Topic: Cumulus MX and GW-1000

[Mandrake]

Its a little early, but what the hell!
I am pleased to say that work has started on adapting Cumulus MX to read the GW-1000 data
I have a Alpha version of the code under test at the moment running on my Pi 3
I'll post when the release version is available.

[galfert]

Very nice. Can you tell me who is working on this project? And do you know if they are just figuring it out on their own the hard way or if they have API documentation?

At one point Ecowitt/Fine Offset was guarding this API documentation. I was able to secure this documentation with cooperation with Ecowitt and I worked with Meteobridge and Weather-Display. I was basically patient zero for both of these.

[Mandrake]

This is an official CumulusMX engineering effort with the help of Ecowitt.
Lucy kindly provided some development kit and the documentation to the current lead software author at my request.
Mapantz and I are Alpha testing at the moment.

[Xayide]

Wow. I have really been waiting for this. Aiming at buying Hp2550 + ground sensor and PM sensor. So the only thing I need is to add the GW1000 and it will work with CumulusMX for everything except ground sensor and Pm sensor I guess?

[PaulMy]

Mark has included settings for Extra Sensors such as Soil temp and moisture, Air quality and Lightning in the latest CumulusMX release.

I know from experience that the Ecowitt Air quality and Soil moisture sensor data is picked up by CumulusMX.

Unfortunately there is no data logging with the GW1000 for times the program is not running.

Enjoy,
Paul

[Mandrake]

As PaulMy mentions the latest MX build includes all the current sensors (except leak detector as that was not felt obvious for weather data!)
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The secret to constant data logging is to run MX on something like a Pi3 with the GW1000 connected to draw its power.
You then have a local to your network logging system running 24x7 that is low power.
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[mcrossley]

@Mandrake, do you know you can change all those "Sensor n" names to something more meaningful if you want? Just use a strings.ini file.

[Mandrake]

Aha, wonderful tip. Thankyou Mark.

Will do this straight away.
Does the strings.ini file exist or do you just create a blank one in the MX directory?

[mcrossley]

There is a samplestrings.ini that you can just rename - it contains all the default (English) strings used in CMX.