Thanks Gary, I get it... either I'm going to get cm, or m/s... Okay! Maybe I'm just multiply my rain24 cm reading by 10 to mimic mm... Thanks!
On Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 11:06:38 PM UTC+2 gjr80 wrote: > Hi, > > The Twitter extension only offers basic unit conversion in the string it > publishes, it’s really a case of all or nothing. By default the tweet uses > the unit system of your WeeWX database for all obs. I’m guessing you are > using the METRIC unit system in your database (target_unit = METRIC under > [StdConvert] in weew.conf), the METRIC unit system records rain in cm > <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#units> which explains what you are > seeing. If you read through the config instructions at the start of > twitter.py you will see that you can use the unit_system config option to > set the unit system to use in your tweets, for example: > > [StdRESTful] > [[Twitter]] > .... > unit_system = METRICWX > > Will use the METRIC_WX unit system which will give you rain in mm but wind > speed will be in m/s (refer my earlier link). As an aside using unit_system > = US would give rain in inches. > > Unfortunately, as the Twitter extension stands you cannot change units for > individual obs. > > Gary > > On Monday, 12 October 2020 at 02:50:41 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> I would like to tweet the amount of rain for the last 24 hours. I am >> using this extension : https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Twitter >> >> The config line I use is the following. I use "rain24" for the amount of >> rain. But apparently, it's not the right one (e.g currently rain24 says >> 1.6mm when the real correct value is 16.8mm). What should I use to get that >> 16.8mm value? >> >> format = {dateTime:%H:%M} Temp: {outTemp:%.1f} °C; Humidité: >> {outHumidity:%.0f}%; Pression: {barometer:%.0f} hPa; Pluie 24h: >> {rain24:%.1f} mm; Vent: {windSpeed:%.1f} km/h; Dir: {windDir:%03.0f} >> >> Thanks >> Axelle. >> >> -- 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/56e096ab-4478-4333-855e-c3341158d299n%40googlegroups.com.
