Thanks!

Now that you mention it, it would be super easy to cache the old value. 
But, I took your advice and moved the sensor. 

On Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 1:51:11 PM UTC-7 Tom Keffer wrote:

> The problem with using open_manager_with_config is that you have to make 
> assumptions about which database binding is being used.
>
> Off the top of my head, here are 3 alternative solutions:
> 1. You could cache the previous value.
> 2. You could fix the problem downstream by using a weewx service.
> 3. You could use multiple inheritance, so your driver inherits both from 
> weewx.drivers.AbstractDevice and from weewx.engine.StdService. Getting a 
> database manager is then easy:
>
> dbmanager = self.engine.db_binder.get_manager(self.data_binding)
>
> See the Vantage driver for an example of using multiple inheritance (although 
> it does not access the database).
>
> But, really, you should relocate the sensor!
>
> -tk
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 12:50 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> I have a customized Acurite driver where I've replaced the temperature 
>> reading with a reading from a different sensor. My sensor is placed so that 
>> I occasionally get temperature spikes in the late afternoon when the sun 
>> hits it. I've tried to shield it without complete success. I'm looking for 
>> a software solution where I can remove the bad values for the 10 minutes a 
>> day where it can jump up 5 degrees.
>>
>> I think I know how to do this, but I'm stuck on getting the previous 
>> temperature value in the driver. Is there an easy way to do this? 
>>
>> The docs suggest  weewx.manager.open_manager_with_config with the 
>> appropriate SQL query is the way to go. Is it?
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