omg... it was right there in the wiki.  So sorry to bother you.  Plugged in 
the formula and it's working great.  Thanks!

On Monday, July 4, 2022 at 5:46:31 PM UTC-4 gjr80 wrote:

> Ecowitt Gateway devices provide a measure of luminosity in lux rather than 
> a measure of solar insolation in watts/square metre (as used by WeeWX in 
> the radiation field). There is a simple linear approximation for radiation 
> given a luminosity value in lux by dividing the luminosity value by 126.7. 
> This is what Ecowitt Gateway devices use when posting to Ecowitt.net or 
> WeatherUnderground etc. Within WeeWX it is not appropriate for the Ecowitt 
> gateway driver to implement this approximation , rather it should be 
> applied by adding a correction entry to the [StdCalibration] 
> [[Corrections]] stanza in weewx.conf. More detail (including 
> implementation of the radiation field approximation) is covered in the 
> Ecowitt gateway device wiki page Understanding GW1000 radiation fields 
> <https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/wiki/Understanding-GW1000-radiation-fields>
> .
>
> Once you have the radiation field being calculated you should should find 
> that ET is also calculated provided you have the other pre-requisites 
> outlined in Tom's post are available. 
>
> Gary
> On Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 07:14:39 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> In order to calculate ET, you'll need outside temperature, radiation, and 
>> humidity. From your query, you don't have radiation, and possibly the 
>> others. Make sure they are all there.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 9:49 AM John Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry - this is going to sound poorly informed... but here it goes.
>>>
>>> I've been running weewx for years since the 3.x days.  Using the 
>>> interceptor driver - first with the Ambient Weather devices, now with 
>>> Ecowitt using a GW1000 as a gateway.
>>>
>>> During that time I made numerous tweaks to the file system, changing 
>>> skins, schemas, adding extensions, removing extensions, running through 
>>> hubitat, then nodered, etc.  Of course, I'm not very good at documentation, 
>>> so each change I made would eventually get pushed out of my brain in favor 
>>> of the new project du jour.
>>>
>>> I noticed a new gw1000 extension and thought maybe now would be a good 
>>> time to wipe the slate and see what works out of the box.
>>>
>>> Surprisingly, most everything does.  I do see some label and unit 
>>> changes for radiation (used to be wmp2/radiation, now it's lux/luminosity).
>>>
>>> But the most noticeable changes is I'm now missing ET.  Not sure how.  I 
>>> don't remember having to do anything in my prior install to get it to 
>>> calculate.
>>>
>>> confirmed in sqlite that it's not in the archive:
>>>
>>> sqlite> select dateTime,ET,radiation,UV from archive order by dateTime 
>>> desc limit 4;
>>>
>>> 1656952200|||6.0
>>>
>>> 1656952140|||4.0
>>>
>>> 1656952080|||2.0
>>>
>>> 1656952020|||3.0
>>>
>>>
>>> It's in my wview.py schema and in my skins.conf:
>>>
>>>         [[[dayET]]]
>>>
>>>             # Make sure the y-axis increment is at least 0.02 for the 
>>> ET plot
>>>
>>>             yscale = None, None, 0.02
>>>
>>>             plot_type = bar
>>>
>>>             [[[[ET]]]]
>>>
>>>                 aggregate_type = sum
>>>
>>>                 aggregate_interval = hour
>>>
>>>                 label = Evapotranspiration (hourly total)
>>>
>>>
>>> have tried both prefer-hardware and software in my weewx.conf for ET 
>>> calcualtion.
>>>
>>> Hope it's obvious, but what am I missing?
>>>
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