I'm doing some thing like that from lux reading and using 'group_elapsed' for the unit and obs name measuredlight.
On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 12:54:12 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > I bought a sunshine duration sensor from Weerhuisje. When integrating it > in WeeWX I wondered how to call the observation type. There is nothing > appropriate in the standard schema. I found 2 extensions regarding sunshine > duration. One of them calls the observation type "sunshine_hours", the > other one "sunshine_time". > > I would guess it is not generally a good idea to include an underscore in > the observation type name, as the underscore is used to separate the unit > from the observation type in the widely used MQTT extension. > > And I guess it would be better to have the same name irrespective of the > data source, which extension or hardware is used. > > Another thing is the unit group. I would allocate the sunshine duration to > group_deltatime, as the output would be something like "8 hours, 45 > minutes, 10 seconds" or so. group_interval would be less appropriate, as > sunshine duration is not exactly an interval but rather a time period. > > After all I am not sure. > -- 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/3c7667ab-7f38-485f-b9cf-1e2ad1c35ca7n%40googlegroups.com.
