hPa even...

On Sun, 21 Sept 2025 at 12:09, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not using absbaromin things go wonky, my station was reporting over
> 1100kPa at one stage...
>
> On Sun, 21 Sept 2025 at 03:15, 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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