I'm having a hard time following. I know the last commit fixed David's station. John: I gather it made yours worse?
Could someone check the WOW-BE API and see exactly what they need. That should be what we do, rather than make stations "better" or "worse". -tk On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM David <[email protected]> wrote: > For me using *absbaromin*, pressure readings for my station being > reported by WOW-BE were consistently looking very wrong. > They were approximately +10hPa higher than they should have been. > Presumable the MSLP (*barometer*) being reported were then being > (incorrectly) adjusted by WOW-BE to take into consideration the altitude of > my weather station (around 105m). > As soon as I changed to *baromin* instead, things looked much better. So > far the WOW-BE barometric pressures for my station have been stable with no > anomalous readings. > > -- > David > On Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 11:40:08 AM UTC+9:30 John Smith wrote: > >> 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. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2686b8d5-5b58-4d99-801b-82855793a969n%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2686b8d5-5b58-4d99-801b-82855793a969n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/4aa290e2-2a50-4e2b-8e58-e81be5ac7897n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/4aa290e2-2a50-4e2b-8e58-e81be5ac7897n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEDVYHnru_vhi11hhM%2BagsOCQE8BPMFrmDUg-aX9pMUYYw%40mail.gmail.com.
