Hi Gary, Thanks for this - it's just after 10pm here, so I'll attend to the upgrade tomorrow. I'm one of those people with both types of rainfall gauges, so this will be interesting.
On Sun, 1 May 2022 at 21:50, gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e55ced7f-911c-4a25-8d16-48947608155bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- "I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return" W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" -- 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/CA%2BxzKjAxqHyO3aCm0%3DJp_%3DS0mF5eXvQ63nCC-iqSHDoo%3D3nJhQ%40mail.gmail.com.
