You definitely don't want sunshine_hours (or sunshineHours) because that implies a unit. I would suggest "daylight".
As for which unit group, the almanac uses group_deltatime for length of day. It's normally measured in seconds. On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 10:54 AM Karen K <[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/e8adff2f-8552-4c1e-8cdd-74d2c15dd514n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e8adff2f-8552-4c1e-8cdd-74d2c15dd514n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAPq0zED0jPNk_zTWC1wnLGBxD_ttEU2e95pry33kcVkmDExdBA%40mail.gmail.com.
