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Support for GPIO Lightning Sensor

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mikejz
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Support for GPIO Lightning Sensor

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Currently using custom Ecowitt HTTP driver. Running CMX on my Raspi3. I was wondering what the complexity would be to add a GPIO lightning sensor to this setup:

https://www.amazon.com/JESSINIE-Lightni ... 359&sr=8-1
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Re: Support for GPIO Lightning Sensor

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I have no plans to add that to MX - too niche and platform specific.

You would have to write a program/script to read your data from GPIO, and then send it to MX using an extra sensor station - emulating the Ecowitt HTTP protocol would be simplest.
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Re: Support for GPIO Lightning Sensor

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mcrossley wrote: ↑Thu 22 Aug 2024 11:20 am I have no plans to add that to MX - too niche and platform specific.

You would have to write a program/script to read your data from GPIO, and then send it to MX using an extra sensor station - emulating the Ecowitt HTTP protocol would be simplest.
Gotcha.

Do you know the Ecowitt Http variables for lightning sensor data?
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