Interesting on the "calculated" data... my Tempest needs serious recalibration of the raw rain data. Collected a whole season last year; will soon submit it to them. I'm wondering if "modified" rain data from REST includes recalibrated rain, while UDP rain is uncalibrated?
On Friday, December 30, 2022 at 3:08:03 PM UTC-7 vince wrote: > If you simply run the stock UDP listener, it will hear whatever the Hub > emits as catchup 'to' the WF servers when your power comes back up and > you'll catch up that way, although the data will be what your sensor > 'heard', not whatever readings the WF servers 'alter' based on their > proprietary math on the server side. > > The only value I can think of re: REST for a weewx user is that the WF > servers have calculated data not available on the UDP broadcasts (ugh) like > modified lightning and rain data. Otherwise personally I'd run LAN-only > with the reference UDP driver... > > On Friday, December 30, 2022 at 1:06:31 PM UTC-8 webbe...@gmail.com wrote: > >> THANKS! >> >> I now understand more. that yes, it's a fork to add REST support (so it >> can catch up... and because WeatherFlow highly recommends making use of >> REST instead of UDP whenever possible ;) ). >> I connected with WeatherFlow support. Turns out, accessing the Hub in the >> REST API simply is not supported. >> I've now got a workaround, and will connect with those developing REST >> support for the driver, so they can fix it. (Or, perhaps it's time to learn >> enough so I can provide a proper patch myself... I supposedly am a >> semi-retired dev myself LOL!) >> >> I think we're done here. Appreciate the feedback muchly. >> Pete >> >> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 10:28:36 AM UTC-7 vince wrote: >> >>> I answered you over in the WF forums a couple times. >>> >>> The reference WF UDP driver ( >>> https://github.com/captain-coredump/weatherflow-udp - last changed 2.5 >>> years ago) doesn't even talk REST so you must be using a forked variant >>> from some of the efforts to add REST support. You'll likely need to >>> contact that author for support. If you want people here to try to help, >>> set debug=1 in weewx.conf, restart weewx, and provide us some logs to look >>> at. >>> >>> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 7:20:02 AM UTC-8 webbe...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> My Weewx now crashes continually, due to a new problem in the link from >>>> WeatherFlowUDP to the WeatherFlow REST API: >>>> >>>> * I'm getting crashes due to a 500 error returning from the API >>>> * Turns out the Weewx driver is attempting to retrieve observations >>>> from all "devices" in the station... but the station has both a Hub and a >>>> Sensor device... in my case the Hub is now listed first, and returns a 500 >>>> error if an attempt is made to retrieve observations :( >>>> >>>> I'm not sure how to code the fix; all I know is the returned json in >>>> the api has device_type "HB" ;) >>>> >>> -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2966ff74-9b17-4ac2-aeaa-35683d1bc5ffn%40googlegroups.com.
