I've released v0.5.0b2 of the Ecowitt Gateway driver (formerly the GW1000 driver). The extension package can be downloaded from the driver GitHub releases page <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/releases>. The driver should support any of the GW1000, GW1100, GW2000, WH2650, WH2680 and WN1900 devices (though I have only tested against the GW devices). The main feature of v0.5.0 is support for the GW2000/WS90 'Wittboy' station. There are many other changes in v0.5.0, these changes are summarised in the notes on the GitHub v0.5.0 release page as well as in the change log. Some of these changes will affect some WeeWX installations and I strongly urge everyone upgrading to v0.5.0 to read through the driver Upgrade Guide <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/wiki/Upgrade-Guide>, in particular the section Upgrading to v0.5.0 <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/wiki/Upgrade-Guide#upgrading-to-v050> before undertaking the upgrade as some changes have the potential to result in lost data and broken reports. Particular areas that may require user action involve changes to rainfall field names, redesignation of WH34 and WH35 sensors as WN34 and WN35 respectively as well as changes to WH40 and WH51 sensor battery state data.
I also strong recommend that users run the driver directly with the --test-driver command line option to verify the driver is correctly configured and producing the expected data before restarting WeeWX. You will notice that I have started renaming the driver the *Ecowitt Gateway* driver rather than the *GW1000 driver*. The GW1000 driver intitially focussed on supporting the GW1000 though the API used by the GW1000 was common to other devices such as the WH2650 and WH2680. Subsequently, Ecowitt has released the GW1100, GW2000 and WN1900 devices which all use a common API. Ecowitt refers to the API as the Ecowitt Gateway LAN/Wi-Fi Gateway API. For these reasons I have started the process of changing the name of the GW1000 driver to the Ecowitt Gateway driver. In v0.5.0 the changes are largely cosmetic and internal, mostly centring on removing references to GW1000 or GW1100 and replacing them with 'gateway device' or 'gateway devices'. However, the driver filename is still gw1000.py and wee_extensionstill lists the driver as GW1000. I intend to change these names in a future release. A word about the driver wiki <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/wiki>. I have updated most of the pages to reflect the changes introduced in v0.5.0 but there are still a few that need more work. I will be updating those over the coming days so please bear with me. Finally, whilst I have a variety of Ecowitt devices the only sensor suite or rain gauge I have is the WS90, so there are many sensor combinations that I have been unable to test against v0.5.0. I fully expect there will be issues with v0.5.0, though I expect these will be minor. I would welcome feedback via weewx-user on any issues identified/irregularities noticed. Gary -- 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/e55ced7f-911c-4a25-8d16-48947608155bn%40googlegroups.com.
