Hey John.  Nope, it does not.  I included it in a fork and it worked for a 
long time.  The weewx server died and had to be rebuilt from scratch.  
After that, it is no longer working.

On Friday, December 17, 2021 at 5:51:28 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:

> Hi Joel,
>
> The purple extension does NOT insert pressure into the loop packet.  You 
> can see that for yourself if you look at new_loop_packet in the plugin. 
>  Are you modifying the extension to add it?
>
> On Dec 17, 2021, at 2:49 AM, gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There are many ways to handle unit conversion, some more sophisticated 
> than others. Here are a couple of fairly basic approaches 
> https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-maxbotix/blob/master/bin/user/maxbotix.py#L142
>  
> and 
> https://gitlab.com/wjcarpenter/bme280wx/-/blob/master/bin/user/bme280wx.py#L82
>
>
> Gary
>
> On Friday, 17 December 2021 at 20:30:03 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Thanks!  You mind pointing me at a reference implementation of a service 
>> class that does this all correctly?  I'm likely able to get it working on 
>> my own if I see how it is to be done.
>>
>> On Friday, December 17, 2021 at 2:11:13 AM UTC-8 gjr80 wrote:
>>
>>> Any values have to be analysed in context of the unit system of the 
>>> packet into which they are inserted. The unit system of packets emitted by 
>>> the sdr driver when reading acurite devices is either US customary or 
>>> metric depending on the sensors being read. As far as I can tell the purple 
>>> air extension you are using does not perform any check of the unit system 
>>> of the loop packet (loop packet field usUnits) to which pressure is added, 
>>> but I could be wrong. Normally you would find something in the method of 
>>> the service class that is bound to the NEW_LOOP_PACKET event (in this case 
>>> Purple.new_loop_packet()) that checks usUnits and converts pressures, 
>>> temperature, speeds etc to match the packet units. Or if not in that method 
>>> in the code called by that method. 
>>>
>>> I’m not about to try to debug someone else’s extension, especially one 
>>> as complex as this. John, the author, frequents the forums so give it a day 
>>> or so and see if he comments. Otherwise I suggest you raise an issue in his 
>>> repo.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> On Friday, 17 December 2021 at 19:16:38 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well,  I have basically two sources: acurite sensors via sdr and the 
>>>> purple api via a purple api plugin.  The acurite sensors don't expose 
>>>> pressure and the rtl433 logs never indicate that a pressure is detected in 
>>>> the acurite information.  
>>>>
>>>> The purple api does expose pressure and it comes in as millibars: 
>>>> 200 success { "api_version" : "V1.0.10-0.0.12", "time_stamp" : 
>>>> 1639725648, "data_time_stamp" : 1639725596, "sensor" : { "sensor_index" 
>>>> : 81961, "pressure" : 1018.5 } }
>>>>
>>>> That said there are log lines that indicate the pressure was read from 
>>>> purple and included as inHg in the result.
>>>>
>>>> weewx[1] DEBUG user.purple: Inserted packet[pressure]: 30.096963 into 
>>>> packet.
>>>>
>>>> I've run the purple plugin locally and verified that is is converted to 
>>>> inHg.  The conversion happens here: 
>>>> https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-purple/blob/e7f214539b63281d74af9e90810045dd8d1b7b80/bin/user/purple.py#L266.
>>>>   
>>>> Is this the proper way of doing it?  If not, can you point me to an 
>>>> example 
>>>> of doing it properly in a plugin?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, December 17, 2021 at 12:39:29 AM UTC-8 gjr80 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What driver are you using and what is the source of the pressure 
>>>>> value? This sounds very much like a service is being used to add one or 
>>>>> more of the three pressure fields (altimeter, barometer or pressure) to 
>>>>> packets/records from the driver and the unit system of the packet/record 
>>>>> is 
>>>>> not being checked and followed. This can result in fields being added to 
>>>>> packets/records in the wrong units which eventually results in a double 
>>>>> unit conversion.
>>>>>
>>>>> The answer will almost certainly be related to the source of one of 
>>>>> the three pressure fields.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>> On Friday, 17 December 2021 at 17:56:10 UTC+10 [email protected] 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW, running on Develop
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 11:54:46 PM UTC-8 Joel Baranick 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is the best way to determine the source of a metric which fails 
>>>>>>> QC?  The failure in this case is the "pressure" metrics which is 
>>>>>>> expected 
>>>>>>> to be in inHq.  The QC error is: `LOOP value 'pressure' 
>>>>>>> 0.8885885448234093 
>>>>>>> outside limits (24.0, 34.5)`.  It seems like the pressure is converted 
>>>>>>> to 
>>>>>>> inHq correctly: `Inserted packet[pressure]: 30.091057 into packet.`. 
>>>>>>> But, 
>>>>>>> it seems like the  30.091057 is being be fed back into the conversion 
>>>>>>> function.
>>>>>>
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