata://9FE1B36E-F22D-4AEC-B5DB-6B4E9A27FA10>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Remember that just because something is stored in the database in units 
>>>>> that are not “Canadian”, that doesn’t mean you are stuck with that unit 
>>>>> in reports or graphs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My two cents is that you should be spending your time getting the units 
>>>>> you want to see in the skin(s) you are using.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Aug 25, 2020, at 8:03 AM, David VE3STI <[email protected] 
>>>>>> <applewebdata://9FE1B36E-F22D-4AEC-B5DB-6B4E9A27FA10>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm not a programmer so I don't have helpful suggestions. But as a 
>>>>>> Canadian user, I hope that you figure this out. I use the "metric" 
>>>>>> option but think of wind speed in kph, not m/s, for example. I did get 
>>>>>> the Humidex added (a long time ago - I forget how I did it other than I 
>>>>>> know I didn't do the programming but found that someone else had already 
>>>>>> figured out and I just followed the instructions!)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Just as I type this, Tom's reply popped up.. Guess it won't be easy to 
>>>>>> add a new "Canadian option". The instructions for changing individual 
>>>>>> units is in the documentation but if you could make a "Canada-specific" 
>>>>>> set (cookbook style) that would be really useful for those of us who are 
>>>>>> users-but-not-programmers.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Keep us posted.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> David
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 11:37:18 p.m. UTC-4 [email protected] 
>>>>>> <http://gmail.com/> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm trying to extend weewx so that there is a 4th option for unit 
>>>>>> systems called "CANMETRICWX" (Canadian Metric).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This would be the same as "METRIC" except rain values are in mm and 
>>>>>> pressure values are in kPa and eventually would also include a "Humidex" 
>>>>>> calculation as well.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I thought I had added everything I needed throughout the file system for 
>>>>>> the addition of the units system but I'm running into the following 
>>>>>> complaint on startup:
>>>>>> "AttributeError: module 'weewx' has no attribute 'CANMETRICWX'"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Not being familiar enough with python, I am stumped as to where I can 
>>>>>> add that attribute. Any help greatly appreciated.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>> 
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