Gary, 
Thanks for the confirmation. I found it much easier to follow.
rich

On Monday, 3 February 2025 at 05:23:05 UTC-5 gjr80 wrote:

> Rich,
>
> I think that section of the guide must have been a Friday afternoon job, 
> quite a few errors in it. You are correct on both counts; the map is back 
> the front plus (in your case) if you leave the map there it will have no 
> nett effect as it just mimics the default map. The other big error is the 
> inclusion of PM1. The WH45 provides PM10 but no PM1, PM1 came along with 
> the WH46 and support for the WH46 was added to the driver in v0.6.3 (the 
> current release), WH45 support was added in v0.2.0. So it's unlikely that 
> anyone will have PM1 issues (certainly not from using a WH45).
>
> I've rewritten that stanza, hopefully it makes a bit more sense now.
>
> thanks,
> Gary
>
> On Monday, 3 February 2025 at 11:04:02 UTC+10 bell...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Gary,
>> Sorry for another question/clarification. I am working on upgrading from 
>> v0.6.1 to v0.6.3. I am in the camp that mapped pm10 to pm10_0. I did this 
>> in [[field_map_extensions]] with the statement pm10_0 = pm10.
>>
>> In 
>> https://github.com/gjr80/weewx-gw1000/wiki/Upgrade-Guide#upgrading-to-v063, 
>> it is stated:
>> "WH45 users that mapped legacy driver fields pm1 and pm10 to observation 
>> types pm1_0 and pm10_0 using field map entries as follows:
>>            pm1 = pm1_0
>>            pm10 = pm10_0
>> will need to remove these entries from the [[field_map]] or 
>> [[field_map_extensions]] stanzas. This will cause the default field mapping 
>> to be used for driver fields pm1 and pm10 resulting in their mapping to 
>> WeeWX database observation types pm1_0 and pm10_0 respectively.""
>>
>> First, that seems backwards. At least it is to what I had. Maybe my 
>> mapping wasn't doing anything?
>> Second, does the mapping really need to be removed? Would it not 
>> essentially be a "noop" because there is no gw1000 field pm10 to be mapped? 
>> Note, I definitely would agree that they SHOULD be removed. Just looking 
>> for clarifcation on my understanding.
>>
>> Just proceeding cautiously because I have something working.
>> Thanks again for your assistance. rich
>>
>

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