I'm being an idiot. It's no sweat to add a new field to database and mucking around changing the units on existing field is pointless. I've added new fields.
No need for a response. On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 11:08:55 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > Hmm. I took another look at the code and I see there's a dictionary in > units.py. I don't really want to modify the core code if I can avoid it. Is > there a way to override the obs_group_dict? > > I also see that there are already PM2.5 and PM10 variables defined in > group_concentration. I'll take another look at using these rather than > rolling my own. > > On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 11:00:29 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've built my own air quality meter and I'm hooking it up to Weewx. I'm >> abusing the leafTemp1 and leafTemp2 fields to store PM2.5 and PM10 values. >> I've customized the Acurite driver to put these into the database. I have >> several other non-standard sensors that I added years ago to this driver >> and I'm planning on forking the driver as soon as I've done this particular >> customization. That's not the problem. >> >> The problem I'm having is that there's a conversion going on between degC >> and degF for my data that's not a temperature. I can't find where the >> fields declare what unit group they are part of. I can't find it in the >> documentation or through a quick look in the codebase. >> >> I suppose what I should do is use the new tools to add 2 new fields and >> remove the 2 leafTemp fields that I don't think I'd ever use, but I think >> it would be easiest to just re-use the leafTemp fields if I change the unit >> group. >> >> Worst come to worst, I have a super klugy solution of doing a degF to >> degC conversion in the driver before I save the data, but that's too much a >> hack even for me. >> >> -- 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/99dc7eaa-dd54-4bd6-9bdd-2af4795c98cfn%40googlegroups.com.
