"'Rainer Lang' via weewx-user" <weewx-user@googlegroups.com> writes:
> @Greg > I cannot fully confirm your statements regarding HA > HA shows three different types of information regarding the Ecowitt > battery status depending on sensor: > normal, actual voltage or percentage of charge, where in case of a > WH45 the DC connection is shown as 120% > As these different scales have historically grown, we have to live > with the diversity. We have to live with it in driver code, but nobody else does. I agree that it's a mess, but my point is that by defining a battery status protocol where 0% is just about empty and 100% is full, and an "are we on external power" protocol as 0/1, we can map all sorts of things -- not just EcoWitt -- into this, and then people that want to display battery status can rely on the 0-100% and not/external without having to understand the device, either at the skin code level or the brain level. 120% is not a proper representation for the WH45. Yes, it's 6 in the on-air bits, but EcoWitt consoles/displays do not show 6 bars. They show some sort of "external power" indication, per the rtl_433 comment (which must have come from someone with such a display helping testing or writing the code). > And - my suggestion can use text for status (as the OP seems to want to do) > OFF, LOW, MED, HIGH, FULL, DC covers all situations of Ecowitt sensors > for battery status (except for voltage) > Sensors with two status can use only OFF and FULL > the others have a 5 or 6 tier status information > those with voltage can be simply display "as is": x.x V That is a step in the right direction, but it still results in a non-uniform representation which needs special case processing rather than one which can be handled with one chunk of computer or wetware code. -- 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/rmifs4luak8.fsf%40s1.lexort.com.
