I can see it both ways as to how to deal with data from hardware versus having WeeWX calculate it. Some users that use WeeWX would surely go nuts if what they see on their display consoles does not match what they see in WeeWX. It would certainly make calibration very difficult. Certainly I think this is not something that should be a decision for the driver to do. I feel that some controls in WeeWX are the appropriate method to deal with this as other weather software also employ this method to deal with these issues. The software should allow the user to decide if to use data as provided by the hardware of if to have WeeWX calculate it. I think therefore the only point to debate is what should be the default action. But then again I think that is not up the driver to decide but rather for core WeeWX to decided that based on what data is available from hardware what should be the default.
On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 10:22:42 AM UTC-4 pa...@pauland.net wrote: > > Well aware that the manner in which the Rel Offset is determined does not > apply the proper standard temperature profile. That's why I said it may > have been more appropriate to map it to altimeter. Reasoning was at least > it was a static numeric offset, coming closer to altimeter , and certainly > not even close to being proper for barometer. > Totally happy with only using the gw1000 value from Absolute Pressure as > weewx key pressure. Actually had considered this option, but didn't want to > raise hysteria at the thought of letting WeeWx calculate a value in > software that was available in hardware. > As Tom Keffer has pointed out in the past there are many times that given > the fact that some hardware has undocumeted, incorrect, or sketchy, ways of > generating some variables, that WeeWx can do a much better job in software > than the hardware can. But I think as users most of us are hesitant to > acknowledge this and want to defer to the hardware. > > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/4ee1ffce-1a30-43f0-a4f9-5c5e894aef95n%40googlegroups.com.
