Topic: How does weewx process Davis loop packets?

[johnd]

Asked this on the weewx users forum but slow to get an answer. Does anyone here know the answer please?

What does weewx do with the LOOP records it requests from a Davis station? Do they get processed for the weewx archive database at all? Or are archive downloads the sole data feed for the archive database?

Is this described somewhere in the weewx documentation and I've just overlooked it? If so could someone kindly point me in the right direction please?

[NWOGoingOffGrid]

I'm interested in this as well. I have a phant server that is collecting the raw data from my particle photon based weather station and then wrote a Python script to do a jsonp query from that server with a cron job every minute. The format of the data coming from my phant server (JSON) looks a lot like a loop packet. What I do now with my script is to deconstruct the JSON packet from my server and parse it into label=value pairs and save to a text file for fileparse.py to then reconstruct as a loop packet. Wondering if I can skip this step and import the JSON packet or dict directly into weewx with a custom driver. Anyone have any ideas?

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[mwall]

since you are already collecting data from the weather station in python, it should be simple for you to turn that python code into a weewx driver.

take a look at the fileparse driver that ships with weewx.  instead of reading from file, substitute the code that you are already using to read from the hardware.  instead of emitting json, you simply add to a dict the observations as named elements.

the fileparse driver is packaged as an extension, i.e., it has a readme, changelog, install.py as well as the fileparse.py driver itself.  you only need to do that packaging if you want to distribute your driver in an easy-to-use package.

see the weewx customization guide for details:

http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#porting

see the weewx wiki for many other driver examples:

https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki#drivers

m

[waiukuweather]

from my particle photon based weather station

as in photo resisters etc for the wind speed and direction?