I don't know if this will help any given you want to get averages within 
the 5-minute archive period but does 
https://www.weewx.com/docs/5.0/custom/cheetah-generator/#tag-span help any ?

$span(time_delta=60).windGust.avg
$span(time_delta=120).windGust.avg
$span(time_delta=600).windGust.avg

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On Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 11:53:54 AM UTC-7 James Pattinson wrote:

> Bit of background, I have been asked to set up a simple weather screen for 
> an airfield manned by hobbyists. They bought a Davis ISS and 6313 console 
> combo, and I found that the console is essentially a closed/cloud system 
> and not good for real time data.
>
> So, I've since installed a Pi with an RTLSDR dongle and WeeWx. It's 
> receiving data from the iSS and populating reports every 5 minutes.
>
> At the airfield we generally need a pretty up to date wind direction and 
> speed, averaged over the last 1 or 2 minutes, and a real time 'instant' 
> wind display.
>
> The instant wind I am OK with. I've installed the MQTT extension to WeeWx 
> so I get the LOOP data every few seconds with the wind info.
>
> Now, I'm not sure how to go about getting the average wind. Ideally, what 
> I want is that at every update of the raw wind value (ie at the LOOP time) 
> it also computes the average wind speed / vector over the last 1,2 and 10 
> minutes, so basically three moving averages all updated every few seconds, 
> so I think these updates will be quite 'smooth' and not jumping all over 
> the place like the instant wind reading.
>
> Problem is I've no idea where to start with this, or even if it's 
> possible. I would appreciate any ideas anyone may have.
>
>
>

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