Re: [weewx-user] Sunshine Duration

2024-05-02 Thread Karen K
n7uv...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2024 um 01:01:52 UTC+2: When I hear "sunshine duration", I'm not sure whether that means the duration that the scary fiery (I live in PHX %^) ball of plasma is at and above the horizon (which is already provided under the Celestial tab) [image: Sc

Re: [weewx-user] Sunshine Duration

2024-05-02 Thread geni08...@gmail.com
I would like to get the attribute sunshine yes/no or a value in the MQTT stream to control my shutters if I already have a Davis Pro. I can only find the value of "maxSolarRad_Wpm2". Please give me some advice on how I could evaluate this, or how could the sunshine value per minute be entered in

Re: [weewx-user] Sunshine Duration

2024-05-02 Thread Jacques Terrettaz
I have added a new field in my extension : is_sunshine At each record generation,, the is_sunshine value will be 1 if there is sunshine, otherwise it will be 0. This field is also published in the MQTT stream. See https://github.com/Jterrettaz/sunduration/tree/master > Le 2 mai 2024 à 14:54, ge

Re: [weewx-user] weewx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'

2024-05-02 Thread vince
Marco - Would you provide more information to help us understand your system ? See the new Problem Reporting Questionnaire (link) for the kind of information we need in order to try to help much better. Thank you. On

Re: [weewx-user] Sunshine Duration

2024-05-02 Thread n7uv...@gmail.com
Hi Karen - I went and read the paper that is referenced for the sunshine duration method. It describes an empirical approach to estimating whether or not the sun is "shining". To me, as you suggest, if I have a crisp, well-defined shadow, then there is indeed a 6000 K point source in the sky. I

Re: [weewx-user] Sunshine Duration

2024-05-02 Thread Karen K
Hi Jon, I am not sure I know which paper you referenced, but I agree with you that the 120 w/m^2 threshold is a little bit arbitrary. To my experience, in a sunny morning the radiation is less than those 120 w/m^2. Unfortunately, instruments that can really distinguish between the direct sun li