I've made the change in commit fc0c338
<https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/fc0c338edf4bc522a8acf34456932894ae4b6ea9>
.

Thanks, David.


On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM David <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just a query with regards to the updated restx.py file for sending data to
> WOW-BE.
> When reporting pressure using "barometer", shouldn't the respective WOW-BE
> field be "baromin" instead of "absbaromin"?
> According the the WOW-BE site:
> "*baromin = relative pressure (i.e. pressure reduced to sea level)* and 
> *absbaromin
> = absolute pressure (i.e. the raw pressure measurement at the station’s
> location)*."
> So for reporting pressure:
>    - weewx parameter "barometer" corresponds to the field "baromin" in
> WOW-BE
>    - weewx parameter "pressure" corresponds to the field "absbaromin" in
> WOE-BE
> May be I'm wrong, but since I modified the code to report "barometer" as
> "baromin" the reported pressure now seems to be correct (before the change
> they were abnormally high).
> I have a Davis Vantage Pro 2 so it makes sense for me to report
> "barometer" pressure since this is what is provided by the weather station.
> On Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 9:02:01 PM UTC+9:30 John Smith wrote:
>
>> I've submitted a pull request for restx.py to enable sending weather data
>> to both wow.metoffice.gov.uk and wow.meteo.be, the code is slightly
>> modified from the diff that glennmckechnie posted to issue #1013
>>
>> You can download a copy of restx.py with the changes here:
>>
>> https://github.com/evilbunny2008/weewx/raw/refs/heads/master/src/weewx/restx.py
>>
>> Just replace the existing restx.py which resides
>> in /usr/share/weewx/weewx/restx.py when you install using the Debian
>> package, I don't know exactly where it would be for other install methods.
>>
>> The above file is from the current weeWX master branch and only tested in
>> weeWX 5.1.0 on Debian Bookworm running a 6.12 kernel from backports.
>>
>> I have limited python experience and would value suggestions to make the
>> code more pythonic if needed.
>>
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