Makes sense - thanks for clarifying. Yea, so it looks like I need to ensure that I'm consistent with ALL measurements in my loop packets to be one or the other.
On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 7:46:33 PM UTC-4 tke...@gmail.com wrote: > Doesn't matter what units are in the database. Doesn't matter what units > are used to display. What matters is that *all units within the loop > packet* are in the same unit system. So, if you're adding a temperature > in Fahrenheit to a loop packet in Celsius, you're going to get the results > you see. > > You must check what units the incoming packet is in, then convert your > temperature as necessary. The unit system used by the packet is in the > field 'usUnits' (an unfortunate name, inherited from wview). > > -tk > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 12:50 PM bdf0506 <bdfu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am using the SDR driver to grab stats from an RTL_433 capable devices. >> It grabs the data from the device and places in the loop packets in >> Farenheight - which is exactly what I want. >> >> Problem is, these are custom database fields that I created for them, so >> now I need to tell WeeWx which units to use. Once I tell it which unit to >> use, WeeWx is taking it upon itself to do an unwanted conversion. It >> probably thinks I am giving it to WeeWx in C and trying to convert to F, >> when really all I want to do is take my perfect measurement and apply a >> unit to it for reports. >> >> What am I missing? How can I apply a unit and NOT have it perform any >> conversions? >> >> *weewx.conf* >> [StdConvert] >> target_unit=US >> >> *user/extensions.py * >> import weewx.units >> weewx.units.obs_group_dict['BasementTemp'] = 'group_temperature' >> weewx.units.obs_group_dict['CrawlSpaceTemp'] = 'group_temperature' >> >> >> Oct 6 15:48:13 weewx weewx[23355] WARNING weewx.qc: 2020-10-06 15:48:03 >> EDT (1602013683) LOOP value 'BasementTemp' 166.06400000000002 outside >> limits (10.0, 120.0) >> Oct 6 15:48:13 weewx weewx[23355] WARNING weewx.qc: 2020-10-06 15:48:09 >> EDT (1602013689) LOOP value 'CrawlSpaceTemp' 155.696 outside limits (10.0, >> 120.0) >> Oct 6 15:48:24 weewx weewx[23355] WARNING weewx.qc: 2020-10-06 15:48:19 >> EDT (1602013699) LOOP value 'BasementTemp' 166.06400000000002 outside >> limits (10.0, 120.0) >> Oct 6 15:48:30 weewx weewx[23355] WARNING weewx.qc: 2020-10-06 15:48:25 >> EDT (1602013705) LOOP value 'CrawlSpaceTemp' 155.696 outside limits (10.0, >> 120.0) >> >> -- >> 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 weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f59a35ce-041c-4203-987a-bb25b74a042an%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f59a35ce-041c-4203-987a-bb25b74a042an%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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/56d17655-3ab4-41ac-a5fb-abfcb1b2a54cn%40googlegroups.com.
