Thank you for the explanation. I incorrectly thought that cloudcover was the data expected by pwsweather. Now that I see that it is more involved, I will wait patiently. The reason for my interest is that the AerisPulse app gives me data from a station many miles from me when I am reporting data to them. Their explanation is that they only use data from stations that report Sky Cover data. All others are ignored.
Again, thanks for the explanation. On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 7:53:39 PM UTC-5 gjr80 wrote: > Hi, > > Short answer is the WeeWX PWSWeather uploader does not support any form of > 'sky cover percentage'. > > In looking at the upload string format recently provided by PWSWeather the > only field I can see that might support 'sky cover percentage' is the > 'weather' field which is described as ' Current weather or sky conditions > using standard METAR abbreviations and intensity (e.g. -RA, +SN, SKC, > etc.)'. I expect you could include cloud coverage in octas in this somehow, > but I am no METAR expert. The WeeWX PWSWeather uploader does not support > the weather field and there is so simple config change available to the > user make it do so. It would involve writing code. I do have a task to > review the various uploaders included in the WeeWX core, but that is > somewhat on the back burner at present and since WeeWX does not > provide/generate METAR info per se, I am not sure whether that review would > result in the WeeWX PWSWeather uploader supporting the 'weather' field. > > As Vince said I am intrigued as to what data it is that you want to > upload. I am not aware of the GW1000 emitting any sort of cloud cover data, > either via its API or through any of its weather service upload formats. > You mention cloudbase, WeeWX will certainly calculate cloudbase provided > the pre-requisite data is available (fields outTemp and outHumidity) but > cloudbase is only a theoretical value for the cloud height; it does not in > any way relate to percentage cloud cover. > > Gary > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 10:30:50 UTC+10 bchap...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I don't know. I don't think it has anything to do with Belchertown. >> pwsweather is looking for sky cover percentage. I know that a few stations >> report this and I'm wondering how it is done. All other data is >> reporting. My data is calculating cloud base however, pwsweather is >> looking for a percentage. Any ideas? >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 5:59:44 PM UTC-5 vince wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 1:35:41 PM UTC-8 bchap...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I’m sending data to pwsweather.com using a GW1000 and I can’t figure >>>> out how to send Sky Cover data. conf file below >>>> >>>> >>> Which element in which database has that data to begin with ? >>> I'm sure not seeing it. >>> >>> Are you sure it's not something calculated magically by Belchertown and >>> not actually saved in a db by weewx ? >>> >>> >> -- 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/6f04ad2a-9fbf-44d2-a8f7-fe7ffef21d3an%40googlegroups.com.
