primary sensors

[HansR]

Now that the Ecowitt sensor environment can be added as extra sensor to Davis a question comes to mind as to what is the primary sensor (of a certain type).

Suppose I have the Davis standard station but my T/H sensor gets broken and I choose to continue (maybe for the time being) with an Ecowitt T/H sensor. Then how can I tell CumulusMX to use that sensor as the main T/H sensor to continue my readings and not have the Ecowitt stored in the Extra sensor storage but in the main standard logfile (and dayfile).

In other words how can I define equivalence of the first sensors because the question can be posed as well for pressure, rain, wind, solar and UV.

A bit similar as is done with the AQ sensors: you have to define a first sensor. But with AQ it is the datamodel which has a storage (table) for each sensor so here the question would be to unify the datamodel.

Hope I made my point clear enough.

[mcrossley]

Cumulus does not have the ability to do this at present (other than nominate a primary AQ sensor).

[HansR]

Ok. Might be a good idea, something to make a change request?

[mcrossley]

You can make it Though useful, it would be a big change.

[sfws]

Cumulus does not have the ability to do this at present (other than nominate a primary AQ sensor).

Do you mean MX no longer has Oregon Scientific options (in Cumulus.ini) for nominating primary temperature?

My understanding was that Steve Loft carried that functionality forward from Cumulus 1 to his MX beta, see his text at https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Webtags#Web_t ... emperature . The Wiki (in content now at https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Cumulus.ini_( ... _specific:, but in existence when MX 3.0.0 beta was around) has been suggesting this applies to MX.

But in https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Cumulus.ini#W ... 8_Settings I have included a note that this may not be accurate, because there are no Oregon specific options in the 3.12.0 Station settings page.

Time for the Wiki to get a full quality review check, to confirm what functionality in legacy software has been carried forward into MX, and whether the pages that document MX are correct.

[mcrossley]

You are right, the Oregon WMR928/200 stations do have that ability - I never knew that, but there again I've not had cause to look at the OS station code much. There can't be many of those stations left in the wild now though?