Ok, perfect,  I will give the gw1000 a try and let you know. Thank you 
again for your help!
Il giorno mercoledì 13 ottobre 2021 alle 23:06:05 UTC+2 gjr80 ha scritto:

> 1. As Vince says set loop_on_init = True. If the GW1000 driver loses 
> connection to the GW1000 it will retry (by default) two more times before 
> giving up. If loop_on_init is set True WeeWX will then wait 60 seconds 
> before effectively restarting, thus kicking off the process again. I can't 
> guarantee that a router reboot will see GW1000 connectivity restored, it 
> should, but its possible it may not. Vince and others appear to have 
> success in this regard, but at times WeeWX has been unable to find my 
> GW1000 after a network outage. Certainly the GW1000 driver is slightly more 
> fragile in this regard than the interceptor. If you try it and have issues 
> post something here as there are other things we can try (eg increasing the 
> GW1000 driver retry time).
>
> 2. Yes. The interceptor driver works fine with the GW1000, but does not 
> natively support the WH57 lightning detector. When used with the GW1000 the 
> interceptor driver emit loop packets in US customary units (ie distance in 
> miles) as the usUnits field is set to 1. It sounds like whatever 
> modifications have been made to your interceptor driver simply took the 
> WH57 lightning distance value and blindly added it to the loop packet 
> without checking the unit system used in the loop packet and converting as 
> necessary.
>
> The good thing about the GW1000 driver is that you can install the driver 
> and run it directly without changing your existing WeeWX setup. Refer to 
> the GW1000 driver readme <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000#readme>, 
> in particular step 5. If you don't like it, simply uninstall the driverit 
> and your existing WeeWX install will be unchanged.
>
> Gary
>

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