Another example:

https://github.com/chaunceygardiner/weewx-purple/blob/e7f214539b63281d74af9e90810045dd8d1b7b80/bin/user/purple.py#L538

> On Jan 21, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Seth Ratner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It looks like there is an example in the  weewx-xaggs repository. I'm about 
> to dive in, but from a cursory look, unlike with the scalar, I'm going to 
> have to figure out how to use dbmanager to pull the outtemps from the 
> database then iterate through each one, determine which ones are chill hours, 
> and then add those together, correct?
> 
>> On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 3:49:33 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
>> Let me see if I can come up with something. Give me some time.
>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 1:37 PM Seth Ratner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Oh boy...
>>> 
>>> I cant find any examples for that. If one exists, it will greatly reduce 
>>> the number of questions I have...
>>> 
>>>> On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 3:24:07 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
>>>> You're getting close!
>>>> 
>>>> You're going to have to implement get_aggregate(), as well as get_scalar().
>>>> 
>>>> The xtypes framework has no way of taking the calculation for get_scalar() 
>>>> and using it to calculate an aggregate. You're going to have to do it.  
>>>> The good news is that once you've done it, then the framework can use that 
>>>> to calculate a series on its own. This is where we will find out how fast 
>>>> the calculation is.
>>>> 
>>>> -tk
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:51 PM Seth Ratner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Getting Closer, but still getting errors. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can now see the result in the archive loop (gets sent over MQTT). But 
>>>>> with the seasons skin attempts to make a chart with it, I get:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine: 
>>>>> Caught unrecoverable exception in generator 
>>>>> 'weewx.imagegenerator.ImageGenerator'
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****  chillHours
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 196, in run
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****      obj.start()
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/reportengine.py", line 281, in 
>>>>> start
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****      self.run()
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/imagegenerator.py", line 41, in 
>>>>> run
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****      self.genImages(self.gen_ts)
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/imagegenerator.py", line 177, in 
>>>>> genImages
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****      start_vec_t, stop_vec_t ,data_vec_t = 
>>>>> weewx.xtypes.get_series(var_type,
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/xtypes.py", line 94, in get_series
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****      raise weewx.UnknownType(obs_type)
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****  weewx.UnknownType: chillHours
>>>>> Jan 21 14:40:39 Ratner-Orchard weewx[3122] ERROR weewx.reportengine:      
>>>>>    ****  Generator terminated
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here's the block I added in skin.conf
>>>>> 
>>>>> [[[yearchill]]]
>>>>>             plot_type = bar
>>>>>             [[[[chillHours]]]]
>>>>>                 aggregate_type = cumulative
>>>>>                 aggregate_interval = day
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 2:14:11 PM UTC-6 Seth Ratner wrote:
>>>>>> I'm close, I think, except now I'm getting this every loop or report 
>>>>>> generation.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> DEBUG weewx.wxservices: Unknown extensible type 'chillHours'
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There are a couple things I'm unsure of that might be causing this
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - I used the group type group_elapsed because it seemed like the best fit
>>>>>> - The last line of the python file, modeled after the VaporPressure.py 
>>>>>> example, is not part of either class, so I'm not sure what runs it. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here's the code: 
>>>>>> https://github.com/lordratner/weewx_chillHours/blob/main/chill_hours.py
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It's been added to weewx.conf engine section in xtypes, and I've 
>>>>>> confirmed the service is loading. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 8:26:59 PM UTC-6 [email protected] 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> I'd try it as a pure xtype first, and see what kind of performance I 
>>>>>>> got. If it's slow, put it in the database.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You can query the database directly, but the advantage of using xtypes 
>>>>>>> system to do your queries is that it can automatically optimize whether 
>>>>>>> or not to use the daily summaries. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> There's a brief section in the wiki about the API. It's pretty 
>>>>>>> self-explanatory, except about where db_manager comes from. That's an 
>>>>>>> instance of weewx.manager.DaySummaryManager. Look in weewx/manager.py 
>>>>>>> for how to create one. There are some convenient static methods for 
>>>>>>> doing so.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 6:15 PM Seth Ratner <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Thanks Tom
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Final questions for the night, I promise 🤣😂
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Would you put this one the database, or just let WeeWx calculate it 
>>>>>>>> using the xtype each time?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Second, is there an API or interface or whatever where another 
>>>>>>>> application can query WeeWX for some sort of weather data? In this 
>>>>>>>> case, I'd like my irrigation software to query WeeWX for the ET, total 
>>>>>>>> rain, and chill hours of a given time frame. 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Or do I just have to read the database directly?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 19:15 Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 4:01 PM Seth Ratner <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Would you add the step from the xType guide of adding chillHours to 
>>>>>>>>>> [StdWXCalculate] [[Calculations]]? Or would the "synthetic type" 
>>>>>>>>>> concept mean it only exists when it is called on.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> As I understand it, adding it to [StdWXCalculate] [[Calculations]] 
>>>>>>>>>> would add chillHours to the loop, but it would not be in the archive 
>>>>>>>>>> unless I also added a column for it with the same type name.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> It doesn't hurt to add to StdWXCalculate, but it's really only 
>>>>>>>>> necessary if you want to add the results to the database.  And, yes, 
>>>>>>>>> it will only get added to the database if there's a matching column 
>>>>>>>>> in the schema.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> So on my Belchertown skin, where I want total Chill Hours from Oct - 
>>>>>>>>>> May displayed, if I add it to the archive WeeWX will use the 
>>>>>>>>>> database to calculate the total (just adding them together), whereas 
>>>>>>>>>> if I don't add it to the archive, WeeWX will have to run the (if 
>>>>>>>>>> outTemp < 45 then chillHours = archive_interval) for every archive 
>>>>>>>>>> row in that timespan, then sum that?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Maybe. For the ImageGenerator that comes with WeeWX, if a type is not 
>>>>>>>>> available in the database, it will try to calculate it "on the fly" 
>>>>>>>>> using xtypes. However, I have no idea what the Belchertown skin does. 
>>>>>>>>> I kind of doubt it leverages xtypes.
>>>>>>>>> -tk
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