Not a great start to my group membership - I solved this myself not long after posting.
Turns out I had been running the wrong interceptor configuration all along - I had interceptor configured to accept "observer" data, but I was sending it "wu". Enough fields match that I didn't notice until I tried to use the extra sensor. Thanks. On Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 16:04 Vince Skahan <[email protected]> wrote: > What does the [Interceptor] section in weewx.conf look like ? > > Quick look at the code of 'unrecognized parameter' shows that in 4 > sections of the driver. Three of them know of those items. The > AcuriteBridge section does not seem to know of them. > > Assuming you're set to acurite-bridge take a look around line 980-1035 in > interceptor.py and where you might try adding those elements. Sorry - the > code/comments/readme info are too skeletal for me to suggest a patch. > > On Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 11:30:15 AM UTC-7 Brian Watson wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've been running weewx for a while, but new to the group. I have an >> Ambient Weather WS-2902D and my only reason for running weewx is to have my >> data stored locally and not depend on ambientweather.net. It's been >> working exactly as I had hoped, but I just moved my station and an external >> sensor and needed to rename some things and I seem to have confused the >> interceptor driver. I've done some debugging and have some questions. >> >> I'm running the "matthewwall/weewx-interceptor" driver. This hasn't been >> touched in 5 years. I've seen reference to other forks, but have not been >> able to find them. Is this the recommended version, or is there another? >> >> Prior to the relocation I didn't care about the data from the 2nd sensor >> as it was in the wrong place anyway. Now that it's in the correct place I >> want to start collecting the data. Ambient Weather calls the data from >> this sensor "temp2f" and "humidity2". These are not in the default, >> extended, schema so I added: >> >> [[sensor_map]] >> extraHumid1 = humidity2 >> extraTemp1 = temp2f >> >> to the [Interceptor] section of my config file. I can see in the logs >> that the map is being used. >> >> I'm not getting data for these sensors in the database and I have: >> >> Mar 18 13:05:15 slug weewxd[2983454]: INFO user.interceptor: unrecognized >> parameter temp2f=60.6 >> Mar 18 13:05:15 slug weewxd[2983454]: INFO user.interceptor: unrecognized >> parameter humidity2=37 >> >> in my logs. I've tried swapping the order of the map elements in the >> config file with no change. >> >> Should this work? What am I missing? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Brian >> >> >> -- > 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/dfce1e4a-e8ca-40eb-9145-f38f0f68e240n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/dfce1e4a-e8ca-40eb-9145-f38f0f68e240n%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/CAN255p5Q1h0UrMVqvvU9oc8jABY5WHJc%2Bz9114DKm-Hh7VgQ1w%40mail.gmail.com.
